The Brief

Editor's note: We first ran this guide at the start of the season. We've updated it with a few more spots and some great specials for the World Series.

In the immortal words of Vin Scully: "It's time for Dodgers Baseball" — World Series edition.

The stadium seats will soon be packed with the SoCal sunset casting its warm golden shadow against the palm trees and bougainvilleas.

If you're lucky enough to have scored tickets (congrats), you may be looking for somewhere to eat beforehand.

Consider it the fuel you'll need to get through the traffic into the stadium and the trek to your seats.

Here are some of my favorite places to eat and drink within five miles of the ballpark. If I missed one of yours, please let me know, and I might add it to this list later on. Email me at gchabran@scpr.org or reach out via Instagram.

Pro-tip: If you’re short on time (which you will be, since time, traffic, and parking are always issues in L.A.), consider ordering ahead and having a passenger jump out to pick up the food while the driver circles the block. There's no parking cost, and you can have your private tailgate in the parking lot and still make the starting pitch.

Little Fish in Echo Park

Grab the fried fish sandwich with a side of crispy nori potatoes at Little Fish in Echo Park.

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Little Fish is located about a mile from the ballpark and is an excellent casual "order-at-the-window" establishment. It started as a pop-up specializing in seafood, and recently earned a mention in the Michelin Guide.

The most popular item is the beer-battered striped bass sandwich ($17), with a slice of American cheese, Kewpie mayonnaise, and sliced pickles on a potato bun.

The superb-tasting fish, whose breading resembles a delicate crackly Japanese tempura, interplays with the creaminess of the umami-inflected mayo, the fresh crunch of the pickles, and the softness of the bun. They also offer a tofu version ($14) for non-meat eaters.

Pair it with crispy nori potatoes seasoned with seaweed and salt and served with hearty garlic aioli for a supreme dipping experience.

Both items travel exceptionally well, making L.F. a tremendous to-go option if you need to eat on the run. Also, Little Fish's sister establishment, DADA, is in the back alley entrance behind the cafe. With a cool-looking speakeasy vibe, they serve various upscale bistro plates. It's a great place to unwind after the game.

Lowboy in Echo Park

The Dodgers Blue Cheeseburger, topped with blue cheese mornay, caramelized onions, apple, and pickled mustard seed relish

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Located on Sunset, Lowboy is a casual sit-down bar restaurant just down the street from the main stadium entrance in Echo Park. Lowboy goes hard with the neighborhood vibes, offering an extensive array of cocktails, beer, wine, and reasonably priced food.

For the World Series, they're offering a special Dodgers Blue cheeseburger ($13) made with a half-pound beef patty, blue cheese mornay sauce, caramelized onions with an apple, and pickled mustard seed relish. The cheeseburger will be available every day starting Friday until the end of the World Series last game.

Looking for drink specials? Try their Sho-time special, where you get an Asahi beer and + a shot of Toki whiskey for $10.

There's also plenty of happy hour deals, including The Triple Play Lowburger, small fries, and a draft beer for $15 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Simón in Silver Lake

The fish al pastor taco, soft shell crab and enchilada suiza tacos from Simón in Silver Lake.

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The cobalt blue truck known as Simón is parked in Sunset Triangle Plaza, with signage featuring text around its logo that reads "Mariscos Chingones, Seafood Bomb A.F." And indeed it is. It’s one of my favorite places to get mariscos in Los Angeles.

Chef Francisco Aguilar came to L.A. after stints in Oaxaca and Chiapas in southern Mexico, where he worked, studied, and developed his culinary language.

Now, armed with only a fryer, a plancha, and staple ingredients like beans, cheese, and bacon, he seeks to hypercharge the flavors of each dish. The fish al pastor, for example, is rubbed with spices, grilled, garnished with a sizable slice of lightly caramelized pineapple and a generous helping of guacamole, and then topped with crispy onions.

Also check out the soft shell crab, which comes whole and is garnished with chipotle mayo, pico piña, (their version of pico de gallo, with pineapple and pickled onion.), and the picadillo taco, which, at first glance, gives the impression of an empanada rather than a quesadilla or taco. It's made with a fried corn tortilla stuffed with a mixture of fish and shrimp, habanero cream, and proper hints of lime, cheese, and avocado.

All of the tacos hover just under $5.

Burgers Never Say Die in Silver Lake

A double cheeseburger and fries from Burgers Never Say Die in Silverlake.

