Feel Good Friday

“The Post interviewed a half-dozen people, who told their stories through sporadic coughs, and has reconstructed what happened after that first interaction in the parking lot: a five-day rescue mission that aligned an incredible cast of characters from across the country, paired them up with celebrities, all with the sole mission of rescuing a small spitfire of a dog that, for much of its life, nobody had wanted.” WaPo (Gift Article): The gripping story of how Oreo the dog was rescued from the LA fires. Also from WaPo: Watch man rescue woman and 4 dogs from Palisades Fire: ‘Just miraculous.’

+ ‘It was built for this’: how design helped spare some homes from the LA wildfires.

+ ‘Everyone thought it would cause gridlock’: the highway that Seoul turned into a stream.

+ Guitar Center launches initiative to replace instruments lost in Los Angeles wildfires.

+ Conan O’Brien to Receive 2025 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. (Hopefully an uplifting moment for Conan who lost both of his parents within 3 days in December.)