NORFOLK — Maury football coach Dyrri McCain describes his Commodores’ season-opening schedule as “a gauntlet,” and that might be understating things.

They open with Maryland 4A semifinalist Wise, follow with a rematch against the Highland Springs team they lost to in the Class 5 state championship game in December, then face Class 4 state champ Dinwiddie, before their Eastern District opener against perennial Class 3 state power Lake Taylor. What better way to prepare than a scrimmage against reigning Class 3 state champion Phoebus?

Phoebus was, after all, 15-0 a year ago, edging out the Commodores for the top spot in the final 757Teamz rankings.

If their showing Thursday at Powhatan Field is any indication, the Commodores are ready for the tough competition ahead. They defeated Phantoms 13-0 in a benefit game, a contest played under regular game conditions for the first half, minus contact on the quarterbacks or special teams.

New starting quarterback Au’Tori Newkirk appears poised for big things for Maury after completing 9 of 14 passes for 89 yards in a half. He had a run of 45 yards early in the game, but the Phantoms’ defense — generally solid throughout — forced a punt.

Newkirk led the Commodores to scores on the next three possessions. He completed passes of 15 and 11 yards to set up Leon Clark’s 10-yard touchdown run in the first quarter. Andrew McClung added a 32-yard field goal to cap Maury’s next series.

Newkirk added to his big first half with an 11-yard run and completions of 15 and 16 yards. That set up McClung’s 46-yard field goal that made it 13-0 midway though the second quarter.

“I was pleased with how he played,” McCain said, noting that it was only the junior left-hander’s second start.

McCain was also pleased with the power running of Clark, Damari Palmer and Melvin Lowe.

“We’ve got some really good backs,” he said.

McCain was, rightfully, very pleased with his defense. It limited Phoebus’ new quarterback, Trent Mitchell, to three completions on 10 passes and allowed little more than 50 yards in the first half.

“You had Isaiah Wiggins flow to the ball, and I saw Ari Watford set the edge and make a couple of tackles,” McCain said. “Back side in, we had Leslie Hines make a few plays, Jahvon Simmons had an interception and Fred Wiggins had a strike off the edge.

“They played team ball and I liked what I saw.”

Phoebus coach Jeremy Blunt liked what he saw from his team defensively, as Brenden Thompson and the front seven often put a strong rush on Newkirk. The Phantoms’ offense will need some time to re-establish an identity after graduating first-team all-state quarterback Nolan James, first-team all-state running back Ty’Reon Tayor and the All-Tidewater Player of the Year, receiver Jordan Bass.

Blunt noted the Phantoms had some good opportunities Thursday but failed to take advantage. Most notable were Davion Roberts’ 40-yard run nullified by holding and Mitchell’s overthrow of wide-open Keyontae Gray on what would’ve been a touchdown.

Blunt is confident that dual threat Mitchell, yet to start a varsity game, will be very good. Like McCain, Phoebus’ coach thinks Thursday’s scrimmage will help his team get ready for a schedule that includes perennial Hampton Roads power Oscar Smith in the opener and Class 4 semifinalist Warwick in the regular-season finale.

“You learn a lot about yourself,” Blunt said of playing against a team with Maury’s intensity. “This thing right now is about chemistry, and I liked that I saw chemistry.

“Outside of that one drive, (the defense) played lights out.”

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN, JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and CHRISTOPHER WEBER (Associated Press)

LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — The head of the Maui Emergency Management Agency, who has been heavily criticized for not activating disaster sirens during last week’s wildfire response, resigned Thursday, citing health reasons.

Mayor Richard Bissen accepted the resignation of Herman Andaya effective immediately, the County of Maui announced on Facebook.

“Given the gravity of the crisis we are facing, my team and I will be placing someone in this key position as quickly as possible and I look forward to making that announcement soon,” Bissen said in the statement.

As the death toll rose to 111 a day earlier, Andaya defended not sounding sirens as flames raged. Hawaii has what it touts as the largest system of outdoor alert sirens in the world.

“We were afraid that people would have gone mauka,” Andaya said Wednesday, using a navigational term that can mean toward the mountains or inland in Hawaiian. “If that was the case, then they would have gone into the fire.”

The system was created after a 1946 tsunami that killed more than 150 on the Big Island, and its website says they may be used to alert for fires.

