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It was the centerpiece of the Los Angeles County justice system until it was damaged in the Northridge earthquake. It was the home of Los Angeles County courts, the Los Angeles County Coroner, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office, and the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, and was for many years the primary Los Angeles County Jail.
The North Hollywood shootout, also known as the Battle of North Hollywood, [2] was a confrontation between two heavily armed and armored bank robbers, Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Mătăsăreanu, and police officers in the North Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles on February 28, 1997.
The history of Los Angeles began in 1781 when 44 settlers from central New Spain (modern Mexico) established a permanent settlement in what is now Downtown Los Angeles, as instructed by Spanish Governor of Las Californias, Felipe de Neve, and authorized by Viceroy Antonio María de Bucareli.
A woman is rescued alive from rubble by the CA-TF2 several days after the 2010 Haiti earthquake.. Urban Search and Rescue California Task Force 2 or CA-TF2 is a FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force based in Los Angeles County, California.
The Kinneloa Fire was a destructive wildfire in October 1993 in Los Angeles County, California.The fire burned 196 structures in the San Gabriel Mountains foothill communities of Altadena, Kinneloa Mesa, and Sierra Madre, becoming the then-twelfth most destructive wildfire in recorded California history and one of the most destructive wildfires in Los Angeles County history.
The Government of Los Angeles County is defined and authorized under the California Constitution, California law, and the Charter of the County of Los Angeles. [1] Much of the Government of California is in practice the responsibility of county governments, such as the Government of Los Angeles County. The County government provides countywide ...
Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles (the Los Angeles metropolitan area) Show map of the Los Angeles metropolitan area Coordinates: 34°07′02″N 118°22′31″W / 34.11722°N 118.37528°W / 34.11722; -118
The La Tuna Fire was a wildfire in the Verdugo Mountains in Los Angeles County, Southern California, in September 2017. The fire began from undetermined causes on the afternoon of September 1 in La Tuna Canyon, and burned 7,194 acres (2,911 ha) before its containment on September 9.