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Power Lines A Growing Concern As 3000-Acre Kern County Fire Burns Into The Night
May 15, 2013 at 6:55 pm
losangeles.cbslocal.com
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FRAZIER PARK (CBSLA.com) — Firefighters say one of their main concerns are transmission lines that provide power to the Los Angeles area in the path of the 3,000-acre Frazier Park blaze burning into the night.
Kern County was joined by the Los Angeles County Fire Department Wednesday as a fast-moving brush fire forced evacuations at a Lebac high school and Hungry Valley State Park.
The Grand Fire in Frazier Park was at 10 percent containment as of 8:00 p.m., according to Kern County Fire officials.
Ventura County and the Bureau of Land Management were also on the scene Wednesday – part of a crew of 600 fighting the brush fire.
Students at Frazier Mountain Park High School were evacuated safely, officials said. Firefighters say it’s not clear if the football field or track field there were damaged.
Several homes in the area have also been evacuated. No injuries or structural damage have been reported.
The fire is burning close to the northbound 5 Freeway at Frazier Mountain Park Road and toward the northern Los Angeles County area. Falcon Way is closed. The 5 Freeway is expected to remain open unless there is a change in winds, another main concern for officials.
Air tankers were deployed Wednesday afternoon, attempting to contain the blaze with fire retardant before it gets to the Los Padres National Forest. Helicopters were also overhead dropping water on the flames.
A bigger firefight is expected to extend through the evening as the flames work their way up the hillside in a heavily treed area. Winds are coming out of the north and west clocked as high as 25 mph.
They are expected to die down overnight before picking up again Thursday morning, potentially fueling the flames and creating dangerous conditions.
The area is not heavily populated. But some Frazier Park residents spoke with KCAL9′s Andrea Fujii about their concerns as smoke billowed above their homes.
“There’s always a chance,” Allan Andrews said. “It’s like, if it does come, what do you grab first?”
Dolores Baumgardar met the fire with similar resolve.
“It gets scary, but if you live in the mountains… you just have to deal with it,” she said.
The cause of the fire is currently under investigation.
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addthis:title="Power Lines A Growing Concern As 3000-Acre Kern County Fire Burns Into The Night"
addthis:description="FRAZIER PARK (CBSLA.com) — Firefighters say one of their main concerns are transmission lines that provide power to the Los Angeles area in the path of the 3,000-acre Frazier Park blaze burning into the night.
Kern County was joined by the Los Angeles County Fire Department Wednesday as a fast-moving brush fire forced evacuations at a Lebac high school and Hungry Valley State Park.
The Grand Fire in Frazier Park was at 10 percent containment as of 8:00 p.m., according to Kern County Fire officials.
Ventura County and the Bureau of Land Management were also on the scene Wednesday – part of a crew of 600 fighting the brush fire.
Students at Frazier Mountain Park High School were evacuated safely, officials said. Firefighters say it’s not clear if the football field or track field there were damaged.
Several homes in the area have also been evacuated. No injuries or structural damage have been reported.
The fire is burning close to the northbound 5 Freeway at Frazier Mountain Park Road and toward the northern Los Angeles County area. Falcon Way is closed. The 5 Freeway is expected to remain open unless there is a change in winds, another main concern for officials.
Air tankers were deployed Wednesday afternoon, attempting to contain the blaze with fire retardant before it gets to the Los Padres National Forest. Helicopters were also overhead dropping water on the flames.
A bigger firefight is expected to extend through the evening as the flames work their way up the hillside in a heavily treed area. Winds are coming out of the north and west clocked as high as 25 mph.
They are expected to die down overnight before picking up again Thursday morning, potentially fueling the flames and creating dangerous conditions.
The area is not heavily populated. But some Frazier Park residents spoke with KCAL9′s Andrea Fujii about their concerns as smoke billowed above their homes.
“There’s always a chance,” Allan Andrews said. “It’s like, if it does come, what do you grab first?”
Dolores Baumgardar met the fire with similar resolve.
“It gets scary, but if you live in the mountains… you just have to deal with it,” she said.
The cause of the fire is currently under investigation.
LADWP: Proposed Substation Sites to Receive Environmental Evaluations
May 13, 2013 at 12:45 pm
pacificpalisades.patch.com
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The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power provided an update to Pacific Palisades residents in early May about the long-debated distribution station 104.
