Palisades Village, a shopping mall developed by Rick Caruso, is one of the few commercial buildings still standing in the heart of Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, which was destroyed by a fire, and the mall appears to have sustained only minor damage. .
According to Fox News, Caruso was able to use private fire services to extinguish the fire at the mall and save the fire. Caruso understood the risks of fire, having served as Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Commissioner decades ago. And he also understood the limitations of the city's public fire service, whose budget was cut by nearly $20 million last year by Mayor Karen Bass and the City Council.
Mr. Caruso ran for mayor of Los Angeles in 2022, but lost to Mr. Bass by a narrow margin. He had argued that the city needed a political outsider with business experience to deal with issues such as homelessness and crime.
LOS ANGELES, CA – March 22, 2022 – – Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer (right) is heard by Congresswoman Karen Bass during the mayoral debate at Bovard Auditorium on the University of Southern California campus in March. Meanwhile, he responds to businessman Rick Caruso's sharp criticism. 22nd, 2022. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times, Getty Images)
Bass ran in response to Democratic outrage over the Supreme Court's decision. Dobbs Caruso claimed to be the only true “Democrat supporter” in the race, given that he is a former Republican and has donated to pro-life candidates.
In the smoking rubble of the Pacific Palisades, what Caruso was supposed to protect survived, but what the bus was supposed to protect did not.
The Palisades is among the neighborhoods that voted for Caruso amid growing concerns that Los Angeles isn't doing enough to combat homelessness, including considering setting up a “temporary” homeless shelter in a nearby beach parking lot. was.
Ironically, the story about the homeless shelter ended when vagrants started a series of fires in the mountains surrounding the Palisades. The beach car park was used as a staging area for police and firefighters battling the blaze.
Local residents reported this week that Mr. Caruso's employees were spraying the mall with water with a hose. The surrounding property on a hillside near the ocean was burned, but so were the employees of another building, a private Bay Club, that survived.
caruso said Fox News reported Tuesday that government officials' inaction, especially in preparing for strong winds, stocking up on enough water and clearing brush near homes, worsened the Palisades fire's devastation.
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