🌱 Helicopter Crash Near Azusa + Glassell Park Area Cleanup

Morning, neighbors; today is World Poetry Day! It's me again, Sylvia, your host of the Los Angeles Daily.

Everyone limped away from a helicopter crash. Also, an illegal dump site was cleaned. Finally, the FD extinguished a fire in an abandoned building.

First, today's weather:

Partly sunny. High: 79 Low: 58.

Here are the top five stories today in Los Angeles:

1. A Los Angeles County Sheriff Department helicopter crashed Saturday around 4:30 p.m. close to the San Gabriel Dam. On board were five officers and a doctor. “The helicopter suffered some sort of malfunction, and the helicopter suffered a hard landing and a rollover.” Everyone on board survived. (Fox 11)
2. The Council District 13 Clean Team committed to cleaning up the Glassell Park area, and it delivered! Illegal dumping sites across from the park had accumulated furniture and trash. On Sunday, Councilman Mitch O’Farrell announced that the team removed “more than one ton (!) of debris and trash.” (Archive)
3. There was a fire in an abandoned building on South Main Street. On Saturday evening, around 9:50 p.m., 50 firefighters spent 35 minutes extinguishing the blaze. “LAFD disclosed via Twitter that the two-story building was the site of a previous burn.” (CBS)
4. If you have not yet applied for available rent relief programs, the L.A. City Council wants you to remember that the deadline is March 31. “Any Los Angeles resident behind on their rent or utility payments due to COVID-19 related hardships, who makes 80% or less of the median income for the area, can apply for rent relief.” For a single Angeleno, that’s $66,250 or $94,600 “for a family of four.” (NBC)
5. A Sunday report revealed that residents are having panic rooms installed. An “influx of inquiries has increased more than 1,000 percent over the past three months,” someone in the field explains. Security levels for these rooms range from one to eight. Level three buys you Kevlar, while level eight gets thick steel. “You could kit out a small closet for about $100,000, $150,000. And then it’s north of there.” (Hollywood Reporter)

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Today in Los Angeles:

• Margarita Monday & Taco Tuesday at Sunset Rooftop (10 AM)
• Los Angeles-Italia Film Fashion And Art Fest at TCL Chinese 6 Theatres (12:45 PM)
• Kid’s Afterschool Book Club at the Powell Library (3:30 PM)
• The Godfather at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures (7:30 PM)
• Genesis Owusu at The Roxy Theatre (8 PM)

From my notebook:

• Our East Zanja neighbor is wondering if anyone has a recommendation for a doctor for hand wrist problem as close to Mar Vista Flats as possible? (Nextdoor)
• A Picfair Village neighbor asks if anyone has a great computer guy? (Nextdoor)
• A Carthay Square neighbor is looking for someone who can give recommendations for a landscape. It does not have to be a landscape architect who will draw a plan, just someone who is knowledgeable enough. (Nextdoor)
• A kind Expo Park West-King Estates neighbor found a dog with no tag or leash on the corner of Western Avenue and 39th St. Is it yours? (Nextdoor)

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— 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.