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911 dispatcher helps father deliver baby: `I can see the head`

03/07/2014

March 06--When Katherine Arthur started having contractions Wednesday morning, she and her husband walked from their Laguna Niguel home to their car as planned to go to the hospital. Then her water broke. "We aren't going anywhere,"...

March 06--When Katherine...

03/07/2014

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Calif. Woman Gets Jail Time for Multiple 911 Calls

12/24/2013

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Authorities said she would sometimes call 911 as many as six times a day, and from Jan. 1 to Sept. 13, 2013, she called 911 for paramedics 220 times.

Authorities said she would...

12/24/2013

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Calif. Firefighter Recalls Boardwalk Hit-and-Run Scene

08/04/2013

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"It was auto versus pedestrian that initially came out," Firefighter Chipper Cervantes of the incident that killed one and injured 11.

"It was auto versus pedestrian...

08/04/2013

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Overturned gasoline tanker truck sets L.A. River ablaze

07/14/2013

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July 14--An overturned tanker truck carrying thousands of gallons of gas poured a "burning river of fuel" through storm drains in the Elysian Valley area Saturday, snarling traffic on the 5 Freeway near downtown for most of the day,...

July 14--An overturned...

07/14/2013

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Huge Northern Calif. Earthquake Packs a Light Punch

03/10/2014

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The state's largest earthquake in nearly a decade left no injuries.

The state's largest earthquake...

03/10/2014

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