Deputies Evacuate West Hollywood's Recovery Log Cabin, Find No Gun

Authorities called it a false alarm at the 12-step meeting hall on Robertson Boulevard, and haven't said who made the call.

A report that someone inside West Hollywood's Log Cabin was threatening a person with a gun brought sheriff's deputies to the recovery hall around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, and they cleared everyone out.

Several sheriff's vehicles came to the scene. Deputies searched the property and found no gun, and authorities called it a false alarm, WEHO Times reported Wednesday. Authorities haven't said who made the call or what set it off.

The Log Cabin stands at 621 N. Robertson Blvd., with the West Hollywood Recovery Center's own building across the street at 626, according to WEHO Times. The center holds 12-step meetings in the cabin and is working with the city on plans to renovate it.

Sobriety has been the building's purpose almost from the start. A women's temperance group put the cabin up as its clubhouse in the 1920s, the recovery center says. In the years after World War II, AA and other 12-step groups made it a gathering place. The center credits the cabin with helping tens of thousands of people into recovery.

On Tuesday night, it stood empty while deputies searched it.

Source: wehotimes.com, retrieved November 12, 2026. Other sources: wehotimes.com (2), thewhrc.org.

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