Two firefighters who were killed trying to protect their fellow firefighters stuck in the path of last year's Station Fire will have Angeles Forest Highway named after them Monday.
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Boy Scouts from throughout the Bay Area will be collecting Thanksgiving food donations for the area’s hungry and homeless. For the second year in a row, the California Fire Foundation is a sponsor of “Scouting for Food”, the annual food drive in the greater Bay Area.
About 30 Local 891 members gathered at Mary's Mercy Center in San Bernardino on Wednesday morning to unload a truck full of donations for the nonprofit organization that serves the poor. It's the fifth year the local has made the annual donation and they have partnered again with Stater Bros. Supermarkets to increase the size of their donation.
Beverly Hospital officials say fire station closures may be delaying treatment for heart attack victims. Between April and June, the hospital dropped from No. 6 or No. 7 among the 32 hospitals participating in the "STEMI" rapid heart attack treatment program to No. 27.
It was a tough Thanksgiving Thursday for the family of a teenage boy who was shot to death last week, the victim of gang violence. But a group of Long Beach firefighters took it upon themselves to make the day a little brighter, by preparing and delivering a holiday feast for the family, all 80 of them.