National organizers said more than 1,600 actions were planned across the country, where protesters rallied against policies that target immigrants and the transgender community, slash programs like SNAP and Medicaid and that activists worry will restrict voting rights, a cause that Lewis championed as a leader in the Civil Rights Movement. Lewis’ efforts helped pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which protected the right to vote for marginalized groups and ensured the 15th Amendment was enforced.

“All of that is under threat now because we have an administration that is determined to act in an unconstitutional way,” said Barbara Arnwine, a co-leader of the Transformative Justice Coalition, ahead of the rallies.

Around 300 people gathered in Downtown L.A., most for a rally in Gloria Molina Grand Park and others for a candlelight vigil outside City Hall to commemorate the fifth anniversary of Lewis’ death. The organization that planned the vigil, 5051, was also responsible for organizing the No Kings protest, which drew 200,000 protesters to downtown L.A. alone.

Alexis Bullara, an organizer with 5051, wasn’t surprised that the vigil saw a smaller turnout.

“It’s a work day,” she said. “It’s in the evening, and, at least for us, we’re not doing a big march. We’re not attracting as many of those people who might want to.”

Tim Myers, a musician and Calabasas resident who’s running for lieutenant governor on the Democratic ticket, thought it was important to come and address the gathering.

“We need more leaders who have peaceful solutions,” he said, calling Trump’s actions in bringing the National Guard to L.A. very violent.

“Other politicians in Sacramento are staying silent, but I’m here raising my voice up and doing what John Lewis called us to do — rise up,” he said.

For Victoria Leigh Julien, organizing one of the protests, in Whittier, was the most patriotic thing she could do.

Working for social justice causes since “Girls State” summer camp as a young girl, 28-year-old Julien honed her community collaboration skills through the Young Republicans Club in high school, college at Biola University, volunteer work and protests and discussions with law enforcement after the murder of George Floyd in 2020.

“Rallying alongside others amidst opposition is incredibly moving and encouraging,” Julien said, “and I hope people who have been motivated enough to come out of their homes and protest will experience that rallying energy and optimism for positive change.”

A member of the Whittier chapter of Indivisible, the group that organized June’s “No Kings” rally, Julien is working with the Truth and Democracy Coalition to galvanize opposition to Trump administration policies.

Whittier’s “Good Trouble Lives On” rally drew more than 100 people outside Whittier City Hall to honor the five-year anniversary of Congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis’ passing and protest Trump administration policies.

In Pasadena, around 500 people gathered to the sound of The Nextdoors, a local duo, in Memorial Park.

Donna Thomas came to the rally worried about the state of democracy in the United States but also because she wanted to memorialize Lewis’ legacy. She held a sign in honor of Lewis that read, “Get in good trouble, necessary trouble. That’s the soul of America.”

“I’m worried about ICE being in Los Angeles,” Thomas said. “I’m worrying about the Palestinian genocide. We’re losing our democracy. There’s so much injustices.”

State Sen. Sasha Renée Pérez told the crowd that she and other state lawmakers will do everything they can to push back against immigration raids and other Trump administration policies.

“We will use every tool in the toolbox to fight back,” she said, “and if the president thinks that I’m going to back down, then boy he has another thing coming.”

More than 200 people gathered at Bixby Annex Park in Long Beach, where protesters lined Ocean Boulevard and cheered as passing cars honked in support.

Tim Williams, 83, from Seal Beach was at the Long Beach rally holding a sign that said “MARA. Make America Responsible Again.”

“This word here,” Williams said, pointing at the word responsible on his sign, “is the reason why I’m here because I used to be able to be proud of my country for being responsible in the world, and at this point, we’re shirking almost every responsibility we can. “

Williams said he feels a lack of faith in U.S. leaders. The Trump administration, he said, is preventing policies and work that could slow climate change, slashed education budgets and taken steps that he said strip away civil rights that activists like Lewis fought for.

Around 40 protesters rallied along Pacific Coast Highway in front of the Huntington Beach Pier. Their anti-Trump signs and cheers were greeted with supportive gestures from visitors enjoying a sunny day at the beach.

One of the protesters, Cassie Helm, a 31-year-old mother of two from Huntington Beach, said Lewis’s “good trouble” quote and history of fighting for civil rights motivated her to speak out against the Trump administration.

