Monthly Archives: January 2025
January 21, 2025, Musings
Musings PALISADES GOT LUCKY, SUDDENLY By Sue Pascoe · January 21, 2025 L.A. Mayor Karen Bass and Governor Gavin Newsom are suddenly on the same page. They want the debris gone from the Palisades Fire, ASAP. One might think it...
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Did Bass or Crowley Request Air Space Access for Firefighting?
Did Fire Chief Kristin Crowley or L.A. Mayor Karen Bass request air space access because of a presidential visit when the fire first started on January 7 around 10 a.m.? The winds had not yet come up and did not...
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Working to Keep You Safe: Too Bad It Didn’t Happen During the Fire
Senior Lead Officer Brian Espin sent out the most common queries he has received and the answers: Can my contractor or insurance adjuster go to my property to do an assessment or make repairs? Once an area is open to...
Community Council Meeting Scheduled: Officials to Answer Questions
A special Palisades Community Council Meeting will be held at 6 p.m. on Thursday, January 23, via Zoom.Meeting ID: 882 8310 1185 Passcode: 553444 Link to Join Zoom Meeting click here. The Agenda is brief it will be a discussion/Q&A...
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January 20, 2025, Musings
Musings HAPPY DAY By Sue Pascoe · January 20, 2025 Happy Martin Luther King Day. Generally, a parade is held in Los Angeles to celebrate—but because of the fires, it was moved to February. Trump was inaugurated today. I didn’t...
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The Palisades Fire Never Should Have Happened: Here’s Why
(Editor’s note: CTN received several accounts from residents about their efforts to save their homes. Over the next week, several stories will be presented, and I welcome other’s to send their stories, too. See if you pick out two common...
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Visiting the Disaster Recovery Center Helpful
A Disaster Recovery Center was opened at UCLA Research Park (formerly Westside Pavilion 10850 W. Pico) last week and operates from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday through Saturday. This editor, whose home on Radcliffe has been reduced to ashes...
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Police Escort Offered to Highlands Palisades Residents
Residents of the Palisades Highlands, where the Palisades Fire started will be the first back in the Palisades. They will be allowed an escort to retrieve necessary items from their homes. About 20 percent of the residences in the Highlands...
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January 19, 2025, Musings
Musings PALISADES NOTE By Sue Pascoe · January 19, 2025 Hello Palisadians, please return if you have the resources to rebuild. Pacific Palisades is 100 years old, and I hope that 24 hours of fire and fury do not destroy...
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Officials Offer Aid and Try to Appease Those Who Lost Homes
By LAUREL BUSBY Contributing Writer Hundreds of suffering residents of Pacific Palisades and other communities affected by the Palisades Fire convened on Thursday with officials from the LAPD, city, county, and state fire departments, FEMA, and state and federal...
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