[LAFD] Major Emergency Structure Fire Injures 14 in San Pedro Hotel

Los Angeles Fire Department - Major Emergency Structure Fire

Location: 1001 S Palos Verdes St

San Pedro/Ports O' Call

Tuesday, January 22,  2013

TIME: 3:31 AM

INCIDENT #0103

SAN PEDRO - Fourteen people were treated for injuries, and 12 were transported to hospitals, three in critical condition, after an early morning fire erupted in a San Pedro hotel.
Just after 3:30 AM on January 22, 2013, local firefighters returning from a medical emergency on 12th Street located a structure fire at1001 South Palos Verdes Street in San Pedro, before any 9-1-1 calls were received.

A 14 unit two-story Center Hallway Hotel, built in 1923, had one unit on the first floor well involved in flames that were lapping up to the second story.

The blaze spread rapidly causing one adult female occupant to jump from the second story due to extreme heat and smoke and suffered a severe fracture. Additional occupants were threatening to jump, however firefighters swiftly raised ladders to the second story windows and rescued occupants hanging out of them.

Additional Companies were immediately requested. Firefighters made an aggressive interior attack with hose-lines while colleagues performed vertical ventilation with chainsaws to release hot gasses and heat, assisting the attack, control, and ability to extinguish the fire.

Simultaneously a rapid search of the 7,748 square-foot building ensued, and all occupants were promptly evacuated.

A total of 150 Los Angeles Firefighters, under the command of Assistant Chief Patrick Butler, extinguished the blaze in 34 minutes. Seven of the 14 units were damaged, two extensively.

All 12 of the injured that required transport to local hospitals were triaged as needing "immediate" medical assistance, one of which suffered third degree burns. Among those transported was a police officer who suffered smoke inhalation trying to get people out of the building. Firefighters also rescued a cat, provided it with oxygen and searched for a missing small dog.

A MTA bus provided temporary shelter from the cold for the approximate 30 displaced occupants, until assistance from the American Red Cross was received.

The cause of the fire remains under active investigation by LAFD's Arson Section who is utilizing an Accelerant Detecting K9 to assist. There were functional smoke alarms, but no fire sprinklers.

Dispatched Units: E112 E248 E48 T48 RA848 E36 RA36 E285 T85 EM13 BC6 BC13 E49 RA101 RA85 EM11 E101 E40 E264 T64 E221 T21 SQ21 DC1 EM1 BC11 E85 UR85 T5 E205 UR88 BC4 T33 E233 RA112 E38 RA38 E79 RA79 RA264 RA64 E57 RA257 E226 T26 E295 T95 E211 T11 AR1 E65 E64 RA17 RA46 RA21 AR7 RA5 RA101 AR9 RA112 RA101 RA848 RT40 T94 E294

This fire "is being treated as criminal in nature''. -LAFD PIO Captain Jaime Moore.

"It is fortunate firefighters arrived so quickly to this tragic incident, even before a 9-1-1 call was received, and were able to rapidly rescue occupants hanging from second story windows." -Erik Scott, LAFD Spokesman.

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"Serving with Courage, Integrity and Pride"

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Thank you for your service: CAL FIRE Air Tanker Pilot Duane "Sharky" Cornell retires

Pilot Duane "Sharky" Cornell in Tanker 86 just before his final departure.
Credit: Photo courtesy of CAL FIRE

Thank you for your service Sir!.

 Pilot Duane "Sharky" Cornell in Tanker 86 just before his final departure from CAL FIRE's Columbia Air Attack Base.

 The water salute is a longstanding tradition for pilots on their last flight. It is with great appreciation for his dedicated years of service to the citizens of California that CAL FIRE congratulates Air Tanker Pilot Duane "Sharky" Cornell on his retirement.

