Carter Evans covered the Palisades Fire.
Carter Evans, a Palisades resident, is a CBS News Los Angeles–based correspondent.
For those who may have missed his September 2 story on CBS’ “Eye on America” about the Palisades Fire, it is an important one. Evans wrote CTN, “I finally got this story on the air today, it contains a surprising admission from L.A. County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone about firefighting and evacuations.” click here.
During his career, Evans has covered the 2010 BP oil spill, the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami, 2011’s Hurricane Irene, the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, and reported the 2008 financial crisis direct from the New York Stock Exchange Trading Floor. He came to cover news in Los Angeles in 2013 and received recognition that same year for his coverage of the Christopher Dorner shooting.
We all get to stay now- lucky us…..
Where the heck is our tax dollars going?
Btw – station 23 firefighters drive insanely nice cars and SUVs,
I was almost hit at 630am when a gigantic X5 M BMW ($100,000)
peeled out of Fire Station 23 parking lot. He almost hit me.
At the Sunset stop light, I asked him what his problem was and he stated
“The Palisades”….I get it now, they don’t care about us, it’s just paycheck
For them.
This is a direct result of the City of LA and the State of California putting homelessness and vanity projects over safety. Call it the greatest form of outsourcing: take money from your customer, build an expensive, unaccountable, and ineffective solution to man’s oldest threat, and then turn it back over to the very people who paid for the service.
Our ELECTED representatives spent 10s of billions, unaccountably, on homelessness in the most inefficient way, building them homes, which as we know is a nightmare of bureaucracy, and a high speed rail line between two points fully served by airlines, while local transportation projects languished.
I know it is hard to be a representative. It is a high honor to be elected to handle the complexity of today’s society. Perhaps it would be easier to focus on the basics rather than the sensational. Rather than shouting about how crewel we are, accountably provide efficient and effective responses to our problems. Rather than standing in the street during a riot supporting lawlessness over our police force telling us the rioters have more sway than the citizens, start with spending our hard earned dollars like it was your mothers.
All of you “residents” are going to eventually end up being free labor for the LA government. I can already imagine smiling Karen Bass giving a speech telling you that it’s your “civic duty” to pitch in and help support her and Newsom in any way possible. They already have your money. Now they want to make you their civic servants. Just think of the pride you’ll have in being an “undocumented civic employee” – you’ll be able to virtue signal at the highest levels. LOL
Note to Sue: I know you won’t publish this. I learned a long time ago that you and the rest of the neutered sheep in LA and the rest of California don’t have the balls to get rid of the corrupt charlatans that rule over you. You will ALWAYS be nothing more than a source of money and obedience to them.
Carter Evans is admirable for saving his house, but having covered the fires myself for other news outlets, I believe he got the most important part of his story wrong. Fire fighters weren’t “overwhelmed” by the Palisades Fires nor did we need more firefighters on the scene. I counted over two dozen fire trucks parked on Will Rogers Beach on January 7 and another six parked at Paul Revere, all doing nothing for three days. Indeed, during three days of aggressively looking for LAFD fighting the fires, I only came across guys standing around doing nothing, taking selfies, and in the case of our our fire station on Sunset, sitting on lawn chairs with their polished firetrucks idle. Why? We still don’t know. They refuse to release their call logs and sat positions during the three days they watched our town get cremated.