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Several LBFD units were dispatched to the 1600 block of Anaheim Street around 9 p.m. Wednesday after reports of a fire at a shop there. Once the crews arrived, the fire was extinguished “within 20 minutes” LBFD Capt. Jack Crabtree said.
Despite the number of resources that were deployed (the LBFD considered it a second-alarm fire) the blaze was put out pretty easily with no reported injuries to bystanders or fire personnel, according to Crabtree.
“We just needed a lot of personnel to make sure that the fire didn’t spread throughout the structure,” Crabtree said.
Investigators were working Thursday morning to determine the cause of the fire.
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Tom Stempel is going new and old again: the new television season and an older movie, The Snows of Kilimanjaro.
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You Call This a New Television Season?
Normally (you do remember normal don’t you?) the fall brings us a brand new television season, filled with new shows and returning ones. Normally, I would do one or more items on the new season. Well, we are not yet back to normal, so new and returning shows are just dribbling back in. Some of them are miniseries that probably completed at least shooting before the pandemic hit and some are series that have begun to shoot under the new safety guidelines. Here are some shows of interest that have come on in the last few months.
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The boy and his father were on foot near Magnolia Avenue and Ninth Street when they were hit around 6:40 p.m. Paramedics rushed to the scene and got there within two minutes, Long Beach Fire Department Capt. Jack Crabtree.
“When the medics got there first, they said that the child was on the street with the dad next to him,” he said. Witnesses told fire crews the boy had been in his fathers arms, Crabtree said.
The boy was critically hurt, and crews rushed him to a local hospital before transporting the father to get medical treatment for minor injuries, according to Crabtree.
Behind a pair of apartment buildings, a line of garages and vehicles lies in a nearly unrecognizable pile of burnt rubble. Soot covers the wall of a building behind the garages and reaches to the second floor of one of the quadplexes. One apartment unit is now boarded up.
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Long Beach firefighters this week responded to two fires just over 24 hours apart at this apartment complex on Stanley Avenue near Anaheim Street, but it wasn’t the first time they had to rush to the building recently, according to officials.
LBFD spokesman Capt. Jack Crabtree said the address has seen four fires in the last three months.