LOST LIVES: This one slipped between the...

LOST LIVES: This one slipped between the cracks. . . . Rescuers said Friday they’d saved a kitten that fell 50 feet down a crack between two Reseda office buildings. Trapped for four days, the creature was fed milk through a straw by office workers until animal rescue workers could hoist her up. Now Pet Adoption Fund is trying to find her a home. One warning: “She used up eight of her lives and is on her ninth,” said rescuer Julie Filkoff.

STILL SHINING: Despite all our recent disasters, California is still the nation’s movie-making capital, the state Film Commission announced Friday in Encino. . . . California had 438 film starts in 1994, outpacing No. 2 New York, which had 73. The Valley helped, said commission director Patti Archuletta: “On any given day in the Valley, there are more film projects than (in) most other states in the country.”

WET BLANKET: Jeff Deeter has learned that when it rains, it pours. . . . Even though workers rushed to cover the barren hillside beside Deeter’s Glendale home, above, city officials told Deeter and his family to evacuate on Friday. Mudslides have soaked the house, and officials fear another could shear off gas pipes under the house, causing an explosion.

HOT WHEELS: A new survey shows that the 1984 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme is the No. 1 stolen car in California. . . . Also on the list: various Hondas and Chevys, another Oldsmobile and a Buick. But Van Nuys LAPD auto theft detective Bob Graybill questions the Chicago-based insurance service’s survey: “I know our stolen cars are totally different,” he said.

DISASTERS: Since last week’s flooding, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has deployed fewer damage inspectors (171) in more counties (38) than it did in the 1994 Northridge quake (1,300 inspectors in 4 counties). But FEMA takes the flooding just as seriously. Said spokeswoman Joy McIlwain: “There’s really no such thing as a small disaster to the person who has lost everything.”