Calamities

Calls, concern at Haitian restaurant in Echo Park

haitiquakechildren.jpgHorrifying news out of Haiti. The worst early estimates are that 100,000 may be dead, with misery widespread. Jenny Burman at Chicken Corner went over to TiGeorges' Chicken, the Echo Park restaurant that is becoming a center for the local Haitian community. Out in the Valley, the county fire urban search and rescue task force is ready to roll aboard military aircraft.

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