Los Angeles County fire crews mop up after a commercial fire gutted J.R. Custom Cabinets in Baldwin Park early Wednesday morning. There were no injuries reported, and firefighters kept the flames from spreading to nearby buildings.
Photo credit: Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times
Authorities searched Friday for a thief who stole a truck with a 5-year-old-boy inside. The abandoned vehicle was recovered a short time later and the boy was safe, authorities said.
The gray Toyota pickup truck was stolen from the 2400 block of North Beachwood Drive in the Hollywood Hills about 9:15 a.m., said Officer April Harding of the Los Angeles Police Department.
“An individual was putting something in a trash can when an unknown suspect came up, got inside the vehicle, and took off with the boy inside,” Harding said.
The truck was found nearby about a half-hour later in the 3000 block of Hollyridge Drive, according to law enforcement officials.
“The child was found inside the vehicle, safe,” Harding said.
The car thief remained at large.
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Photo: Five-year-old Jose Garcia, who was sleeping inside a pickup truck that was stolen in the Hollywood Hills, is reunited with his mother, Maria Del Rocio Garcia, after the stolen truck was located by the LAPD. Credit: Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times photographer Mark Boster was out in the pre-dawn hours to catch teacher Glory Rangel carrying a candle during a vigil in front of the Los Angeles Unified School District office in Los Angeles. Rangel and other teachers are attending the school board meeting to protest the board’s vote to turn over 18 new campuses and 12 struggling ones to teachers, charters, the mayor’s nonprofit and others.
Los Angeles Times photographer Al Seib captured this image of Los Angeles City Fire Fighter Ryan Laterreur as he walked by a fire-gutted three-story residential building that caught fire early Tuesday.
The Los Angeles Fire Department said that more than 100 firefighters battled the blaze at 2020 S. Main St., and a knockdown was declared at 5 a.m. with no injuries reported.
Los Angeles Times photographer Gary Friedman captured Kevin Chen praying outside the main shrine at the Hsi Lai Temple in Hacienda Heights. Chen came to the temple Friday to pray for good health, peace, harmony and his job for the upcoming Chinese New Year, the Year of the Tiger, which begins Sunday.
About 3,000 lanterns are on display at the temple, with the courtyard featuring themes of the tiger. In Chinese culture, there are twelve animals, one for each year. On Sunday at the temple, there will be a service in the morning and cultural performances at 12:30 p.m.
Los Angeles Times photographer Robert Gauthier captured Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger carrying the Olympic flame through Stanley Park in Vancouver, Canada, on the final leg of its journey toward the start of the 2010 Winter Games.
Los Angeles Times photographer Al Seib was at UCLA on Thursday for the school’s third annual "Locks of Love" event. Participants included Katherine Svoboda, 20, a senior at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, who had 26 inches of her hair cut off by Sarah Davis, above center, and Elizabeth Hartley, right, of the Vidal Sassoon Academy. Said Svoboda, who hadn’t had a haircut in 11 years: "I’ve planned on cutting my hair for ‘Locks of Love’ for five years now. It doesn’t seem fair to have my hair when someone else can use it."
Svoboda’s hair, along with the more than 240 UCLA students, staff, alumni and friends who had their locks cut for a good cause, will be donated to the nonprofit organization of the same name that makes wigs for children suffering from medical hair loss. Those on the receiving end of the haircuts, provided by student stylists from the Vidal Sassoon Academy in Santa Monica, had to donate at least five inches.
The event was hosted by the Alumni Scholars Club, a student group that is part of the UCLA Alumni Assn.
In this photo from L.A. Times photographer Anne Cusack, Salvador Medina holds Spikey in the family car after the German shepherd is released from the Southeast Area Animal Control Authority in Downey. Spikey’s 15 minutes of fame came last week when he was pulled from the L.A. River by a Los Angeles city firefighter.
See a gallery of photos of the dog being rescued from the L.A. River.