Dozens of videos, some from journalists, others from participants and bystanders, show officers with their name tags removed firing stun grenades and rubber bullets indiscriminately at fleeing protesters and bystanders and hunting stragglers through the streets.
Officers with their name tags removed fired stun grenades and rubber bullets at fleeing protesters and bystanders, and hunted stragglers through the streets.
This is not the first time fire pits have been targeted for removal in Southern California — but the last major effort to remove fire pits was only for budgetary reasons: San Diego cut the financing for them in 2008 as the city dealt with budget shortfalls.
"The harder you try to remove fire, the worse it gets," says Mark Finney, a research scientist at the U.S. Forest Service's research lab in Missoula, Mont.
During a somber noon news conference at the university, Mr. Campolo played down the importance of the university's recent decision to remove fire hoses from standpipes on each of Boland Hall's six floors.
The state parks department, suffering its own fiscal woes, also plans to remove fire rings at several beaches, though an informal tally by beachcalifornia.com shows that 29 of 108 state parks with beaches still allow them.
In Alaska, where a half-million acres have burned this year and the fire season came earlier than anyone can remember, insurers have already stopped offering policies to homeowners who refuse to remove fire hazards from their houses in areas where dead spruce trees are likely to burn.
As a result, the council voted to remove Fire Chief Victor Hiscock.
As a result, council voted to remove Fire Chief Victor Hiscock and 19 other firefighters quit in solidarity during a council meeting.
On Tuesday, January 19 , 20firefighters resigned en masse after town council voted on whether to remove Fire Chief Victor Hiscock from his post in the wake sexual harassment allegations made by volunteer firefighter and municipal Councilor Brenda Seymour.
It provides suggestions for less toxic ways to remove fire ants.