The letter comes more than a month after members of the Pacific Palisades Community Council said stalls and lack of transparency discredit the process handled by the DS 104 Task Force and LADWP to find a new substation site in the community.
The letter from General Manager Ron Nichols reads as follows:
An Open Letter to the Pacific Palisades Community:
We have greatly appreciated the input and participation of the Pacific Palisades community regarding the future location of a new electrical distribution station (DS 104) serving the Palisades. This remains a critical project for both the L.A. Department of Water and Power (LADWP) and for Palisades residents and businesses who depend on reliable electricity every day.
The proposed DS 104 is needed to improve power reliability. Currently, the power load is now being distributed by only one existing distributing station in Pacific Palisades (DS-29). The heaviest power load is also being distributed on circuits that are furthest away from DS-29, which impacts reliability for the entire area. There is no space at the station to build more capacity, and we have not selected a site for the new distribution station.
The Task Force—appointed last year by Councilmember Bill Rosendahl, LADWP, and the Los Angeles Unified School District—has done a herculean job of evaluating potential sites and navigating through challenging issues. We thank them for generously giving their time to identify 16 potential locations for DS 104. The process and the Task Force’s tiered recommended sites were discussed during a public forum on Jan. 15, 2013, attended by more than 200 people. Written comments collected at the forum and over subsequent weeks have been posted online at www.ladwp.com/ DS104.
Now it is time to move forward. It typically takes six years to evaluate, design and construct a new power distributing station, and this project is still in the initial phase. LADWP is currently looking at the technical feasibility of all the potential sites that have been identified. The next step will be the formal environmental evaluation of the most feasible sites. The environmental evaluation is expected to begin this summer under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).
Please be assured that we are not done talking with the community about the project and receiving your input. The CEQA process provides several prescribed opportunities for community and public input. The public will be able to review and comment on the Draft Environmental Impact Report as well as the Final Environmental Impact Report. The completed environmental evaluation, along with the engineering feasibility studies, will be considered by the Board of Water and Power Commissioners during an open meeting where the public can make additional comments. Public input will weigh heavily in the Board’s decision making process.
We encourage you to visit the project website, www.ladwp.com/DS104, for updates and other project information. We are committed to continue working with the community on finding a feasible and compatible location for DS 104 as we move into the CEQA phase.
Sincerely,
Ronald O. Nichols
General Manager
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
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The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power provided an update to Pacific Palisades residents in early May about the long-debated distribution station 104.
The letter comes more than a month after members of the Pacific Palisades Community Council said stalls and lack of transparency discredit the process handled by the DS 104 Task Force and LADWP to find a new substation site in the community.
The letter from General Manager Ron Nichols reads as follows:
An Open Letter to the Pacific Palisades Community:
We have greatly appreciated the input and participation of the Pacific Palisades community regarding the future location of a new electrical distribution station (DS 104) serving the Palisades. This remains a critical project for both the L.A. Department of Water and Power (LADWP) and for Palisades residents and businesses who depend on reliable electricity every day.
The proposed DS 104 is needed to improve power reliability. Currently, the power load is now being distributed by only one existing distributing station in Pacific Palisades (DS-29). The heaviest power load is also being distributed on circuits that are furthest away from DS-29, which impacts reliability for the entire area. There is no space at the station to build more capacity, and we have not selected a site for the new distribution station.
The Task Force—appointed last year by Councilmember Bill Rosendahl, LADWP, and the Los Angeles Unified School District—has done a herculean job of evaluating potential sites and navigating through challenging issues. We thank them for generously giving their time to identify 16 potential locations for DS 104. The process and the Task Force’s tiered recommended sites were discussed during a public forum on Jan. 15, 2013, attended by more than 200 people. Written comments collected at the forum and over subsequent weeks have been posted online at www.ladwp.com/ DS104.
Now it is time to move forward. It typically takes six years to evaluate, design and construct a new power distributing station, and this project is still in the initial phase. LADWP is currently looking at the technical feasibility of all the potential sites that have been identified. The next step will be the formal environmental evaluation of the most feasible sites. The environmental evaluation is expected to begin this summer under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).
Please be assured that we are not done talking with the community about the project and receiving your input. The CEQA process provides several prescribed opportunities for community and public input. The public will be able to review and comment on the Draft Environmental Impact Report as well as the Final Environmental Impact Report. The completed environmental evaluation, along with the engineering feasibility studies, will be considered by the Board of Water and Power Commissioners during an open meeting where the public can make additional comments. Public input will weigh heavily in the Board’s decision making process.