“We have things that we can stand to lose by being out here, but we do it anyways because we have more to stand to lose as America if this continues,” Helm said.

Helm pointed to the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz,” a migrant detention center in Florida, as a sign of the perilous state the nation is in brought by Trump.

“If they are allowed to do that, and no one is going to do anything about it, what are they going to do next?” Helm said.

The Huntington Beach Pier, a common spot where Trump supporters rally, brought just a handful of teens who heckled protesters.

Larry Slonim, 72, said the demonstration was all about speaking out to defend democracy. The retired architect has been a regular at protests in Huntington Beach for the past several months.

Slonim said he was angered by National Guard presence during federal immigration sweeps throughout California  and believes it was a blatant show of force by the Trump administration to intimidate residents.

“It’s not about being right,” Slonim said. “It’s about being in power. It’s all about power.”

In the Inland Empire, community members were invited to learn about community organizing and voter registration from local leaders at the Riverside Main Library.

“We are seeking justice for people who have suffered from discrimination,” said Kris Lovekin, an organizer with Indivisible Riverside. “So banding together in community is important.”

The Riverside event included a life-sized cardboard cutout of Lewis, a Riverside Resistance Revival Chorus performance, an intergenerational discussion on protest, information booths on voter registration and footage from the documentary “John Lewis: Good Trouble.”

Federal immigration officers have detained 2,792 undocumented immigrants in the Los Angeles area since June, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Officials didn’t specify in which counties or cities the arrests occurred.

As of June 26, more than 70% of those who have been detained in recent months across the country have never been convicted of a crime, despite President Trump’s claims that immigration raids would target “the worst of the worst,” according to the Deportation Data Project. From Inauguration Day until June 26, more than 111,000 people have been arrested across the country, the group said.

DHS did not immediately respond to questions about the Deportation Data Project’s findings.

Of the detainees convicted of crimes, most committed minor infractions like traffic violations, said Graeme Blair, deputy director of the the Deportation Data Project and a UCLA professor.

The project began in the fall, when Blair and other academics made a series of Freedom of Information Act requests to various federal immigration enforcement agencies, so they could gather data on each arrest and track detainee transfers. When federal agencies haven’t responded to the FOIA requests, the Deportation Data Project has sued and received the data following court proceedings, Blair said. The data is then published on the project’s website for anyone to access.

This information, Blair said, can help people track who is being targeted in immigration raids, the conditions in which they’re being held and how many people are being removed from the country, among other information. He believes it’s important for every voter, regardless of their views on Trump’s immigration policy, to know how federal authorities are administering these polices and how their tax dollars are being spent.

“When Americans understand that people are being arrested regardless of their circumstances, even if they’ve been in the U.S. for decades, even if they have been paying into Social Security for decades,” Blair said, “I think it raises a really different way of thinking about what’s going on here than the public narrative that the Trump administration is promoting.”

Going through the data, Blair said it appears that Trump officials have targeted and arrested people based on their race. Detention transfers, he said, often move detainees far from their families and lawyers, making it difficult to seek support and fight their case.

Cities across the area, including Los Angeles, Pasadena, Santa Monica, Culver City, Montebello, Monterey Park, Pico Rivera and West Hollywood joined a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union in Southern California and other civil rights groups, accusing federal immigration authorities of making unlawful stops and targeting people based on their race. The lawsuit also claims that detainees have been denied their right to see counsel.

After the lawsuit was filed, a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order that prohibits federal immigration officers from stopping people without reasonable suspicion and requires detainees have access to their attorneys every day of the week.

Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for public affairs with DHS, denied the accusations and said detainees receive dietician-approved meals, medical treatment and opportunities to communicate with their family and attorneys.

“Any claims that individuals have been ‘targeted’ by law enforcement because of their skin color are disgusting and categorically FALSE,” McLaughlin previously said in a statement. “These type of smears are designed to demonize and villainize our brave ICE law enforcement.”

More than 1,600 “Good Trouble Lives On” events are planned across the country to honor the fifth anniversary of Lewis’ death, including rallies, marches and voter registration drives. The event is expected to draw peaceful protesters angered by Trump administration actions, including intensified immigration enforcement, cuts to programs like Medicaid and SNAP and actions that activists say will restrict voting rights.

