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THIRD READING
Bill No: ACR 58
Author: Knight (R)
Amended: As introduced
Vote: 21
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 74-1, 07/11/11 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : Captain Ted Hall and Engineer Arnie Quinones
Memorial
Interchange
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This resolution designates an interchange on
State Highway Route 14 as the Captain Ted Hall and Engineer
Arnie Quinones Memorial Interchange."
ANALYSIS : 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
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member of the department's call fire fighter program, and
graduated from 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.
This resolution:
1.Recounts the lives and careers of Captain Ted Hall and
Engineer Arnie Quinones, members of the Los Angeles
County Fire Department who were both tragically killed in
the line of duty on Sunday, August 30, 2009.
2.Designates the interchange on State Route 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 to determine
the cost of appropriate signs showing the designation
and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources
covering that cost, to erect those signs.
FISCAL EFFECT : Fiscal Com.: Yes
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 74-1, 07/11/11
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Atkins, Bill
Berryhill, Block, Blumenfield, Bonilla, Bradford,
Brownley, Buchanan, Butler, Charles Calderon, Campos,
Carter, Cedillo, Chesbro, Conway, Cook, Davis, Dickinson,
Donnelly, Eng, Feuer, Fletcher, Fong, Fuentes, Furutani,
Beth Gaines, Galgiani, Garrick, Gatto, Grove, Hagman,
Halderman, Hall, Harkey, Hayashi, Roger Hern�ndez, Hill,
Huber, Hueso, Huffman, Jeffries, Jones, Knight, Lara,
Logue, Bonnie Lowenthal, Ma, Mansoor, Mendoza, Miller,
Monning, Morrell, Nestande, Nielsen, Olsen, Pan, Perea,
V. Manuel P�rez, Portantino, Silva, Smyth, Solorio,
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Swanson, Torres, Valadao, Wagner, Wieckowski, Williams,
Yamada, John A. P�rez
NOES: Norby
NO VOTE RECORDED: Beall, Gordon, Gorell, Mitchell, Skinner
JJA:nl 9/8/11 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
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