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Soledad Canyon Brush Fire Prompts Response In Santa Clarita A Soledad Canyon brush fire in Santa Clarita prompted a response from firefighters Wednesday. UPDATE: All eastbound lanes of Soledad Canyon Road have been temporarily closed due to the incident at Langside Avenue. Around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, first responders received reports of a brush fire on Soledad Canyon Road and Penlon Way in Canyon Country, said Jon Matheny, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles County Fire Department. When units arrived on scene, they reported a quarter-acre burning uphill with no structures threatened according ...

Canyon Fire Ignites On 5 Freeway North Of Santa Clarita The Canyon Fire ignited Friday afternoon just north of Santa Clarita on the 5 Freeway.  UPDATE (2:50 p.m.): The fire has burned six acres with fire running uphill. No structures are currently threatened. The No. 3 and No. 4 lanes of the southbound 5 Freeway are expected to be shut down for at least one hour, according to California Highway Patrol Incident logs. BRUSH FIRE | FS 149 | 1.5 miles south of Pyramid Lake/SB 5 Fwy | Units on scene reporting 6 acre brush fire, running uphill, in heavy fuel, no structures threatened. @AngelesNF a...

Brush Fire Prompts Response From Firefighters Near Santa Clarita A brush fire on the 5 Freeway prompted a response from firefighters Wednesday morning near Santa Clarita, and was held to a half acre.. The brush fire, dubbed the Ridge Fire, was first reported to firefighters around 10:10 a.m. Wednesday on the southbound 5 Freeway near Lake Hughes Road in Castaic, said Jon Matheny, an inspector for the Los Angeles County Fire Department. As of 10:30 a.m., the Castaic brush fire has burned a half acre withforward progression of the fire stopped, according to Fire officials. Ridge Route Road is e...

Bradley Jon Matheny was convicted on postage stamp forgery counts and export violations. Matheny, 42, faces up to 65 years in prison and a $2.5 million fine. An Iowa man is facing up to 65 years in prison for forging postage stamps on 28,000 packages and costing the United States Postal Office $250,000, according to the Department of Justice. Bradley Jon Matheny was convicted on Wednesday on seven counts of postage meter stamp forgery and counterfeiting, as well as three counts of export violations. Matheny is the owner of "Mathenys," an eBay-based business that shipped retail goods around th...

Los Angeles Times The number of Los Angeles firefighters testing positive for the coronavirus has dropped significantly since the city fire agency began offering its members vaccinations, Fire Chief Ralph Terrazas said in a memo to firefighters this week. Terrazas, in a memo dated Tuesday and obtained by The Times, said the LAFD has seen a "sharp decline" in cases since firefighters started getting the shots on Dec. 28. A chart included with the memo shows that the LAFD was averaging more than 15 new cases per day before the vaccination program. The number soon plummeted. In the most recent w...