BRIEFLY; WOMAN, 79, KILLED WHEN CAR HITS TREE.LOS ANGELES - A car went off the southbound Golden State Freeway near Atwater Village on Sunday and hit a tree, killing the 79-year-old Chatsworth woman behind the wheel, a city Fire Department spokesman said. The crash at Colorado Boulevard was reported at about 8:50 a.m., said Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey. The woman, who had a seat belt on, was alone in the silver Mercury Marquis, Humphrey said. She was pronounced dead at the scene. - City News Service HIKER COLLAPSES, DIES IN STATE PARK TUJUNGA - A 55-year-old North Hollywood man collapsed and died Sunday while hiking with friends on a trail in La Tuna Canyon State Park, a city fire spokesman said. Rescuers received a 911 call at about 2 p.m. reporting that a man had suddenly collapsed, said Los Angeles city fire spokesman Brian Humphrey. The callers were unsure of their exact location, but two helicopter crews eventually spotted the group from the air, Humphrey said. The man's companions gave him cardiopulmonary resuscitation cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), emergency procedure used to treat victims of cardiac and respiratory arrest. CPR can be done in a hospital with drugs and special equipment or as a first-aid technique. In either case it is done with great urgency to avoid the brain damage or death that result from four to six minutes without oxygen., but he was pronounced dead at the scene after paramedics arrived. - City News Service TEMPLE CELEBRATES TORAH Torah (tôr`ə) [Heb.,=teachings or learning], Hebrew name for the five books of Moses—the Law of Moses or the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Bible. The Torah is believed by Orthodox Jews to have been handed down to Moses on Mt. Sinai and transmitted by him to the Jews. ACQUISITION Members of Temple Beit Hamidrash of Woodland Hills celebrated their new Torah on Sunday with a procession through the community. They carried it from the synagogue at 5850 Fallbrook Ave. to their day school, the Rabbi Max D. Raiskin West Valley Hebrew Academy at 5724 Oso Ave., where the congregation gathered for a festival. The synagogue has been at the Fallbrook Avenue location for 20 years, and the new Torah was made possible by a donation from the Walg family, who are founders of the temple. ``It's a dream come true,'' said Alan Shapiro, president of the temple. - Daily News |
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