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Category Archives: Palisades Fire
The City Hires Expensive Law Firm to Defend DWP
After suffering the devastating effects of the Palisades Fire, which left 12 dead and destroyed almost 7,000 structures, Los Angeles City Attorney Hydee Fedlstein Soto has retained an outside law firm Munger Tolles & Olsen to defend the Los Angeles … Continue reading
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Black Soot Water Fills the Santa Monica Canyon Flood Control Channel
There is an expression “speaking out of both sides of your mouth.” That was in evidence at the February 13, Pacific Palisades Community Council with Vahid Khorsand (Board of Public Works Director), Julie Allen (Assistant Director of LASAN), Ted Allen … Continue reading
A Month Since the Palisades Fire: Examining City’s Initial Response
Even though there had been prior fires in the past two months in the Highlands area of Pacific Palisades and severe Santa Ana was predicted on January 6, it appears no prevention was in place and the reaction time to … Continue reading
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February 12 Palisades Fire Townhall
PHASE 2: OPT IN, OPT OUT It appears that a homeowner on Embury had opted out of having the Army Corp of Engineers clean his property and hired a construction company to take away the debris. They were already working … Continue reading
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LAHSA Wants Fire-Victims’ FEMA Money for City Homeless
With Hundreds of Millions in Local Funding, Why Does LAHSA Need FEMA? (Editor’s note: This story first appeared in the Westside Current and is reprinted with permission.) By ANGELA MCGREGOR On January 21, in the wake of the LA Firestorm … Continue reading
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Pali Fire Meeting Provided New Information
Lou Kamer, Anthony Marquleas and Ben Perlman formed 1Pali to combine all the Palisades communities who have started different venues and emails to communicate. The goal is to meet weekly at 6 p.m. and to provide information and to seek … Continue reading
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Mayor Bass Lists Palisades Fire Accomplishments
On X, two days ago, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass posted her accomplishments since the Palisades Fire. “It’s been one month since wildfires devastated our city. I’m speaking now about the progress we’ve made and the work ahead” she wrote. … Continue reading
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My Palisades Heartbreak
(Editor’s note: My family, the Pascoes lived on Radcliffe. It was a great street filled with people of different ages: seniors, families with middle and high school kids and then we were lucky enough to get families with elementary-aged children, … Continue reading
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Vittorio’s Restaurant Wants to “Go Home
Vittorio’s was a 40-year institution in the Palisades community. The family-owned Italian restaurant was fondly referred to by some as their own personal kitchen, where regulars knew the family that ran it and were treated as family in return. When … Continue reading
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Incompetence and Lack of Urgency Thwart Residents
A reader wrote: “For me, the greatest outrage was that after all the alerts and all the warnings over our 54 years living in the Palisades, the one time we really needed a warning, we received none. My wife smelled … Continue reading
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