LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – A Laguna Niguel fire and a Santa Clarita fire today 2013 (fire maps below) have both erupted this afternoon. A Laguna Niguel fire 2013 was threatening structures shortly after 2 pm PST today. But officials report that it is now contained. The Santa Clarita fire 2013, meantime, is still being battled.

First, the Laguna Niguel fire today May 10, 2013 erupted in the afternoon hours. Officials deemed it a brush fire, and reported that it posed a threat initially to structures on 29101 Kite Hill Drive.

Then, a second Santa Clarita fire was reported on Golden Valley Road at Robert C Lee Parkway. The Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station shared the above image at roughly 2:45 pm PST stating “Brush Fire – Golden Valley Road at Robert C Lee Pkwy – S of Center Pointe”. It later added “Fri 2:50p – 2 acre brush fire on Golden Valley Road north of Sierra Highway”.

• 
  
  Comments (0)

LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – Michelle Estrera, Anna Alcantara, Felomina Geronga, and Jennifer Balon were identified moments ago as the four passengers who died with bride Neriza Fojas in that limo fire last weekend. Funeral arrangements have not been announced to news.

A bride killed in a limo fire was identified on LALATE over the weekend. But moments ago, the complete list of fatalities and survivors was released to news by investigators. The names of the victims who perished are Michelle Estrera, 35, Fresno; Anna Alcantara, 46, Alameda; Felomina Geronga, 43, Alameda; Neriza Fojas, 31, Fresno; and Jennifer Balon, Alameda. Officials tell news that the four survivors are Jasmin Deguia, 34, of San Jose; Amalia Loyola, 48, of San Leandro; Mary G. Guardiano, 42, of Alameda; and Nelia Arrellano, 36, of Oakland.

Valley Medical Center tells news today that Deguia and Loyola are still hospitalized in serious condition. Stanford Medical Center was treating Guardiano and Arrellano. Arrellano has since been released. The driver, Orville Brown, 46, was the only person to escape uninjured.

The limo was operated by the Limo Stop. The cause of the fire remains unknown. While initial news reports listed her as a bride, Fojas reportedly had already married her husband in the U.S. and was set to have another unofficial ceremony on June 19 in the Philippines.

• Comments (0)

ST LOUIS (LALATE) – The bride killed in a limo fire Saturday, Neriza Fojas, prompts an investigation today. Neriza Fojas (photos below) was the bide killed in a limo fire Saturday night. She was traveling in a LimoStop limo just weeks before her overseas wedding. While reported as the “bride killed in a limo fire” by local news, Neriza Fojas has already been married legally in the U.S. . She was set to repeat her wedding ceremonies in the Philippines in June. But Saturday night, suddenly Fojas’s limousine caught fire on the San Mateo Bridge caught on fire. Within two minutes, Fojas’s entire limo was burning. Within seconds, five people died including Fojas, with four persons surviving including the driver.

The bride killed in the limo fire Saturday has left San Mateo County firefighters and California Highway Patrol investigators baffled. How an entire limo, driving along across the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge, catch fire within two minutes? No collision was involved. LimoStop has no explanation for the tragedy. And officers have no explanation either.

• Comments (1)

LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – A bride killed in a limo fire is being remembered today. Neriza Fojas of Fresno was the recent bride who died in a limo fire on the San Mateo-Hayward Saturday night May 4, 2013. She was set to unofficially marry in the Philippines next month.

Neriza Fojas was travelling in the 1999 Lincoln Town Car. But shortly after 10 pm the limo caught on fire on the San Mateo-Hayward. While initial news reports listed her as a bride, Fojas reportedly had already married her husband in the U.S. and was set to have another unofficial ceremony on June 19 in the Philippines.

The survivors are driver Orville Brown, 46, of San Jose, who was uninjured; and passengers Mary G. Guardiano, 42, of Alameda; Nelia Arrellano, 36, of Oakland; Amalia Loyola, 48, of San Leandro and Jasmine Desguia, 34, of San Jose. Loyola and Desguia are in critical condition at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, officials tell news. While four women survived, five women were trapped include the bride; those five women all perished. Their names have not been released to news. Funeral arrangements have not been announced to news. Send your love.

• Comments (0)

LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – The Springs Fire 2013 map was updated tonight May 3, 2013 as the Camarillo Fire grew Friday. Newbury Park was on alert throughout day. And new evacuation orders were issued for the Potrero Road area late Friday. But moments ago PCH was open.

In the latest Springs Fire update today, Ventura County Fire says the blaze has moved substantially away from PCH. As a result, VCFD issued the following statement to news at 4:45 pm PST. “Pacific Coast Highway will reopen to traffic in both directions at 5:00 p.m. Many cross streets, however, will remain closed. Motorists are advised to drive carefully and watch out for emergency vehicles that may still be in the area.” Local news is reporting that the 101 Freeway is moving relatively smoothly with not much traffic through Oxnard and Agoura Hills tonight.

Within the hour, fire officials told news that the Springs Fire had grown to 18,000 acres. It has burned twenty-eight square miles, damaged roughly two dozen homes, and is currently twenty-percent contained.

Meantime, several campuses are back to normal tonight, reps indicate to news. California State University, Channel Islands is letting students back on campus as of 4 pm today.

But while the southern leg of the fire near PCH is moving inland, the northern leg is prompting new evacuation orders. Shortly after 1 pm today sections of Potrero Road from Reino Road east to 930 W. Potrero Road were put on mandatory evacuation orders. Orders will also issue for sections of Hidden Valley Road south. Four thousand residents remain threatened still tonight. Earlier today orders were given for the Sycamore Canyon area.

Meantime the above image was released today by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The Springs Fire can now be seen from space in new satellite imagery. The smoke is captured in the photo moving westward. For continuing coverage of the Springs Fire and other fires across the Southland currently click HERE. For recent maps released for the Springs Fire, see below.

• 
  
  Comments (0)