Tweet from Torrance PD at 9:51 p.m. Monday: Both N/B lanes of
Crenshaw at 170th St closed for major accident investigation. N/B
traffic diverted to W/B 170th until further notice.
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The fire at Harbor Park was put out at 6:05 p.m. after burning five acres, LAFD spokesman Eric Scott said.
No structures were burned and no one was injured, he said.
Firefighters will remain in the park for several hours mopping up the area.
*UPDATE at 10:55 p.m. (too late to fix tomorrow's newspaper): The total amount of land burned in this fire was actually 20 acres, according to an LAFD tweet. That's four times as much as the Breeze was told when the fire was knocked down.
More than 90 firefighters are now battling a one- to two-acre brush fire burning in Harbor Regional Park in Harbor City.
The blaze was called in at 4:16 p.m. and is northeast of Anaheim Street and Vermont Avenue, across the street from the ConocoPhillips Refinery. No structures are threatened.
It is moving east through medium brush toward the Harbor College campus, said Los Angeles Fire Department Spokesman Erik Scott.
"The humidity is helping us to some extent," Scott said, adding that an "aggressive attack" from water-dropping helicopters was aiding the effort.
Firefighers are hoping the blaze dies out as it moves toward heavier brush that burned previously, Scott said.
Los Angeles County Fire is assisting, according to a city fire post on Twitter.
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County lifeguards trying to rescue a 40-foot sailboat that was dragging its anchor ended up beaching a Baywatch boat on the sand today, an official said.
A witness said both boats grounded ashore just south of the Ballona Creek jetty in Playa del Rey just before 2 p.m.
A supervising dispatcher for county fire confirmed that the lifeguards' craft had beached near
tower 41 on Dockweiler Beach, after being dispatched to help the other vessel.
Winds at nearby Los Angeles International Airport were blowing ashore at a steady 24 miles an hour, the National Weather Service said.
County lifeguards trying to rescue a 40-foot sailboat that was dragging its anchor ended up beaching a Baywatch boat on the sand today, an official said.
A witness said both boats grounded ashore just south of the Ballona Creek jetty in Playa del Rey just before 2 p.m.
A supervising dispatcher for county fire confirmed that the lifeguards' craft had beached near
tower 41 on Dockweiler Beach, after being dispatched to help the other vessel.
Winds at nearby Los Angeles International Airport were blowing ashore at a steady 24 miles an hour, the National Weather Service said.
