Apartment Building

Glendale Police and Fire departments helped douse a small brush fire that erupted late Tuesday in an open, grassy field next to one of the city's largest apartment buildings. No one was injured in the small brush fire, which authorities think might have been started by local kids playing with fireworks. Shortly after 9 p.m. Tuesday, Glendale Police and firefighters responded to several calls about a brush fire made by residents of an apartment building in the 400 block of Paula Avenue.

In a novel and potentially precedent-setting legal case, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge in Glendale ordered Dish Network to pay for the removal of three satellite dishes from an apartment building whose owner says were ordered by tenants without his approval, but who have since moved out. Christopher Spencer was awarded $850 in small claims court for the cost of removing the equipment from his apartment building in Burbank and $110 for...

Glendale Police and Fire investigators are looking for the person responsible for setting four small fires within a short period of time. Police believe someone set three fires, including one in a car, in an apartment building garage about 9 p.m. Thursday in the 1000 block of Elm Avenue, according to the police report. Police believe that person then went to an apartment building in the 1000 block of Linden Avenue and put a burning log in the front seat of a Jeep Wrangler, which caught on fire.

GLENDALE — Five companies have filed separate lawsuits against the developer and contractor of the recently completed apartment building at 416 E. Broadway, claiming they were never paid in full for subcontracting work. Browning Fire Protection Inc., BAS Appliance Gallery LLC, Force Framing Inc., Walker Construction Inc., and Arena Painting Contractors Inc. are suing Suffolk Construction Co. Inc. and East Broadway Venture LLC for violating signed agreements, which indicated they would pay thousands to the companies for installing a fire sprinkler system, appliances, windows and other work on the 115-unit apartment building, according to lawsuits filed in Glendale Superior Court.

The following were taken from reports filed at the Glendale Police Department: ? ?Campus Street and East Colorado Street: A 22-year-old Santa Barbara man was arrested Saturday on suspicion of possession of marijuana while driving. ?400 block of South Glendale Avenue: A 45-year-old Glendale man was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of being drunk in public. ? 200 block of Dryden Street: A 38-year-old Glendale man reported Tuesday that a Dumpster behind his apartment building was set on fire.

A 20-year-old man was arrested Thursday after he struck an elderly woman with a shovel and then barricaded himself inside his apartment, police said. It took a rubber bullet and Taser before officers were finally able to subdue him. The man, Robert William White of Glendale, sat handcuffed in a chair yelling “God loves all you” several times to bystanders as paramedics carried him out of his apartment building in the 1000 block of Spazier Avenue in Glendale and transported him to a nearby hospital.

Buck Wargo CITY HALL -- The Design Review Board No. 1 will look at the design Thursday for a proposed apartment building. There are plans to build a five-unit apartment building with 14 parking spaces at 125 W. Maple St. The board will meet at 1 p.m. in Room 105 of the Municipal Services Building, 633 E. Broadway. In other case, the board will consider: 1972 Calafia St. -- construction of a three-story house with a three-car garage.

A kitchen fire Thursday afternoon in an apartment building at the 700 block of East Garfield Avenue forced neighboring residents to evacuate and caused about $40,000 in estimated damages, Glendale Fire Capt. Bill Lynch said. The fire started just after 2:40 p.m. in the kitchen of one of the apartment building units, Lynch said. Neighboring residents were forced to evacuate, and firefighters put out the fire in about 10 minutes, he said. No one was inside the unit when the fire started, and no one was injured.

Firefighters are evacuating an apartment building in Glendale after a construction crew cut a gas line, sending fumes directly into the building. Residents were being asked to leave the apartment at Stocker and Campbell streets as a precaution while firefighters work on the gas line, officials said. -- Veronica Rocha , Times Community News

EAST GLENDALE — Police continued their search on Thursday for a man who pushed a 73-year-old Glendale woman to the ground and punched her in the chest before running off with her purse. The violent attack occurred at about 10:20 p.m. on Tuesday after the man followed the woman and her friend into the lobby of an apartment building on the 300 block of North Jackson Street, according to police reports. That's when he pushed the woman to the ground and proceeded to kick her several times before he punched her in the chest and fled with her purse, according to the report.

While city officials have heralded Glendale's growing downtown core as a symbol of the city's economic revitalization, most of the City Council candidates at a forum this week took shots at the nearly 2,000 apartments in roughly a dozen buildings coming online either in the coming months or next few years. Even an incumbent who approved most of the new residential units criticized one of them and plans to look closely at future projects. “As of this moment, I'm taking my foot off the gas pedal for new development in downtown,” Councilman Ara Najarian said Wednesday night at the Glendale Homeowners Coordinating Council forum.

Prosecutors this week charged a 21-year-old man with prowling in Glendale after a woman saw him twice walking toward her sibling's home back door and then fleeing when he was seen, officials said. Jose Cera was charged with one misdemeanor count of prowling around the woman's home on Monday, according to a Los Angeles County Superior Court criminal complaint. Cera has not been connected to other prowling cases in the city, but police have distributed his information and details about the arrest to other law enforcement agencies that have had similar cases, Glendale Police Sgt. Tom Lorenz said.

The City Council on Tuesday is set to review several options that could restrict smoking in individual apartment units, bolstering Glendale's current ban on smoking in common areas and private balconies of multi-unit buildings. Options include banning smoking in all individual units or limiting smoking-permitted units to specific sections of a building. Apartment owners could get a grace period of five years to implement the changes, according to a city report. The council is also scheduled to discuss loosening restrictions on smoking in outdoor dining areas, but last year a similar proposal was shot down.

Someone set a small fire Wednesday in the stairwell of an apartment building on Cañada Boulevard, police said. Firefighters extinguished the fire that was reported about 10:20 a.m. under the building's main stairwell in the 2600 block of Canada Boulevard, where they spotted a small hole in a wall filled with smoke and water, according to Glendale police reports. A sprinkler went off and contained the fire, keeping it from spreading to apartments, police said. A Glendale Fire Department investigator discovered a book of matches at the fire site, police said.

In a novel and potentially precedent-setting legal case, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge in Glendale ordered Dish Network to pay for the removal of three satellite dishes from an apartment building whose owner says were ordered by tenants without his approval, but who have since moved out. Christopher Spencer was awarded $850 in small claims court for the cost of removing the equipment from his apartment building in Burbank and $110 for...

A 20-year-old man was arrested Thursday after he struck an elderly woman with a shovel and then barricaded himself inside his apartment, police said. It took a rubber bullet and Taser before officers were finally able to subdue him. The man, Robert William White of Glendale, sat handcuffed in a chair yelling “God loves all you” several times to bystanders as paramedics carried him out of his apartment building in the 1000 block of Spazier Avenue in Glendale and transported him to a nearby hospital.

An apartment sustained $150,000 in damages Sunday when a fire swept through a Maple Street unit, officials said. No one was injured in the incident, which started at 4:16 p.m. on the second floor of an apartment building on the 900 block of East Maple Street, said Glendale Fire Battalion Chief Greg Godfrey. Thirty-two firefighters responded to the blaze after witnesses saw plumes of smoke and flames from the apartment, he said. Firefighters were able to keep the blaze from spreading to other units.

Residents reporting seeing a man masturbating last week in front of an apartment building on Palm Drive, police said. Witnesses said the man was standing behind a white picket fence about 2:47 p.m. Wednesday on the 600 block of Palm Drive and begin whistling at a woman as he touched himself, according to Glendale police reports. _________________________ FOR THE RECORD: This corrects an earlier version that listed Palm Drive as Palm Avenue. _________________________ The woman yelled at the man and warned that she would be notifying police, prompting him to flee, according to police reports.