CA - Pacific Palisades - 30,000 People Ordered to Evacuate From L.A. Wildfires #2

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Thank you all so much for that link!!!
I am forever grateful to see one of "my people" make it out of this horror.
He's such a cutie!
He is! I bet he was a great nurse!
 
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Thanks to the superior sleuthing work of new WS member @FinchTornado , it is confirmed that two of the people on the at risk missing list are deceased.

Patricia Diann McKenna, 77, and Stacey Elizabeth Darden, 54, were both from Altadena, and were victims of the Eaton fire.

CA - LASD list of seventeen at risk missing after Los Angeles wildfires, Altadena and Pacific Palisades, Jan 2025

Two victims remain, I believe, and both are likely victims of the Palisades fire. All the names left on the at risk missing list are from Altadena, so I have no idea of the potential identity of these victims.

If anyone comes across an obit or other official announcement of a Palisades fire victim that isn't a name that has been mentioned on here, please link. Also, if anyone comes across any official information that a person on the at risk missing list has been found or located. Ten names remain on the list, and the latest version is on the at risk missing thread.

MOO
 
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USA TODAY 9h
Drone video shows mudslides from Palisades Fire burn area blocking historic Topanga Canyon
The Palisades Fire is now 100% contained after nearly a month of burning. Now, rain in Southern California has triggered mudslides at Topanga Canyon.​

Video here: MSN
 
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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass terminated LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley Friday afternoon, blaming her for improperly staffing the Palisades and Eaton fires.

"Acting in the best interests of Los Angeles' public safety, and for the operations of the Los Angeles Fire Department, I have removed Kristin Crowley as Fire Chief," Bass said in a statement. "We know that 1,000 firefighters that could have been on duty on the morning the fires broke out were instead sent home on Chief Crowley's watch."
 
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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass terminated LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley Friday afternoon, blaming her for improperly staffing the Palisades and Eaton fires.

"Acting in the best interests of Los Angeles' public safety, and for the operations of the Los Angeles Fire Department, I have removed Kristin Crowley as Fire Chief," Bass said in a statement. "We know that 1,000 firefighters that could have been on duty on the morning the fires broke out were instead sent home on Chief Crowley's watch."

Wasn't the mayor on a trip out of the US at the time and didn't come home for a few days?
 
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We opened today!
It was very moving to welcome back our community.
The parking lot lights on our building are out, and we are using a backup WiFi system.
Streetlights still out.
It was a little hairy driving home tonight for a stretch.

I am still watching for Delores.
 
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We opened today!
It was very moving to welcome back our community.
The parking lot lights on our building are out, and we are using a backup WiFi system.
Streetlights still out.
It was a little hairy driving home tonight for a stretch.

I am still watching for Delores.
I bet it was. Wow!
 
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Have FEMA funds been released to the LA fire victims yet?
 
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Could be. A Soho NY art gallery owner says that most of the destroyed artworks depict flowers on Japanese paper. And were purchased by Morris from him for $875,000.
The gallery owner (Georges Berges) still has some of Hunter's work at his gallery.

"Hunter's lawyers wrote he 'must focus his time and resources dealing with his relocation, the damage he has incurred due to the fires, and paying for his family's living expenses as opposed to this litigation.'

In the 19-page filing, they argued Ziegler and his nonprofit 'will not lose any rights or defenses' by the judge dismissing the case.

Hunter's legal letter claims he has struggled to find a new home for himself, wife Melissa Cohen Biden, 38, and toddler Beau Jr., age four, after the January fires.

'Like many others in that situation, plaintiff has had difficulty in finding a new permanent place to live as well as finding it difficult to earn a living,' the letter said.

'So, plaintiff must focus his time and resources dealing with his relocation, the damage he has incurred due to the fires, and paying for his family's living expenses as opposed to this litigation.'

It will now be up to Judge Hernán Vera to decide whether he is allowed to extricate himself from the legal tangle he started.;


 
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"Hunter's lawyers wrote he 'must focus his time and resources dealing with his relocation, the damage he has incurred due to the fires, and paying for his family's living expenses as opposed to this litigation.'

In the 19-page filing, they argued Ziegler and his nonprofit 'will not lose any rights or defenses' by the judge dismissing the case.

Hunter's legal letter claims he has struggled to find a new home for himself, wife Melissa Cohen Biden, 38, and toddler Beau Jr., age four, after the January fires.

'Like many others in that situation, plaintiff has had difficulty in finding a new permanent place to live as well as finding it difficult to earn a living,' the letter said.

'So, plaintiff must focus his time and resources dealing with his relocation, the damage he has incurred due to the fires, and paying for his family's living expenses as opposed to this litigation.'

It will now be up to Judge Hernán Vera to decide whether he is allowed to extricate himself from the legal tangle he started.;



Out of deep sympathy for former President Biden, I hope that all Hunter Biden’s problems can stem from traumatic brain injury sustained in that horrible car crash that claimed the lives of his mother and infant sister.
 
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I believe this is the house we worked on for staff development project.
 
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Altadena update:

It's very dark leaving work at 8pm.
There are no homes or streetlights to light the way on the majority of my way home.
Even with over 120 teams of Army Corps and others doing the debris removals with all of the dump trucks, the silence never ceases to amaze me.
As lots are cleared, the sight lines open and you can look down into Los Angeles with nothing blocking the view. I can't get over that.
Every day is a heartache.
 

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