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The Union Rescue Mission, commonly abbreviated as the URM, is a Christian homeless shelter in the Skid Row neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. It is the oldest in the city [1] and the largest private homeless shelter in the United States. [2] The organization behind the URM is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit that was established in 1891.
When single women seeking shelter from the perils of Skid Row began to overwhelm the Union Rescue Mission, the Rev. Andy Bales filled the faith-based center's chapel with cots.. When Los Angeles ...
Skid Row, Los Angeles. / 34.044232°N 118.243886°W / 34.044232; -118.243886. Skid Row is a neighborhood in Downtown Los Angeles. [1] The area is officially known as Central City East. [2] Skid Row contains one of the largest stable populations of homeless people in the United States, estimated at over 4,400, and has been known for its ...
The Los Angeles Fire Department ( LAFD or LA City Fire) provides firefighting services as well as technical rescue services, hazardous materials services and emergency medical services to the citizens of the city of Los Angeles, California, United States. [6] The LAFD is responsible for approximately four million people who live in the agency's ...
The Rev. Andy Bales and his wife, Bonnie, are heading home to Iowa. After 20 years as head of the Union Rescue Mission on Skid Row, Bales is retiring. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times) Twenty ...
Mission San Fernando Rey de España. / 34.2731; -118.4612. Mission San Fernando Rey de España is a Spanish mission in the Mission Hills community of Los Angeles, California. The mission was founded on 8 September 1797 at the site of Achooykomenga, and was the seventeenth of the twenty-one Spanish missions established in Alta California.
Andrés Pico (November 18, 1810 – February 14, 1876) was a Californio who became a successful rancher, fought in the contested Battle of San Pascual during the Mexican–American War, and negotiated promises of post-war protections for Californios in the 1847 Treaty of Cahuenga. After California became one of the United States, Pico was ...
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