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John Leonard Orr (born 1948 or 1949) is an American convicted serial arsonist, mass murderer and former firefighter.A fire captain and arson investigator in Glendale, California, Orr was convicted of serial arson and four counts of murder; he is believed to have set nearly 2,000 fires in a thirty-year arson spree, most of them between 1984 and 1991, making him the most prolific serial arsonist ...
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Phillips disaster of 1989. On 23 October 1989 at approximately 1:05 PM Central Daylight Time, a series of explosions occurred at Phillips Petroleum Company's Houston Chemical Complex in Pasadena, Texas, near the Houston Ship Channel. The initial blast registered 3.5 on the Richter scale, and the resulting fires took 10 hours to bring under ...
The Kinneloa Fire was a destructive wildfire in October 1993 in Los Angeles County, California.The fire burned 196 structures in the San Gabriel Mountains foothill communities of Altadena, Kinneloa Mesa, and Sierra Madre, becoming the 12th most destructive wildfire in recorded California history at the time and to this day one of the most destructive wildfires in Los Angeles County history.
Pasadena officers clear the road at the start of the 2020 Rose Bowl Parade route. The department is considering adding body-worn cameras that activate when an officer's gun is drawn.
Matthew Seedorff. May 11, 2024 at 10:52 AM. PASADENA, Calif. - Three people were killed, and another three were hospitalized Saturday following an early-morning crash in Pasadena. It happened ...
The Bobcat Fire was a large wildfire in Los Angeles County and one of the major incidents of the 2020 California wildfire season. The fire ignited on September 6, 2020, and burned 115,997 acres (46,942 ha) before it was fully contained by November 27. The Bobcat Fire primarily burned in the central San Gabriel Mountains, in and around the ...
Station Fire (2009) / 34.251; -118.195. The Station Fire was the largest wildfire of the 2009 California wildfire season, as well as the largest wildfire in the history of Los Angeles County, that burned in the Angeles National Forest, igniting on August 26, 2009, near the U.S. Forest Service Angeles Station 11 ranger station on the Angeles ...