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CA-RRU-Thomas 28 acres, 100% - RV Fire into vegetation

Incident Name: Thomas (CONTROLLED)

Incident Number: CARRU-7015

Date Reported: 01/19/2013

Time Reported: 2:33 PM

Incident Type: Vegetation Fire

Incident Location: Thomas Rd 3 Miles East of Humphreys Ln

City: Aguanga

Cause:

Loss: $0

Save: $0

Injuries:

Fatalities: 0

Critical: 0

Moderate: 0

Minor: 0

Non-Injury: 0

Transported Ground Ambulance(s): 0

Air Ambulance(s): 0

Containment Time: 01/19/2013 1721

Control Time: 01/20/2013 1800

Resources Assigned

Engines: 17

Helicopter(s): 2

Truck Co: 0

Fire Fighters: 180

RVC Medic(s): 0

Air Tankers: 0

Overhead Personnel: 1

Ambulance(s): 0

Fire Crew(s): 8

Specialized Equipment: Medic Squad

County OES: No

Fire Prev.: No

Water Tenders: 2

Utilities: Yes

Bulldozers: 2

Red Cross: No

Displaced Persons: No

Adult(s): 0

Child: 0

Cooperating Agencies: Anza Co Op Electric, CAL FIRE/Riverside, CAL FIRE/San Diego, California Highway Patrol – Border, Murrieta Fire Protection District, Riverside County Fire Department, San Diego CAL FIRE, San Diego County Fire Authority

Current Situation:

Final: Fire declared controlled at 6:00 p.m. 01/. Incident terminated. Update 1/20/2013 7:30 a.m.: Day assignment today will be one Battalion Chief, four engines, one fire crew and one water tender. Day assignment will continue mop-up and improve containment lines. Update 5:35 p.m.: Fire contained to 28 acres. Ground resources will be committed through the night with a day assignment planned for Sunday. No injuries and no structural damage reported. Update 4:25 p.m.: Fire is now approximately 15 acres. Incident Commander augmenting resources on scene with additional fire crews and water tenders. San Diego County Fire Authority is also assisting with one water-dropping copter. Powerlines are down. CAL FIRE/Riverside County Firefighters are on scene of a fire involving an RV and vegetation. The first arriving engine company reported an RV fully involved with approximately 5 acres of vegetation burning in medium to heavy fuels and wind-driven (westerly wind). Murrieta Fire Protection District and CAL FIRE San Diego also assisting. Updates will be posted as information becomes available.

Evacuations: No

Evacuation Comments:

Prepared By: Jody Hagemann

Prepared Date/Time: 01/20/2013 2227

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On the web: We've Been Fighting Forest Fires Wrong For 100 Years

We've Been Fighting Forest Fires Wrong For 100 Years

Becky Oskin, OurAmazingPlanet

Australia is burning. Extreme heat and drought during the country's summer wildfire season have helped fierce winds spark about 100 bushfires across southeastern Australia.

Sound familiar?

2012 was America's hottest year on record. Those soaring temperatures (along with persistent drought) pushed more than 9.2 million acres to burn in the West. The damages will top $1 billion dollars, and fires consumed more than 2,100 homes, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Parts of both the United States and Australia share a combustible mix of fire hazards, such as an ecology adapted to fire-prone conditions and a climate conducive to wildfires. And every year, more people choose to live in some of the most beautiful and hazardous country around — the wildland's edge.

The destruction will only escalate, scientists predict, until we stop fighting fires in the forests and brush. Instead, the focus should shift to securing homes and structures, as well as applying new research that overturns long-standing conventional wisdom about fire defense, experts say.

"We're losing homes in fires because homes are being put into hazardous conditions," said Jon Keeley, a fire ecologist with the U.S Geological Survey (USGS). "The important thing is not to blame it on the fire event, but instead to think about planning and reduce putting people at risk."

Thanks to work by Keeley and his colleagues, researchers now know techniques that work for firefighters in the Colorado mountains won't help Californians battling wind-driven wildfires in the chaparral. [Images: Southwestern Wildfires Seen from Space]

Don't burn chaparral

In California, as the population sprawls, the fires grow. The loss of lives and property increased every decade in the past century, according to a 2001 study in the journal Conservation Biology by Keeley and USGS ecologist C.J. Fotheringham.

One hundred years of fire suppression is partly to blame. To protect homes, local fire managers frequently set California's chaparral-covered hills ablaze. But the decades spent earnestly "masticating" (mechanically removing potential fire fuel) devil-red manzanitas with trunks as thick as thighs, and the repeated prescribed burns, replaced native chaparral with incendiary invasive species like cheatgrass, according to the USGS.

