No deaths or significant injuries as a result of Hilary reported in Los Angeles, officials say
Los Angeles officials report no deaths or significant injuries as a result of Tropical Storm Hilary and all weather warnings in the city have been cancelled.
“We are past the brunt of the impact,” said National Weather Service meteorologist Ariel Cohen.
The Los Angeles Fire Department fielded more than 4,000 emergency calls on Sunday and responded to about 1,800 incidents, Chief Kristin Crowley said at a news conference on Monday.
Among those calls was to help five cars stranded in a flooded intersection of Sun Valley. One person was safely rescued from that incident, Crowley said.
Damage surveys have found no significant debris flows in the city, but there are several areas with flooding and uprooted trees.
Flood water has impacted an underground power vault leading to an outage of about 6,000 in the Beverly Grove area, with other outages reported in Hollywood, Hyde Park, and Brentwood, but the vast majority of city power customers remain unaffected.
Cleanup efforts are underway and the city expects to resume most normal operations soon, including schools.
