🌱 Full Route Fire Containment By Wednesday? + Fire At 770 E 17th St

Good morning, friends; today is National Macadamia Nut Day! It's Sunday in Los Angeles, and I'm back in your inbox to get you caught up on the most important things happening locally. We’re looking at:

• 🚒 An expected Route fire containment by Wednesday
• 🚒 A commercial building fire on 17th Street
• 💰 Approval to spend more money on 6th Street bridge graffiti removal

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☀️ First, today's weather:

Mostly sunny; very hot, humid. High: 102 Low: 75.

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Beginning October 6, and continuing through October 10, every registered voter is mailed a ‘Vote By Mail’ ballot. How are you planning to vote this November? Please let us know! So far, 16.7% plan to vote in person on election day, 71.4% will be voting by mail, 7.1% intend to vote early in person, and 4.8% plan to sit this one out.

📰 Here are the top five stories in Los Angeles today:

1) Route fire update: As of Saturday, the Castaic Route fire is 71% contained. Firefighters were able to keep it at its 5,208-acre size. Officials anticipate full containment by Wednesday. However, two structures were destroyed. (Whittier Daily News/paywall)

2) There was a commercial building fire at 770 East 17th Street on Friday afternoon. “The 2,254-square-foot building, which was built in 1999, had electrical wires down near its front, but 70 firefighters were able to extinguish the flames.” If you noticed some smoke over the 10, that’s where it came from. (KTLA, LAFD)

3) The L.A. City Council voted Friday to approve $129,000 “to remove graffiti and provide other maintenance efforts on the Sixth Street Bridge.” The sum is a marked decrease from the originally requested $353,000. To put this in perspective, “crews spent an average of 14 1/2 hours combined each day in August removing graffiti from the bridge.” (NBC)

4) Trusaic, a software company, will move from Koreatown to the DTLA Biltmore Court. It “is relocating its corporate headquarters to a reimagined workspace at 520 S. Grand Ave.” (Biz Journals)

5) Do you need a COVID-19 or monkeypox vaccine? Today from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., the Health Department is offering vaccinations at the Levitt Pavilion in MacArthur Park. You see their setup behind the bandshell when you enter on 6th and Parkview. (LA Public Health)

📆 Today in Los Angeles:

• Rainbow's Backyard Bash 2022 at 9015 Sunset Boulevard (1 p.m.$
• Gripe Juice, An After Brunch Comedy Show at the Bar Covell (3 p.m.)
• Soulful Sundays Open Mic at Sola Beehive (3 p.m.)
• FREE Americana In The Park at Gandara Park (4 p.m.)
• Bad Bunny Tribute Night at The Reserve (9 p.m.)

📓 From my notebook:

• This weekend, "Objects of Desire: Photography and the Language of Advertising" opens at LACMA. The exhibition traces the artistic manipulation of advertising, the most powerful, mainstream visual language. (LA County Museum of Art via Instagram)
• All aboard! The long holiday weekend is here ... just in time for Member September! Beat the heat with a weekend Union Station tour and go inside one of the last great railway stations built during the golden age of rail travel. (Los Angeles Conservancy via Facebook)
• Happy Labor Day Weekend! With several days of record temperatures throughout Los Angeles, there is an additional risk for both fire and medical emergencies (heat-related). Friday saw 227 incidents above the LAFD's daily average. (LAFD via Instagram)
• Our Westchester Westport Heights neighbor is wondering if anyone spotted an extremely friendly black and white cat around Airport Boulevard. His name is Pip, and he recently lost his collar. (Nextdoor)
• A Central Brentwood neighbor wants you to know that CVS in Westwood is offering the new COVID bivalent vaccine starting today. You can go online to schedule an appointment. (Nextdoor)

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Alrighty, you're all caught up for today. I'll see you soon!

— Sylvia Cochran

About me: Sylvia Cochran works out of sunny Southern California and has been freelance writing full-time since 2005. She loves dogs, cats, books, plays Best Fiends (don't judge), embraces social justice, and tries to live out Micah 6:8.

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