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Go to RiversideIndependent.com for Riverside Specific News MONDAY, MAY 27 - JUNE 2, 2019
VOLUME 5, NO. 21
FIRE AND LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING TOGETHER FOR THE UNTHINKABLE IN PASADENA
Third Striker Hate Crime Defendant Given Five-Year Sentence By Orange County Judge A third-strike defendant with a history of violence and committing hate crimes accepted a court offer and was sentenced to five years in state prison for chasing a pregnant AfricanAmerican woman and threatening to kill her unborn child. Tyson Theodore Mayfield, 43, Mission Viejo, had faced 38 years and six months to life in state prison. The Orange County District Attorney’s Office had argued for a sentence of life in prison, and objected to the court offer. Mayfield was charged on Sept. 19, 2018, with one felony count of hate crime criminal threats with present ability to commit violent
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San Bernardino Residents Urged to Sign Up for Emergency Alerts Via Text Features of the County’s emergency notification system allows public safety personnel to reach more residents than ever before during disasters. The Telephone Emergency Notification System (TENS) uses listed and unlisted numbers in the region’s 911 database to alert residents of life-threatening emergencies and San Bernardino County updates this database every six months. TENS is a proven success, and has placed hundreds of thousands of calls during wildfire and flood events since its creation in 2004. However,
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ore than 100 firefighters and law enforcement officers from nearly a dozen separate agencies converged on Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena Wednesday morning after the sound of gunfire rang out in the morning air. Dozens of people lay on the ground and more tried to flee the scene in panic. It was all part of a realistic multi-agency training exercise that will help fire and police agencies throughout the state better prepare to respond together to mass casualty events. The exercise simulated an attack with multiple shooters targeting patrons arriving for a rock concert at the Rose Bowl. The scenario was played out in real time, as responding officers reacted to uncertain movements of the shooters. Firefighters and police officers responded together to practice a medical response inside the perimeter, aided by dozens of volunteers – many made up with realistic gunshot wounds. “When we see what is happening in the world around us, we ponder when it will happen here,” said Pasadena Fire Chief Bertral Washington.
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“Having the opportunity to train together under realistic conditions will set us up to respond quickly and effectively to save lives and protect the public.” Firefighters and police officers from Pasadena, Glendale, Burbank, San Marino, South Pasadena and San Gabriel were involved in the exercise. Pasadena Fire Department and Pasadena Police Department were the lead agencies, and coordinated activities in the drill. Security and staff of Rose Bowl Stadium also took part in the exercise, utilizing the exercise to conduct their own active shooter response training. The realistic, elaborate exercise was coordinated by the California Firefighter Joint Apprenticeship Committee (Cal-JAC), a statewide labor-management training partnership, based on its Unified Response to Violent Incidents (URVI) training protocol. URVI brings law enforce-
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STREET RACING LANDS SEVERAL IN RIVERSIDE COUNTY JAIL The Coachella Police Department would like to remind the public of the dangers of illegal street racing and our commitment to enforcement action. During the month of May 2019, the Coachella Police Department has experienced several illegal street racing incidents, resulting in arrests. On Sunday, May 5, 2019, 9:00 PM, Coachella Police Officers issued seven traffic citations and made two arrests for street racing.
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