WHEREAS, Fire Captain Tedmund D. “Ted” Hall first joined the Los Angeles County Fire Department in 1981 as a student worker, and graduated from the fire academy in 1983, serving as a firefighter in Lakewood, Whittier, and La Puente. In 1987, Mr. Hall joined the department’s command and control team of fire dispatchers, and was promoted to Fire Fighter Specialist in 1988, serving as an engineer at various locations. He was promoted to captain in 2001, with his final assignment at Camp 16 in the Palmdale region; and

WHEREAS, Fire Fighter Specialist Arnaldo “Arnie” Quinones first joined the Los Angeles County Fire Department in 1998, as a member of the department’s call firefighter program, and graduated from the fire academy in 2001, serving as a firefighter in Palmdale, Covina, and La Canada-Flintridge. In 2005, Mr. Quinones was promoted to Fire Fighter Specialist, with his final assignment as an engineer at Camp 16 in the Palmdale region; and

WHEREAS, Captain Hall and Fire Fighter Specialist Quinones were both tragically killed in the line of duty on Sunday, August 30, 2009, during the Station Fire, when their emergency response vehicle went over the side and fell 800 feet into a steep canyon during fire suppression activities; and

WHEREAS, It is appropriate to designate the interchange on State Highway Route 14 with the Angeles Forest Highway, County Road N3, in the County of Los Angeles as the Captain Ted Hall and Engineer Arnie Quinones Memorial Interchange in their memory; now, therefore, be it