The decades of effort were for naught, finds a series of recent studies from the USGS and colleagues at the Conservation Biology Institute and several research universities.

Prescribed burning, intended to remove dead wood and fuel before fire season, does help control fires in Western conifer forests, like the tall giants of Sequoia National Park in Northern California. But chaparral isn't forest. It's a dense carpet of woody shrubs: chamise, ceonothus and other plants that cling to steep canyons and ridges.

"I work in Sequoia National Park, and we've had a prescription burning program for the last 40 years, and it's extremely necessary," Keeley told OurAmazingPlanet. "In most of Southern California, it is completely irrelevant. There is overwhelming evidence we've never come anywhere close to excluding fire on this landscape," through prescribed burns, he said.

In Southern California, 29 years of prescribed burns had no effect on reducing the area burned by future fires, a 2012 study Keeley co-authored found. The study was published in the Journal of Environmental Management.

"It's wrongheaded to think there's just one fire story out there," Keeley said. "There's lots of fire stories. There's what's going on in forests, and what's going on in chaparral landscapes, and they're very different in terms of how to solve them."

And when scientists dug up carbon from past wildfires — those that took place before Europeans arrived — they made a startling discovery. Unlike Western forests, coastal chaparral and sage scrub may burn only once every 100 years, and the inland ridges every 30 years. Further tests revealed the shrubs are slow to regrow, taking five, 10 or even 20 years to flower and set new seed. Frequent prescribed burns, combined with the rising numbers of human-sparked conflagrations, weakens the ecosystem. When chaparral erupts in flames every few years, native species burn through their energy stores and seed stock trying to recover, said Rick Halsey, director of the nonprofit California Chaparral Institute, which advocates for preserving chaparral. As a result of the burns, non-natives take over.

"We're accelerating the environmental destruction of California's most characteristic ecosystem," Halsey told OurAmazingPlanet.

Changing minds

But changing decades of calcified wisdom will be difficult. "There was this mindset that this beautiful ecosystem is unnatural and we need to burn it up because it doesn't belong," Halsey said. "Finally the science got up to speed and said the natural fire regime in chaparral is anywhere from 50 to 150 years, not 10 to 15 years."

The USGS has had success with the National Park Service, which was forced to rethink their approach to fire management in 2001, after losing control of a prescribed burn and nearly torching Los Alamos National Laboratory, one of the nation's nuclear testing labs. The Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area had their last prescribed burn in 2005, said Marti Witter, a fire ecologist with the park. The park lowers its fire risk by mowing open grassland, and leaves chaparral alone.

"The mindset that's out there is so pervasive, and you come up against it all the time," Witter told OurAmazingPlanet. "Anytime we're in a public meeting, there's always someone who will stand up and say, 'if we just did prescribed burning, that will solve our problem.'"

To help spread news of the findings, the USGS Western Ecological Research Center in Sacramento, Calif., will launch a public outreach program this spring, and has already been meeting with local and state fire managers.

Fighting fires with fuel

Clearing chaparral for firebreaks, a gap meant to slow spreading flames, also does little to help fire fighters battle the chaotic infernos driven by California's Santa Ana winds, Fotheringham told OurAmazingPlanet.

"There's really two types of fires:the ones we plan for, and the ones that do the damage," Fotheringham said.

In the fall, fierce winds called the Santa Anas rush down from the California mountains. The winds can be of tropical storm strength (winds less than 74 mph, or 119 kph) at lower elevations and hurricane-strength (74 mph or greater) above 1,000 feet (305 meters). [Amazing Video: Speed of Wildfire]

It's fire season in the West when the winds blow.

Firebreaks can help fire fighters battle small burns in chaparral. Without fire fighters at the breaks, however, flames skip past the gaps, found a study led by ecologist Alexandra Syphard of the Conservation Biology Institute in the June 2011 issue of the journal Forest Ecology and Management.

The non-native species that eagerly occupy open space on fire breaks and in cleared chaparral act as kindling for flying embers, said Fotheringham. The whirling winds carry embers as far as a mile in front of the actual wildfire.