Lewis fought for civil and voting rights throughout his life. Before his election to Congress, he helped organize major moments in the Civil Rights Movement, including the Freedom Rides, the 1963 March on Washington and marches from Selma to Montgomery, during which police officers beat Lewis and other protesters who fought against discriminatory practices that prevented Black Americans from voting in the Jim Crow South.

Lewis’ efforts helped pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which protected the right to vote for marginalized groups and ensured the 15th Amendment was enforced.

“All of that is under threat now because we have an administration that is determined to act in an unconstitutional way,” said Barbara Arnwine, a co-leader of the Transformative Justice Coalition.

Lewis’ family told the coalition and other organizers that they hoped crowds would continue his civil rights advocacy and legacy, said Daryl Jones, another leader with the Transformative Justice Coalition.

The events in every state are named in honor of one of Lewis’ well-known quotes, who urged community members to “Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.”

“It means that, to do good, sometimes you have to take risks,” said Celina Stewart, CEO of the League of Women Voters, “and you have to rock the boat, be a little unruly, put politeness aside and fight for what you believe in, even when it means you get into trouble.”

It’s important, she said, for community members to get involved as the Trump administration works to undo voting rights gains made by Lewis and other activists. Policies and changes proposed by the Trump administration, including stricter voter ID laws through the proposed SAVE Act, could make it harder and more expensive for women and marginalized communities to vote, Stewart said.

Good Trouble Lives On events in Southern California will be held:

• 4:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Los Angeles City Hall
• 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Bixby Park Annex in Long Beach
• 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Memorial Park in Pasadena
• 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Irvine Civic Center
• 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Riverside Main Library
• 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in San Bernardino

More events across the area can be found at goodtroubleliveson.org. Organizers ask that attendees RSVP on the website to gauge capacity and because the addresses for some events will only be provided to those who register ahead of time.

He was arrested on suspicion of causing a false report and intentionally planting false evidence after someone else saw the bear and called authorities, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said on Monday.

“Incidents such as this take up valuable emergency resources and put the public at risk, possibly delaying response time to legitimate calls for service,” the Sheriff’s Department said in a statement.

Investigators, who didn’t say how they found the suspect, said they hadn’t determined a motive.

Robert Kelly, the owner and artist behind DarkSeed Creations in South Carolina, said his phone was flooded with messages after news broke of possible human remains found Sunday in front of an ampm in the 13600 block of Bear Valley Road in Victorville.

Past customers told Kelly they recognized the evidence being taken from the scene as one of Kelly’s signature works, a $165 teddy bear made from dyed and painted latex meant to look like human skin, he said.

Deputies responded around noon to the convenience store, where a caller told dispatchers he or she found what appeared to be human remains, said Mara Rodriguez, a spokesperson for the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.

The coroner’s office gathered the evidence and determined the bear contained no human remains.

Kelly, who has been a horror special-effects artist for more than 20 years, said he fulfilled an Etsy order last week that was shipped to Victorville.

Most customers, he said, buy from his shop to decorate haunted houses and other horror attractions. Kelly said he doesn’t know why the Victorville customer purchased one of his pieces, but he did suspect it could have been a prank.

“We got blindsided by it,” Kelly said. “We don’t know much.”

“There’s no freedom living in this fear,” said the man, who asked to remain anonymous due to fear of being deported.

That’s why community groups like Union del Barrio and Los Angeles Tenants Union are using their volunteer networks to provide warnings of potential raids so laborers and vendors can continue to find work despite the risks.

At 6 a.m. on a Thursday, Union del Barrio volunteer Francisco Romero and around 20 others are already out patrolling the region, documenting potential immigration enforcement activity or vehicles that could belong to federal officers. Two volunteers patrolled the MacArthur Park area with Romero, while others scoured areas across the county, including in South Central and Vernon.

In the last month, the group has trained hundreds of volunteers to check on reports of immigration activity and warn community members of potential raids before they occur.

Volunteers were greeted at MacArthur Park and later at a nearby Home Depot by friendly waves as Union del Barrio vehicles pulled through, marked with magnets that read “Protecting communities from ICE & police terror.”

Romero and other volunteers talked with day laborers, passing out fliers with information about Union del Barrio, a group that first implemented community patrols across California amid the civil unrest that followed the 1991 beating of Rodney King.

When a vehicle seems suspicious — often a large, American-made pick-up truck or van, sometimes missing tags or registration stickers — volunteers log a voice note with identifying information in case they see the vehicle again at an immigration enforcement action.

