Flames from the Hughes fire came within a mile of the Castaic jails before firefighters pushed them back. Inmate advocates ...

A fast-moving California fire has forced authorities to evacuate part of a 5,000-person jail in Los ... evacuation of Pitchess inmates. "We demand that the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors ...

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's aging dispatch system ... denying them the ability to run license plates and search for warrants through the computers inside their patrol vehicles.

The Sheriff's Department has identified these people as missing: At several news conferences, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna has said search and rescue teams deploy every day rummaging ...

(Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department) Although they were located within that evacuation zone, a lack of operational buses made evacuating the 4,700 inmates at the jail complex difficult ...

The Los Angeles ... using search and rescue personnel and cadaver dogs, the sheriff's department said. Since Pacific Palisades spans the jurisdiction of both the Los Angeles County Sheriff's ...

Anyone who sees Hammond or knows where she is was urged to call law enforcement or 911. The article Search On For Escaped Inmate In Los Angeles County appeared first on Los Angeles Patch.

The Hughes fire near Castaic Lake in northern Los Angeles County began Wednesday morning ... called for the immediate evacuation of 4,700 jail inmates in four facilities around the lake that ...