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Officials Expect This To Be Worst Fire Season Ever
June 17, 2013 at 6:46 pm
losangeles.cbslocal.com
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LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — This is shaping up to be the worst season for wildfires in the last 100 years, officials announced Monday.
“We’re going to have a very volatile fire season. We are in the third year of a drought,” L.A. County Fire Chief Darryl Osby said.
Fire season seems to be a year-round threat now, based on the huge fires that have been occurring in non-practical fire months. The Springs Fire in Camarillo in May may have been the start of this potentially record-setting fire year.
“I feel like we’re always at risk,” said Carbon Canyon resident Trish Hocking. “We had a bad fire, it devastated the neighborhood, made us all on high alert from then on…we’re ready to go if we need to.”
Firefighters from across Southern California are meeting in Diamond Bar where they’re working on mutual aid coordination and learning about additional resources they will have in August.
L.A. City and County will have two Super Scooper water-dropping aircraft and an Erickson Air-Crane, which is an orange water-dropping helicopter, at their disposal. Normal aircraft drop between 400 to 1,000 gallons of water; the Air-Cranes are capable of dropping 2,600.
Officials say homeowners need to do their part by cutting shrubs and certain kinds of trees.
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addthis:title="Officials Expect This To Be Worst Fire Season Ever"
addthis:description="LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — This is shaping up to be the worst season for wildfires in the last 100 years, officials announced Monday.
“We’re going to have a very volatile fire season. We are in the third year of a drought,” L.A. County Fire Chief Darryl Osby said.
Fire season seems to be a year-round threat now, based on the huge fires that have been occurring in non-practical fire months. The Springs Fire in Camarillo in May may have been the start of this potentially record-setting fire year.
“I feel like we’re always at risk,” said Carbon Canyon resident Trish Hocking. “We had a bad fire, it devastated the neighborhood, made us all on high alert from then on…we’re ready to go if we need to.”
Firefighters from across Southern California are meeting in Diamond Bar where they’re working on mutual aid coordination and learning about additional resources they will have in August.
L.A. City and County will have two Super Scooper water-dropping aircraft and an Erickson Air-Crane, which is an orange water-dropping helicopter, at their disposal. Normal aircraft drop between 400 to 1,000 gallons of water; the Air-Cranes are capable of dropping 2,600.
Officials say homeowners need to do their part by cutting shrubs and certain kinds of trees.
Meeting Planned to Discuss the Silver Lake Reservoir Complex Bypass Line
June 17, 2013 at 6:30 pm
echopark.patch.com
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There will be a chance for locals to find out more information about the Silver Lake Reservoir Complex Bypass Line at a meeting this week.The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power will host a meeting on Wednesday to give area residents a chance
Micheltorena Garden News
June 14, 2013 at 11:55 pm
silverlakenc.org
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Hello friends of the Micheltorena School & Community Garden: As many of you know the garden is a proud project of the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council founded in the year 2010 with a generous grant from the board. Since that time, board members have dedicated hundreds of hours alongside neighbors, parents, children and teachers, growing [...]
Silver Lake Picture Show opened with Wayne’s World
June 14, 2013 at 6:05 pm
silverlakenc.org
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Silver Lake Picture Show opened last night in Sunset Triangle Plaza with “Wayne’s World” as the feature attraction, and delightful live swing music by the Hi Fi Honeydrops. SLPS is a bi-monthly celebration of art and people that both generates and builds upon the ever growing sense of community in Silver Lake. The screenings are [...]
City of Los Angeles to open its swimming pools for the summer
June 14, 2013 at 6:01 pm
www.dailybreeze.com
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Everyone in the pool. It’s time for the city of Los Angeles to open its pools for the summer season, adding roughly three dozen swim facilities to the 16 pools open year round.
Echo Park and Silver Lake residents make noise over freeway sound walls
June 14, 2013 at 9:02 am
www.theeastsiderla.com
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Caltrans engineers listening to questions about 2 Freeway soundwalls
Silver Lake resident questions officials over sound walls.
Many of the noise-weary neighbors who live next to freeways would welcome some relief. In fact, the demand for sound proofing is so great in California that state highway agency Caltrans has a waiting list of requests for sound walls. But a proposal to build sound walls along the 2 Freeway in Echo Park and Silver Lake met with stiff opposition during a community meeting Thursday night.
Caltrans wants to build an 1,800-foot-long sound wall Freeway along Allesandro Street and another in front of St. Teresa of Avila School on Glendale Boulevard. The walls, which would be as high as 14 feet on Allesandro, would be built next year as part of a $12 million project to improve traffic conditions at the southern tip of the 2 Freeway where it meets Glendale Boulevard on the border of Echo Park and Silver Lake.
After conducting sound studies and surveying residents, Caltrans engineers abandoned a proposal to build sound walls on the Silver Lake side of the freeway. However, the surveys and studies supported the construction an approximately 1,800-foot long sound wall on the Echo Park side of the freeway along Allesandro between Oak Glen Place and 250 feet north of El Moran Street.
But many of the Echo Park and Silver Lake residents who attended Thursday night’s meeting said the walls would only create eyesores, block views and attract taggers. Many also challenged Caltrans survey, which sampled only residents and property owners who lived in areas with the highest levels of noise. In the case of the Echo Park sound wall, 21 people supported the wall and none were opposed. On the Silver Lake side of the 2 Freeway, 12 people were opposed and 9 people were in favor.
Other residents who live in the hills above the freeway said the walls would do little to shield them from noise and only cause blight.
“Our community does not appreciate being walled in,” said one Silver Lake woman who lives next to the 2 Freeway. “This is not the answer,” she said of the walls.
Caltrans engineers conceded that building a wall on the Echo Park side of the freeway may reflect sound in the direction of Silver Lake, increasing noise. But the increase would only be one or two decibels, according to one engineer.