Romero said he and other community advocates can’t stop federal immigration authorities from enforcement activity, but they can push for greater transparency and warn communities when there are ongoing or impending immigration raids.

“Right now they have free reign,” Romero said. “They’re out of control.”

The Trump administration has pledged to run the largest deportation effort in American history, claiming the country is overrun with illegal immigrants. As a result, the federal government has aggressively pursued daily raids across Southern California and the nation targeting day laborers, street vendors, gardeners, farmworkers and others. While the administration has touted a priority for targeting violent criminals, many picked up in raids have no criminal records, immigration experts say.

“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and agents are highly trained and dedicated professionals who are sworn to uphold the law, protect the American people and support U.S. national security interests,” ICE said in an emailed statement.

The administration has defended its aggressive tactics including masked immigration officers who are often in plainclothes and use unmarked vehicles during raids and detainments.

President Trump’s border czar Tom Homan said individuals who interfere with ICE operations will face charges.

“When you annoyingly impede an ICE officer, when you put hands on ICE officer, you will be prosecuted,” Homan said on Fox News.

In Hollywood, community organizers with the Los Angeles Tenants Union, a local organization demanding affordable housing and universal rent control, responded to the June 19 Home Depot raid by maintaining a regular presence at the home improvement store. The organization also sets up a red canopy across the street with a set of tables filled with “know your rights” cards and tenants’ rights fliers.

Every week day, at least one LATU activist stands near each of the three entrances while looking at each vehicle that drives in, like Union del Barrio does, for signs that it might be a federal agent.

If they do see a suspicious vehicle, a message is sent to their network of organizers. When a sighting of a federal immigration agent is confirmed, organizers alert laborers and vendors over a megaphone.

On a recent Wednesday afternoon, three men looking for work stood in the shade of a tree outside the Hollywood store. They all wore baseball caps and two had backpacks. The recent raid left many of them fearful of being taken by masked immigration agents, but they needed the work.

Next to the group stood a volunteer with LATU who was holding up a sign that said “ICE Out of LA!” Some drivers honked in support as they drove by.

Ren Marquez, an organizer with LATU, said the community organizing at the Hollywood Home Depot is a microcosm of how communities across the region have responded to the widespread raids.

“What we’ve been doing here is a little bit of a template for how other cities and organizers can create these mutual aid systems of care,” Marquez said.

Alida Garcia, a volunteer in a San Fernando Valley community patrol, was one of more than 500 people to attend an Adopt a Corner training through the National Day Laborers Organizing Network last month that connected volunteers and taught them ways to earn the trust of day laborers in their community. The Valley group, she said, is made up of a few dozen volunteers, including working mothers like Garcia.

“Everybody is just like everyday people all across the Valley who just know that what we’re experiencing right now is wrong,” she said, “and that we need to show up for each other.”

She and other volunteers have passed out conchas, coffee and resources to day laborers and vendors at Home Depots in San Fernando, North Hollywood and other locations around the area. When sightings are reported, the patrol warns day laborers in the area.

After one of the patrols, Garcia said, immigration officers raided a San Fernando Home Depot, and activists believe around 10 workers were detained. Once the community patrol got the report, they returned to gather witness reports and contact local elected officials.

Emma de Paz, one of the people taken by masked federal immigration agents on June 19 had been vending outside of the Hollywood store for nearly 25 years, according to a woman who sold food next to her. Though the woman is authorized to be in the U.S., she asked to remain anonymous for fear of being taken by agents.

Despite being terrified, the woman who knew de Paz returned to vending four days after the raid. She needed to work. She said she used to make enough money to pay rent and support her children, but business has gone down since the June 19 raid.

“If we can’t pay, we’ll live on the streets,” she said.

“Everything changed after they showed up the first time,” said the man looking for work to support his four children.

Before the raid, he said he felt comfortable being friendly and engaging with people while looking for work. Now, he’s on constant alert. He said less people are showing up looking for work and that some of his friends don’t leave their homes because they’re scared they’ll be taken by masked men.

The amount of work the man gets on a daily basis has also dwindled. He used to get three jobs a day, now he’s lucky if he gets one. He also said the amount of money people have been paying per job has gone down.

“They’re grabbing all these good average people looking for work,” he said. “Why are they going after us?”

