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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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A mini van carrying four adults and a 3 month old baby from Sammamish, Wa. burst into flames after it may have struck an object in the roadway on the southbound 5 freeway around 11:15 pm Friday night near Tustin Ranch Road in Tustin. The driver told CHP Officers that …
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A man believed to be suffering a diabetic episode lost control of his car on the eastbound 91 freeway at East Street in Anaheim around 3:30 pm this afternoon and struck the center divider before careening into school bus and several other cars. The bus from the Fairmont Private School …
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