On the morning of April 29, 1986. ... Approximately forty five percent of the on duty fire department resources were committed to this fire. ... Eighty five percent of the total value of the structure was saved. ... The fire attack teams in the area came across problems as the team experienced extremely high temperatures, heavy smoke, narrow aisles, and very limited access to the fire. ... The hot spots were being found, piles of burned books were being found up to five days prior to the fire. ...

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DARE Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) is a program designed to discourage drug use and violence among school age children. DARE's origins can be traced to Los Angeles in the early 1980s and a chief of police who helped create a drug education and prevention program he believed was effective. It spread rapidly, and by the late 1990s DARE was operating in all 50 states and many countries (Lundman 2001). Part of the reason DARE worked was because of its mutual effort between the police department, the school, parents, and community leaders. DARE works because it surrounds childre...

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By this time Ed owned several cars, was married, and had five children, all of them boys. ... In and around 1963 teenagers across America were buying official "Rat Fink" model kits and wearing mass produced Shirts with the image of Ed's gruesome "Rat Fink". ... They soon became heroes to young kids across the nation who could relate to the stories and theme songs of the gang. ... Ed "Big Daddy" Roth passed away from a heart attack on April 4, 2001 at sixty-nine years of age. ...

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As for the four LAPD officers involved in the arrest, they were unfortunately acquitted by the grand jury on April 29, 1992. ... Five days after the rioting started, 54 people were dead. ... On April 10, the case was submitted to the jury. ... The media is blaring police brutality across the nation. ...

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