Irvine
- Share via
Fire at Carl’s Jr.: An early morning fire gutted a Carl’s Jr. restaurant Saturday, causing an estimated $450,000 damage. The fire was reported at 3:39 a.m., and 50 firefighters fought the flames for almost an hour, a county fire department spokeswoman said. Damage to the fast-food restaurant, located at 4770 Irvine Blvd., was listed as $350,000 to the structure and $100,000 to the contents. The cause was unknown. An Irvine Police Department spokesman said that there have been a number of small arson fires in the area recently. The restaurant was closed when the fire broke out, and no injuries were reported.
More From the Los Angeles Times
Podcasts
The latest effort is coming from the L.A. County Board of Supervisors. They just announced a $3 million program in conjunction with some nonprofits groups to test and clean the soil at homes still standing in the areas impacted by the Eaton Fire.
The Hillside Strangler murders terrorized Los Angeles in the late 1970s. The killers were a pair of sadistic cousins. One confessed. The other was set to stand trial—until L.A. prosecutors flinched.
Hosts Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito sit down with Dr. Vanessa J. Díaz, professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at Loyola Marymount University and co-author of P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance.
