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Showing posts with label Upcoming Events. Show all posts


A vehicle hit a baby stroller at Speedway & Galleon.

Person was driving the wrong way on Speedway on Friday and hit mom and baby (in the stroller).

Driver attempted to flee. A large crowd that gathered at the scene prevented the driver from runing away.

The mother and baby are expected to survive, the driver was arrested, but as per LAPD's history, will most likely be released in an hour or so.


LA County Lifegaurds are still accepting applications for Ocean Lifeguard Candidate through 5pm PST this Friday August 6th.

Go to http://governmentjobs.com and search for the Ocean Lifeguard Candidate/Temporary listing, or click the link below:

http://governmentjobs.com.


Mike, aka German in Venice, vlogs about daily life in Venice Beach, and the nearby communities.

"Since mayor Eric Garcetti agreed that it is illegal to camp on Venice Beach, today was the final cleanup of zone number two on Venice BeachBoardwalk. I was there all day to record it. Shout out to former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, today is his birthday.Happy birthday, Arnold."

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From Santa Monica Close Up:

"Los Angeles Police Officers (L.A.P.D.) were enforcing the no-camp laws at Venice Beach, Fri6, July 30 2021."

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LA Public Health continues cautioning residents who are planning to visit several county beaches, including beaches near Hyperion, to be careful of swimming, surfing, and playing in ocean waters around discharging storm drains, creeks, and rivers.

Recent special ocean water sampling conducted by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health on Wednesday July 28th determined that an additional beach area near Hyperion exceeded state standards for bacteria in water.

Note that no untreated sewage is currently being discharged into the ocean and ocean waters bacterial levels often fluctuate from day to day and can be impacted by recent rain events.

Lifeguards have been notified to post yellow advisory signs and the Public Health Beach Water Quality webpage has been updated.

Affected beach areas still exceeding state standards include:

El Segundo Beach

Grand Avenue storm drain (Near Dockweiler Tower 60)

Dockweiler State Beach

Ballona Creek (Near Dockweiler Tower 40)

Culver Blvd storm drain

Hyperion Plant outfall

Imperial Highway storm drain (Dockweiler Tower 56)

Westchester storm drain

World Way extension

Additional beach areas near Hyperion include: Topsail Street extension (Venice)

Public Health team members continue conducting door-to-door outreach to the community impacted by the plants odors and will continue this activity through tomorrow.

Other beaches under advisory also include the below beach areas. These advisories are very likely due to day-to-day fluctuations in ocean water bacteria levels. At this time, there is no reason to suspect these increases in beach water bacteria are due to the recent sewage discharge at Hyperion.

Avalon Beach at Catalina Island (50 feet east of the pier)

28th Street Extension (Manhattan Beach)

Topanga Canyon Beach in Malibu

The following beach areas sample results identified water quality levels within State standards and yesterday’s warnings have been lifted: Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica

Montana Ave. storm drain at Santa Monica Beach (Santa Monica North Tower 8)

Wilshire Bl. storm drain at Santa Monica Beach (Santa Monica North Tower 12)

Temescal Canyon storm drain at Will Rogers State Beach



Recorded information on beach conditions is available 24- hours a day on the County's beach closure hotline: 1-800- 525-5662. Contact the County's beach advisory hotline: 1-800-525-5662 where recorded information on beach conditions is available 24-hours a day.


Mike, aka German in Venice, vlogs about daily life in Venice Beach, and the nearby communities.

"This Is an update video about the homeless encampment cleanup in Venice Beach, California. Today, they are cleaning up zone number three from Sunset Street all the way to Navy."

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Mike, aka German in Venice, vlogs about daily life in Venice Beach, and the nearby communities.

"Today, I went to Venice Beach and I heard that there was a drive-by shooting with a fatal outcome. I try to get some footage and try to find out what really happened. I gather all the information from different people, everything in this video is just my theory and I hope I was right."

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On Tuesday there was a drive-by shooting in broad daylight at Brooks and Pacific in Venice. Initial reports state there were five shots from one vehicle towards another vehicle (the BMW in the photos) and no injuries from the gunfire. The shooter drove off and then wrecked his vehicle into the nearby the Westminster Senior Center. The 25-year-old man was killed in the high speed crash. He was pronounced dead at the scene by the Los Angeles Fire Department.







A homeless man who moved to the beach two days ago pulled a gun on a homeless woman who was trying to steal his friend’s bike. Massive LAPD response during the middle of a busy Sunday, but no one is arrested.




More than a dozen Los Angeles Police Officers (L.A.P.D) detained a group of homeless young adults in handcuffs at a Venice Beach Homeless Encampment, Sunday, July 25, 2021. An 18 year old homeless man pulled a BB gun on a woman who may have been attempting to steal a bike. There was no ammunition in the BB gun. The BB gun was being used as a decoy. No one was arrested.




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SUNDAY: Search underway for a missing person in the water near the Santa Monica Pier.

MONDAY UPDATE: The search has been suspended pending further information. Land based Lifeguard Units and Lifeguard Rescue Boats will continue periodic patrols.


Malibu's longtime musician and surfer Billy Wilson was found dead in his truck on Saturday, July 24. His truck was parked in the lot at Surfrider.


Mike, aka German in Venice, vlogs about daily life in Venice Beach, and the nearby communities.

"Update: Today they cleaned up one of the biggest homeless encampments On Venice Beach. The person accumulated a lot of stuff. They cleaned up zone number four, there are two more zones to go. Also an update on Muscle Beach, they put all the equipment inside the pit area."

