LA Times (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
Schwarzenegger calls for review of building standards; state officials are already at work on the issue. He also questions hospitals' emergency backup power plans. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger called for a review of building standards and emergency procedures Sunday after the Oakridge Mobile Home Park was devastated by the Sayre fire and a backup power system failed at a Sylmar hospital.
LA Times (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
Schwarzenegger calls for review of building standards as well as hospitals' emergency backup power plans. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger called for a review of building standards and emergency procedures Sunday after the Oakridge Mobile Home Park was devastated by the Sayre fire and a backup power system failed at a Sylmar hospital.
Los Angeles Times (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
Schwarzenegger calls for review of building standards as well as hospitals' emergency backup power plans. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger called for a review of building standards and emergency procedures Sunday after the Oakridge Mobile Home Park was devastated by the Sayre fire and a backup power system failed at a Sylmar hospital.
LAist (Free subscription) | 11/15/2008
A "large Fire visible from a distance" was called in tonight just before 10:30 pm from someone near Veterans Memorial Park in Sylmar , a neighborhood in the northeast San Fernando Valley near where the Marek Fire was located in October. Melissa Kelley at the Los Angeles Fire Department said preliminary estimates indicated that the fast moving blaze was 10-15 acres in size...
LA Times (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
A string of emergencies -- starting with the Metrolink collision and ending with the recent Sylmar fire -- has showed the mayor as an informer and comforter for the city. In three months, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has become a continual crisis manager, as his city has been buffeted by one disaster after another.
