Sixty miles up the 405 freeway stands the sprawling 95-acre Anheuser-Busch brewery where, since 1954, some of the world’s most famous beer labels are made: Budweiser, Bud Light and more recent labels like Bud Ice, Kirin Ichiban and Chelada.
That Van Nuys facility today is a testament to the financial benefits […]
Mayor Karen Bass praised the earthquake safety achievements of the City of Los Angeles during her inaugural speech on December 11, 2022.
Mayor Bass credited the achievements to former Mayor Eric Garcetti by telling him “Your legacy is large.” She noted Angelenos will be benefitting from Garcetti’s leadership in the years […]
Plans to convert Long Beach Community Hospital into a multi-service health care campus were recently stalled as officials reviewed a state law requiring governments to give priority to affordable housing developers when selling or leasing surplus land.
When the 98-year-old hospital failed to meet California’s more stringent seismic requirements for a […]
Let’s talk business.
When the Anheuser-Busch brewery in Van Nuys suffered significant damage in the 1971 Sylmar earthquake, the company invested $11 million in retrofitting structures on site to withstand the next major temblor – which came in 1994 with the Northridge quake.
Even though the brewery was located just a few […]
Should hospital buildings be required to meet safety standards to withstand a major earthquake?
It’s a question being raised throughout the state as the deadline approaches for hospitals and their outpatient buildings considered at “significant risk” of failure to be retrofitted for safety.
Many of us remember the devastating Sylmar quake of […]
More than 60,000 vehicles pass daily over the new Gerald Desmond Bridge in Long Beach – a 2,000-foot-long expanse of cables and steel connecting downtown and the 710 freeway to the port.
Opened in October, it is built to accommodate taller ocean cargo vessels, which are expected to rise to nearly […]
Tokyo had Godzilla.
Los Angeles, for more than a century, has feared the notorious San Andreas Fault.
But Angelenos have been overlooking a closer and even more deadly monster: the Puente Hills fault, which could kill more people and cause more damage than the San Andreas in the LA area because it […]
Seems like San Diego is being hit by earthquakes from virtually every direction these days.
A swarm of earthquakes last month near the Salton Sea and subsequent quakes in Baja, California, jostled our city from sleep, reigniting concern that a major temblor may take its toll here.
The swarm in […]
Orange County, like most large metropolitan areas in the nation, operates an Emergency Operations Center (EOC) that is the communication and coordination hub for all emergency response situations we may face as a region such as earthquakes and major fires.
Comprised of representatives from public agencies and special districts throughout the […]
