CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
July 2, 2000 | ROBERTO J. MANZANO, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Rosa Vasquez and her two children reached a fork in the corn maze park and paused. "This is hard," said Vasquez, 33, of Reseda, who had brought a bottle of water. "We should have brought something to eat. We're going to leave dying of hunger and from the heat." Luckily, like all participants at the Van Nuys park, the family carried a tall red flag to make it easier for park staff to find them.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
June 19, 1999 | PATRICK McGREEVY and KARIMA A. HAYNES, TIMES STAFF WRITERS
Los Angeles officials will delay tests for year 2000 computer readiness at the Hyperion Treatment Plant until they are certain that there will be no sewage spills that could endanger Santa Monica Bay. In an emergency briefing of the city Public Works Board on Friday, Sanitation Bureau Manager Drew Sones said tests of Hyperion's backup electrical system--scheduled for next month--will be delayed while testing procedures are reexamined.
NEWS
June 18, 1999 | MIGUEL BUSTILLO KARIMA A. HAYNES and PATRICK McGREEVY, TIMES STAFF WRITERS
Raising concerns about local governments' ability to handle the year 2000 computer problem, a test of the emergency system at a Los Angeles sanitation plant went awry Wednesday night, spilling about 4 million gallons of untreated sewage into part of the Sepulveda Dam Recreation Area before officials could stop it.
NEWS
June 18, 1999 | MIGUEL BUSTILLO and KARIMA A. HAYNES and PATRICK McGREEVY, TIMES STAFF WRITERS
Raising concerns about the city's ability to handle the year 2000 computer problem, a test of the emergency system at a sanitation plant went awry Wednesday night, spilling about 4 million gallons of untreated sewage into part of the Sepulveda Dam Recreation Area before officials could stop it.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
September 16, 1998 | ANTONIO OLIVO, TIMES STAFF WRITER
A popular jogging path at the Sepulveda Dam Recreation Area that was closed and marked hazardous after the El Nino-driven storms may be repaired soon, state officials said Tuesday. Federal Emergency Management Agency authorities are expected to reconsider paying as much as $200,000 to clear the path, which was declared a disaster site after the rains, said Graham Cox, a disaster relief official with the Governor's Office of Emergency Services.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
September 13, 1998 | ANTONIO OLIVO, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Gasping for air, they hop the city fences, or crawl through holes cut in the wire, ignoring signs that warn them of the danger ahead. Inside, some huff their way along the slippery dirt and concrete banks of the Los Angeles River with only their sneaker treads keeping them from plunging into the water. Others have sunk through the thin top crust of mud beds, sometimes up to their waists. They have been trapped, as if in quicksand, in their quest to be fit.