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Officials tussle over rail crossing
GLENDALE — Los Angeles County transportation officials may have earmarked $6.6 million for safety upgrades to the Doran Street rail crossing, but state officials say they will continue push to have it closed, citing the danger posed by a nearby...Tags: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Glendale (Los Angeles, California), Disasters and Accidents, Vehicles, Glendale (Los Angeles, California)
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La Crescenta Library to host free workshop on emergency preparedness, fraud protection
Fire and police officials are scheduled to host a free workshop Thursday on how seniors can best be prepared for emergencies, and how they can protect themselves against fraud. The free event -- scheduled to start at 4:30 p.m. in the Community Room of...Tags: Corporate Crime, Crime, Law and Justice, Disasters and Accidents, Crimes, Fraud
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City may cut ties with county homeless authority
Glendale is moving to end a long-standing relationship with Los Angeles County in effort to reduce the number of transients it’s forced to take in for the annual winter homeless shelter program.
The City Council in its dual role as the Housing...Tags: Social Issues, Public Officials, Disasters and Accidents, Housing and Urban Planning, Government
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City stirs up shelter plans
Glendale’s plan to break with Los Angeles County and create its own, smaller, homeless winter shelter could complicate the emergency shelter plans of other agencies. The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority this week rejected Glendale’s...Tags: Disasters and Accidents
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CERT training should not be cut
The Glendale Fire Department’s CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) training program is an essential tool for our community. It should never be cut from the department's budget (“Fire Dept. plan would save city $2.5M,” May 26). CERT...Tags: California, Fox Broadcasting Company, Disasters and Accidents, Heads of State, Government
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50 motorists cited for rail crossing violations
Fifty motorists were cited over a two-day period this week for flouting crossing guards at some of Glendale’s most dangerous railroad crossings.
Metrolink, Union Pacific and Glendale police conducted the enforcement campaign Thursday and Friday...Tags: Road Transportation, Disasters and Accidents, Cook County Government, Union Pacific Corporation, Travel
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A big accident waiting to happen at rail crossings
A two-day enforcement sting this week at the Doran Street, Chevy Chase and Brazil/Broadway rail crossings in Glendale — which included one motorist literally driving through a set of arm guards — should serve as yet another wake-up call to...Tags: Railway Accidents, Cook County Government, Disasters and Accidents, Vehicles, Transportation Accidents
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Fire Dept. plan would save city $2.5M
CITY HALL — Glendale fire officials are proposing sweeping changes to the department in order to cut costs, including hiring 60 hourly emergency medical technicians to offset the 21 sworn firefighter positions that will be eliminated through...Tags: Career and Workplace, Crime, Law and Justice, Disasters and Accidents, Employees, Layoffs and Downsizing
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Voting rules remain vague
CITY HALL — The City Council this week broached ditching so-called “emergency ballots” for last minute voters in favor of beefing up absentee vote-by-mail allowances, but stopped short of making any changes for the April 5 election....Tags: California, Disasters and Accidents, Local Elections, Voting, Vehicles
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Dentist offers free grins
People rarely are in a hurry to get to their dentist’s office, but at 7:30 a.m. Monday staffers for Dr. Kamran Sahabi found half a dozen people waiting at the entrance to the Glendale Dental Center on South Glendale Avenue.
Sahabi and Dr. Farid...Tags: Dentistry and Dental Health, Tooth Decay, Disasters and Accidents, Substance Abuse, Human Interest
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I'm Just Sayin': Are we really ready for 'The Big One?'
The tragic earthquake and tsunami in Japan last week and the subsequent and ongoing nuclear crisis have made many of us ask how well the U.S., and even more importantly, Southern California, is prepared to handle these kinds of cataclysmic events. What...Tags: Tsunamis, Disasters and Accidents, Human Interest, Southern California Edison Company, Science and Technology
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Feds fund new emergency gear
GLENDALE — Four fire departments, including those in Burbank and Glendale, will share in a $1.14-million federal grant to purchase new life-saving defibrillators, allowing emergency personnel to provide more specialized care in the field, official...Tags: Physical Conditions, Hospitals and Clinics, Adam Schiff, Heart Attack, Disasters and Accidents
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