BILL ANALYSIS �
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Date of Hearing: June 27, 2011
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
Bonnie Lowenthal, Chair
ACR 58 (Knight) - As Introduced: May 10, 2011
SUBJECT : State Route 14
SUMMARY : Designates an interchange on State Route (SR) 14 as
the Captain Ted Hall and Engineer Arnie Quinones Memorial
Interchange. Specifically, this bill :
1)Recounts the lives and careers of Captain Ted Hall and
Engineer Arnie Quinones, members of the Los Angeles County
Fire Department were both tragically killed in the line of
duty on Sunday, August 30, 2009.
2)Designates the interchange on SR 14 with the Angeles Forest
Highway, County Road N3 as the Captain Ted Hall and Engineer
Arnie Quinones Memorial Interchange.
3)Requests the Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to
determine the cost of appropriate signs showing the
designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate
sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.
EXISTING LAW : Assigns Caltrans the responsibility to operate
and maintain state highways. This includes the installation and
maintenance of highway signs.
FISCAL EFFECT : Unknown
COMMENTS : Fire Captain Tedmund D. "Ted" Hall first joined the
Los Angeles County Fire Department in 1981 as a student worker,
and graduated from the fire academy in 1983, serving as a
firefighter in Lakewood, Whittier, and La Puente. In 1987, Mr.
Hall joined the department's command and control team of fire
dispatchers, and was promoted to Fire Fighter Specialist in
1988, serving as an engineer at various locations. He was
promoted to captain in 2001, with his final assignment at Camp
16 in the Palmdale region.
Fire Fighter Specialist Arnaldo "Arnie" Quinones first joined
the Los Angeles County Fire Department in 1998, as a member of
the department's call fire fighter program, and graduated from
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the fire academy in 2001, serving as a firefighter in Palmdale,
Covina, and La Canada-Flintridge. In 2005, Mr. Quinones was
promoted to Fire Fighter Specialist, with his final assignment
as an engineer at Camp 16 in the Palmdale region.
Captain Hall and Fire Fighter Specialist Quinones were both
tragically killed in the line of duty on Sunday, August 30,
2009, during the Station Fire, when their emergency response
vehicle went over the side and fell 800 feet into a steep canyon
during fire suppression activities.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
Support
None on file
Opposition
None on file
Analysis Prepared by : Howard Posner / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093