SUN VALLEY : $10,000 Offered for Information on Fire

By HENRY CHU

June 30, 1992 12 AM PT

The Los Angeles Unified School District is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those who set a fire that damaged 20 classrooms at Sun Valley Junior High School last week, officials said Monday.

The June 21 blaze caused an estimated $350,000 in damage to the Sun Valley campus. In addition to the damaged classrooms--five of which will have to be completely rebuilt--several offices in the school’s administration building were seriously damaged.

District police have begun distributing flyers in English and Spanish announcing the reward and encouraging witnesses to come forward, district spokesman Shel Erlich said.

Anyone with information should call investigators at the district’s Police Department at (213) 625-6631 or the Los Angeles City Fire Department arson unit at (213) 485-6095.

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Henry Chu

Henry Chu first joined the Los Angeles Times in 1990 and worked primarily out of the San Fernando Valley office before moving to the foreign staff in 1998. He served as bureau chief in Beijing from 1998 to 2003, Rio de Janeiro from 2004 to 2005, New Delhi from 2006 to 2008 and London from 2009 to 2014. He was a 2014-15 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. From 2016-19 he was international editor at Variety magazine. A graduate of Harvard University, Chu returned to The Times in March 2020 as deputy news editor based in London. He left in 2024.

SUN VALLEY : $10,000 Offered for Information on Fire

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