BRIEFLY.Driver dies in freeway tumble SUN VALLEY -- One person was killed Sunday when a pickup truck flew off a freeway transition road and landed in a concrete flood control channel Flood control channels are a series of large, concrete, and empty (except when a flood is actually present) open-air channels that extend a ways below the street levels of some larger cities, so that if and when a flood occurs, the flood will run into the channels, and proceed to be , witnesses told the California Highway Patrol. The single-vehicle crash occurred about 5:30 a.m. when a Toyota Tundra pickup heading southbound on the Golden State Freeway The Golden State Freeway is a north-south freeway running through Kern County and Los Angeles County, California. Originally built as U.S. Highway 99, it was re-signed as Interstate 5 in 1964. (5) transitioned to the southbound Hollywood Freeway (170) in Sun Valley, CHP CHP Chapter CHP Combined Heat and Power CHP California Highway Patrol CHP Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Turkish: Republican People's Party) CHP Chemical Hygiene Plan (OSHA) CHP Community Health Plan Officer Patrick Kimball said. A witness told officers that the truck flew off the freeway and tumbled into a flood channel, Kimball said. -- Daily News 2 killed, 3 hurt by pickup truck LANCASTER -- Two people died and three others were injured after a man driving a pickup truck struck them on the street early Sunday, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies. Luke Richardson, 42, drove away from the crash but was arrested later, deputies said. Officials said the men were standing near the intersection of Avenue G and 45th Street West around midnight, watching illegal street racing when the pickup truck hit them. Richardson wasn't involved in the street racing. -- Daily News Garfield High damaged by fire EAST LOS ANGELES East Los Angeles, uninc. city (1990 pop. 126,379), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles, in an industrial area. It has a large Mexican-American population. There is a performing arts center and a cultural center. A junior college is there. -- A fire Sunday at historic Garfield High School Garfield High School or James A. Garfield High School may refer to:
The fire was reported at the school at 5101 E. Sixth St. at 7:38 a.m. and it took about 100 firefighters about two hours to knock it down, said County Fire Inspector Sam Padilla. Los Angeles Unified School officials said the blaze was centered in the school's auditorium and central classroom structure. -- City News Service Pepperdine turns to native plants MALIBU -- Pepperdine University is resorting to a wild, natural look. Above the dry slopes surrounding the 49-acre campus in Malibu, university landscapers are turning to self-sustaining native plants. "Our goal is to insert this campus into the natural, beautiful Santa Monica Mountains The Santa Monica Mountains are a low transverse range in southern California in the United States. Geography They run for approximately 40 mi (64 km) east-west from the Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles to Point Mugu in Ventura County. habitat," said Rick Leach, director of facilities management and planning. Landscapers plan to replant re·plant v. To reattach an organ, limb, or other body part surgically to the original site. n. An organ, limb, or body part that has been replanted. the slopes of the seaside campus with seeds and soil, collected by hand from the site seven years ago, before grading began. The method also allowed landscapers to eliminate any nonnative plant species that had invaded the site. "A lot of work was done before development to see what was here," Leach said. "We wanted to maintain the purity of what was here, to keep the exact same plants in the area, all of them Santa Monica Mountains natives." Peigi Duvall of the California Native Plant Society The California Native Plant Society (CNPS) is a California not-for-profit organization that seeks to increase understanding of California's native flora and to preserve that flora. The CNPS was formed in 1965 in the East Bay. , said the trend toward drought-resistant native plants has become a "big groundswell ground·swell n. 1. A sudden gathering of force, as of public opinion: a groundswell of antiwar sentiment. 2. ." "People know you can't just water endlessly," she said. -- Associated Press CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Los Angeles City firefighters respond early Sunday to the I-5 at the transition to the Hollywood Freeway, where a Toyota Tundra had left the roadway and crashed into the wash. Rob Curtis /Special to the Daily News |
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