Defending your space

In California, when houses burn, blown embers are at fault, not trees or chaparral.

"The primary spread of fire where we lose houses under wind-driven conditions is from embers," Fotheringham said.

In October 2007, more than 2,000 homes burned in Southern California during Santa Ana-driven firestorms. None of the homes ignited from direct contact with flames. Instead, embers blown by the wind — up to a mile ahead of the flame front — landed on flammable materials near houses, according to several studies conducted after the fires.

Researchers with the Western Ecological Research Center analyzed homes in the Santa Monica Mountains and part of San Diego County that burned between 2001 and 2010, during several devastating wildfires in the region. The study, which had some surprising findings, was published March 28, 2012, in the journal PLoS One.

"What really threw me off was the trees don't burn," said Fotheringham, who was not involved in the study but analyzed the data for another research project. "With green vegetation, you have to drive off the moisture before it will ignite. I got to looking around my yard, and I saw all the leaves accumulating everywhere. A lot of what we have for urban vegetation is deciduous, so in the fall, the Santa Ana wind-driven fires coincide with leaf drop. It's a perfect storm."

To really save homes, Fotheringham wants Californians to spend their fall weekends cleaning the nooks and crannies around their homes. Find the fire starters, she said: dryer lint, pine needles and leaves hiding in roof shingles, foundation cracks, decorative shrubs and underneath decks. "I get so fanatic that sometimes I go out and Shop-Vac my yard, trying to get the leaves all up," Fotheringham said.

California law requires all homeowners to clear a "defensible" space. The guidelines call for trimming branches, keeping tall plants and shrubs away from buildings, and spacing remaining trees and bushes to prevent fire from spreading. Some residents scrape a moonscape around their homes, removing all plants and clearing the land to the dirt.

But time after time, in infernos created by Santa Ana winds, thousands of homes with defensible barriers burst into flames. In the July 2006 Sawtooth Fire north of Palm Springs, homes with more than 100 feet (30 m) of bare dirt clearance burst into flames. In fact, the burning homes set their own shrubs and trees on fire. [Raging Western Wildfires in Photos]

That's because clearing land encourages the growth of weeds, "flashy fuels" that easily ignite from embers. Instead of aggressive clearing, a green fire barrier of irrigated, wisely chosen shrubs and trees can help absorb heat and deflect embers, Halsey said. For the most up-to-date advice, visit http://firecenter.berkeley.edu/toolkit.

"Bring a little of the natural environment into your yard," recommended Halsey, who trained as a firefighter to better understand the challenges California must overcome to solve its fire mess. "The quick fix has been to pour more money into the fire agencies, instead of doing the difficult thing, which is planning," he said. "We can do more around communities."

Fotheringham agreed. "It's the planning that's a problem."

2 Firefighters Injured at Costa Mesa Garage Fire

Calif. Firefighters Injured in Garage Fire

Two firefighters -- one from Costa Mesa and one from Newport Beach -- were injured while battling a garage fire near city limits Thursday morning.

Jan. 18--Two firefighters -- one from Costa Mesa and one from Newport Beach -- were injured while battling a garage fire near city limits Thursday morning, authorities said.

None of the injuries were life-threatening, said officials with the Costa Mesa and Newport Beach fire departments.

About 15 Newport Beach and Costa Mesa fire trucks and about 35 firefighters responded to the blaze in the 300 block of 23rd Street in Costa Mesa at about 11:16 a.m, said Costa Mesa Fire Battalion Chief Kershaw.

There, they found the garage "fully involved" in flames. Firefighters were able to keep the fire from spreading to the house, he said. Damage estimates were not yet available.

The fire was under control within about 20 minutes of the initial call, Kershaw said.

The injured firefighters were taken to local hospitals, and both were released Thursday.

The Costa Mesa firefighter was treated for heat exhaustion and smoke inhalation, Kershaw said.

The Newport Beach firefighter was treated for minor burns, said Newport Beach Fire Division Chief Ralph Restadius.

"There was significant damage to his coat and pants," he said. "But it did its job."


