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Repair Log

A Typical Night on the Eruv

January 5, 2018 : 9:34 am

In the 15 years we have been maintaining the Los Angeles Eruv, there is seldom a week that there isn’t something that needs to be fixed.  Here are a couple of images from this week – the first week of January 2018.

Our crew spent part of the night up in the lift trimming trees along Crenshaw Blvd and the 10 freeway.   We need enough clearance between our lines and any brush so that heavy winds and rain can’t tear down our lines.

We also found a stretch of fencing on the 405 that had been destroyed by a car.  Our crew safely cut out the damaged fencing.  put up a temporary doorway and reported the break to our partners at Caltrans to get a repair made.

Every week Daneil, Emil, Yehuda and Adam are out there in the middle of the night getting it done so that you can enjoy shabbos.

Thanks guys.

Filed Under: Repair Log

The Eruv and the December 2017 Skirball Fire

December 24, 2017 : 12:54 pm

Map of the Skirball Fire

In the first week of December, 2017, a wildfire broke out in the hilly terrain of the Sepulveda Pass on the East side of the 405 freeway. The fire – named the Skirball Fire – quickly engulfed the steep hillsides and burned down to the edge of the 405 freeway.

The Los Angeles Community Eruv runs through the Sepulveda Pass and uses those hillsides as its western boundary. For many years, the eruv used the actual hillside as its wall, but during recent reconstruction of the freeway Caltrans installed a continuous “wildlife fence” through the pass which now serves as our boundary, instead.  The eruv has a number of poles, lines and fence segments installed in the canyon to create a continuous wall bridging the streets and freeway ramps through the canyon.

Southbound 405 Freeway view of the Skirball Fire

While the fire raged, it was impossible for the Eruv committee to know whether the fire, or the firefighters had damaged or removed any our our required structures. With the canyon closed to all but emergency crews, there was no way for our eruv team to inspect the canyon.  We announced that the Eruv was likely to remain down and unchecked through the upcoming Shabbos.

Late Wednesday afternoon, the fire department opened access to the canyon and our rabbinic inspectors were able to get in and check the damage. The hillsides throughout the canyon were blackened. Amazingly enough, all of our fences, poles, plexiglass walls and other installations in the canyon had emerged unscathed. We passed through the fire with some scorched and blackened fences, but no real damage.

Unburned Embankment

As we walked through the burned-out canyon inspecting our fences, we saw that the poles and fences we had previously used to connect to the hillside were also blackened and scorched.  When we checked our poles and lines where we bridge Sepulveda and connect from the freeway fences to the new hillside fences, we noticed something pretty remarkable.  The fire had burned all of the hillsides and slopes east of the freeway for several miles, with one exception. Where our eruv line crossed Sepulveda Blvd and crossed over the freeway embankment slope to connect to the permanent walls, that one slope beneath our line was the only unburned slope for miles. The fire burned to within 2 feet of our eruv pole and stopped. Our Eruv passed through the firestorm untouched, and unscathed.

The fire had burned all of the hillsides and slopes east of the freeway for several miles, with one exception:

The only unburned slop for miles was this one section beneath our line.

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The hillsides were blackened.
The hillside around this eruv pole and fence were blackened.
The hillsides were blackened.


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Filed Under: Press, Repair Log Tagged With: 405, eruv, freeway, miracle, sepulveda pass, skirball fire

Shabbat Vayigash 5778 – ERUV IS UP

December 22, 2017 : 11:42 am

Last night it was discovered that a light pole on the Eruv’s eastern boundary was hit and felled by a car.   Problem was resolved by the Eruv crew.  Have a wonderful Shabbos.

 If you are considering year end donations,  the Eruv can benefit from your ongoing support.

For Shabbat Starting:
December 22, 2017
4 Tevet 5778

The Eruv is UP

 


Harlan Schwartz is sponsoring the Eruv in loving memory of my beloved brother, Dr. Joel (Yoel) Schwartz, 9th Yahrzeit on the 9th of Tevet, may his neshama have an Aliyah.

The Eruv has been sponsored by the Turk and Balter families L’iluy Nishmas Chaim Avigdor Ben Aharon Tzvi (Herbert) Turk for every Shabbos of 2017.


Weekly, Monthly and Annual co-sponsorship opportunities are available.

Filed Under: Dedication, Repair Log, Status, Yahrzeit Tagged With: 9 Tevet, balter, light pole down, Schwartz, turk

Shabbat Vayeshev 5778 – ERUV IS UP

December 7, 2017 : 11:18 am

We are pleased to report that our western boundary in the Sepulveda pass passed through the fire unscathed.  We are sorry for any inconvenience the uncertainty caused.   Have a wonderful Shabbos.

If you are considering year end donations,  the Eruv can benefit from your ongoing support.

 

 

For Shabbat Starting:
December 8, 2017
20 Kislev 5778

The Eruv is UP

 


The Eruv has been sponsored by the Turk and Balter families L’iluy Nishmas Chaim Avigdor Ben Aharon Tzvi (Herbert) Turk for every Shabbos of 2017.


Weekly, Monthly and Annual co-sponsorship opportunities are available.

Filed Under: Repair Log, Status Tagged With: 405 fire, balter, turk

Parshat Chukat – the Eruv is DOWN

June 9, 2013 : 12:45 pm

The ERUV is DOWN

The Eruv is Down due to significant construction issues on the 405. We do not anticipate fixing the eruv before Shabbos, but hope to be up for next week

June 14, 2013
6 Tammuz 5773

The Eruv is sponsored by the Krich family this Shabbos:

Mazel to our graduates:

Daniel Krich
Garbiella Levine
Yehoshua Krich

and to our anniversary couples:

David and Michelle Krich
Josh and Sabina Levine
Daniel and Meira Schonbrun

Hershie and Rochelle Krich

Filed Under: Repair Log, Status

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