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Karen Bass cut fire dept funding by $17.6M. That was her 2nd biggest cut,
an account with the handle @FilmThePoliceLA wrote on X, formerly Twitter This budget serves as a reset, in part by continuing to hire for critical positions including police officers and firefighters while eliminating some of the department's vacant positions, thereby prioritizing our City family over empty desks,
she said in a statement at the time The winds are expected to continue throughout today and even into Thursday as well, providing very little in terms of any relief.
We don't know if the house is burnt down or not but the whole palisades is on fire, so it's bleak.
It’s where I live, my family and my wife’s family, my wife’s twin sister, they’ve evacuated,
What’s happening is people take their keys with them as if they’re in a parking lot. This is not a parking lot. We really need people to move their cars,
Everything I’m seeing and reading is just terrifying, what’s happening down there,
Kerr told reporters, according to CNN The smoke looked pretty black and intense over Temescal Canyon. I couldn’t see any flames, but the smoke was very dark.”
Levy has already described the scary ordeal he endured attempting to escape the neighborhood amid a gridlock of cars to The Los Angeles Times, telling the newspaper Update: I’m watching our house burn down on the security cameras,
We were blessed to have LA fire and police depts doing their jobs so well,
This fire moved very, very quickly,
Park said in an interview on NBC’s “Today” on Wednesday We've now come down into Palisades village, the center of this community,
he explained ... explained. I'm standing in my driveway waiting to evacuate,
he said on X as planes zoomed over the encroaching blaze They are saying the fire are spreading football field amounts in seconds."
Alabama, 19, told her followers Personal Fire Update: 7pm - Evacuated Malibu so last-minute there small fires on both sides of the road as we approached PCH (Pacific Coast Highway).
In an Instagram post, he said 8:15pm - Marilou, Trixie & I arrive at Chelsea's house in Hollywood. Most horrific fire since '93. Stay safe."
The hot desert winds blowing at speeds of more than 60 kilometers per hour are fanning the flames like a hairdryer held over the hot embers."
City of LA, you want everyone to evacuate, but you have complete gridlock and not one traffic cop on the roads helping @cityoflosangeles @karenbassla,
said Sarah Michelle Gellar, star of Buffy the Vampire Slayer This is heart wrenching to witness what's happening in our backyard.”
In addition to praising emergency responders, Big Bang Theory star Kaley Cuoco said My heart breaks for everyone affected.”
Calling the situation “scary”, Vanessa Hudgens, star of High School Musical, wrote