5 Things You Need to Know for March 21, e.g. FIRE!

1) Groundbreaking 2 p.m. for new Fire House No. 4 at 4811 Lindbergh Blvd., across from Lindbergh High School.it's the property with a wooden split-rail fence and a vacant brick ranch house, next to a Fish Fry sign  (St. Catherine Laboure.)

2) School resumes for Lindbergh district students—Spring Break is oh-verr.

3) It's Bird Appreciation Day all day at Lindbergh schools with art projects for the youngest, related books for other grades, and some classes do birding walks.

4) It's the first full day of Spring.

5) It's the 154th anniversary of an earthquake in Tokyo that killed 100,000 people; the 83rd anniversary since Charles Lindbergh was awarded the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight; 48th anniversary of the closing of Alcatraz, an island federal prison in San Francisco Bay; the 41st anniversary of the first Earth Day proclamation, in San Francisco; 31 years since U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced the U.S. boycott of Moscow Summer Olympics to protest the the invasion of Afghanistan.