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Weldon Fire In Newhall Breaks Out Near Newhall Pass The Weldon Fire in Newhall broke out north of the Newhall Pass Thursday evening, prompting a full first-alarm response from the Los Angeles County Fire Department. UPDATE (6:50 p.m.): Forward progress on the Weldon Fire has been halted, with firefighters holding the blaze at 10 acres. UPDATE (6:35 p.m.): The Weldon Fire has now reached 10 acres in size, with the potential for 25 acres, according to officials with the Los Angeles County Fire ...

Knockdown on the blaze was called less than 20 minutes after officials arrived on scene. **UPDATE** Knockdown has been called for #PineIC#LACoFD No injuries were reported in connection with the incident as of 3 p.m. Monday The exact cause of the fire was not known as of Monday afternoon. Officials were still on scene as of 3 p.m. Monday. Ed. Note: This is a breaking news story, more information will be posted as it is made available. Do you have a news tip? Call us at (661) 298-1220, or send a...

Already. how unusual is it for the head of an airline to already start ruling out causes? >> craig, thats very unusual. i was very surprised by the statements that he made about the mechanical soundness of the airplane and the fact there was no engine problem. it is such an early stage of the investigation. well before even the trained investigators have started the process. so i was very surprised by those comments. >> what are the priorities for the first investigators on the scene of a crash ...

Everybody thought well touchdown, be out of the plane in ten minutes, everything was totally fine. so first disbelief, everybody scared. the plane is crashing really fast, and, you know, then you stop. this whole scene is out of this world, but you stop and you realize, okay, youre alive, a lot of people still screaming and, you know, injured and i think screaming mostly because theyre injured or people quiet because they were so shocked. and, you know, the surprise was the fact that everybody g...

Electrical and fuel to make sure that you dont induce a fire or take away the elements that could cause a fire. >> you are an aviation attorney. how difficult is it to assign liability in a case like this? >> well, you know, the liability will really track what the ntsb finds. if the ntsb finds there was a certain amount of piloting error, they may find contributing factors from maybe either design issue or the way the plane was handled by air traffic control or the systems at the airport, the i...

Very surprised about that. within a short period of time, they had over 200 responders at that scene, ambulances, fire, police. and it was something to watch in the sense of admiring in terms of how both the passengers and crew got off that plane, but then how quickly the first responders got there, took care of the plane, the fire, potential explosion, began to deal with the seriously injured and others. it was textbook as best i can tell from what ive seen so far. >> all right, brand-new nbc n...

Spring into action? >> well, this is all done beforehand. the protocols are in place as to who is going to be the lead agency, initially it is going to be certainly focused on rescue. then it is going to move into search and recovery. and then there is going to look into the aspects of as they did in this one, very quickly, potential terrorism, fbi, potential crime, local police, is it in fact, what it appears to be an accident in which case fire department, ntsb take over. these are all agreed ...

Important because from the outside, you see this catastrophic fire, you see all this billowing smoke, yet we have all these survivors. well, theyre going to want to know how the folks got out in such a timely manner before the fire erupted in the aircraft. all of that is taking place right now, simultaneous cvr and fdr data being previewed and pumped back to the team, so that that will give them some idea if there is in fact a mechanical problem, they can start focusing on that as well. >> cvr, ...

Some people that wanted to hunker down, then realized this is what theyre facing and needed to get out. good news is they have great resources pulling people out of these places. they have coast guard helicopters and high water amphibious vehicles, swift water rescue team from indiana here to help, plus local fire and eoc officials. a lot of resources being deployed. looks like theyre going to need all of them today. heres an anecdote i got from officials not too long ago. they had a situation e...

Could jump up because there is a report 176 people remain missing. list say many of thoseduplicate left clinging to hope. >> i want to know where my husband is. you know, i just need to know. >> johns 32 years in the navy. if someone can survive it, its him. >> we just have to positithink hes somewhere and hes safe and they cant reach him. >> more than one square mile completely covered by mud and the area today is unrecognizable from before the weekend slide. the national guard is expected to a...