Jury selection was due to begin on Monday in the federal retrial of a man prosecutors say deliberately set a blaze that grew ...

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During last year’s fires in the Los Angeles area, police dispatchers had to temporarily route 911 calls through a single captain’s personal cellphone. So many calls came in that some firefighter units ...