Fire department to hand out sandbags in La Crescenta

By Mark Kellam

Jan. 20, 2016 4:50 PM PT

Free pre-filled sandbags will be handed out by the Los Angeles County Fire Department from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at Two Strike Park, 5107 Rosemont Ave., La Crescenta.

At the event, residents can talk to county firefighters about how to prepare for El Niño storms and how to properly place sandbags around their homes.

The limit is 10 bags per household.

Mark Kellam, mark.kellam@latimes.com

Twitter: @LAMarkKellam

Mark Kellam

Mark Kellam was city editor of the Glendale News-Press and Burbank Leader. He joined Times Community News in July 2011 as the business-politics reporter and was promoted to city editor in January 2013. Previously, he was an editor at the Los Angeles Daily News and managing editor at Champion Newspapers in Chino, Calif. Prior to that, he was an editor at Amos Suburban Newspapers in Dayton, Ohio, for several years. Kellam holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Indiana University.