NEWS
July 20, 2012
Glendale Public Works crews on Friday worked to repair a four-foot-deep sinkhole on Glenoaks Boulevard near Grandview Avenue, officials said. City spokesman Tom Lornez said the reason for the sinkhole, which was reported in the roadway's middle lane at about 1:30 p.m., would not be known until crews dig it up. The roadway remained partially closed while crews used heavy equipment to repair the hole. -- Veronica Rocha, Times Community News Follow Veronica on Twitter and Google+
NEWS
August 6, 2013
Regarding the Glendale Water & Power plant operators, along with city manager and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, trying to decide who will get to represent the power operators group, I would offer this advice: If the maintenance employees are represented by the IBEW and the operators have their own operators group, this will cause a conflict and competitive hate environment in the Grayson Plant that will always be a problem....
NEWS
By Jason Wells, jason.wells@latimes.com | July 27, 2011
Glendale Water & Power officials staged a 12-hour water outage in North Glendale Wednesday as crews installed new underground pipes. The outage, which was scheduled to last from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., affected 193 housing units, most of them apartments or condominiums, near the intersection of Campbell and Stocker streets. Crews were stationed around the area to monitor water flow and pressure at nearby fire hydrants. A water station was set up at the intersection of Campbell and Stocker for affected residents.
NEWS
December 6, 2012
A failed relay unit located near a main transformer is to blame for knocking out the power at Glendale Community College on two separate days over a weeklong period, official said Thursday. Electricians were able to repair the equipment Wednesday night after power outages forced administrators to close the campus Nov. 30 and Dec. 5. After turning students away on Wednesday, school resumed Thursday morning after electricians brought the power back after 8 p.m. Wednesday night.
NEWS
June 13, 2005
Fred Ortega Montrose Search and Rescue crews found the skeletonized remains of a human near the site of a car wreck off the Angeles Crest highway, officials with the Crescenta Valley Sheriff's Station said Friday. Authorities were first alerted to the wreck, located about 11 miles north of La Canada Flintridge, by the Sheriff's Department's Air Rescue 5 helicopter at about 12:30 p.m. as it headed toward a base in the Angeles National Forest on a routine flight, said Mike Leum, operations leader for the Montrose Search and Rescue Team.
NEWS
By: | August 3, 2005
Police on Tuesday remained uncertain if small knife blades found at a Newport Beach park were placed there deliberately. Crews sifting through the sand Monday found two more blades, bringing the total to 15 blades found at a Bonita Canyon park, where a 5-year-old child stepped on a blade Saturday morning. The blade did not break skin on the child's foot, and he was not injured, said Sgt. Bill Hartford. Police and grounds crews swept the entire playground with a metal detector.
NEWS
By: Michael Miller | August 26, 2005
Repair crews said Thursday that they had reconnected more than half of the telephone lines that were severed this week in West Newport, and that they expected to have the job finished by late today. After construction workers from Professional Electrical Contractors cut through three underground cables Tuesday morning -- the cause of the event is still disputed -- crews from the SBC telephone company began working around the clock to reconnect the wires.
LOCAL
By Chris Wiebe | July 28, 2006
GLENDALE ? The corpse of an unidentified man was pulled from a hillside behind homes in north Glendale on Thursday. A construction crew working on a house on Maginn Drive contacted the Glendale Fire Department at about 5 p.m. and reported that they saw a body in the vegetation laying face up near the foot of the hills, Glendale Police Department Officer John Balian said. Fire crews responding to the call used chain saws to cut their way through the brush, discovering the body of a deceased adult male who appeared to have slid down from the top of the hillside, Fire Capt.
NEWS
By Melanie Hicken, melanie.hicken@latimes.com | June 29, 2010
As construction crews continue to expand six foothill debris basins in preparation for next year's storms, Los Angeles County officials today are expected to allocate hundreds of thousands more for additional construction projects. Earlier this month, crews contracted by Los Angeles County began a $1-million expansion of the Pickens, Snover, Big Briar, Mullally, Pinelawn and Starfall debris basins. The work is slated to continue through October. County officials have said the expansion should help prevent the devastation that occurred in February when the Mullaly Debris Basin overflowed, sending mud and debris that severely damaged homes in La Cañada's Paradise Valley neighborhood.
NEWS
February 17, 2004
Darleene Barrientos Another $170 will have to go toward repairing a wall blighted by a spray-painted message that Ampco Parking attendants found last week, the second incident of graffiti on the same wall in about a week. The wall, at 127 Burchett St., is next to Conrad's Restaurant. Ampco Parking manager Diana Sanchez said Ampco will have to pay to have the wall, marked by graffiti measuring 5-by-10 feet, repaired. "It got me upset, but, oh well.