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On Thursday, July 1, 2010 at 6:06 PM, 2 Companies of Los Angeles Firefighters, 1 LAFD Rescue Ambulance, 1 Battalion Chief Officer Command Team, under the direction of Battalion Chief Michael Bowman responded to a Plane Crash at 1233 East Rose Avenue in Venice.

LAFD Firefighter/Dispatchers received multiple 911 calls reporting that a small plane had crashed near the eighth hole of Penmar golf course in the city of Venice.

Firefighters on scene quickly made their way to the downed aircraft and discovered only one person was on board of the Cessna 152. That person, a male adult, was declared dead on the scene. No one on the ground was injured or killed.

The heavily damaged aircraft did not catch fire and leaked only a small amount of fuel. Monetary loss is estimated at 0,000 for the aircraft and ,000 for damage to the golf course.

The cause of the crash is under investigation by the FAA, NTSB and LAPD along with a variety of other regulating bodies. A positive identification of the deceased male, as well as the cause, time and manner of his death will be determined by the Coroner’s Office.

Submitted by Erik Scott, Spokesman Los Angeles Fire Department

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This course is 80 hours, eight days in length, ten hours of instruction each day and is designed to provide students with the knowledge, skills and abilities to perform rescue at structural collapse scenes due to natural disaster or terrorist incidents.

The purpose of the Structural Collapse Technician 2 course is to provide jurisdictions with the same training received by the FEMA US&R Structural Collapse Technicians. This course has significant hands on labs in the Technical Skills Training Area (TSTA) and Disaster City® to ensure that students received the necessary knowledge, skills and abilities to perform exterior shoring and interior shoring operations, breaching, breaking, cutting, and burning operations, and lifting and moving techniques at structural collapse incidents.