It's time to fall back, daylight saving time ends this weekend
Officials urge for battery changing ritual
LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Public safety agencies are hoping to indelibly connect the end of daylight-saving time with the need to change batteries in smoke detectors and make plans for emergencies, officials said today.
Like 47 other states, California will "fall back'' one hour at 2 a.m. Sunday, when daylight-saving time ends and the state moves back to Pacific Standard Time.
Unlike in years past, Tijuana and northern Baja California are shifting to standard time on the same date as California. Last year, San Diego and Tijuana were one hour apart for several weeks because Mexico changed to and from daylight-saving time on different dates than the U.S.
The only states that do not observe daylight-saving time are Hawaii and most of Arizona. Starting Sunday, Honolulu will move to two hours earlier than Los Angeles, instead of the current three-hour difference.
Phoenix and Los Angeles will have the same local time for the next five months.
Fire officials and FEMA are urging people to use the semi-annual clock changing exercise to also remove and replace batteries for smoke detectors, carbon monoxide detectors, and evacuation flashlights.
The battery-changing ritual should include checking that the device has not passed any expiration date, and clearing dust from slots or sensors.
SACRAMENTO, Calif.,—On Monday, eight California State Senators voted against a measure that provides green business opportunities, improves fire safety for the state, and curbs global exposure to illness-causing chemicals.
SAN ONOFRE, Calif.—Radiation experts and emergency workers at the San Onofre nuclear plant drilled today in response to a simulated radiation leak as part of scheduled exercise that took on new significance in light of the disaster in Japan.
LOS ANGELES, Calif.—With inspections being completed on most of its Boeing 737-300 planes, Southwest Airlines plans to resume to normal flight operations tomorrow.
The airline canceled 70 flights across the country today—10 of them at Los Angeles International Airport—in response to a Friday night flight that had to be diverted in Arizona when a hole developed in the fuselage of the plane.
LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Wells Fargo will provide loan changes worth more than $2 billion to thousands of California homeowners and provide an additional $32 million to thousands of borrowers who lost their homes through foreclosure, the state Attorney General's Office announced today.
None of the loans were made by Wells Fargo. All were originated by World Savings and Wachovia —both banks that Wells Fargo acquired, according to the Attorney General's office.
LOS ANGELES, Calif.—A hit-and-run motorist sought in a 1996 crash that killed three men in Los Angeles is featured on "America's Most Wanted's'' website page, police said.
On June 29, 1996, Jesus Lopez Gonzalez allegedly ran a red light on Main Street at Adams Boulevard in a 1989 Dodge Ram pickup about 2:10 a.m. and slammed into a 1996 Volkswagen GTI, killing Thomas Gibson, 23, Faustino Sanchez, 23, and Friedrich Allmendinger, 22, Los Angeles police Officer Bruce Borihanh said.
