Owner George Laguerre inside his closed restaurant, February 19, 2010. The charismatic owner of Ech

Owner George Laguerre inside his closed restaurant, February 19, 2010. The charismatic owner of Echo Parks popular Tigeorges Chicken restaurant had plans to visit the beleaguered island nation of Haiti to see his family and to deliver aid through a non–profit he heads. Instead, Laguerre spent the morning cleaning up damages from an electrical fire that tore through the roof of his restaurant on Wednesday night. Nobody was injured in the blaze, and the fire did little damage to the inside of the restaurant. (Photo by Ricardo DeAratanha/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)