On Tuesday, federal officers arrested four people, including community organizer Jenaro-Ernesto Ayala, on suspicion of interfering with law enforcement while they patrolled a Home Depot in Van Nuys. The four are accused of laying down homemade tire spikes to disrupt officers’ vehicles, officials said.

Ayala has years of organizing experience and took part in Union del Barrio trainings, Romero said, and he doesn’t believe the accusations against Ayala.

Last month, Sen. Josh Hawley, a Missouri Republican and chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, also launched an investigation into Union del Barrio and multiple other organizations. A letter from Hawley claimed the groups provided logistical and monetary support to protests in Los Angeles that he said “escalated into lawless mob actions.”

ICE officials claim assaults on officers are up significantly and agents face doxing when their identities are known.

“ICE strongly condemns the persecution, assault and doxing of its employees who are accomplishing their congressionally mandated mission to protect the homeland,” ICE said in an emailed statement.

Activists are doing everything they can to work within the law and not be arrested, Romero said, but there are no guarantees they won’t be.

“History teaches us that if you’re doing something that is impacting the system,” Romero said, “you’re going to eventually end up behind bars. We understand that. We’re fully prepared, like I’m mentally, physically, spiritually prepared to go to jail right now. We have to be.”

Authorities responded just after 2:50 p.m. to the ranch in the Santa Monica Mountains. Camp staffers were giving aid to several people.

The boy was taken to the hospital, where he was declared dead, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said.

Four other people were injured: an 11-year-old girl, who was airlifted to a hospital with a broken leg; a 5-year-old boy who was cut on his head; a 22-year-old man who was bruised on his head and arms; and a 73-year-old man who sustained a concussion.

The group had been getting some shade from beneath the tree when a branch snapped, according to the department. People reported hearing a loud crack before the branch, estimated to be between 25 and 30 feet long, suddenly fell from the oak tree.

“This is a profoundly difficult time for our entire MRCA (Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority) community and the parks community of the Santa Monica Mountains,” the authority said in a statement. “We grieve alongside the family and are keeping them in our thoughts and prayers.”

Jill Ettinger said her 11-year-old daughter, Imogene, had started at Camp Wildcraft as a junior counselor on Monday, and was in the group of campers standing beneath the tree, preparing to be dismissed for the day when the branch fell. The girl sustained a minor foot injury while running away.

Ettinger said that enrolling her daughter in this camp had been an effort to repair her relationship with nature, after Imogene’s father lost his house in the Eaton fire in Altadena.

“We were drawn to the combination of nature and art and that it was outside all day,” Ettinger said. “It was a little bit of healing for her after being the victim of a wildfire in January.”

Imogene witnessed camp staff giving the 8-year-old victim CPR, she said. Ettinger also said her daughter saw one of the camp owners suffering from a head injury.

It is, unfortunately, not the only fatal accident that Imogene has witnessed at a summer camp. Ettinger said that her daughter saw a fellow camper drown at a summer camp in Altadena seven years ago.

Ettinger said the ordeal has her doubting the safety of Los Angeles County summer camps and rethinking her decision to enroll Imogene in any future summer camps.

She added, “It seems unbelievable that a girl who is not even 12 years old has witnessed two fatalities during a day camp.”

None of the employees had visible injuries, said Brian Humphrey, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles Fire Department.

More than 100 firefighters responded around 8 p.m. near Figueroa Street and Lomita Boulevard, including members of an urban search-and-rescue team. By 9:15 p.m., all of the workers were safely out of the tunnel, Humphrey said.

The workplace site is east of the 110 Freeway and north of Pacific Coast Highway.

The tunnel, which measures 18 feet in diameter, is the $630 million Clearwater Tunneling Project and is being constructed to move wastewater from Carson to San Pedro. It collapsed about five to six miles south of the tunnel’s only access point, Humphrey said.

The workers had water up to their mid-thighs, said Interim Chief Ronnie Villanueva of the Los Angeles Fire Department.

Of the 31 workers, 27 were trapped by the partial collapse of the tunnel, and then four others went in to try to help them, Villanueva said.

“A section that they had already built had squeezing ground and had a partial collapse,” said Robert Ferrante, lead engineer with the L.A. County Sanitation Districts. “It didn’t completely fill the tunnel.”

