Keep in mind that it is the third such major conflagration to erupt in the Sylmar area alone over the past 11 years.. In November 2008, driven by 80 mile-an-hour Santa Ana winds, the Sayre fire in ...

In 1971 the Sylmar quake brought down the old VA hospital, and the newly opened, state-of-the-art expansion wing of Olive View Hospital collapsed. Advertisement.

Edison designed and constructed the towers that run through Sylmar in 1970. They hold up two transmission lines: the Gould-Sylmar 220 kV circuit and the Eagle Rock-Sylmar 220 kV circuit.

By 1990, Sylmar was the fastest-growing neighborhood in L.A. It’s also predominantly Latino, almost 80%, according to a recent city of L.A. planning report.

A wind-driven wildfire that burned more than 100 acres late Tuesday night, Jan. 7, in Sylmar, grew to 855 acres by Wednesday night, forcing thousands of emergency evacuations. The Hurst fire was ...