The Unified Command continues to respond and continue operations Saturday after a ship fire occurred aboard the container ship One Henry Hudson, Friday evening, while it was moored at Berth 218 in the Port of Los Angeles.

A 17-year-old boy died in an explosion triggered by fireworks Wednesday evening in South Los Angeles, according to authorities.

A man has been arrested for allegedly firebombing a federal building in downtown Los Angeles and is suspected in another blaze in a nearly century-old apartment building in Koreatown on Monday. The Los Angeles Times identified the targeted federal building as the one at 300 N.

Firefighters are working to protect other properties from a fire Thursday morning at a one-story commercial building in Boyle Heights. The fire apparently extended to the building from a fire originally burning outside the structure,

LOS ANGELES - Three people were taken to the hospital with serious injuries after an alleged electrical fire at a high-rise building in Woodland Hills, officials said. Los Angeles City firefighters were called to a 17-story building in the 6300 block of N. Canoga Avenue, near W. Trillum Drive, just before 7:35 a.m.

A fire on a container ship docked at the Port of Los Angeles was nearly contained Saturday afternoon, though authorities were still assessing whether enough hazardous material burned to cause significant contamination.

The Los Angeles Fire Department responded to the scene and transported the person, later determined to be a 17-year-old juvenile, to a local area hospital. The juvenile succumbed to the injuries sustained and was subsequently pronounced deceased by hospital staff.

The tax proposed by the United Firefighters of Los Angeles could fund fire apparatus, 30 fire stations and added staffing.