Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Glendale, CA

Glendale was first platted in 1887 and incorporated on February 15, 1906, and it has grown into the fourth-largest city in Los Angeles County.

Glendale is nicknamed the "Jewel City," and it sits at the eastern end of the San Fernando Valley, bisected by the Verdugo Mountains.

Glendale has about 196,500 residents, according to the 2020 census, living in roughly 72,600 households that average about 2.6 people each.

Glendale is home to one of the largest communities of Armenian descent in the United States, with roughly 40 percent of residents claiming Armenian ancestry, making it the most demographically concentrated Armenian diaspora hub in the world.

By 1990, 45 percent of Glendale's residents were foreign-born, making the city proportionately more immigrant than either the city or county of Los Angeles.

In 1983, Larry Zarian became Glendale's first Armenian city council member, and in 1986 he became the city's first Armenian mayor.

Downtown's Brand Boulevard pairs the Glendale Galleria, which opened in 1976 and is one of the largest shopping malls in Southern California, with the open-air Americana at Brand directly across the street.

One of the first two Apple Stores in the world opened at the Glendale Galleria.

The 1925 Alex Theatre on Brand Boulevard was Walt Disney's favorite place in the 1930s to test audience reactions to his cartoons, and Disney himself is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale.

Glendale's long-gone Grand Central Airport site is now occupied by major studios, and together with neighboring Burbank the city serves as a major production center for the film industry and especially animation.