A woman was injured when gunfire erupted Monday night on a bustling street lined with bars and restaurants in the North Hollywood Arts District. 

The terrifying ordeal unfolded at around 8 p.m. on Magnolia Avenue between Lankershim Boulevard and Vineland Avenue, outside The Fat Dog Bar and Restaurant where a patio full of customers were dining.  

In surveillance footage of the incident, a barrage of gunfire, a single shot followed by at least a dozen others can be heard.  

A couple on the sidewalk are seen ducking, clinging to one another and running for cover.  

The female victim, who has yet to be identified, was shot in the leg. It’s unclear if she was a customer at The Fat Dog.  

Personnel with the Los Angeles police and fire departments responded to the scene and located the woman, who was conscious and breathing, authorities said. She was taken to a nearby hospital by paramedics.  

Her condition was not immediately available.  

“I think about 18 shots were fired on Magnolia Avenue,” David Chalem, who works a few doors over at DMC Real Estate, said. “It wasn’t one or two in the morning. It was 8 p.m.”  

Chalem told KTLA’s Rachel Menitoff that in the last two years, criminal activity has increased along this once safe street of bars, restaurants, theaters and vintage shops.  

“We’ve been here so long, and we always felt at least practically safe,” he explained. “But after something like that, we had a long discussion today about potentially leaving the spot.”  

Aimee Conn was working across the street at the Cheba Hut and documented some of the harrowing experience.  

“It was mayhem. Everybody started running different places and we didn’t know if it was a mass shooter or actually a drive-by,” she said. “I’ve lived 20 years in L.A., and I have never experienced that before, never in this neighborhood.  

When she saw the active crime scene, Conn said she immediately thought of her friend, actor Johnny Wactor, who was shot and killed on May 25 in downtown L.A. after a bartending shift.  

“This shouldn’t have happened,” Conn said. “It was preventable. What are we going to do about it? What’s the solution, together?” 

Police are looking into the possibility that the shooting was the work of two gunmen who fled on foot and possibly got into a white BMW SUV that fled the scene.  

Anyone with information about the shooting is urged to contact the Los Angeles Police Department’s North Hollywood Division.  

Those wishing to remain anonymous can call the L.A. Regional Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-222-8477 or leave tips online at www.lacrimestoppers.org.  

California is making an effort to get more people to recycle cans and bottles by providing millions in grants across the state to add more recycling sites and provide new methods.

The state agency CalRecycle recently awarded nearly $70 million for 37 projects in more than half of the state’s counties.

The state has long had its California Refund Value program, commonly known and printed on recyclable products as CRV, which refunds between 5 and 25 cents per container, depending on the type and size.

According to CalRecycle, the statewide beverage container recycling rate was 71% in 2023.

A CalRecycle document states that the program has resulted in a 68% recycling rate.

The new grants fund projects that include things like reverse vending machines, which scan containers that are fed into it and provide the CRV. Other ways include mobile recycling teams that can pop up at different places, and bag-drop sites.

In the announcement of the funds, CalRecycle said that grocery store chains Save Mart and Smart & Final will have reverse vending machines in 19 counties, and that “modernized recycling sites” will come to underserved communities in Butte, Imperial, Lassen, Mendocino and Merced counties.

“Innovative ways to recycle will help more Californians cash in their beverage containers and provide recycled materials for in-state remanufacturers,” CalRecycle Director Zoe Heller said in a statement. “These new sites will make redemption as simple as feeding containers into a machine or dropping off a bag of empty containers.” 

CalRecycle said it expects in the coming year to provide more than $200 million in grant funds to collect, reuse and recycle containers.

California recently expanded its CRV program, with wine and liquor in a box, carton or pouch having a 25-cent value, and wine, liquor and juices packaged in glass, plastic, aluminum or bimetal having a 5-cent value if under 24 ounces, and a 10-cent value if 24 ounces or over.

Crews battled a fire at a commercial building near the 10 Freeway in Downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday morning.

The flames were burning through the roof when firefighters arrived around 7 a.m. at the one-story vacant building on East Violet Street, the Los Angeles Fire Department stated in a news alert.

The fire was intense enough that crews were forced to take a defensive position while battling the blaze.

Sky5 was over the scene at 7:30 a.m. as crews appeared to be getting a handle on the fire.

The LAFD declared the incident a “knockdown” roughly 10 minutes later.

About 28 firefighters took just under 40 minutes to extinguish the flames, the Fire Department said.

No one was injured in the incident, and the cause of the fire is under investigation.