Andaya was to take part in a meeting of the island’s fire and public safety commission on Thursday morning, but it was abruptly canceled.

Hawaii Attorney General Anne Lopez said Thursday that an outside organization will conduct “an impartial, independent” review into the government’s response to the fires.

“We intend to look at this critical incident to facilitate any necessary corrective action and to advance future emergency preparedness,” Lopez said in a statement. She said the investigation will likely take months.

Avery Dagupion, whose family’s home was destroyed, said he’s angry that residents weren’t given earlier warning to get out.

He pointed to an announcement by Bissen on Aug. 8 saying the fire had been contained. That lulled people into a sense of safety and left him distrusting officials, he said.

At the Wednesday news conference, Gov. Josh Green and Bissen bristled when asked about such criticism.

“I can’t answer why people don’t trust people,” Bissen said. “The people who were trying to put out these fires lived in those homes — 25 of our firefighters lost their homes. You think they were doing a halfway job?”

Maui residents whose homes burned in the wildfire that incinerated historic Lahaina and killed more than 100 people are steadily filling hotels that are prepared to house them and provide services until at least next spring.

Authorities hope to empty crowded, uncomfortable group shelters by early next week and move displaced people into hotel rooms, said Brad Kieserman, vice president for disaster operations with the American Red Cross. Hotels are also available for eligible evacuees who have spent the last eight days sleeping in cars or camping in parking lots, he said.

“We will be able to keep folks in hotels for as long as it takes to find housing for them,” Kieserman said at a media briefing. “I am confident we’ll have plenty of rooms.”

Contracts with the hotels will last for at least seven months but could easily be extended, he said. The properties will be staffed by service providers who will offer meals, counseling, financial assistance and other disaster aid.

Green has said at least 1,000 hotel rooms will be set aside for those who lost their homes. In addition, AirBnB’s nonprofit wing will provide properties for 1,000 people, the company said.

The governor has also vowed to protect local landowners from being “victimized” by opportunistic buyers when Maui rebuilds. Green said Wednesday that he instructed the state attorney general to work toward a moratorium on land transactions in Lahaina, even as he acknowledged the move would likely face legal challenges.

“My intention from start to finish is to make sure that no one is victimized from a land grab,” Green said at a news conference. “Do not approach their families saying they’ll be much better off if they make a deal. Because we’re not going to allow it.”

Since flames consumed much of Lahaina just over a week ago, locals have feared that a rebuilt town could become even more oriented toward wealthy visitors, according to Lahaina native Richy Palalay.

Hotels and condos “that we can’t afford to live in — that’s what we’re afraid of,” he said Saturday at a shelter for evacuees.

The cause of the wildfires, the deadliest in the U.S. in more than a century, is under investigation. But Hawaii is increasingly at risk from disasters, with wildfire rising fastest, according to an Associated Press analysis of FEMA records.

The local power utility faced criticism for leaving power on as strong winds from a passing hurricane buffeted a parched area last week, and one video shows a cable dangling in a charred patch of grass, surrounded by flames, in the early moments of the wildfire.

“Facts about this event will continue to evolve,” Hawaiian Electric CEO Shelee Kimura wrote in an email to utility customers Thursday. “And while we may not have answers for some time, we are committed, working with many others, to find out what happened as we continue to urgently focus on Maui’s restoration and rebuilding efforts.”

Meanwhile, signs of recovery emerged as public schools across Maui reopened, welcoming displaced students from Lahaina, and traffic resumed on a major road.

The search for the missing moved beyond Lahaina to other oceanside communities that were destroyed. Searchers had covered about 45% of the burned territory by Thursday, the governor said.

Corrine Hussey Nobriga, whose home was spared, watched crews sifting through ash and debris looking for human remains. While some of her neighbors raised questions about the absence of sirens and inadequate evacuation routes, Nobriga said it was hard to lay blame for a tragedy that took everyone by surprise.

“One minute we saw the fire over there,” she said, pointing toward far away hills, “and the next minute it’s consuming all these houses.”

The ongoing search was marred by intermittent cellphone service and misleading information on social media. There were also challenges finding people who may be in hospitals, hunkered down at friends’ houses or in unofficial shelters that have popped up. Many people made fliers and were going door to door in search of loved ones.