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Many often cite Burgers Never Say Die as the gold standard of smash burgers in Los Angeles. Owner Shawn Nee was a cameraman when he started a side hustle slinging burgers in the courtyard of his East Hollywood apartment complex.

Slowly developing a cult-like status in the burger world, he opened his Silver Lake location while continuing to meticulously refine his concept.

When you head over to the window and order the Regular ($11), you'll see that Nee has achieved nothing short of alchemy. He's somehow channeled what a McDonald's hamburger tasted like when we were younger. The perfectly cooked burger patty with its smooth and lacey edges, and the mixture of ketchup, mustard, pickles, and tiny bits of white onion stirs up waves of nostalgia. The burger has no business being this good, but it is, and we are all better for it.

Avocado egg and cheese, pork bulgogi roll and bacon egg and cheese sandwiches from Bodega Park

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Bodega Park in Silver Lake

It's an all-day breakfast menu at Bodega Park, which specializes in breakfast sandwiches seen through the lens of a Korean American chef who grew up in Los Angeles and trained on the East Coast.

About two miles from the ballpark, it’s an excellent choice for ordering sandwiches. My go-to is the pork bulgogi roll ($13), featuring a house-made marinade, a few slices of raw white onion and mayo on a modern rustic-style bun, somewhere between a ciabatta and a French roll with a crusty outside and a moist, fluffy inside.

Add a few splatters of the accompanying smokey-sweet hot sauce; the results are fantastic. But you also can't go wrong with the bacon, egg, and cheese ($11), executed perfectly with a superbly cooked piece of thick-cut bacon, a simple slice of American cheese, and an over-medium-fried egg.

Bánh Mì Mỹ Dung Sandwich Shop in Chinatown

The special and Vietnamese cold cut sandwiches from Bánh Mì Mỹ Dung Sandwich Shop.

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A banh mi sandwich is one of life's many pleasures, with its crusty bread, fresh garnishes made of sweet-tasting carrots and daikon radish, and a protein combo of your liking.

A good banh mi can be found in areas such as the San Gabriel Valley or Westminster in Orange County, known as Little Saigon, but finding them in other parts of Los Angeles can be more challenging.

One under-the-radar gem is the Bánh Mì Mỹ Dung Sandwich Shop, located in a tiny storefront on Ord Street between Broadway and Spring, about 1.5 miles from the stadium.

A warning — it doesn't exactly scream neighborhood sandwich destination on arrival. You're greeted by fresh produce stacked outside the entrance, including hanging bunches of bananas, and you'll feel like you’ve entered a corner store.

But take a quick stroll to the back, and you'll find a menu board with about eight sandwiches for around $5 to $8. The ultra-fresh ingredients, paired with the salty-savory cuts of meat, create a highly satisfying experience.

Mariscos Jalisco in Boyle Heights and DTLA

The Tacos de Camaron and Oysters Peinados from the beloved Mariscos Jalisco food truck.

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If you've ever discussed where to find the best tacos in L.A, the Mariscos Jalisco food truck will have invariably been mentioned. Founder Raul Ortega's M.J. menu is minimal, consisting of tacos and ceviche. However, the care given to each item shines through, especially in dishes such as the tacos de camarón.

This is not a classic Ensenada-style shrimp taco; it is something completely different, a corn tortilla containing finely minced shrimp, vegetables, and other secret ingredients that Ortega refuses to divulge.

The tacos, which come in two to an order ($5), are then deep-fried and topped with a light red salsa de mariscos and a sliver of avocado. The result is taco magic.

Pioneer Chicken in Boyle Heights

A two-piece chicken combo from Pioneer Chicken in Boyle Heights.

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A piece of Los Angeles history stands on the corner of Soto Street and Whittier Boulevard, about five miles from the stadium via surface streets. It's one of the last two locations in L.A. owned by the fried chicken fast-food chain Pioneer Chicken. (The other location is in Bell Gardens.)

At one point, Pioneer Chicken boasted 270 locations and was known for television commercials featuring O.J. Simpson. It's fried chicken nostalgia for Angelenos looking to relive the heyday of the '70s and '80s. It's hard to beat the two-piece dinner with two sides (choices include mashed potatoes and gravy, spicy rice, or crunchy coleslaw) and a fluffy biscuit ($11).

Homage Brewing in Chinatown

Homage Brewery in Chinatown is game day ready with plenty of specials for the World Series.

