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The North Hollywood shootout, also known as the Battle of North Hollywood, [ 2] was a confrontation between two heavily armed and armored bank robbers, Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Mătăsăreanu, and police officers in the North Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles on February 28, 1997. Both robbers were killed, twelve police officers and ...
He also sustained a major back injury from lifting a 110 kg (240 lb) man during an action scene. [ 189] The Avengers (2012). While performing a 30-foot (9.1 m) fall from a building, stuntman Jeremy Fitzgerald slammed into a pile of bricks and tore off a chunk of his scalp. [ 318] Django Unchained (2012).
School fire. Cause. Not officially determined. Deaths. 95. On Monday, December 1, 1958, a fire broke out at Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago, Illinois, shortly before classes were to be dismissed for the day. The fire originated in the basement near the foot of a stairway. The elementary school was operated by the Archdiocese of Chicago ...
November 13, 2023 at 1:29 PM. A massive blaze that began in a pallet storage yard below the 10 Freeway in Los Angeles has brought traffic chaos to the city. A mile-long section of the freeway near ...
The Bel Air Fire was a disaster that began as a brush fire on November 6, 1961, in the Bel Air community of Los Angeles. The fire destroyed 484 homes and burned 6,090 acres (24.6 km 2) [ 1] At least 200 firemen were injured, with mostly eye injuries due to the smoke and flying embers. [ 2] The fire was fueled by strong Santa Ana winds.
Some L.A. residents want to see Donald Trump's star removed from the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but city officials say there's no precedent for doing so.
The Garden of Allah was a famous hotel in West Hollywood, California, United States (then an unincorporated area of Los Angeles which was usually considered a part of Hollywood ), at 8152 Sunset Boulevard between Crescent Heights and Havenhurst, at the east end of the Sunset Strip . Originally a 2.5-acre (1.0 ha) estate called Hayvenhurst, it ...
The fire erupted Saturday afternoon near I-5 in Gorman, about 60 miles (100 kilometers) northwest of Los Angeles. Two structures burned within the evacuated recreation area.