Original Article Source Link: http://articles.dailypilot.com/2013-01-17/news/tn-dpt-0118-garage-fire-20130117_1_garage-fire-heat-exhaustion-and-smoke-minor-burns
JILL COWAN
DAILY PILOT, COSTA MESA, CALIF.
CREATED: JANUARY 18, 2013

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SDFRA: Get Mason To Ability Camp

 Helping Hand

San Diego Fireman’s Relief Association and Firefighter Aid sponsoring a drive to help Mason

Mason, the son of San Diego firefighter Bill Moore, was born severely premature
 and must use an assistive device to walk.
 Photo courtesy SDFRA

 Sometimes the most amazing things come in the smallest packages. One of those is an inspirational young man named Mason Anthony Moore. Mason’s dad is San Diego Fire-Rescue firefighter Bill Moore.

Mason was born prematurely when he was just 23 weeks old, and he weighed just 1.25 lbs. Doctors gave him a 50/50 chance of survival, but survive he did, because, according to his dad, he is a fighter. Mason is about to turn 4 years old, and to get to this stage of his life, he has endured and fought back every step of the way. He spent four months in a Neonatal ICU. He’s been on a respirator. There has been bleeding in his lungs and brain. Cysts formed in areas of the brain which control motor function and coordination.

Eventually Mason was diagnosed with a form of Cerebral Palsy known as Spastic Dysplagia. As a result of his condition, he has undergone two hernia surgeries, four eye surgeries, had a shunt placed in his brain to drain excess fluid, had Botox injections in his legs, has medications administered several times a day and endures intensive physical and occupational therapy sessions. Despite all this, Mason cannot walk on his own and must use an assistive walking device.

Even with all these challenges, Mason remains a source of joy to his parents, family members and friends. The road ahead for him will be hard, but he’s a fighter. But even fighters need a hand once in a while.

Mason and one of his parents need to go to Ability Camp, where Mason will receive the best shot at learning to walk, live, learn and play like any child deserves to do. The San Diego Fireman’s Relief Association (SDFRA) and Firefighter Aid are sponsoring a drive to help Mason get there. To learn more, and give Mason a helping hand, go to http://sdfra.org.

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Sierra Nevada: 12,240-foot peak Mount Andrea Lawrence Named

A 12,240-foot Sierra Nevada peak just beyond the edge of Tuolumne County
and Yosemite National Park officially took on the name of a legendary Olympic athlete and Mono County conservationist this week. President Barack Obama signed into law Thursday an act that gives the former
“Peak 12,240,” dubbed generically for its elevation, the name of Mount Andrea Lawrence.
Lawrence died in March 2009 at age 76. She, among her many accomplishments, was the
first American alpine skier to win two gold medals, claiming them at the 1952 Oslo Olympics.
http://www.uniondemocrat.com/News/Local-News/Yosemite-mountain-named-for-Olympian.

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USFS: Man Convicted Of Destroying Old Growth Trees

 Timber Thief in Washington Cuts Down 300-Year-Old Tree

Jeff Penman, an area measurement specialist from the US Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Regional office, stands atop the stump of an old-growth tree felled illegally in Olympic National Forest. The tree was estimated to be at least 300 years old. Photo/U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Washington.

Thanks to a lengthy investigation led by U.S. Forest Service law enforcement personnel, a Washington man has been convicted of stealing timber and damaging trees worth more than $250,000 from the Olympic National Forest in Washington state.

Reid Johnston, 41, of Brinnon, Wash., pleaded guilty last fall to damaging up to $120,000 worth of timber in the forest related to tree thefts that occurred between May 2009 and January 2010.

At Johnson’s sentencing hearing in December, federal prosecutors said that what Johnston destroyed to take the timber was worth much more. 

One of the trees cut down was a Douglas fir about 8 feet in diameter, estimated to be about 330 years old and characterized by Forest Service researchers as “essentially irreplaceable.”

“The true value of these resources cannot be measured by board feet or the number of maple blocks or fir logs to be harvested from each tree,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Diggs said. The magnitude of the loss can fairly be analogized to losing a national antiquity or cultural heritage resource. … The defendant’s greed robbed our region of one of its most precious resources – trees which will take centuries to return.”

