A section of Sunset Boulevard remained closed on Sunday because of last week’s destructive water main break, with officials saying they didn’t know when repairs to the 110-year-old pipe would be completed or the street reopened.

“While there is no set completion date yet, our crews remain dedicated to finishing the repairs as quickly and safely as possible,” the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power said in a Sunday news release.

Some West Hollywood residents remained displaced Sunday from apartments where underground garages were flooded by Thursday’s water main rupture. And some businesses near the scene remained indefinitely closed.

Vanessa Lopez, an LADWP spokeswoman, said that two other water pipe ruptures on Saturday — one in Venice and another in Hollywood — had been repaired.

The city received a report of yet another break on an 8-inch water main at 1501 Lincoln Blvd. on Sunday morning, she said, which crews were still working to repair.

Lopez said those breaks were not related to one another or to Thursday’s fracture of the far bigger pipe in West Hollywood, which was constructed in 1916.

Officials said Sunday that Sunset Boulevard remained closed between Sherbourne Drive and San Vicente Boulevard, with limited local access on nearby streets including Cynthia and San Vicente.

City officials urged the public to avoid the area.

LADWP said tap water in West Hollywood remained safe to drink, but officials encouraged residents to conserve.

With the 36-inch water transmission line undergoing repairs, West Hollywood is currently being served by an 8-inch distribution pipe. Residents may notice low water pressure, especially those living in upper-floor apartments, officials said.

Book Soup, a popular bookstore on Sunset Boulevard, was one of the shops and restaurants forced to close after streets were flooded.

“For the safety of staff and the community, we’re keeping the store closed for the time being,” an employee said in a recording on its answering machine Sunday.

“We want to reassure everyone that the store is completely fine and our books are safe and dry,” she added.

Thursday’s fracture was on a steel pipe that forms the major arteries for water delivery from reservoirs and tanks to smaller distribution lines across Los Angeles. That section of the Sunset Trunk Line had been slated for replacement in 2031, according to the utility.

In 2019, LADWP said roughly 29% of the city’s pipes were over 80 years old, nearing their typical 100-year lifespan.

When the trunk line ruptured early Thursday morning, millions of gallons of water gushed down Holloway Drive, inundating businesses and flooding underground parking garages.

Repairs to a water main on Sunset Boulevard Saturday in West Hollywood.

(Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

West Hollywood Mayor John Heilman estimated that between 150 and 200 cars were damaged or destroyed in the flood.

The leak was stopped after a few hours, leaving a giant sinkhole in the middle of Sunset Boulevard.

On Saturday, city crews replaced a 25-foot section of the line. Workers have refilled the pipe with water and are now working to repressurize it, officials said Sunday.

The workers must then disinfect the pipe with chlorine and test the water’s quality for safety. The hole in Sunset Boulevard will then be filled and the street repaired, officials said.

Residents and businesses who lost property and suffered damages can find information about filing claims at www.LADWP.com/Claims.

ESSENTIALS

Firm Name: Anacapa Architecture

Principal: Dan Weber

Headquarters: Santa Barbara, California

Accolades: Forbes Architecture’s “America’s Top 200 Residential Architects,” 2025; Forbes Architecture’s “America’s Best-in-State Residential Architects,” 2025

House Name: Off-Grid Guest House

Location: Central California Coast

Area & Layout: 1,800 square feet; 2 BR, 2 BA

Architectural Photographer: Erin Feinblatt (erinfeinblatt.com), Aaron Leitz (aaronleitz.com)

Architects often talk about connecting houses to their settings. But it’s hard to think of an example so seamless as the one Anacapa Architecture devised on a remote stretch of California’s Central Coast. Conceived as a guest house for a nearby residence, the building burrows into the surrounding hillside and is concealed beneath a planted roof, making it barely visible among the emerald bluffs cascading down to the Pacific.

The 1,800-square-foot structure consists of two offset boxes bisected by a staircase that descends from the parking area above. The larger box is wrapped in glass and cantilevered over the hillside, delivering dizzying views from the living, dining, kitchen and bedroom areas within. The smaller volume contains a primary bedroom and bath oriented toward a window wall at one end.

“We worked carefully to position the structure within the natural contours of the property, preserving existing vegetation and reducing the need for significant site disturbance,” says architect Dan Weber, founder and principal of the Santa Barbara–based firm. Since utilities are scarce here, and the primary residence is several hundred yards away, the guest house is powered by a photovoltaic solar array; the surrounding berms help insulate the interior, as does the rooftop garden, which also reduces stormwater runoff. Large overhangs and retractable glass walls keep the interior shaded and breezy.

Inside, the material palette feels as primal as the setting, with exposed steel columns and concrete walls and floors tempered by the warm glow of walnut ceilings and cabinetry. Furnishings are spare, so as not to distract from the view, which can be engulfed in a dense veil of fog one moment, then clear to reveal an undulating carpet of green that stretches to the sea.

Anacapa has several other projects in the works that revolve around sustainability, resiliency and low-impact living. “The Off-Grid Guest House represents a growing interest among our clients in thoughtful, resource-conscious design,” Weber says. “And we expect that conversation to become even more important in the years ahead.”

SISKIYOU COUNTY, Calif. — Law enforcement in far Northern California’s Siskiyou County announced the arrests of a father and his adult son in the alleged kidnapping of two U.S. Forest Service workers, who are now safe and free.

The sheriff says they got a call around 10:55 a.m. Thursday from the Forest Service that a man had taken two Forest Service employees hostage in a very remote area.

The 49-year-old suspect had zip-tied the two Forest Service workers, holding them at gunpoint for nearly 15 hours in a trailer near Gumboot Lake in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, officials said.

The suspect indicated he wanted to speak with the FBI, but it remains unclear why. Officials are still investigating motives for the kidnapping.

A huge contingent of law enforcement moved into the area. The FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team arrived on a Boeing 757 from Quantico as snipers, SWAT teams, bomb units, and drones were deployed.

Dashcam footage shows armed officers in tactical gear hitching a ride from a passing pickup truck.

Eventually, after many hours of negotiating, the two Forest Service workers were released just before 2 a.m. and are now safe at home.

The suspect and his adult son came out and were arrested at around 2:30 a.m.

The father will be charged with kidnapping a federal employee. In the trailer, he had an AR-15, knives, and claimed to have grenades.

It’s unclear if the trailer was his, but it did not belong to the Forest Service.

ABC7 Eyewitness News contributed to this story.