Los Angeles, June 22 (IANS) Firefighters in the US city of Los Angeles continued efforts overnight and into Sunday to contain a fire at a large industrial building in the city, the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) said. The fire broke out at a large warehouse in the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles on Wednesday, generating heavy smoke that has spread across parts of the metropolitan area for several days.Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Saturday declared a local emergency in response to the in…
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Los Angeles, June 21 (IANS) Mayor Karen Bass of the US city of Los Angeles on Sunday declared a local emergency in response to an ongoing warehouse fire that erupted Wednesday and generated heavy smoke, which has spread across the Los Angeles metropolitan area for several days.”I’m issuing an emergency declaration to ensure the city has the resources it needs as this operation continues and to keep the community safe,” Bass said in a statement. “We’re in contact with the governor because this ha…
New York, June 9 (IANS) Nithya Raman, a Democratic Socialist in the mould of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, has emerged as the challenger to embattled Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass in the November election to lead the second-biggest US city. She took the second spot in the open primary election, edging out the Republican candidate Spencer Pratt, to face Democrat Bass in a runoff, according to media calculations reported on Monday, even as the official counting was continuing almost a week after t…