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Repairs to Pauley to be completed before basketball season begins
Pauley Pavilion’s court will be fully refurbished by October’s end, said UCLA Athletic Director Dan Guerrero in a statement Friday afternoon. The announcement confirms that the UCLA men’s basketball and women’s basketball teams will each play its entire regular season in Pauley Pavilion. A “new state-of-the-art court” will replace the damaged Nell and John Wooden […]
Repairs on water pipe expected to end Friday night
Workers are expected finish replacing a water pipe Friday night that broke and caused flooding at UCLA Tuesday, after removing the damaged portion of the pipe from the ground this morning, officials said. After that, workers are set to begin the backfilling process to the trench before paving the road again, said Jeff Bray, Los […]
LADWP may claim financial responsibility for flood damage
UCLA officials said the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is appearing to claim financial responsibility for the damage done by Tuesday’s water main break, while workers continue to pump water out of Parking Structures 4 and 7. LADWP spokeswoman Kim Hughes said that LADWP officials had a conversation with UCLA Chancellor Gene Block […]
UCLA officials launch $1M crowdfunding campaign for flood cleanup
This post was updated on July 31 at 6:13 p.m. University officials launched a crowdfunding campaign Thursday morning in response to the flooding on campus Tuesday afternoon, which affected several parking structures and buildings, including the famed Pauley Pavilion. The campaign, hosted on the UCLA Spark crowdfunding platform, raised several thousand dollars within hours of […]
Six people exposed to carbon monoxide during flood cleanup
This post was updated on July 30 at 8:26 p.m. Six adult male workers at UCLA were exposed to carbon monoxide on Wednesday evening during the cleanup of Tuesday’s flood, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. The exposure came from a generator, said LAFD spokeswoman Katherine Main. She said the command post monitoring the situation is near […]
Students, staff still without cars after parking structures flood
Raven was the car of Sina Famenini’s dreams. Famenini had saved his money from summer and work study jobs to lease the 2013 Chevrolet Camaro, which he affectionately named Raven because of its smooth black finish. The fourth-year molecular, cell and developmental biology student drove Raven from east Beverly Hills every day and parked on […]