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'HOME SAFE AND SOUND' WANNABE RUNAWAYS GIVE UP, CALL PARENTS FOR HELP.


Byline: Staff and Wire Reports

SUN VALLEY - Two missing 11-year-old girls were home safe Friday after they apparently gave up on an attempt to run away and called home.

``They called home and were found early (Friday) morning,'' said LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel.
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 Detective Karen Crawford. ``There was no abuse, no foul play foul play
n.
Unfair or treacherous action, especially when involving violence.


foul play
Noun

1. violent activity esp. murder

2.
. They are home safe and sound.''

Blanca Gomez and Marciela Najar were found about 6:30 a.m. at a McDonald's in Burbank, at the intersection intersection /in·ter·sec·tion/ (-sek´shun) a site at which one structure crosses another.

intersection

a site at which one structure crosses another.
 of Olive Avenue and Reese Place.

``They had been walking around the foothills of Burbank and they slept in some bushes,'' said Burbank Police Sgt. Tracy Sanchez. ``They got tired and hungry and came down and called their family.''

The girls were reported missing Thursday when they failed to show up for their ride home after school, police said.

The girls apparently called a classmate from a Jack in the Box restaurant in Burbank about 9 p.m. Thursday and told her they were running away and headed to the mountains, police said.

One of the girls packed a wheeled suitcase with clothes, and the other may have been keeping extra clothes at school.

Blanca and Marciela attended a full day of classes at Sun Valley Middle School Sun Valley Middle School is located in Sun Valley, a section of Los Angeles, California, and is part of Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). In April 1948, school officials announced that "the most charming of all the new junior high schools" in the Los Angeles system would  at 7330 Bakman Ave AVE Avenue
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. Thursday, police said.

But the girls were nowhere to be found when one of their mothers came to pick them up at 2:15 p.m.
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