LOS ANGELES COUNTY : Feasibility of Rescue Nets for L.A. River Studied
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A month after a massive storm swept across Los Angeles, the county Board of Supervisors asked a range of county departments on Tuesday to study placing rescue nets at strategic points along the Los Angeles River during rainstorms.
Supervisor Kenneth Hahn, who proposed the study, said it was inspired by the death of 15-year-old Adam Bischoff of Woodland Hills, who was swept down the Los Angeles River to his death despite frantic efforts to rescue him.
Hahn’s motion, approved unanimously, instructed county officials to report back in a month on the feasibility of using “massive nets.”
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