Paramedics Orange County

A paramedic team has joined the fire station on Trask Avenue to serve residents in the city's southeast area. Fire Chief Vincent Bonacker said the addition this week of a paramedic team at Fire Station No. 3 at 12132 Trask Ave. means four of the city's seven fire stations now have paramedics. A paramedic team consists of a captain, an engineer who drives the fire engine and a paramedic-firefighter. Bonacker said that the team at Fire Station No.

A paramedic team has joined the fire station on Trask Avenue to serve residents in the city's southeast area. Fire Chief Vincent Bonacker said the addition this week of a paramedic team at Fire Station No. 3 at 12132 Trask Ave. means four of the city's seven fire stations now have paramedics. A paramedic team consists of a captain, an engineer who drives the fire engine and a paramedic-firefighter. Bonacker said that the team at Fire Station No.

Dr. John G. West, founder of the Orange County Trauma Society, will be the featured speaker April 9 as the Santa Ana Public Library celebrates National Library Week. West, a trauma surgeon, will speak at 7:30 p.m. on "Trauma: The Neglected Epidemic." The talk, scheduled for the Spurgeon Room of the library at 26 Civic Center Plaza, is open to the public at no charge. Orange County's trauma centers are cited nationwide as an example of how trauma centers can save lives.

Todd Marinovich, the former USC and Raiders quarterback, pleaded guilty Thursday to drug charges and was sentenced to six months in jail. Marinovich, who entered his plea to a felony count of cultivating marijuana and two misdemeanor counts, also will be on probation for three years. He must begin the jail term on or before Nov. 7.

Todd Marinovich, the former USC and Los Angeles Raider quarterback, pleaded guilty Thursday to drug charges and was sentenced to six months in jail. Marinovich, who entered his plea to a felony count of cultivating marijuana and two misdemeanor counts, will be on probation for three years. He must begin the jail term on or before Nov. 7.

A bench warrant was issued Tuesday for former USC and Raider quarterback Todd Marinovich, who failed to show up in court on drug charges for the third time since Aug. 15. Marinovich, who has pleaded not guilty to the felony charges, was scheduled to appear for a pretrial hearing. A judge in Municipal Court here issued a bench warrant the first time Marinovich missed a court date on Aug. 15. But it was held at the request of his attorney, Gary Pohlson.

A 2-year-old girl who suffered from a growth disease drowned in 12 inches of bath water Monday night when her father left her unattended for a few moments, sheriff's officials said Tuesday. The drowning occurred about 8:30 p.m., when Mahsa Amini's father put her in the bathtub at the family's home in the 21000 block of Brentwood and went downstairs for a short time to attend to his other daughter, a 3-year-old, authorities said.

Separate fires gutted a residential garage in La Habra, a mobile home in El Toro and a Laundromat in Garden Grove early Monday--leaving one firefighter slightly injured and causing nearly $400,000 in total damage. The coin-operated laundry blaze occurred in the shopping center where a Thrifty Drug Store burned down last December in one of the most expensive arson fires in Garden Grove history. Firefighters were investigating Monday's 5:15 a.m.

Nine Orange County traffic safety projects ranging from a new blood alcohol test to a teen drunk-driving education program will receive an estimated $2.35 million in grants, a state agency announced Tuesday. Officials from the Office of Traffic Safety said the programs are among 188 statewide receiving a total of $31 million in mostly federal funds.

Jose Maria Olazabal of Spain was named to replace countryman Miguel Angel Martin on Europe's Ryder Cup team Tuesday after Martin refused to play 18 holes of golf to prove his surgically repaired wrist had healed. Martin, who underwent surgery Aug. 5, refused to play, saying it would delay his recovery. "There's no way I am going to be fit by Wednesday and I think that's silly," said Martin, adding that he is considering legal action. "But I think I have to be fit on Sept.