Loud explosions, roaring flames and tons of water – all the makings of an action flick! But no cameras insight for the real-life fire ripping through a Universal Studios backlot. Patricia Nazario reports live as firefighters managed to contain the blaze and theme-park executives reopened the park, albeit a Read more…
Soldiers who return from war and don’t seek help for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder often hush recurring horrors with drugs, alcohol, or suicide. Patricia Nazario checks out one solution at Loma Linda V-A Hospital in the Inland Empire. There, Vietnam Veterans freely discuss coping mechanisms for anger, which can rage Read more…
Flags at half staff and fire trucks –polished and bright– lined up near the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels downtown set the scene for Brent Lovrien’s farewell. He is the first firefighter Los Angeles has lost on the job in almost four years. Patricia Nazario was there as friends, Read more…
Some members of the Los Angeles Police Department’s SWAT team still remember the 11-hour standoff on February 7, 2008, like it was yesterday. Just before midnight, SWAT officers responded to a hostage call at a house in the West San Fernando Valley. At about 12:30 in the morning, senior SWAT Read more…
Around 12:30 in the morning, LAPD SWAT officers escalate force to a “flash bang” grenade. The team hoped the loud and bright diversionary explosion would stun the shooter, and give them a tactical advantage. According to the LA Weekly, it didn’t work, because the shooter was down a hallway and well Read more…
Los Angeles Police Captain Michelle Veenstra arrived at Northridge Medical Center shortly after her husband, LAPD SWAT officer James Veenstra, was admitted for emergency surgery to his face and jaw. His partner, SWAT officer Randal Simmons, was shot in the neck during a violet 11-hour standoff, and died at Northridge Read more…
Dozens of reporters gather to learn more about the events that lead to an 11-hour standoff and gun battle about a quarter mile away from the bloody crime scene. Deputy Chief Michel Moore of the LAPD Valley Bureau says Edwin Rivera called 911 around 9 p.m. to say he was holding six Read more…
Edwin Rivera, 20, is identified as the shooter who called 911 on February 6, 2008 saying, “…come get me,” after killing his father and two older brothers, including 25-year-old Endi Rivera. Los Angeles Police say when officers arrived, the high-school dropout with mental-health issues shot at them, which started an Read more…
Super Tuesday, 2008, reoccurs in political debates because it’s the largest simultaneous number of state U.S. presidential primary elections in the history of U.S. primaries. Twenty-four states, and American Samoa, held caucuses or primary elections for one or both parties that year on February 5th. Patricia Nazario chatted with first-time Read more…
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and President George W. Bush have already declared a state of emergency in seven California counties, where wildfires are burning out of control. At Lake Arrowhead, the resort town in San Bernardino Mountains, two aggressive brush fires are raging towards each other, and firefighters worry that Read more…