Jona H. Taylor; Carnegie Hero Fund Nominee
- Share via
Jona H. Taylor, 87, a retired bakery company founder who twice risked his life to rescue neighbors whose homes were ablaze in Leisure World Laguna Hills. In the first instance in January, 1967, Taylor suffered serious burns while rushing five times into nearby homes to pull three residents to safety after two Marine Corps jets had crashed. In April, 1968, two days after being honored in Orange County for the first exploit, he pulled a woman from a house fire started by a burning cigarette. Afterward he was nominated for a Carnegie Hero Fund award. In Laguna Hills on Sunday.
More From the Los Angeles Times
Podcasts
Kim, an attorney and former San Francisco supervisor, is running against State Sen. Benjamin Allen for the role of running California’s long-beleaguered Department of Insurance. In this episode she talks to Rebuilding L.A. host Kate Cagle about why she should get the job.
The Hillside Strangler murders terrorized Los Angeles in the late 1970s. The killers were a pair of sadistic cousins. One confessed. The other was set to stand trial—until L.A. prosecutors flinched.
Hosts Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito sit down with Puerto Rican rapper and composer Álvaro Díaz, fresh off the release of OMAKASE — his third album, a genre-defying concept record that debuted at number one globally on Spotify and is charting in 16 Latin American countries.
