TONIGHT: 6:30PM Karen Bass will host a fire relief dinner at Genwa Korean BBQ on Wilshire. A piece of beef bulgogi will be fried on the open flame to ceremonially represent every house lost in these fires. 🔥 🙏🏼 #PrayForLA#lafires2025
@GeezerLiving@MayorOfLA Karen has said that had nothing to do with her. She saved millions by flying back from Ghana to personally help. She didn’t have to do that.
Absolutely infuriating Palisades recovery story:
My friend's mom's house burned down. His insurer asks for a copy of the blueprints, to process the claim. The blueprints were in the house and they burned --but there's a copy on file with the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety. LADBS requires a release letter from the architect to give him his blueprints, which my friend provides. Whole process takes a week. He goes to DBS to get his blueprints --but they won't give them to him. Why? Because the architect signed the request paperwork on the wrong part of the page. LADBS says my friend needs to start the whole process over.
My friend objects. He says, "The instructions just said the architect needed to sign the page, and he did that."
The LADBS clerk says, "But he signed over the seal. He's supposed to sign next to the seal."
My friend goes, "So? He signed it."
The LADBS clerk says, "But he signed the wrong part of the page."
My friend pleads, "you know my mom's house burned down, and every day this gets delayed is another day she can't get her claim processed."
The LADBS clerk responds, "So what?"
I remember the guy who called me Newscum in 7th grade. I can handle that. This isn’t about me. It’s about the people we represent -- and the aid they deserve.
FIRE UPDATE: on wildfires in the City of Los Angeles:
➡️Palisades Fire: 19% containment
➡️Hurst Fire: 97% containment
➡️Kenneth Fire: 100% containment
➡️Sunset Fire 100% containment