Judy Riley, who has been working with families seeking relatives, said false leads and a sense that “no one is in charge of the missing” have contributed to a sense of despair.

“If you are looking for the missing, it’s easy for people to slip through the cracks,” she said.

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This story has been updated to correct the spelling of the name Nobriga in one instance.

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Kelleher reported from Honolulu and Weber from Los Angeles. Contributing to this report were Associated Press journalists Michael Casey in Concord, New Hampshire; Jennifer McDermott in Providence, Rhode Island; Seth Borenstein in Washington, D.C.; and Heather Hollingsworth in Kansas City, Missouri.

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By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN, JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and CHRISTOPHER WEBER (Associated Press)

LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Maui residents whose homes burned in a wildfire that incinerated a historic town and killed more than 100 people are steadily filling Hawaii hotels that are prepared to house them and provide services until at least next spring, officials said Thursday.

Authorities hope to empty crowded, uncomfortable group shelters by early next week and move displaced people into hotel rooms, said Brad Kieserman, vice president for disaster operations with the American Red Cross. Hotels are also available for eligible evacuees who have spent the last eight days sleeping in cars or camping in parking lots, he said.

“We will be able to keep folks in hotels for as long as it takes to find housing for them,” Kieserman said at a media briefing. “I am confident we’ll have plenty of rooms.”

Contracts with the hotels will last for at least seven months but could easily be extended, he said. The properties will be staffed by service providers who will offer meals, counseling, financial assistance and other disaster aid.

Hawaii Gov. Josh Green has said at least 1,000 hotel rooms will be set aside for those who lost their homes. In addition, AirBnB’s nonprofit wing will provide properties for 1,000 people, the company said.

The governor has also vowed to protect local landowners from being “victimized” by opportunistic buyers when Maui rebuilds. Green said Wednesday that he instructed the state attorney general to work toward a moratorium on land transactions in Lahaina, even as he acknowledged the move would likely face legal challenges.

“My intention from start to finish is to make sure that no one is victimized from a land grab,” Green said at a news conference. “Do not approach their families saying they’ll be much better off if they make a deal. Because we’re not going to allow it.”

Since flames consumed much of Lahaina just over a week ago, locals have feared that a rebuilt town could become even more oriented toward wealthy visitors, according to Lahaina native Richy Palalay.

Hotels and condos “that we can’t afford to live in — that’s what we’re afraid of,” he said Saturday at a shelter for evacuees.

Hawaii Attorney General Anne Lopez said Thursday that an outside organization will conduct “an impartial, independent” review into the government’s response to the fires.

“We intend to look at this critical incident to facilitate any necessary corrective action and to advance future emergency preparedness,” Lopez said in a statement. She said the investigation will likely take months.

As the death toll rose to 111 on Wednesday, the head of the Maui Emergency Management Agency defended not sounding sirens as flames raged. Hawaii has what it touts as the largest system of outdoor alert sirens in the world.

“We were afraid that people would have gone mauka,” said agency administrator Herman Andaya, using a navigational term that can mean toward the mountains or inland in Hawaiian. “If that was the case, then they would have gone into the fire.”

The system was created after a 1946 tsunami that killed more than 150 on the Big Island, and its website says they may be used to alert for fires.

Avery Dagupion, whose family’s home was destroyed, said he’s angry that residents weren’t given earlier warning to get out.

He pointed to an announcement by Maui Mayor Richard Bissen on Aug. 8 saying the fire had been contained. That lulled people into a sense of safety and left him distrusting officials, he said.

At the news conference, Green and Bissen bristled when asked about such criticism.

“I can’t answer why people don’t trust people,” Bissen said. “The people who were trying to put out these fires lived in those homes — 25 of our firefighters lost their homes. You think they were doing a halfway job?”

The cause of the wildfires, the deadliest in the U.S. in more than a century, is under investigation. But Hawaii is increasingly at risk from disasters, with wildfire rising fastest, according to an Associated Press analysis of FEMA records.

The local power utility faced criticism for leaving power on as strong winds from a passing hurricane buffeted a parched area last week, and one video shows a cable dangling in a charred patch of grass, surrounded by flames, in the early moments of the wildfire.