“Stands of old growth trees … entail a unique forest ecosystem, the significance of which reaches far beyond the individual trees damaged,” the prosecutor continued. “Simply put, the property stolen and damaged in this case will not be replaced for years to come.”

Beginning in January 2008, investigation by Forest Service officers and agents revealed that Johnston had harvested trees from the national forest property adjacent to property owned by his parents in the Rocky Brook area of Olympic National Forest.

Johnston sold some portion of the timber cut to various buyers on the Olympic Peninsula and elsewhere, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Some of the maple trees he cut down were cut into blocks and sold for the production of musical instruments, such as cellos and guitars.

An investigator examines old-growth timber stolen from Olympic National Forest by Reid Johnston. Photo: U.S. Attorney's Office For The Western District Of Washington

On Dec. 14, 2012, U.S. District Judge Robert Bryan sentenced Johnston to 12 months and one day with credit for 32 days served. He must also serve a supervised release for two years. A restitution hearing is scheduled for January to determine the amount Johnston will have to pay the federal government.

The 102 stolen or damaged trees had an ecological value set by the Forest Service at $288,500, their fair market value was determined to be $217,000.

In 2008, the initial leads in the investigation of the illegal cuttings were provided by Kristine Fairbanks, a Forest Service officer killed in the line of duty in an unrelated incident in September of that year while patrolling on the Olympic National Forest.

Source Article Link: http://blogs.usda.gov/2013/01/16/timber-thief-in-washington-cuts-down-300-year-old-tree/
by Keith Riggs, Office of Communication, U.S. Forest Service

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Memorial information for Sarah Alarid

Please find celebration of life & memorial information for Mike Alarid’s (Bear Divide Hotshots Superintendent) daughter Sarah Alarid Saturday, January 19, 2013

Sarah Alarid, 19, of Santa Clarita, 

Real Life Church
23841 Newhall Ranch Road,
Valencia, CA 91355

Theme: The Color Red (Sarah’s Favorite Color)
Arrival/Parking/Sign-in: 9:00 AM – 10:45 AM
Celebration of Life Service for Sarah Alarid: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
After Celebration Gathering: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Our deepest condolences words fall short of expressing our sorrow to Mike Alarid and family
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A benefit concert organized by the friends of Sarah Alarid will also be held Saturday, Jan. 19 from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. at 15408 Sierra Hwy in Canyon Country to continue raising funds for Alarid’s memorial service. 
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Related News Story: 

Coroner rules death of Canyon Country's Sarah Alarid an accident

The Los Angeles County coroner has officially ruled Sarah Alarid's death an accident five days after the 19-year-old Canyon Country woman was found near her crashed car in a ravine.

Ed Winter, an assistant chief coroner, said Monday an autopsy showed Alarid died of "multiple blunt force injuries" from a car accident.

She went missing New Year's Day, when she was last seen leaving a party.

Friends and relatives spent more than a week looking for her until sheriff's deputies in a helicopter on their way to another call spotted her car early Wednesday off Sand Canyon Road in the Angeles National Forest.

Her body was found near the car, having apparently been ejected after the car went several hundred feet down a hillside off the windy road.

Because detectives were initially unsure whether Alarid's death was related to a shallow grave found in Big Tujunga Canyon, they placed a "security hold" blocking the coroner from releasing any information about Alarid last week.

But after investigating, detectives said they didn't believe there was foul play. They lifted the security hold and and turned the crash investigation over to the California Highway Patrol.

A spokesman at the CHP's Newhall office said the cause of the crash is still being investigated. Winter said the results of toxicology tests on Alarid won't be available for at least a month.

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LODD: Galt Police Officer Kevin Tonn

 Attorney General Kamala D. Harris Expresses Condolences Over Death of Galt Police Officer

SACRAMENTO -- Attorney General Kamala D. Harris expressed her condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of Officer Kevin Tonn of the Galt Police Department, who died in the line of duty today:

“Officer Kevin Tonn’s death is a tragic loss that reminds us of the risks that law enforcement officers take every day to keep us safe,” Attorney General Harris said. “His service and sacrifice will never be forgotten. Our hearts go out to Officer Tonn’s family and friends, and the Galt Police Department".

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