Fire ravages vacant building

Vacant buildings in Garden Grove continue to present a fire hazard.

On Monday at 2:36 p.m. the Orange County Fire Authority received a call about a blaze in the 8700 block of Garden Grove Boulevard (between Beach Boulevard and Magnolia Street).

It took firefighters 23 minutes to get the fully-involved fire under control and to prevent extension into an adjacent structure.

There were no injuries and the cause is under investigation.

So far this year there have been three other fires in vacant buildings in the Harbor Boulevard/Trask Avenue area. Transients living in such buildings may be connected to the blazes.

The establishment of a school resource officer program with a full-time police officer goes before the Westminster School District Board of Trustees when it meets on Thursday.

Under consideration is an agreement with the Westminster Police Department to serve WSD schools within the city of

Westminster. The agreement, if approved, would run for the remainder of the 2022-2023 school year and for the entire 20232024 school year.

The city will designate a special unit of officers within the WPD consisting of full-time police officers specially trained and selected to provide SRO

By Jim Tortolano Orange County Tribune

They were all winners, but the big hit was the jaguar.

At Tuesday’s meeting of the Garden Grove Unified School District Board of Education, the top winners of the 45th annual First Impressions student art show were recognized, along

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