A truck fire set ablaze a massive mound of propane tanks Friday afternoon in Lancaster. No injuries were reported as firefighters continued to battle the flames into the evening. The L.A. County Fire Department responded to a vehicle fire at 2:22 p.m. Friday and found a propane truck had caught fire in the 42500 block of North 8th Street East in Lancaster, the department confirmed.
Large clouds of smoke were visible above Trinity Bellwoods park Saturday morning due to a fire in a washroom, said Toronto Fire. Firefighters responded to the scene shortly after 10 a.m., where a garbage bin and part of a "washroom structure" were on fire, said a social media post by Toronto Fire. Crews at the scene extinguished the fire and there were no injuries reported, they said.
When federal prosecutors arrested a man Wednesday for setting a small fire that reignited days later into the deadly Palisades blaze, they suggested the arrest largely settled the matter of blame. "A single person's recklessness caused one of the worst fires Los Angeles has ever seen," Bill Essayli, acting United States Attorney for central California, said as he announced the arrest of Jonathan Rinderknecht, a 29-year-old Uber driver. But the new details they offered about the cause of the fire only added toresidents' anger and dismay about how city officials handled the fire that killed 12 people and destroyed more than 6,700 structures across Pacific Palisades and Malibu. It also renewed calls for City Hall to be held accountable.
I woke up to yelling in the hallway. A few seconds later, there was a bang on the door. It was just after 2 a.m., and a state trooper in the hallway of our private living quarters at the governor's residence said there was a fire in the building. We needed to evacuate immediately.