We encourage you to visit the project website, www.ladwp.com/DS104, for updates and other project information. We are committed to continue working with the community on finding a feasible and compatible location for DS 104 as we move into the CEQA phase.
Sincerely,
Ronald O. Nichols
General Manager
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
Pacific Palisades Patch: Facebook | Twitter | E-mail Updates |
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The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power provided an update to Pacific Palisades residents in early May about the long-debated distribution station 104.
The letter comes more than a month after members of the Pacific Palisades Community Council said stalls and lack of transparency discredit the process handled by the DS 104 Task Force and LADWP to find a new substation site in the community.
The letter from General Manager Ron Nichols reads as follows:
An Open Letter to the Pacific Palisades Community:
We have greatly appreciated the input and participation of the Pacific Palisades community regarding the future location of a new electrical distribution station (DS 104) serving the Palisades. This remains a critical project for both the L.A. Department of Water and Power (LADWP) and for Palisades residents and businesses who depend on reliable electricity every day.
The proposed DS 104 is needed to improve power reliability. Currently, the power load is now being distributed by only one existing distributing station in Pacific Palisades (DS-29). The heaviest power load is also being distributed on circuits that are furthest away from DS-29, which impacts reliability for the entire area. There is no space at the station to build more capacity, and we have not selected a site for the new distribution station.
The Task Force—appointed last year by Councilmember Bill Rosendahl, LADWP, and the Los Angeles Unified School District—has done a herculean job of evaluating potential sites and navigating through challenging issues. We thank them for generously giving their time to identify 16 potential locations for DS 104. The process and the Task Force’s tiered recommended sites were discussed during a public forum on Jan. 15, 2013, attended by more than 200 people. Written comments collected at the forum and over subsequent weeks have been posted online at www.ladwp.com/ DS104.
Now it is time to move forward. It typically takes six years to evaluate, design and construct a new power distributing station, and this project is still in the initial phase. LADWP is currently looking at the technical feasibility of all the potential sites that have been identified. The next step will be the formal environmental evaluation of the most feasible sites. The environmental evaluation is expected to begin this summer under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).
Please be assured that we are not done talking with the community about the project and receiving your input. The CEQA process provides several prescribed opportunities for community and public input. The public will be able to review and comment on the Draft Environmental Impact Report as well as the Final Environmental Impact Report. The completed environmental evaluation, along with the engineering feasibility studies, will be considered by the Board of Water and Power Commissioners during an open meeting where the public can make additional comments. Public input will weigh heavily in the Board’s decision making process.
We encourage you to visit the project website, www.ladwp.com/DS104, for updates and other project information. We are committed to continue working with the community on finding a feasible and compatible location for DS 104 as we move into the CEQA phase.
Sincerely,
Ronald O. Nichols
General Manager
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
Pacific Palisades Patch: Facebook | Twitter | E-mail Updates |
">LAPD in Sylmar to get extra funding to deal with out-of-control parties
May 9, 2013 at 6:16 am
www.dailynews.com
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LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles police officers in the Sylmar neighborhood will get extra cash to patrol out-of-control parties thanks to funding that will be announced today by City Councilman Richard Alarcon.
Tremendous LADWP Salaries Scandal May Prove Key Issue For Mayoral Election
May 7, 2013 at 11:27 pm
losangeles.cbslocal.com
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LADERA HEIGHTS (CBSLA.com) — They key issue, as the mayoral runoff election approaches, may turn out to be the tremendous figures earned by the Department of Water and Power in the midst of hard economic times.
Employees at DWP were reportedly making 20% – 40% more than other utility employees. However, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times, over the last five years, DWP employees have allegedly received a 15% raise, as other city workers struggle financially.
The report says that the average salary for DWP employees last year was over $101,000.
The reaction to this report by the mayoral candidates?
They blamed each other.
“My opponent is the one who actually voted on the rate increases in 2009,” Wendy Greuel said. “The salary increases and rate increases.”
“After seven, eight audits in the Department of Water and Power, there is exactly zero dollars in waste that she uncovered,” Eric Garcetti said.
Garcetti went on to say that Greuel’s candidacy is being funded by millions of dollars of DWP unions.
Meanwhile, Greuel suggests that Garcetti can’t be trusted to take care of the issue, insisting that he did not fix it when he was on the city’s council.
The mayoral election is set for May 21.
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