Embattled Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, widely criticized for her response to the historic wildfires that devastated the city, reveals that her brother lost his home in the still-burning Palisades fire. did.
“I indirectly share the loss you are experiencing. My family has also been affected,” Basu said during a virtual conference Thursday. According to the LA Times.
“My brother, who has lived in Malibu for 40 years, has been through many fires and evacuated many times, but this time he couldn't escape.”
Bass said his brother's house is a “family home” where relatives gather during the holidays.
With loss “there comes a kind of shock and grief, and it's a trauma that stays with us for a long time,” she told the 1,000 members who attended a meeting of the volunteer Pacific Palisades Community Council.
The bus was famously on the other side of the world in Ghana when a fire broke out in the city on January 7th.
Upon her return, she faced tremendous backlash over the administration's deep budget cuts to the Los Angeles Fire Department, with the fire chief telling the mayor that the lack of funding would leave firefighters inadequately equipped to fight a fire of this size. I was warning you.
Since the bushfires, a number of eye-opening scandals at Bath City Hall have come to light under new scrutiny.
The Palisades Fire, the region's largest ongoing wildfire, has been burning for more than two weeks, scorching approximately 36 square miles in some of the state's most exclusive neighborhoods. According to the latest information from Cal Fire..
The Palisades fire destroyed more than 6,800 structures and killed at least 11 people, but was 75% contained as of Friday morning.
