Orange County Fire Authority Firefighters responded to a diesel tanker on fire at the Bowman Landfill in Irvine shortly after 7 pm tonight. Dozens of Firefighters responded to the fire in a 2000 gallon diesel tanker truck at the landfill located in Bee Canyon due to the the landfill’s proximity …
Read More »
An accident involving a 2500 gallon propane tanker that rolled over the side of the southbound 5 freeway near Crown Valley Parkway caused major traffic problems in south Orange County today. According to the C.H.P., the accident happened around 8:30 this morning when the truck rolled over and off the …
Read More »
According to the Orange County Fire Authority, 3 people were injured in a 2 car collision shortly before 3 a.m. at the intersection of Culver Drive and Warner Avenue in Irvine. The driver of one car, which had a small fire in the engine compartment that Irvine Police Officers put …
Read More »
A high-speed motorcycle pursuit blasted its way south through Orange County as more than one million people watched live on their televisions, computers and phones to the delight of news outlets in Los Angeles and San Diego. A live 130 mph pursuit is guaranteed to draw in viewers, and this one …
Read More »
A woman became trapped in her car under a big rig after her car hydroplaned and it spun out of control on the eastbound 91 freeway in heavy rain around 4 am. The driver of the truck told the CHP that he saw the car spinning across lanes and hit …
Read More »
Early Wednesday morning the US Air Force conducted a test launch of an unarmed Minuteman III ICBM from Vanderberg Air Force base California, in northern California in what many believe was a clear signal of nuclear deterrence aimed squarely at North Korea. Air Force Col John Moss, 30th Space Wing commander, who …
Read More »
According to the California Highway Patrol, a suspected drunk driver managed to crawl out the window of his burning car with only seconds to spare after he ran off the southbound 57 freeway around 5 AM Saturday morning. The car left the roadway near the Katella Avenue offramp in Anaheim …
Read More »
5 people were injured in a 3 alarm house fire shortly before midnight Saturday night at 4814 Morningside Avenue in Santa Ana. 2 people managed to escape the house on their own and 3 additional critically injured people, including a 15 year old girl, were pulled from their beds by …
Read More »
A Garden Grove family escaped a house fire shortly after 6:30 p.m. at 13032 Tiller Avenue. Firefighters searched the house and found the family’s 2 cats unconscious. The cats were brought out of the house to the front lawn where Firefighters from the City of Orange began resuscitation efforts. They …
Read More »
It was an unusually deadly weekend in Orange County as 3 people were killed in separate traffic accidents. The first crash reported shortly before 4 a.m. Saturday morning happened on the southbound 5 freeway near 17th st. in Santa Ana. According to the California Highway Patrol, a Mini Cooper crashed …
Read More »
The Orange County Independent News from Orange County California