“Facts about this event will continue to evolve,” Hawaiian Electric CEO Shelee Kimura wrote in an email to utility customers Thursday. “And while we may not have answers for some time, we are committed, working with many others, to find out what happened as we continue to urgently focus on Maui’s restoration and rebuilding efforts.”

Meanwhile, signs of recovery emerged as public schools across Maui reopened, welcoming displaced students from Lahaina, and traffic resumed on a major road.

The search for the missing moved beyond Lahaina to other oceanside communities that were destroyed. Searchers had covered about 45% of the burned territory by Thursday, the governor said.

Corrine Hussey Nobriga, whose home was spared, watched crews sifting through ash and debris looking for human remains. While some of her neighbors raised questions about the absence of sirens and inadequate evacuation routes, Nobriga said it was hard to lay blame for a tragedy that took everyone by surprise.

“One minute we saw the fire over there,” she said, pointing toward far away hills, “and the next minute it’s consuming all these houses.”

The ongoing search was marred by intermittent cellphone service and misleading information on social media. There were also challenges finding people who may be in hospitals, hunkered down at friends’ houses or in unofficial shelters that have popped up. Many people made fliers and were going door to door in search of loved ones.

Judy Riley, who has been working with families seeking relatives, said false leads and a sense that “no one is in charge of the missing” have contributed to a sense of despair.

“If you are looking for the missing, it’s easy for people to slip through the cracks,” she said.

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This story has been updated to correct the spelling of the name Nobriga in one instance.

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Kelleher reported from Honolulu and Weber from Los Angeles. Contributing to this report were Associated Press journalists Michael Casey in Concord, New Hampshire; Jennifer McDermott in Providence, Rhode Island; Seth Borenstein in Washington, D.C.; and Heather Hollingsworth in Kansas City, Missouri.

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Associated Press climate and environmental coverage receives support from several private foundations. See more about AP’s climate initiative here. The AP is solely responsible for all content.

The Norfolk Tides’ malaise on their current trip continued with a 6-2 defeat to the Memphis Redbirds at AutoZone Park before 1,710 in Tennessee.

Masyn Winn, perhaps the St. Louis Cardinals’ top prospect, was 3 for 4 and scored twice.

The Tides, whose scoreless streak in Memphis reached 25 innings before Coby Mayo’s two-run single in the eighth inning, fell to 0-3 in the series and 1-8 on an excursion that began in Jacksonville. The first-half International League champs are 69-47 overall, 21-21 in the second half. The Redbirds are 59-58, 20-22,

Memphis’ Chase Pinder, a former Poquoson High and Clemson star, opened the scoring in the second inning by blooping a single to right field off starter Justin Armbruester (1-2) to bring home Juniel Querecuto. Pinder and Cesar Prieto, a former Tide traded to St. Louis in the deal that brought pitcher Jack Flaherty to Baltimore, each had two hits and an RBI.

Winn blasted a solo homer well beyond the fence in left-center field in the third. The Redbirds went up 5-0 in the fifth against reliever Ryan Watson on RBI doubles by Prieto and Nick Dunn, followed by Querecuto’s sacrifice fly.

Connor Norby, who had two hits, was ejected after striking out to open the Tides’ eighth. But Heston Kjerstad walked, Joey Ortiz singled and both runners advanced on Kyle Stowers’ groundout. Mayo then ended Norfolk’s drought on a single to left.

Matt Koperniak singled home Querecuto in the Memphis eighth to complete the scoring.

Chris Roycroft (3-1) got four early outs for the victory, and fellow Memphis reliever Adam Kloffenstein followed him by pitching five innings.

The series will continue with an 8:05 p.m. clash Friday. The Tides will need a three-game winning streak to earn a split.

Stanford has not given up on getting an invitation to join the Atlantic Coast Conference as its fellow “Pac-4” members in the Pacific Northwest hope to rebuild their plundered league and wait to find out if the Cardinal are in.

Leaders from Stanford, California, Oregon State and Washington State spoke Thursday, and Stanford told its colleagues it had informed the ACC that it would be open to joining the conference at greatly reduced or even no media rights payout for several years, a person familiar with the discussions told The Associated Press.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the schools were not making their internal discussions public.

