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  2. Patt Morrison: The death of the SigAlert — and why it ... - AOL

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    The first SigAlert was issued on Labor Day 1955, a Monday, over the six radio stations that had signed up. A train had derailed at Union Station, and nurses and doctors were needed. So many showed ...

  3. Patt Morrison: Where have all the orange groves gone? - AOL

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    Like his neighbor, the French winemaker Jean-Louis Vignes, Wolfskill planted vineyards along the Los Angeles River. He also grew pears, figs, quinces, lemons and apples — and oranges.

  4. Sig Alert - Wikipedia

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    The first SigAlert was on Labor Day weekend in 1955, [7] and some stories on the SigAlert conflate these two events. [8] At first, the LAPD issued about one alert a day, but soon other agencies were calling in messages they wanted broadcast, including rabid dog reports, gas leaks and even a ship collision in Los Angeles Harbor. [9]

  5. Southern California freeways - Wikipedia

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    A vast network of interconnected freeways in the megaregion of Southern California serves a population of over 23 million people. The Master Plan of Metropolitan Los Angeles Freeways was adopted by the Regional Planning Commission in 1947 and construction began in the early 1950s. [1] The plan hit opposition and funding limitations in the 1970s ...

  6. KFWB - Wikipedia

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    KFWB (980 AM) is a commercial radio station in Los Angeles, California.KFWB is owned by Lotus Communications, and airs a classic regional Mexican music radio format.The station has a colorful history, being the radio voice of Warner Bros. Studios in the early days of broadcasting, and a long-time Group W (later CBS Radio) station from 1966 to 2016.

  7. Gorman, California - Wikipedia

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    93243. Area code. 661. Gorman is an unincorporated community in northwestern Los Angeles County, California, United States. It is located in Peace Valley south of the Tejon Pass, which links Southern California with the San Joaquin Valley and Northern California.

  8. A ‘particularly dangerous situation’ develops as wildfires ...

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    In Southern California, three people, including an off-duty Los Angeles County sheriff’s sergeant, were rescued after being stuck in a remote area about five miles west of Mount Baldy, unable to ...

  9. Los Angeles Daily News - Wikipedia

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    The merged The Van Nuys News (in big letters) and The Van Nuys Call (in small letters) (January 22, 1915). The Los Angeles Daily News is the second-largest-circulating paid daily newspaper of Los Angeles, California, after the unrelated Los Angeles Times, and the flagship newspaper of the Southern California News Group, a branch of Colorado-based Digital First Media.