As the city and county of Los Angeles remained in the state of a local emergency, Los Angeles officials responded more than 350 car crashes, over 600 tree emergencies as well as thousands of power outages during the holiday storms, the LA mayor’s office said Thursday.
Although the traffic collisions affected travelers along roadways across the region, there were no serious injuries or deaths related to this week’s storms, Mayor Karen Bass’s office noted.
But as the heavy downpours knocked down trees and power poles, crews with the LA Department of Water and Power had to work, even on Christmas Day, to restore electricity at thousands of homes and businesses. According to the mayor’s office, there were still about 4,000 power outages as of 6 p.m. Thursday…