Whether getting Stanford — and its Northern California rival Cal — at a cut rate will be enough to convince the necessary 12 of 15 ACC schools to vote to expand remains unknown.

The future of the Pac-12 appears to hinge upon Stanford’s next move. Eight members of the more-than-100-year-old conference will be leaving after the 2023-24 school year.

Stanford, which has a $36.2 billion endowment, and Cal have been searching for another Power Five landing spot for two weeks since the Pac-12 was picked apart by the Big 12 and Big Ten.

The only possibility appears to be in the ACC, which is made up entirely of schools in the Eastern time zone.

ACC leaders held three days of talks last week to consider westward expansion that also included possibly bringing in SMU, a Dallas-based school from the American Athletic Conference.

The presidents never took an official vote, knowing the 12 votes needed to approve expansion were going to be difficult to get. But that didn’t settle the issue.

Several ACC members, most vocally Florida State, have been pushing for the conference to change its current model of equal revenue distribution.

The conference did announce earlier this year approval of a distribution model that rewards performance bonuses to schools from College Football Playoff and NCAA men’s basketball tournament revenue. Details of that model have still not been revealed by the ACC.

If Stanford and Cal agreed to join the conference at drastically reduced shares, the conference could redirect the increased revenue from its contract with ESPN toward existing members.

But how and how much is a sticking point within the ACC.

Meanwhile, Oregon State and Washington State are in limbo.

Oregon State athletic director Scott Barnes reiterated the statement university president Jayathi Murthy made late last week, telling The Oregonian on Wednesday that the school is committed to rebuilding the Pac-12.

“Nothing’s easy, given the circumstances, but I think it’s our best path forward,” Barnes told the newspaper. ”It is a solid option in terms of building back. All the more need to have the four of us as the foundation of what we build.”

The other options for Oregon State and Washington State would be joining the Mountain West or American Athletic Conference.

As for a timetable, Barnes said they need to know whether Stanford and Cal are in as soon as possible.

“We can’t wait a month. I’m hopeful that it’s days,” he said.

Police in Hampton are investigating a shooting Thursday in the 1st block of Continental Drive that left a woman with life-threatening injuries.

According to a news release from police, emergency services received a call just before 5 p.m. about a woman injured after a shooting. She was transported to a hospital in a personal vehicle. A preliminary investigation revealed the shooting was an “isolated incident,” according to police.

The investigation is ongoing.

By ANDREW DALTON and RYAN PEARSON (AP Entertainment Writers)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Britney Spears and her husband Sam Asghari separated nearly three weeks ago, and he is seeking spousal support and attorneys’ fees in their divorce, according to his divorce filing.

Asghari, 29, filed his petition to dissolve his 14-month-old marriage to the 41-year-old pop superstar in Los Angeles County court late Wednesday.

Like the vast majority of those who file for divorce in California, he cites irreconcilable differences as the reason for the split.

The document lists the couple’s separation date as July 28, though reports of the split did not emerge until Wednesday. It says he will try to get financial support from her, while blocking her from getting any from him. And it seeks to have her pay for his divorce lawyers.

The filing says the value of Spears’ and Asghari’s assets, and those they own jointly, has yet to be determined.

Spears and Asghari had no children together.

Email sent to a Spears’ representatives were not immediately returned.

She has not addressed the split on social media. Her lone Instagram post since the divorce filing is a photo of herself on horseback on a beach, with a caption that begins, “Buying a horse soon!”

Spears married Asghari at her home in Thousand Oaks, California, on June 9, 2022, in front of guests including Selena Gomez, Drew Barrymore, Paris Hilton and Madonna, in a wedding seen as a milestone in her newly reclaimed life after the dissolution just six months earlier of the court conservatorship that controlled her life for more than 13 years.

Spears met and began dating Asghari, a model and actor, when he appeared in her video for the song “Slumber Party” in 2016.

She cited her desire to marry Asghari as among the reasons she wanted an end to the constraining conservatorship, which she said was preventing it. The two announced their engagement in September of 2021 as it became clear she would be freed from the conservatorship — which was ended that November.

Spears said she and Asghari lost a baby early in her pregnancy in May 2022, about a month before they married.

Reports of the couple’s struggles had increased in recent months.

