A Roebling fire broke out early Saturday morning. A fire began on Roebling Avenue around 12:30 a.m. Saturday. A couch, a chair and a toilet were among the objects in the fire. Read more...
Photo: People watch as a fire burns on Roebling Avenue with fire trucks in the background. (Courtesy of Donny Rimer)
The city closed a section of the Interstate 10 freeway in downtown Los Angeles because of a fire early Saturday morning, according to the Emergency Management Department. Read more...
Photo: Pictured is the I-10 fire that occurred Saturday. The fire caused a section of the freeway to close indefinitely. (Juliet Zhang/Daily Bruin)
A backpack caught on fire in a Boelter Hall classroom Wednesday, causing hundreds of students throughout the building to evacuate. Around 12:30 p.m., a backpack began to catch fire in Boelter Hall room 5249, where a bioengineering class was taking place, said Jeeth Pawar, a third-year bioengineering student in the class. Read more...
Photo: Boelter Hall, pictured. Hundreds of students evacuated the building after a backpack caught on fire in a bioengineering class. (Jeremy Chen/Assistant Photo editor)
This post was updated Oct. 2 at 10:05 p.m. Two fires were put out on Roebling Avenue on Thursday night after several individuals lit various objects on fire during the Roebling block party. Read more...
Photo: Two fires broke out on Roebling Avenue on Thursday night as multiple individuals set objects ablaze during the annual Roebling block party. (Jeremy Chen/Assistant Photo editor)
This post was updated Nov. 23 at 4:14 p.m. A block party on Roebling Avenue started two fires late Saturday night following UCLA football’s first defeat of crosstown rival USC since 2018, marking the fifth Roebling block party in 2021. Read more...
Photo: Individuals burned boxes and other debris (pictured) on Roebling Avenue after UCLA football’s record-breaking victory against USC earlier that Saturday. (Tanmay Shankar/Daily Bruin senior staff)
This post was updated Nov. 15 at 12:45 a.m. Climate change is responsible for around two-thirds of the increase in catastrophic wildfire weather in the Western United States, according to a UCLA-led study published Tuesday. Read more...
Photo: The 2019 Getty fire, which burned 745 acres of land near UCLA’s campus. A recent study led by UCLA researchers confirmed that climate change is a driving factor behind increasingly extreme fire weather in the Western United States. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated Oct. 3 at 11:39 p.m. Two fires broke out on Roebling Avenue on Friday night after several individuals lit cardboard boxes and furniture on fire. Read more...
Photo: Students started two fires at Friday night’s Roebling block party. (Anika Chakrabarti/Assistant Photo editor)