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The hidden taproom tucked away off a small street in an industrial section of Chinatown does double duty by offering an excellent selection of eclectic beers and great grub.

For the World Series, Homage is going all out with its food and drink specials, including $5 game-day pints during every game, pitchers of its German-style pilsner, and West Coast IPA ($24-$32).

To munch on, including lemon pepper wings and garlic parm fries, plus their Dodger stadium-inspired menu featuring a hot dog ($7) with sausage from Glendale's own Continental Gourmet Sausage, nachos ($7), and a carne asada nacho ($11). There will also be a few game day giveaways, including a 2020 official World Series baseball for Game 1, plus a couple of rare bobbleheads.

Homage is also open late on the weekends, so if you are inclined, you can take advantage of the cadre of DJs to dance the night away after the game.

Highland Park Brewery in Chinatown

Highland Park Brewing in Chinatown offers food and drinks for your pre-game needs, with specials during the big game.

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Highland Park Brewery, the bastion of Eastside craft brewery culture, is just around the corner of Homage. The large taproom overlooks Los Angeles State Historic Park, near the A Line Chinatown Metro Stop, just one stop from Union Station, where you can catch the Dodger Express.

They've built their name on a wide selection of deliciously hopped craft brews and plenty of natural wine. If you are hungry before the game, take advantage of burgers, dogs, wings, loaded fries, and their stellar fish sandwich.

For their WS specials, the brewery will offer $5 pints and $20 pitchers of their aptly named Baseball Lager, which they'll start serving at noon on Friday.

For food specials, they're offering their version of garlic fries, fries topped with chili flakes and parmesan cheese. (We dare you to try both here and at Homage; remember to bring some breath mints). Also, if you are heading to the game, grab one of their Dodger-themed baseball caps ($35) to show off your hometown pride.

Pro tip: HPB is known to fill up quickly before the game, so it's best to get there early. Parking can also be scarce, so plan to take a ride share or go Metro.

LaSorted's Pizza in Silver Lake

Slices of pizza from La Sorted's Pizza in Silver Lake.

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With your choice of sit-down or counter service, La Sorted's Pizza is the place to celebrate all things Dodgers, especially since it’s named after the famed Dodgers coach.

There's always a large selection of slices, and it can be hard to choose, so I usually grab one of everything and assemble a sort of "greatest hits" equivalent to an entire pizza.

My favorite includes the Upside Down Mamba ($5 a slice, $20 for a whole pie), their signature cheese slice, flipped upside down with the cheese melted directly onto the crust and then topped with a thick layer of tomato sauce.

In celebration of the World Series, both LaSorted’s locations will serve slices of their Triple Dog Dare for $7, featuring a yellow mustard béchamel, mozzarella, and provolone topped with Jody Maronis hot dogs and bacon and finished with cornichon and fried onions. So, if you’ve ever wondered what a hot dog tastes like on a pizza, now is your chance.

If you want to catch the game at the new Chinatown location, make a reservation through LaSorted’s website. The minimum per person is $50, so come hungry! The Silver Lake location will be open for take or dine-in; no reservations are required.

Al Pacino has been named the next recipient of the SAG-AFTRA Life Achievement Award.

The 86-year-old star of “Dog Day Afternoon,” “Scent of a Woman” and a trilogy of “Godfather” films is the 62nd actor to receive the highest honor handed out by the Screen Actors Guild -American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.

“I wondered and wandered most of my life but have always felt at home with a script and my fellow actors. It’s the work and the actors along the way that have been among the greatest joys of my life,” Pacino said in a statement Thursday. “It’s an honor to be recognized by SAG-AFTRA in celebrating the journey.”

He’ll pick up the prize on Feb. 28 at the 33rd annual Actor Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. The show will stream live on Netflix.

The award also honors humanitarian work, and the guild cited Pacino’s charitable efforts for disaster relief, fighting hunger and poverty and his support for local theater companies, including the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles.

The native New Yorker was a young actor best known for his stage work when director Francis Ford Coppola tapped him to play Michael Corleone in 1972’s “The Godfather” against the wishes of a studio that wanted an established star in the coveted part.