That allowed the men to get through that area and get to a vehicle to get back to the shaft.

“There was only one way out at that time to get them back here to the shaft,” Ferrante said. “It was very scary. We’re very fortunate no one was hurt, and the response was phenomenal to get everyone checked out.”

Investigators believe some of the trapped workers pushed over a pile of loose soil between 12 feet and 15 feet tall to meet some of their co-workers on the other side and be shuttled several at a time to the access point on the surface.

Workers were brought out of the tunnel in a cage hoisted up by a crane.

“These workers are highly skilled men,” said L.A. Councilman Tim McOsker, whose district includes Wilmington. “This is a highly technical, difficult project and they knew exactly what to do. They knew how to secure themselves; they knew how to get to the (vehicle) to get them back.”

The workers were 400 feet below ground, operating a boring machine and working in shifts, driving a vehicle to and from the machine, Ferrante said.

Before workers started escaping the tunnel collapse, worried family members had gathered nearby.

Maria Orozco arrived to West Q Street and Figueroa Street and had her hands pressed against her chest. Following behind was her daughter’s family from Los Angeles.

Orozco has three sons who are working on the project.

“I’m waiting for my sons,” she said in Spanish. “I need to know for sure if they’re safe; I have three sons working here, and they’re not answering their phones. …

“I was at church and today; it was my daughter’s turn to pray and I asked her to pray for my sons,” she said. “I think in that moment was when they were facing this problem.

“During church, I don’t have my phone on but once I checked it I saw I had many missed calls,” she said. “Then my daughter let me know that something was wrong. I really felt it in my heart that something happened, that’s when she let me know that the tunnel had collapsed.

“The truth is I’m feeling a lot of sadness at the moment, because I’m yet to know how they’re doing,” she said.

Later, she said, “One of my sons called me to let me know that they had gotten out.”

The three sons live in Los Angeles, Long Beach and Signal Hill and all have families of their own, she said. She has twins who are 35 and the youngest son who is 30.

“They have their own children as well who were worried,” Orozco said. “I want to see them, I want to see them.”

Chief Villanueva reassured Orozco that all the workers were fine and were being seen by paramedics.

“Don’t worry,” he told Orozco. “I saw all of them, and it looks like they’re all fine.”

The mother let out a sigh of relief.

Authorities said the Occupational Safety and Health Administration will investigate the collapse, which is standard with workplace accidents, in addition to the Sanitation Districts itself.

“We don’t have any information about the nature of the collapse yet,” said Michael Chee, spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts.

“What I just got a report on is that 31 crew members were down in the tunnel,” he said. “They have all been extricated safely. There are no significant or major injuries that I know of.

“We understand that our crew that was working down in the tunnel boring machine, which is approximately five miles heading towards the coast from this point, and it was designed to build the tunnel about seven miles long before it reached the coast.”

Mayor Karen Bass said she talked to workers and said they were relieved and had been calling their families.

Planning for the tunneling project began as early as 2006. The aim was to replace two aging underground wastewater pipes, which were installed in 1937 and in 1958. The project was officially approved in 2021 and expected to take approximately three to four years to complete.

The Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts will conduct one probe that will be done with Flatiron West and Dragados USA, which are constructing what is called the Clearwater Tunnel.

“The investigation will look at the safety, engineering and structural integrity of the tunnel and has already begun,” the Sanitation Districts said in a statement. “Clearwater Tunnel operations have been halted while this investigation takes place and there is no timeframe for how long the process will take.”

Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn, who also sits on the Sanitations Districts board, said the the agency “will do everything we can to prevent anything else like this from happening again.”

Staff writers Mona Darwish, Kristy Hutchings and Nathaniel Percy contributed to this story.

The teen was arrested on suspicion of felony reckless burning of forest land, the City of Laguna Beach announced Tuesday, July 8.

Emergency personnel responded to the fire just after 2 p.m. around Morningside Drive and Rancho Laguna Road and learned illegal fireworks may have started the blaze, city officials said.

Police rangers initially detained two juveniles who they later learned were witnesses.

Officers then found video that showed the teen light a firework and flee, city officials said.

Investigators later identified the boy and obtained warrants for his arrest and to search his electronic devices.

After the arrest, the boy was booked at Laguna Beach Police Department and released to his parents. He was not taken to Orange County Juvenile Hall because no one was injured and no structures were “impacted,” Laguna Beach police Lt. Jesse Schmidt said.

