A boat explosion in Huntington Harbor Saturday morning injured eight of the nine passengers. The 26-foot power boat was mid-channel at Peter's Landing Marina when it exploded around 11:30am. OC Sheriff's Harbor Patrol and a retired Harbor Patrol man retrieved eight passengers from the water. more ›

San Fernando Valley residents, if you hear an alarming boom tomorrow around 6:30am, rest assured it's just a controlled alternative energy plant explosion. Tanks full of compressed hydrogen at a fire-ravaged energy plant in Sylmar are too dangerous to transport and will be blown up on Sunday morning. The blast will require a temporary closure of a portion of the Foothill (210) Freeway. more ›

A 52-year-old Torrance man was injured after a trailer blew up in what officials believe may have been an accident related to a meth lab, reports KTLA. The incident occurred at about 7:45 this morning. The man, whose name hasn't been released, was found by police standing outside the trailer at the Torrance Mobile Home Park with severe burns to his upper body. more ›

What is being described as a "thunderous explosion," according to the Los Angeles Fire Department, ripped through a Sylmar business in a commercial area late yesterday afternoon, tearing the roof off the building and leaving three men injured, per a news release. more ›

The Los Angeles Fire Department are responding to a reported explosion at a commercial building located at 12349 Gladstone Avenue, which is near the 210 Foothill Freeway in the San Fernando/Pacoima area. The building has suffered a partial collapse, there are at least four people with serious injuries, and more people may be trapped inside. more ›

Six people were hospitalized and ten others displaced after an explosion and fire in Stanton on Friday night, according to ABC Local. The single-story home on the 10000 block of Sycamore Street was "engulfed in flames and smoke" when Orange County Fire Authority units arrived at the scene. more ›

A Metro bus driver was taken to the hospital and treated for a "stress reaction" when an underground electrical transformer bank exploded Tuesday morning in Westwood causing a manhole cover to fly up from the street and strike the back of a bus parked near the UCLA campus, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Los Angeles city fire officials, reports LA Now. more ›

A spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office says Ron Hirsch, the suspect in an explosion earlier this month at a Santa Monica synagogue, has been ordered held without bond after appearing in a Riverside court late Friday on "a federal charge of unauthorized flight," reports the Associated Press notes CBS Local. more ›

Initial investigative conclusions have been revised, determining that an explosion at the Chabad House in Santa Monica on Thursday was, in fact, an intentional act caused by a pipe bomb. Officials are now searching for suspect Ron Hirsch (aka Israel Fisher), a transient known by police to frequent Jewish centers in the area... more ›

A Marine F/A-18C Hornet exploded aboard the carrier John C. Stennis about 100 miles off Southern California on Wednesday injuring ten people. The pilot of the F/A-18 was not hurt, however four sailors are listed in stable condition after being airlifted to Naval Medical Center San Diego according to the Navy said, reports the LA Times. Other injured sailors were treated aboard the ship by medical personnel. more ›

A late-night explosion rocked the lobby of a 15-story building on WIlshire at Bixel, igniting a small blaze, according to KTLA. LAFD officials believe the 2:14 a.m. "blast may have been related to record-breaking electricity use during Monday's extreme heat wave." more ›

A business building in Simi Valley exploded today leaving one dead and two with minor injuries. The explosion was reported around 1:15pm today near E. Easy Street. Firefighters training near by were able to arrive shortly after, according to Public Information Officer for Ventura County Fire Department Bill Nash. Although fire fighters are still on the scene, officials have determined the atmosphere to be clear and safe for the public. There was severe damage to the building and authorities are still assessing the structural safety. more ›

An explosion at an apparent firework-making operation led police and firefighters this morning to Los Feliz home, according to KTLA. At around 5:20 a.m., the fire department received reports of an explosion on the 3400 block of Lambeth Street, just off Los Feliz Boulevard. more ›

It was yesterday in 1944 when the LA Times reported "snow flurries and a violent 10-minute hailstorm [that] laid a white canopy over most of Los Angeles." City Hall from First and Spring is shown here to the right. more ›

A manhole cover blew on 4th Street around 10:30 a.m. this morning, prompting the LA Fire Department to shut down traffic at 4th and Spring. "They're trying to make sure no one is around any of the adjacent manhole covers in case they also blow," explaind d'Lisa Davies, LAFD spokesperson, over the phone. One film crew was evacuated from the area and currently, "lots of heavy smoke" is coming from under the street. more ›

It was another dramatic morning at LAX today. Around 10:30 a.m., a man with a large carry-on bag accidentally set off the bus' on-board fire extinguisher in a Van Nuys bound FlyAway Bus that was just beginning its rounds at Terminal 1, according to Nancy Castles, spokesperson for LAX, in a telephone press conference. Initial reports stated it was an explosion, but the discharge caused a loud sound and the release of a "white powdery substance," prompting the response of the LA Fire Department's hazardous materials team. The arrival lower level lanes were completely closed, but as of 11:50 a.m., two of the five lanes were open. The departure level, airlines and terminals were all operating normal. While there is no passenger count available, there have been no reports of injuries. Update: Traffic for all lanes reopened short before noon. There were 10 passengers on the bus who all exited the bus safely through the front door. The extinguisher discharged near the rear door. more ›

