GREG’S MEMORIES OF MONACO AND MONTE-CARLO
IS YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD WAL-MART CLOSING DOWN?
REMEMBERING DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
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A mother holds her young boy as paramedics transport for observation following the traffic collision which was allegedly caused when someone ran a red light.
- Photo by Terry Miller
Major Traffic Accident on Foothill Blvd. Sends Nine Patients to Hospital BY TERRY MILLER AND SUSAN MOTANDER A traffic collision occurred at the intersection of Foothill Boulevard and Myrtle Avenue this past Wednesday, Jan. 13, at 12:54 p.m. As a result of the collision, nine
people were injured and required medical attention, including the adult driver of the vehicle, who is believed to have caused the collision. Several others were taken to local area hospitals. The cause of the accident is under investigation and the questioning of the driver
believed to have caused the collision is pending, as they are being treated for their injuries and have not regained consciousness at this time. Witnesses stated that the driver of a late model MercedesBenz station wagon was driving
west on Foothill Boulevard at a very high speed, failing to come to a stop behind the already stopped vehicles at the intersection. The driver then drove around the stopped vehicles and through the intersection against a red light, striking the first vehicle, facing
east in the number one lane of Foothill Boulevard. The impact caused an additional number of vehicles to collide into each other. The Mercedes-Benz struck a Toyota sedan, which became airborne,
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Arcadia Firefighter Returns Home After Receiving Third Degree Burns
BY TERRY MILLER On Dec. 26, 23-year-old Dylan Devlin, who was about to graduate Verdugo Fire Academy, received an early morning call from his dad who was in the hospital as a result of a multi-alarm call not going quite as they had hoped.
Dylan’s dad, Arcadia Fire Captain Thomas Devlin was calling to tell his son that he was fine and he loved everyone, but was in the Grossman Burn Unit in Sherman Oaks “after the call didn’t go as planned.” When Dylan got the call he said his dad was “collected and focused.”
Arcadia Fire Capt. Thomas Devlin with his son Dylan, recent graduate of Verdugo Fire Academy. – Courtesy Photo
Arcadia Fire Captain Tom Devlin from Station 105 was called out on an early morning arson fire in Monrovia in the early hours of Dec. 26. The multi-alarm fire called in the troops from the Verdugo area to battle the intense, early morning warehouse fire. As firefighters rushed to
quell the blaze from spreading further, highly-trained attack teams and first responders attempted to put out the fully involved fire. Devlin, a 20 year veteran of the Arcadia Fire Department who made Captain almost a decade ago, was working the SEE PAGE 16