He would be nominated for an Oscar for the role and become regarded as one of the finest actors of his generation. He got annual Academy Award nominations for the next three years, for “Serpico,” “The Godfather Part II” and “Dog Day Afternoon.” He would not win until he took best actor for “Scent of a Woman” in 1993, a year when he was also nominated for supporting actor for “Glengarry Glen Ross.” He’s been nominated nine times overall, most recently in 2020 for “The Irishman.”

Pacino has also won two competitive Actor Awards from SAG-AFTRA, two Emmys, four Golden Globes and the Globes’ lifetime achievement honor, the Cecil B. DeMille Award.

“I have spent my life in awe and appreciation of the force of nature that is Al Pacino,” SAG-AFTRA President Sean Astin said in a statement. “When you watch him perform, you are witnessing a student and a master. Al Pacino is an artist of extraordinary courage, intensity and heart whose work has always set an exceptional standard of skill and talent. All of that and he’s just plain fun to watch.”

The SAG-AFTRA Life Achievement Award dates to 1962. Previous winners include Barbara Stanwyck, James Stewart, Pearl Bailey, Frank Sinatra, James Cagney, Katharine Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn, Paul Newman, James Earl Jones, Jane Fonda and Harrison Ford.

This story first appeared on Long Beach Post.

An affordable housing charity that controls hundreds of apartments in Long Beach is facing a torrent of accusations that it cheated the government out of tens of millions of dollars, defrauded homeless assistance programs and swindled low-income tenants out of money.

The nonprofit Helpful Housing and its for-profit subsidiary Ocean Structure are run by Rodney Rosenstein, who is in federal custody after being indicted in connection with a series of alleged fraud schemes in Arizona. 

In Long Beach, a flood of similar accusations at 15 residential complexes has gone virtually unnoticed until now. They are spread across dozens of lawsuits reviewed by the Long Beach Post, as well as through obtained property records, financial documents, a whistleblower account from a former employee and interviews with tenants. Separately, they are little more than small-time court cases, rental disputes and loan defaults. Taken together, they allege Rosenstein is at the center of a cascading scam that took advantage of multimillion-dollar homeless services programs and federal affordable housing incentives with little oversight.

One attorney in particular managed to build the most comprehensive view of the alleged scheme while she pursued a maintenance worker’s wage-theft case. Kimberly Lind says Rosenstein’s organization falsified paperwork under the city’s nose for years, all to hide a system of overcharging agencies that placed formerly unhoused people in the apartments.

The full extent of the potential fraud in Long Beach — which also included low-income tenants alleging they were charged exorbitant fees without cause — remains unknown. 

Lawyers for Rosenstein declined to comment or did not respond to detailed questions from the Post. The city of Long Beach has said the Arizona indictment “raises new concerns” about its dealings with Rosenstein’s organizations, and it’s already suing him over missing payments on federal loans that it administers.

Still, Helpful Housing is continuing to serve as a landlord and collect money meant to help people avoid homelessness: The Long Beach Housing Authority alone is using federal housing vouchers to pay rent for 14 tenants at Helpful Housing and Ocean Structure properties, amounting to $157,811 so far this year.

Since 2010, Helpful Housing says it’s housed 10,000 people in “beautifully designed” Long Beach apartments. Its website touts its housing-first approach, its experience developing and remodeling apartments and its goals of expanding across L.A. County. 

Rosenstein’s business boomed in Long Beach after he received $6.5 million in zero-interest federal loans via the city between 2010 and 2016 to renovate apartment buildings. The loans came with the condition that he rent to low-income tenants at discounted rates and prove it every year with pay stubs and other documents showing their incomes fell below federal limits. 

As renovations were completed, revenue started rolling in. Records obtained by Lind and the Post show much of it was paid by government programs and homeless services agencies, which placed people in the apartments and paid millions in rent, repairs and security deposits. 

Before the loans, the nonprofit was reporting around $129,000 in revenue a year. By their 2024 filing, the nonprofit and business raked in more than $5 million in annual revenue and had accrued more than $51 million in total assets. 

It was around this time that Lind began looking into Helpful Housing. 

According to the attorney, the case brought to her in late 2023 by former maintenance worker Javier Zaldivar seemed at first a straightforward wage-theft suit against the nonprofit: Zaldivar claimed he worked at least 64 hours a week without rest breaks or sick pay for $15 an hour until he was fired in May 2023. He said he was owed $288,491 in back pay and civil penalties.

“And then as I got deeper and deeper into the case, I realized what they were doing,” Lind said. 