Caltrans officials at the meeting said they would review the objections to the sound walls. But they said the sound walls are required under the state and federal regulations that oversee new highway construction.
The sound walls are one part of a wide-ranging and contentious project that calls for metering southbound freeway traffic, improving sidewalks and crosswalks, adding landscaping at the southern terminus of the Freeway. Most of those changes are not scheduled to begin for at least another year.
Many residents and community groups have opposed the project as currently designed, saying it would do little to shield neighbors from commuter traffic and improve safety for pedestrians and cyclists.
Click here for more information about the State Route 2 Terminus Project.
Sound wall rendering.
Caltrans engineers listening to questions about 2 Freeway soundwalls
Silver Lake resident questions officials over sound walls.
Many of the noise-weary neighbors who live next to freeways would welcome some relief. In fact, the demand for sound proofing is so great in California that state highway agency Caltrans has a waiting list of requests for sound walls. But a proposal to build sound walls along the 2 Freeway in Echo Park and Silver Lake met with stiff opposition during a community meeting Thursday night.
Caltrans wants to build an 1,800-foot-long sound wall Freeway along Allesandro Street and another in front of St. Teresa of Avila School on Glendale Boulevard. The walls, which would be as high as 14 feet on Allesandro, would be built next year as part of a $12 million project to improve traffic conditions at the southern tip of the 2 Freeway where it meets Glendale Boulevard on the border of Echo Park and Silver Lake.
After conducting sound studies and surveying residents, Caltrans engineers abandoned a proposal to build sound walls on the Silver Lake side of the freeway. However, the surveys and studies supported the construction an approximately 1,800-foot long sound wall on the Echo Park side of the freeway along Allesandro between Oak Glen Place and 250 feet north of El Moran Street.
But many of the Echo Park and Silver Lake residents who attended Thursday night’s meeting said the walls would only create eyesores, block views and attract taggers. Many also challenged Caltrans survey, which sampled only residents and property owners who lived in areas with the highest levels of noise. In the case of the Echo Park sound wall, 21 people supported the wall and none were opposed. On the Silver Lake side of the 2 Freeway, 12 people were opposed and 9 people were in favor.
Other residents who live in the hills above the freeway said the walls would do little to shield them from noise and only cause blight.
“Our community does not appreciate being walled in,” said one Silver Lake woman who lives next to the 2 Freeway. “This is not the answer,” she said of the walls.
Caltrans engineers conceded that building a wall on the Echo Park side of the freeway may reflect sound in the direction of Silver Lake, increasing noise. But the increase would only be one or two decibels, according to one engineer.
Caltrans officials at the meeting said they would review the objections to the sound walls. But they said the sound walls are required under the state and federal regulations that oversee new highway construction.
The sound walls are one part of a wide-ranging and contentious project that calls for metering southbound freeway traffic, improving sidewalks and crosswalks, adding landscaping at the southern terminus of the Freeway. Most of those changes are not scheduled to begin for at least another year.
Many residents and community groups have opposed the project as currently designed, saying it would do little to shield neighbors from commuter traffic and improve safety for pedestrians and cyclists.
Click here for more information about the State Route 2 Terminus Project.
Sound wall rendering.
Caltrans engineers listening to questions about 2 Freeway soundwalls
Silver Lake resident questions officials over sound walls.
Many of the noise-weary neighbors who live next to freeways would welcome some relief. In fact, the demand for sound proofing is so great in California that state highway agency Caltrans has a waiting list of requests for sound walls. But a proposal to build sound walls along the 2 Freeway in Echo Park and Silver Lake met with stiff opposition during a community meeting Thursday night.
Caltrans wants to build an 1,800-foot-long sound wall Freeway along Allesandro Street and another in front of St. Teresa of Avila School on Glendale Boulevard. The walls, which would be as high as 14 feet on Allesandro, would be built next year as part of a $12 million project to improve traffic conditions at the southern tip of the 2 Freeway where it meets Glendale Boulevard on the border of Echo Park and Silver Lake.
After conducting sound studies and surveying residents, Caltrans engineers abandoned a proposal to build sound walls on the Silver Lake side of the freeway. However, the surveys and studies supported the construction an approximately 1,800-foot long sound wall on the Echo Park side of the freeway along Allesandro between Oak Glen Place and 250 feet north of El Moran Street.
But many of the Echo Park and Silver Lake residents who attended Thursday night’s meeting said the walls would only create eyesores, block views and attract taggers. Many also challenged Caltrans survey, which sampled only residents and property owners who lived in areas with the highest levels of noise. In the case of the Echo Park sound wall, 21 people supported the wall and none were opposed. On the Silver Lake side of the 2 Freeway, 12 people were opposed and 9 people were in favor.
Other residents who live in the hills above the freeway said the walls would do little to shield them from noise and only cause blight.
“Our community does not appreciate being walled in,” said one Silver Lake woman who lives next to the 2 Freeway. “This is not the answer,” she said of the walls.
Caltrans engineers conceded that building a wall on the Echo Park side of the freeway may reflect sound in the direction of Silver Lake, increasing noise. But the increase would only be one or two decibels, according to one engineer.
Caltrans officials at the meeting said they would review the objections to the sound walls. But they said the sound walls are required under the state and federal regulations that oversee new highway construction.
The sound walls are one part of a wide-ranging and contentious project that calls for metering southbound freeway traffic, improving sidewalks and crosswalks, adding landscaping at the southern terminus of the Freeway. Most of those changes are not scheduled to begin for at least another year.
Many residents and community groups have opposed the project as currently designed, saying it would do little to shield neighbors from commuter traffic and improve safety for pedestrians and cyclists.
Click here for more information about the State Route 2 Terminus Project.
Sound wall rendering.