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In the video below, a construction worker and a homeless man get into an arguement and the homeless man gets his pit bull to bite the construction worker.

According to LT Ensley of the Arrest-&-Release PD that homeless suspect was arrested for Assault with a Deadly weapon (dog) after the suspect ordered his dog to bite the victim. The victim required multiple stitches to close the wound. And as usual, we can expect them to release the guy back onto the Venice Boardwalk within hours to fuck up the day for some more people.



LA County Fire Department is responding to a brushfire of approx. 3-5 acres at Tuna Canyon Rd & Las Flores Heights, approx 3.5 miles north of PCH in Malibu







UPDATE 5:07 p.m- Forward progress has been stopped at 10 acres on the Flores Fire on Tuna Canyon Road at Las Flores Heights, 3.5 miles north of PCH in Malibu. Tuna Canyon Rd is closed from Saddle Peak to PCH. No evacuations have been ordered. No structures threatened. Crews will remain on scene until mop-up is complete.


Northern LA Boardriders has just announced the 1st Northern LA Boardriders (NLAB) inter-club Surf Contest taking place at Zuma on July 31st.

Divisions will run from Groms up to Legends with a Girls & Women division.

Registration is now open, click here.

Northern LA Boardriders (NLAB) is a surf club that shares a strong passion for surfing and giving back to our community. We aim to foster the sport of friendly competitive surfing and create a positive movement and platform for our younger generations. Our community includes Malibu, Santa Monica, Venice, Los Angeles, Pacific Palisades, Agoura, Calabasas, and SFV. We are extremely conscious of the need to protect our environment & ocean and pay deep respect for the history and legends of our local surf culture. Join our club, click here


For almost 3 decades, Rockin’ Fig’s distinct, upbeat voice echoed across the sand and surf and through radio waves, giving play-by-plays over loudspeakers at countless surf competitions and for more 25 years giving the surf report on KROQ radio station for listeners across Southern California. The beloved surf shop owner of Rockin’ Fig Surf Headquarters in Huntington Beach died on Friday, July 16, of a heart attack. He was 64.

Rick “Rockin’ Fig” Fignetti — known for wearing his signature thick glasses, long wavy hair and goatee framing his stoked smile — got his start shaping at Chuck Dent’s surf shop, the same person who gave him his trademark name.

“One night, we were in the shop in the middle of winter, and I was dancing on the countertop. Chuck goes “you’re rocking Fig,” he recounted in a 2006 interview with the Register. “That kind of claimed it for me. People from way back when used to say, that Fig guy, he’s rockin’ out. It’s just one of those names that stuck.”

He started his own shop bearing his moniker, Downey calling his shop still the best deal in town. Fignetti employed countless young surfers to run his shop, which during a big swell would hang a “Gone Surfing” sign on the door when they were running late because the surf was too good. ”

“The most fair surfing businessman, ever,” Downey said.

He started doing the surf report for KROQ in the 80s when radio personality “Poor Man” wanted to learn to surf. Fignetti and surf champion David Nuuhiwa took him out for a lesson, then suggested Fignetti do a surf report for the show.



Fignetti admitted being nervous in those early days as hundreds of thousands of people listened in at 7:20 a.m. each morning, looking out at the ocean at sunrise and calling into the station to give a live report, long before the days of surf cam technology used in websites such as Surfline.

He did the KROQ radio surf report each morning for 25 years up until 2010. He also was the announcer for many NSSA events as well as being the voice of the U.S. Open of Surfing in Hunitington Beach.



Fignetti once talked about how surfing kept him young — and that he was living a life he loved.

“Something about surfing – it’s like the fountain of youth,” he said. “You don’t age if you surf all the time.”


LAPD Investigators have located skeletal remains in the Ballona Wetlands.

They were searching for a woman, Kolby Story, who went missing in the Mar Vista area in December

Kolby Story, 32, was last seen in the early morning hours of December 7, 2020, in the 12300 block of Pacific Avenue in Mar Vista. According to reports from December, a few hours before she went missing, Story had called a friend from Venice to help her find her car keys. Around 2 a.m., she left Venice and drove in the direction of her Mar Vista home, but she never made it home.

Her car was later discovered in a Marina del Rey impound lot. The car, with a flat tire, had been towed from a parking lot near a Ralphs grocery store in Marina del Rey.

New search efforts for Story were underway Friday after some of her belongings were found near the area and turned over to the Los Angeles Police Department.

LAPD's Robbery-Homicide Division investigators, Pacific Division personnel, and Metropolitan Division, along with California Office of Emergency Service, Fire and Rescue Division K9 Search Teams, and Story’s family members and friends, Started conducting a search of the Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve and Ballona Creek for Story Friday morning. The Rose Ave storm drain at Venice Beach was also searched.

Friday afternoon it was announced that LAPD Investigators have located skeletal remains in the Ballona Wetlands.The coroner's office will remove the remains & conduct their investigation. They are unable to confirm anything further related to the remains.

Story was described by police as being 5’4'' tall, weighing 115 lbs. She has brown hair and hazel eyes. Her family in December offered a $100,000 reward for her safe return.



Anyone with information regarding Story's case was asked to contact the Los Angeles Police Department, Robbery-Homicide Division, at 213-486-6890. During non-business hours or on weekends, calls should be directed to 1-877-LAPD-24-7.



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