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The Creek Fire was a large wildfire that burned in Kagel Canyon and the Angeles National Forest north of Sylmar, a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, United States, and one of multiple wildfires that broke out across Southern California in December 2017. The Creek Fire burned 15,619 acres (63 km 2) and destroyed 123 structures, including ...
The Thomas Fire destroyed at least 1,063 structures, while damaging 280 others; [1] [2] [21] [9] and the fire caused over $2.2 billion (2018 USD) in damages, [10] [13] [11] including $230 million in suppression costs, [11] [12] becoming the seventh-most destructive wildfire in state history at the time.
Kevin de León. Kevin Alexander Leon (born December 10, 1966), known professionally as Kevin de León and colloquially as KDL, [1] is an American politician serving as the Los Angeles City Council member for District 14 since 2020. [2] A member of the Democratic Party, he was defeated in the 2018 United States Senate election in California ...
In terms of property damage, 2017 was the most destructive wildfire season on record in California at the time, surpassed by only the 2018 season and the 2020 season, with a total of 9,560 fires burning 1,548,429 acres (6,266.27 km 2) of land, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, including five of the 20 most destructive wildland-urban interface fires in the ...
Los Angeles has had five Latino mayors post-incorporation: Antonio F. Coronel, Manuel Requena, Cristobal Aguilar, Antonio Villaraigosa, and Eric Garcetti. [5] The city has also had two African-American mayors, Tom Bradley and Karen Bass. Two French-Canadian politicians, Damien Marchesseault and Prudent Beaudry, have served as Mayors. [6]
The October 2017 Northern California wildfires, also known as the Northern California firestorm, North Bay Fires, and the Wine Country Fires [7] were a series of 250 wildfires that started burning across the state of California, United States, beginning in early October. Twenty-one became major fires that burned at least 245,000 acres (99,148 ha).
38,167 Sunday [1] ISSN. 0276-590X. Website. laopinion .com. MCI Center houses the newspaper's offices. La Opinión is a Spanish-language daily newspaper and website based in Los Angeles, California. It is the largest Spanish-language newspaper in the United States and the second-most read newspaper in Los Angeles (after The Los Angeles Times ).
The 2017 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball 's (MLB) 2017 season. The 113th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the National League (NL) champion Los Angeles Dodgers and the American League (AL) champion Houston Astros. The series was played between October 24 and November 1.