Thirteen Injured: An explosion at the Bayfront Hilton in San Diego sent multiple victims to the hospital this afternoon. Two were reported to have suffered major trauma and six were seriously hurt, according to NBC San Diego. It was said that natural gas was smelled before the explosion. more ›

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Los Angeles once again mourns the loss of one of its bravest after yesterday afternoon's explosion on Sepulveda Blvd. near LAX. Firefighter Brent A. Lovrien, age 35, was a 10 year veteran of the LAFD assigned to Fire Station 95 since October 2005. He died shortly after arrival at the Centinela Freeman Regional Medical Center, Marina Campus. more ›

One firefighter has died at an explosion near LAX this afternoon. Check here for updates.

*UPDATE 5:01: One firefighter was killed and another critically injured after reporting to the scene of an explosion that blew manhole covers off the ground and damaged part of a building in Westchester. more ›

Update 8:25am, 3/7: "Laura Eimiller, an FBI spokeswoman in Los Angeles, said an individual was questioned there about the letters to Congress and "there is no evidence linking the letters, which contained no threat, to the bombing," according to ABC7.

The 4th St. bridge and 3rd Street is closed between Alameda and Central due to an explosion at 637 E. 3rd St. Unknown in nature at this point, the explosion left one LAPD officer with minor injuries who was transported to the hospital. Another officer in the patrol car was not hurt. more ›

When you find yourself sitting around the house (your house, your parent's house, your friend's house, the house of the weird person you met on the Goldline last week) over the long holiday weekend, you'll probably be too full of beer or wine or turkey or stuffing or pumpkin pie to do much of anything besides sit on the couch and stare at whatever's in front of you. Which is fine - if you're into... more ›

Today in major LA Fire Department events: an early morning structure fire in North Hills sending smoke into the flight path of Van Nuys Airport, a big rig with a trailer overturned on the Southbound Harbor freeway causing a Sig Alert, and a medical emergency in the Hilton Hotel at Universal City where staff mixed ammonia & bleach solutions creating hydrochloric acid (oops!). Is it the second Thursday of the month? Ah, it is!... more ›

If you like spicy food, Jitlada is the place to go. Not only does LA Weekly's Jonathan Gold call the Southern Thai specialty restaurant "the most exciting new Thai restaurant of the year," he claims one of the dishes, the kua kling Phat Tha Lung (thick brown curry with shredded beef) "may be the spiciest food you can eat in Los Angeles." Jitlada recently gained popularity a few months ago when a Chicago blogger... more ›

Today's LA City Beat's LA Sniper column focuses aim on 30th District Congressman Henry Waxman who led the banning of subway construction under Wilshire Blvd. in the mid 1980s. Could you imagine what LA would be like today? A Los Angeles with a subway down the god friggin' most congested city street in America? Instead we have the one of the nation's busiest rapid bus lines, the 720, which the Sniper suggest should be... more ›

Bad Religion - "Incomplete" John Doe, Dead Rock West, Los Duggans, The Lone @ Safari Sam's Reyes Bros. @ Key Club Gipsy Kings @ The Greek Strunz & Farah @ Catalina Bar & Grill Lukas Haas, Jessica Fichot @ The Hotel Cafe Big Bad Voodoo Daddy & The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra @ Hollywood Bowl Festivals Fuck Yeah Fest: The Explosion, The Fuse, Busdriver, Boom Bip, Entrance, The Mae Shi, Fleshies, Residual Echoes, Imaad Wasif,... more ›

Angels 10, Red Sox 4 - LAnaheim has won the first two games in a clash of baseball's best records. Gary Matthews, Jr. shone with 4 RBI, 3 runs, and 3 hits in five at-bats. He hit a homer in the 8th and robbed another from Boston's Coco Crisp. Joe Saunders allowed four runs on eight hits, but still got the win on just 5 and 1/3 innings of work thanks to a five run... more ›

The Wombats - "Kill The Director" The Wombats, Oslo @ Roxy Metal Skool, The Mulhollands, The Automatic Music Explosion @ Key Club Low Vs. Diamond, Nico Vega, Flash By Image, Alamo Race Track @ Spaceland Mighty Six Ninety, Saucy Minx, Run Run Run, Unbusted @ Viper Room Plasticsoul, Kold War, Atomic Bitch, The Trainwrecks, Jordan Zevon @ The Cat Club Chencha Berrinches, Los Creepers, Sweet Sensations, The Scuffs @ The Knitting Factory Manic, Princeton,... more ›