Their marriage is the first for the 29-year-old Asghari and the third for the 41-year-old singer. She was married for less than three days in 2004 to childhood friend Jason Alexander, who attempted to crash her wedding to Asghari and was later convicted of misdemeanor trespassing and battery.

In 2004, she wed dancer Kevin Federline. Their three-year marriage would come at a time of intense media scrutiny and increasing mental health struggles for Spears. Federline is the father of her two teenage sons, and has custody of the boys.

She would be placed in the conservatorship run by her father in 2008. She did well under the arrangement at first, continuing to release records, make videos, and perform live, including a major concert residency in Las Vegas. But as she appeared less in public, fans began to demand that the court #FreeBritney, in what would eventually become a major movement.

Since the conservatorship ended, Spears has put out music, including a collaboration with Elton John in 2022, but has not performed live in years, nor announced plans to do so.

Her memoir, “The Woman in Me,” is scheduled to be released in October.

In a birds-eye view, the Lake Pit at La Brea Tar Pits appears to be a refreshing body of water in the middle of the developed Los Angeles cityscape.

But it became a death trap for a flock of 15 Canada geese that landed in the sticky goo on July 31.

From above, “it looks like a pretty lake in the middle of a city,” said veterinarian Rebecca Duerr of the International Bird Rescue’s Los Angeles Wildlife Center, in San Pedro.

Listless, unable to stand and mostly immobilized by the heavy tar covering them, the prognosis was dire. Eight of them died quickly. Seven made it to the bird rescue center, but all but two of those also died in fairly short order.

But two survived and remained under care at the San Pedro facility as of Tuesday, Aug. 15. Caregivers said they hope the geese will recover enough to be released.

One of the birds, Duerr said, in a telephone interview, had an operation on Sunday but was stable.

The other one, she said, was well enough to join other birds at the center on Tuesday, she said.

“I have good hopes,” she said.

When the birds were initially rescued from the tar pit and brought in, she said, “they were stuck to themselves and to the boxes they were in.”

“It’s heartbreaking to see accidents like this occur,” JD Bergeron, CEO of Bird Rescue in Northern California, said in a written statement. “Birds in a changing world face dwindling natural habitat and lack of habitat is a big problem for the wild animals that call Los Angeles home.”

When the initial group of birds was bought in, bird center officials said, they were experiencing severe stress and had developed a condition called capture myopathy, where muscle damage results from extreme exertion and struggling. One bird had a broken leg from the experience.

Canada geese are found in California year-round and are a “natural resident” of the area, Duerr said, and have “learned to live in cities.”

Both of the surviving geese are still recovering from capture myopathy but are slowly regaining the strength to stand on their own. They also are recovering from burn wounds and feather loss. The bird requiring surgery had severe burns “to the bone” on its underside, Duerr said.

La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, 5801 Wilshire Blvd., is an iconic part of L.A. It is the only actively excavated Ice Age fossil site in an urban location, according to its website. For more than 50,000 years, the pits trapped Ice Age animals, plants and insects in its sticky asphalt, inadvertently preserving them for future generations to discover. More than 100 excavations have been made there since the early 1900s and the recovered fossils are housed in the adjacent museum.

The Lake Pit is located in front of the museum.

According to the description on La Brea Tar Pits website, it was “left over from asphalt mining operations in the late 1800s. Rain and groundwater has collected above the bubbling asphalt, creating a small lake. The lake’s bubbles, sheet and distinctive odor come from a deep underground oil field.”

The Lake Pit is fenced off to the public, but, Duerr said, it would be helpful if something could be in place to prevent birds from flying into it.

Amy Hood from La Brea Tar Pits, said in a written response that the incident was “an unfortunate and distressing” event.

“This particular situation is a rare occurrence,” she said, “but animals occasionally getting stuck in the tar is a process that has been happening here for over 60,000 years. Rescuing animals from the Lake Pit is difficult and dangerous and best left to those with specialized training.”

She said the museum contacted Los Angeles Animal Services and the department’s Specialized Mobile Animal Rescue Team responded.

“Bird Rescue consults with wildlife responsibility partners to deter wild birds from these types of hazards,” Bergeron said. “The best-case scenario is to prevent these injuries from happening. Until then, we rely on public support to pay for extensive medial care and costly treatments.”

The public can donate to the nonprofit center by visiting birdrescue.org/donate.