Proceeding to court in March 2024, Lind dug heavily into Rosenstein’s nonprofit and businesses, interviewed whistleblowers, and obtained a combination of emails, pay stubs and loan agreements. She even deposed Rosenstein himself before the lawsuit settled under undisclosed terms. Rosenstein continued to deny wrongdoing, and Lind alleges the full depth of the fraud has yet to come to light.

“It was just one thing after another,” Lind said. “It’s a rabbit hole that you go down, and I had to find out more.”

The front entrance to one of Rodney Rosenstein’s apartment buildings at 1133 Pine Ave. in Long Beach on Oct., 5, 2026.

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She said she found countless examples of forgeries, including W-2s, 1099s and pay stubs that were submitted to the city to prove they rented to low-income tenants, a requirement of the zero-interest loan agreement. Some people, she said, didn’t even exist. 

“They were pretty sloppy in some of them,” Lind said. “Some of it was kind of ridiculous. I look at pay stubs all the time. I know what’s supposed to be on them and what looks fishy.”

In the course of her investigation, Lind attempted to connect with a number of former employees. Many were afraid to come forward, she said, but eventually she met a former administrator who joined Helpful Housing in August 2022 and was tasked with balancing ledgers, handling evictions and reviewing vacancies.

In a sworn statement Lind shared with the Post, the worker — who asked to be identified publicly only as UMI for fear of retaliation — said they first noticed potentially fraudulent activity within the first four months on the job, watching co-workers routinely submit fabricated documents to the city.  

In some cases, the employee alleges, the organization maximized its profits by double-charging different agencies for the same tenant. In other cases, workers like Zaldivar were allegedly asked to build partitions in rooms to make space for multiple tenants: A building at 720 Chestnut Ave., for example, was permitted for 14 units but housed 18 by building partitions in some rooms “the size of a closet to maximize profits illegally,” UMI’s statement said.

After a number of confrontations with co-workers and Rosenstein, UMI quit, according to the sworn statement. 

“‘Everyday is a new element of chaos,’” they recalled telling Rosenstein. “‘You are all going to get caught committing fraud and the properties will end in receivership. You keep putting people in your buildings, and in the community — they are going to call their councilperson and it’s going to all blow up.’”

The practices alleged by UMI and Lind follow a strikingly similar pattern — relying on falsified tax and payroll records — to one federal prosecutors say Rosenstein allegedly orchestrated in Tucson, Ariz., also under his principal nonprofit, Helpful Housing. 

In an indictment filed in August, prosecutors say Rosenstein and Helpful Housing stole $2.9 million in COVID-relief money and $35 million in bank loans by lying about payroll expenses, creating W-2s for people who didn’t exist or never worked for him, and falsifying how full his Arizona buildings were, including one instance where his conspirators allegedly “staged” a condemned building to appear full of residents during various bank inspections.  He faces up to 30 years in prison on the charges and has pleaded not guilty.

When reached by phone, a federal prosecutor on the Arizona case declined to say whether they were looking into Rosenstein’s Long Beach business. 

An apartment building at 327 W. Pacific Coast Highway is one run by Rodney Rosenstein’s companies in Long Beach on Oct. 5, 2026.

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The indictment “raises new concerns” about Rosenstein’s dealings in Long Beach, said Deputy City Attorney Nick Masero. He said he could not comment on the accusations raised by Lind, “but in all such cases the city will accept available information, use the tools available to obtain additional information, coordinate with partner agencies that have different jurisdictions and take all appropriate actions to assert its rights and obtain just outcomes.”

Separately, the city has so far filed 15 lawsuits against Rosenstein for allegedly failing to make all the payments on the federally backed zero-interest loans he used to renovate his Long Beach properties. If they win, they plan to seize the 15 apartment buildings and auction them off, hoping to recoup a combined $9.6 million in principal and interest. 

As part of the loans, Rosenstein’s companies agreed to annual audits and inspections from the city. It’s unclear what they found or if they were completed. The city declined interview requests and refused to release audit and inspection documents while it’s in litigation with Helpful Housing.

In addition to the Long Beach Housing Authority, much of Rosenstein’s organization was fueled by money it took from Southern California anti-homelessness agencies — about 80%, according to UMI’s statement. During the course of her investigation, Lind obtained records showing millions in payments from nonprofit organizations like Mental Health America of Los Angeles (MHALA) and Interval House. 

