After months of preparation and more than $300,000 expenditures in the aftermath of the Santa Anita II fires that diverted a wall of mud from homes, the fire-ravaged hillside seemed to be holding despite the rain storms.
An industrial fire at Altos Tire Company, on Longden Avenue, in Irwindale, near Monrovia and Arcadia, burned for more than 3 hours. Arcadia Fire Department and Monrovia Fire Department assisted. Arcadia firefighter Don Smith (photo) from Station 105, battles the fire atop one of the company's largest ladders.
Don Shawver, batallion chief with Arcadia Fire Department, has been called to duty at the Pentagon in Washington DC, needed in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Arcadia Battalion Chief Don Shawver received a request to report for special duty at the Pentagon six hours after the first terrorist attack on September 11, 2001. He went to help as a safety officer.
Arcadia resident and business owner Fawaz Elmasri, who was born in Lebanon, conveyed a message that Muslim people are peaceful and the Islam religion condemns killing of civilian people and the destruction of property. He explained that the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks were acts against God.
Grant Chu, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ming R. Chu of Arcadia, received a Bachelor of Science degree in neuroscience from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
Funeral services were held Tuesday at Arlington Mortuary in Riverside for Edwin Francis Lindros of Arcadia. He spent more than three years as a prisoner of war in World War II.
Two boys and two girls were born to Feda and Samer Shalabi on Friday, October 4, at the Arcadia Methodist Hospital. The quadruplets were conceived through invitro fertilization.
The first set of quadruplets delivered at Arcadia Methodist Hospital were born to mother Feda Shalabi and father Samer Shalabi of El Monte. The babies were delivered by Cesarean section by Dr. Richard Williams.
Men and women who served in battles from World War II to Desert Storm attended the ceremony at Arcadia County Park on Saturday to honor the veterans and to remember our servicemen.