🌱 Hollywood Burbank Airport Crash Avoided + Successful Flood Rescues

Hello all! Today we observe the Golden Rule on National Set A Good Example Day. It's Sylvia, your host of the Los Angeles Patch newsletter — here to explain everything you need to know that's happening in the community. Including news on:

• 💡 Power outages affecting more than 100,000 customers
• 🧤 How homeless neighbors stay warm
• 🔥 An electrical fire that destroyed a restaurant

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🍰 Spring Dessert Poll! 🍓
The first day of spring is March 20! Among the things we look forward to in spring are refreshing desserts. Which is your favorite spring dessert? So far, …

• 27.2% voted to write in Key lime pie
• 22.7% chose peach cobbler
• 18.2% opted for lemon bars
• 13.6% selected ambrosia salad
• 9.1% liked fruit tarts
• 2.3% loved mixed berry buckle
• 2.3% picked strawberry icebox cake
• 2.3% wrote in ice cream or coconut cream pie
• 2.3% wrote in cheesecake

📰 Here are the top stories today in Los Angeles:

1. On Friday evening, the Hollywood Burbank Airport cleared SkyWest flight E175 for takeoff from runway 33. Concurrently, it cleared Mesa Airlines flight 5826 for a landing on the same runway. The pilot had the wherewithal to initiate a go-around maneuver that prevented a crash. Now, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) want to know how this could happen. (Fox)
2. The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) conducted several successful swift water rescues. On Friday evening near 15700 West Burbank Boulevard, a helicopter connected with three men and a woman experiencing homelessness, as well as four dogs and a cat. They were stranded “in a remote area of land within the heavily flooded Sepulveda Flood Control Basin.” Using a helicopter, the LAFD rescued everyone and brought them to the Van Nuys Airport. Two adults were hospitalized for hypothermia. The other two took care of the animals and left. (LAFD)
3. If you’re a Southern California Edison (SCE) customer, you may be in one of the 48 outages reported on Saturday. Some 12,000 L.A. County customers were affected. Cool your heels if you’re a Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) customer. The agency said that initial responses to outages may take 12 to 24 hours; then, the clock starts ticking for the outage to be fixed. Some North Hollywood, Valley Village, Studio City, Los Feliz and Toluca Lake customers are still sitting in the dark. As of 10 a.m. on Saturday, the LADWP restored power to 52,000 customers but still had 66,500 more waiting. (NBC, LADWP)
4. How are our neighbors experiencing homelessness doing in the cold, wet weather? We learned on Saturday that a 50-year-old man wrapped himself in foil and sat outside the Fred Jordan Mission. A 45-year-old man built a fire in a grocery cart he put under a tarp on skid row. A 39-year-old man built a cooking fire on the ground and called the storm a “bearable inconvenience.” An 85-year-old man was among a group of men “curled up in blankets at the entrance of the Metro Red Line.” A group of women huddled around Union Station. (L.A. Times)
5. An electrical fire wiped out A Family Affair Southern Cuisine Restaurant at 5575 West Manchester Avenue last week. In business just about a year, the eatery had become a well-known Westchester institution. The owners said their plan now is to rely on “prayer, community support and a GoFundMe page.” (ABC)

📆 Today in Los Angeles:

• The American Lung Association hosts a Fight For Air Climb at the LA Memorial Coliseum (7 AM)
• Join CicLAvia's Valley Event on Sherman Way between Shoup and Lindley (9 AM)
• The Electric Dusk Drive-In shows "Breakfast At Tiffany's" (9 AM)
• David Assel teaches a Creature Sculpting Workshop at the Kline Academy of Fine Art (10 AM)
• Come to a FREE Music And Justice Concert at UCLA's Royce Hall (4 PM)

🖊️ From my notebook:

• "We are blessed to have generations of outstanding employees at the Los Angeles Fire Department - and one thing you quickly learn about them, is that they have exceptional people standing alongside them, both in and out of uniform." (LAFD via Instagram)
• "Congrats to our newest FFPMs! Four LACoFD firefighters officially graduated from the Paramedic Training Institute (PTI) on 2.23.23. The formal graduation ceremony was held at El Camino Community College in Torrance." (Los Angeles County Fire Dept. via Instagram)
• "Congratulations, Principal Emilio Garza. Region West applauds your leadership in promoting equity, diversity and academic excellence for all students at Elysian Heights Elementary Arts Magnet." (Los Angeles Unified via Instagram)
• "Join us and learn about the dangers of substance use, including fentanyl, and how to have conversations with your child and other parents to support wellness. The webinar will be on Monday, 2/27 at 5:30pm." (Los Angeles Unified via Instagram)
• "71 Years Ago in LA Rain. While we typically applaud bystander action, time has shown that many civilians who attempt a swift water rescue become additional victims - often perishing in the attempt. If you see someone in peril in swift moving water: Remain calm! Call 911 quickly! Answer the dispatcher's questions!" (Los Angeles Fire Department via Facebook)

🏡 What are homes selling for these days in Los Angeles?

• Median Listing Home Price $1.1M
• Median Listing Home Price/Square Foot $658
• Median Sold Home Price $885K

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• Torrance Antique Street Faire (February 26)
• Love to Celebrate Women Party for Sweet Kids, Moms, and Talented Adults (March 4)
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• Liddy Clark at The Peppermint Club (March 25)
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Now you're in the loop and ready to head out the door on this Sunday. I'll be back in your inbox Tuesday with another update!

— 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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