After the Riots / NEWS IN BRIEF : BRAVERY : Company Honors Two Employees
Ted Okuda, manager of a Lucky supermarket in Long Beach, and Tracy VanTrece, a loss prevention coordinator for Sav-On drugstores in Los Angeles, received awards from their firm’s parent company, American Stores Co., for bravery and leadership during the riots.
While looters were rampaging through the Long Beach store and setting fires, Okuda calmly led customers and employees to safety and then returned to put out the fires and secure the premises, the firm said. VanTrece salvaged registered narcotics from a Sav-On store that was being swarmed by more than 1,000 looters.
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