| | | | | The news for Wednesday, December 16, 2020 |
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Orange County Opens Mobile Field Hospitals to Handle COVID-19 Surge Orange County continues to set new records for coronavirus diagnoses and hospitalizations, while county officials have rolled out mobile field hospitals to handle the surge in patients. The county logged 2,173 new COVID-19 infections Tuesday, raising the cumulative case total to 107,937. Hospitalizations jumped from 1,287 Monday to 1,371, including 296 ICU patients, up from […]
UCLA Offering Online Masters Program in Health Care Management The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health is introducing an online Master of Healthcare Administration degree program in 2021, the first of its type to be offered by a University of California campus, the school announced Wednesday. Applications will open in January 2021, and the first class is scheduled to begin in the summer of […]
Two Critically Injured in Inglewood Crash A Honda Civic traveling at a high rate of speed crashed into a light pole in Inglewood Wednesday morning, ejecting one person and trapping another in the vehicle. Firefighters responded at around 1 a.m. to the intersection of Hawthorne Boulevard and 103rd Street and found the car wrapped around the pole, according to Battalion Chief […]
More COVID-19 Vaccinations Expected Wednesday in LA County More Southland health care workers are expected to get vaccinated against the coronavirus Wednesday, as the region’s hospitals continue receiving shipments of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. By the end of Wednesday, all nine sites in the county equipped with the ultra-cold-storage facilities needed for the Pfizer medication are expected to have the vaccine. The doses […]
4 Adults, 3 Children Displaced by Westminster House Fire A family of seven, including three children, was displaced Wednesday morning by a fire that tore through their Westminster home. Firefighters responded at 1:49 a.m. to the 6200 block of Kiowa Road and found seven people who had escaped the burning house, according to the Orange County Fire Authority. A knock down of the fire […]
Reseda House Fire Quickly Extinguished A fire that tore through a home in Reseda Wednesday morning was extinguished by firefighters in just 30 minutes. Crews responded at 3:18 a.m. to the 19100 block of Vanowen Street, east of Tampa Avenue, and found fire in a one-story home, including in the attic, according to Nicholas Prange of the Los Angeles Fire […]
LA County’s Coronavirus Deaths Soar, Hospitalizations Continue Climbing Los Angeles County reported its highest single-day number of COVID-19-related deaths since the summer on Tuesday, while hospitalization figures continued a steady upward climb that threatens the availability of intensive-care unit beds. The county announced 86 new deaths, along with seven more reported by Long Beach health officials Tuesday afternoon, lifted the overall countywide death […]
Southland Gas Prices Rise Slightly The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County rose four-tenths of a cent Wednesday to $3.151. The average price is one-tenth of a cent less than one week ago, the same as one month ago and 52.4 cents lower than one year ago, according to figures from the AAA […]
Sanderson Fire Now 100% Contained South of Beaumont A wildfire that scorched 1,933 acres in the Badlands southwest of Beaumont was 100% contained Wednesday morning. The non-injury “Sanderson Fire” broke out at 1 a.m. Sunday in the area of La Borde Canyon Road and Jack Rabbit Trail for reasons still under investigation, according to the Riverside County Fire Department. Because the blaze was […]
Azusa Pacific University Drops Football Azusa Pacific University announced Tuesday it is dropping its football program because of rising costs associated with the lack of local play. Football expenditures have nearly doubled over the past decade, primarily because of increased travel costs resulting in annual departmental deficits, according to athletic director Gary Pine. The Cougars were the only NCAA Division […]
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