MHALA, for example, paid Rosenstein’s entities a combined $3.1 million between 2014 and 2024 for rent, security deposits, repairs and “late housing support,” according to records Lind provided to the Post. (MHALA declined to comment.) Interval House confirmed the records were accurate and acknowledged they paid rent for some tenants through 2019 using government-funded programs like Long Beach Community Action Partnership Home Energy Assistance Program, and First 5, a state program targeting housing for homeless families. 

People Assisting the Homeless (PATH) confirmed it also worked with Rosenstein’s companies for about five years but did not disclose how much it had paid them.

At least some of the money allegedly never went to services supporting low-income residents. 

When tenants moved out, UMI alleged, staff would send agencies bogus work orders for repairs they say were never completed. In one example from November 2021, UMI said, Favela’s Construction & Renovation charged $19,400 for alleged repairs.

Attorney Kimberly Lind and a former Helpful Housing employee alleged this invoice was fraudulent, corresponding to a business address that didn’t exist.

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When MHALA tried to deliver a check, an employee discovered the company’s listed address was actually a senior-living apartment building and confronted Helpful Housing, accusing them of fraud, UMI said.

The scheme also allegedly targeted the residents themselves. 

Julie Curren, who was placed at a Helpful Housing complex on 17th Street in October 2022, told the Post that PATH paid a $5,000 deposit meant for her to keep upon finishing their supportive housing program. “That deposit should have come back to me,” Curren said. 

But when she moved out in October 2024, she was charged $2,200 in damages. When she sued in small claims in December 2024, she said, attorney Bruce Gridley, representing Helpful Housing, first offered a $1,000 settlement. She refused. Then Gridley presented photographs of a messy apartment. 

“None of those pictures were mine,” she said. “The only thing that needed to be done was a quick paint job, and somebody told me somebody moved in like two days after I left, so you can’t tell me that apartment was in disarray.” 

A work order provided to Curren showed the contractor hired to take care of the repairs: Structural Integrity, a Chatsworth-based company owned by Rosenstein. (Gridley, who is also listed as a board member of Helpful Housing, declined to comment for this story.)

Curren said she spent months trying to recover her security deposit, money that she saw as a second chance at life. 

In emails she shared with the Post involving the city housing authority and Helpful Housing, the nonprofit claims it sent the money to the city, though officials claim they never received it. She says she’s weighing a civil suit. But she can’t afford a lawyer. 

“I think I’ve exhausted every effort,” Curren said. “I don’t know what to do.”

Long Beach Post reporter Jacob Sisneros contributed to this report.

Jackie, Big Bear’s late famous bald eagle, was suffering from several severe illnesses that ultimately led to her death in August, wildlife officials announced Wednesday evening.

Jackie had Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, otherwise known as HPAI, that caused a severe ulcer in her stomach, leading to internal bleeding, anemia and sepsis.

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance and the Ojai Raptor Center released the results of Jackies’s necropsy and additional testing. Veterinary pathologists with the wildlife alliance performed the necropsy, and the raptor center led Jackie’s intensive care for weeks.

“The necropsy results have helped connect many of the findings we were seeing throughout the eagle’s hospitalization,” Chris Eksteen, executive director of the Ojai Raptor Center, said in a statement. Eksteen added that caring for her was an “extraordinary privilege” for their entire team.

Friends of Big Bear Valley, the nonprofit behind the popular nest livestream overlooking Big Bear Lake, said on social media that they’re taking some time to process the news.

“Please take care and be kind,” the group told its roughly 1.3 million Facebook followers.

What do we know?

HPAI is an infectious disease that’s been circulating in wild bird populations throughout the country, according to wildlife officials. Jackie may have been exposed by coming into contact with affected birds, such as waterfowl, or by eating infected prey.

HPAI was the main cause of her decline, according to the necropsy details. She had signs of chronic disease in a part of her stomach commonly called the gizzard, which contributed to the severe anemia she was suffering from. She had a serious bacterial infection, as well as severe inflammation and blood clots in her heart and major blood vessels.

Toxicology screenings also showed rodenticide in her liver and “persistent environmental contaminants.” But the rodenticide — brodifacoum — was not named as the primary cause of her illness and death.

The multiple, severe and interconnected illnesses “had been developing over time,” wildlife officials said. The organizations said they have “no evidence that Shadow or the eaglets were sick.”

Jackie’s remains have since been cremated by the National Eagle Repository, which is run by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.