Around 100 homes were forced to evacuate, according to Laguna Beach Mayor Alex Rounaghi.

Officials will submit the case to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office for review and to file criminal charges.

No structure damage or injuries have been reported in the Rancho fire. Forward progress was stopped Monday evening, and evacuation orders and warnings were lifted later that night.

Police ask anyone with additional information or videos to contact detectives at 949-715-0984.

After an hour or so, they cleared out — defense officials had said some 90 California National Guard members would be there as well in addition to over a dozen military vehicles to help protect immigration officers during a raid at the park.

City officials said they didn’t believe there were any arrests. The Department of Homeland Security wouldn’t say whether anyone had been arrested or what the operation was all about.

Mayor Karen Bass, who has repeatedly voiced opposition to the federal immigration raids in L.A, showed up, joining a small crowd that looked on. Activists filmed the officers.

According to Fox News, Bass talked with U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Protection’s Gregory Bovino, chief of the El Centro Sector.

“I don’t work for Karen Bass,” Bovino told Fox. “Better get used to us now, ’cause this is going to be normal very soon. We will go anywhere, anytime we want in Los Angeles.”

In a downtown Los Angeles press conference later in the day, the mayor responded: “I’m not going to get used to it, because last I checked I was elected to be mayor of this city and that did not include a federal takeover, so either you believe in democracy or you don’t.”

Bass said she believes the operation was meant to intimidate residents, particularly immigrants, from going to work or leaving their homes.

“What I saw in the park today looked like a city under siege or under armed occupation,” she said.

Councilmember Marqueece Harris-Dawson said at the mayor’s press conference that it appeared as if federal immigration authorities staged in the area to film a promotional video for social media.

“What we say to Border Patrol as the council, ‘If you want to film in L.A., you should apply for a film permit like everybody else,’ ” he said.

“And stop trying to scare the bejesus out of everybody who lives in this great city and disrupt our economy,” the councilman added.

Jeannette Zanipatin, with the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, saw the brief-but-prominent presence of troops and federal officers at the park.

“I definitely think it’s a source of intimidation,” she said. “We know that the Trump administration is trying to make an example of Los Angeles.”

Activities for summer camps were canceled at the park and children were ushered from the area. Members of St. John’s Community Health Clinic who were providing care to homeless individuals in the park shut down their efforts, Bass said.

By early Monday afternoon, MacArthur Park had largely returned to calm, albeit around 30 protesters gathered on Wilshire Boulevard along the park’s north side, waving American and Mexican flags. Several men with speakers shouted “ICE out of LA!” Some passing cars honked in support.

Anna Lopez, a 23-year-old teacher from Lincoln Heights, raised her fist in the air and chanted along with the protesters. She said she knew people who live in the area and came to check in on them.

“The community is strong, and I think everyone is supporting each other,” she said. “We have rights, we still live in a country that has rights. Even though it feels a little less every day, we still have rights and we still have freedom, and we are fighting for them.”

Dog walkers, sunbathers, bicyclists, and other park-goers spread out across the grass. The park sits in a densely populated, immigrant-heavy area just west of downtown, where vendors typically sell a wide range of goods on the surrounding sidewalks.

But on Monday afternoon there were fewer vendors than usual, said Joshua Murchison, 30, a caretaker from Westlake hanging out with his dog, Canelo.

“They usually set up down Six Street, they are all just outside, and they have their little stands and stuff — now it’s just all empty,” he said.

“I’m from here … but I still was kind of scared,” he said. “No one was expecting it. No one knew they were going to be coming like that. They came on horses, they came (in) cars. …The whole nine yards. They attacked this whole area.”

Last month, President Donald Trump sent thousands of Guard members and active-duty U.S. Marines to Los Angeles in the wake of anti-immigration-enforcement protests.

The Associated Press and City News Service contributed to this report. 

Crews responded around 2:15 p.m. to the blaze at a single-story apartment building in the 2700 block of North Bristol Street, near Memory Lane; The fire broke out in one of the middle units of a row of four apartments, according to the Orange County Fire Authority.

The fire spread to the attic of all four apartments.

Firefighters took down the blaze before it spread to neighboring buildings, but 14 residents were displaced.

No injuries were reported. The cause of the remained under investigation.