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    Friday morning fire strikes the home of Echo Park music promoter

    One of the five residents who fled an Echo Park house fire Friday morning was music promoter and FYF Fest organizer Sean Carlson. Carlson, in an email to his FYF mailing list, describes what happened in the minutes after he was awakened by the flames outside his bedroom window on Sutherland Street: “I woke up [...]

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    Update on Echo Park house fire

    A Friday morning Echo Park house fire was blamed on “smoking materials” that had been”carelessly discarded”  and ignited furniture on a patio, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department blog.  A preliminary investigation found that that the home at 1324 Sutherland St. was not equipped with working smoke alarms.  The post by spokesman Brian Humphrey [...]

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    Fire damages Echo Park house *

    Firefighters took about 20 minutes to put out a house fire in Echo Park this morning at 1324 Sutherland St., according to LAFD. No one was injured in the fire, which was covered live by a few TV news helicopters, that broke out before 7 a.m. Fox News reported that  Sunset Boulevard was blocked near Sutherland [...]

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    Man found dead in Highland Park house fire*

    Firefighters spent about 20 minutes late this afternoon putting out a structure fire, believed to be a home, in the 2900 block of Stratford Road near Occidental College. No injuries were reported, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.  Occidental College student Jordan Faires snapped a photo of the blaze, which broke out at about [...]

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    Fire breaks out at Echo Park school *

    A fire has broken out tonight  in the second floor of Logan Street Elementary School, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. No other details were available. * Update @ 11:24 p.m.: Firefighters put out a small fire that started at about 10:15 p.m. near an electrical panel in the building at the corner of [...]

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    Saturday night fire damages Echo Park duplex

    By Jesús Sanchez I have covered numerous fires as the publisher and author of The Eastsider but never one involving my own property. Late Saturday night, however, fire broke out in the Echo Park duplex I own near the corner of Echo Park and Morton avenues. No one was injured in the blaze, which started [...]

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    Fire damages Highland Park home

    The fire reported at about 8:30 P.M. spread through the attic of a hillside home in the 800 block of Holland Avenue and also scorched about a quarter-acre of dry grass, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. It took  56 firefighters about half an hour to knock out the blaze. No injuries were reported

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    Elysian Park hit with fire three days in a row

    About 75 firefighters took about an hour to knock down a small blaze that broke out this morning on the eastern edge of the Elysian Park near a rail maintenance yard along the Los Angeles River.  No injuries or  structure damage was  reported from the blaze that began around 9 AM, according to the Los [...]

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    Flames and water dropping helicopters complicate the evening commute

    Commuters heading northbound on the 110 Arroyo Seco Parkway not only had to brave Dodger game day traffic but also faced the sight of flames and smoke coming from a small brush fire that broke out in Elysian Park at about 6 PM. Flames came close to the fast lane just north of the Dodger [...]

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    Midnight fire damages Echo Park structure

    About 50 firefighters put out the blaze at 1292 Alvarado Street in 17  minutes, reports the Los Angeles Fire Department.  There was no details about the structure but one Echo Park resident who observed the blaze said it appeared to be a small shed near the Vons. She writes in an email: “I think it [...]

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    Will the city finally strike a deal over the Highland Park Transit Village? *

    Rendering of Highland Park Transit Village/Los Angeles Housing Department The City Council today will consider a proposal  to pack about 100 apartments and homes into the public parking lots near the Highland Park Gold Line Station.  The idea of  building more housing – most of  it in the form of affordable, subsidized units – and [...]

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    Grass fire breaks out in El Sereno

    The fire burned about six acres this afternoon near the 2500 block of Soto Street near Mission Road, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.  The fire was “contained but not extinguished” at about 6 PM, LAFD spokesman Erik Scott reported on the department Twitter feed.  About 100 fire fighters were battling the blaze on [...]

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    Mount Washington awakened by fire *

    Many Mount Washington residents are sleep deprived today after they were awakened early this morning by a small fire on the ground and a helicopter that hovered overhead. Michele Ryan snapped these photo from her home:

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    Are two Silver Lake fires connected?

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    Fire destroys Silver Lake home

    It took firefighters about an hour to put out a fire that destroyed much of a Tudor-style home at 3308 Descanso Drive (initial LAFD reports had the address at 3312 Descanso) this afternoon, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. A man who identified himself as the owner said he was returning to his home [...]

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    Echo Park pine goes up in flames

    A fire this afternoon blackened a pine tree that towers over a traffic island at Sunset Boulevard and Douglas Street in Echo Park. A firefighter at the scene said it’s not clear what ignited the blaze, which broke out after 4 PM. No injuries were reported but that pine tree looks in pretty bad shape. [...]

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