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Category Archives: Palisades Fire
Fire Survivors Screwed by Insurance/State of California
For more than 30 years, this editor and her husband have paid State Farm Insurance for coverage for the house and possessions. Possession replacement was listed as $800,000. We paid the amount State Farm requested so that if there was … Continue reading
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Palisades Fire: Three Questions Need to be Answered
By JEREMY PADAWER (This August 24 Blog Post by Jeremy Padawer PacificPalisades.com is reprinted with permission.) Pacific Palisades pays more than $600 million in annual property taxes to L.A. County. For their money residents receive: 1 police car. Fire … Continue reading
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Brush Clearance at PCH and Temescal: Rotary Corner
Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) collaborates extensively with national, state, and county agencies on wildfire prevention. This past week, a supervisor for the National Wildfire Prevention unit was at the corner of Temescal Canyon Boulevard and Pacific Coast Highway on … Continue reading
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ACE Clears Last Lot: Officials Absent
The Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) cleared the last residential property for both the Palisades and Eaton Fires, on Tramonto in the Castellammare section of Pacific Palisades today. Nolan West, who was 93 in July, spoke about his home on … Continue reading
Insurance Informational Meeting Hosted by PRC
After the Palisades Fire, people find they are underinsured, are not being paid for claims, or are having trouble receiving insurance money for smoke damage. The Palisades Recovery Coalition hosted an insurance townhall on August 24 to address problems and … Continue reading
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Viewpoint: Are There Housing Shortages in Los Angeles?
One can’t listen to a radio or television program or pick up a newspaper without the dire warnings that California is facing a severe housing shortage. People such as your editor repeated this mantra, without thinking. Who would lie about … Continue reading
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Thoroughly Remediated, Calvary School Reopens September 2
Calvary School, with students in preschool through eighth grade will start the school year on Tuesday, September 2. The campus, located at 701 Palisades Drive, has been cleaned, remediated and scrubbed and painted from top to bottom click here. Head … Continue reading
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Post Office–Forwarded Mail Address Needs to be Renewed
After the Palisades Fire, the entire Pacific Palisades Community was declared an evacuation Zone, and off-limits to residents. Nearly 7,000 structures, homes and businesses were destroyed. Although the Palisades Post Office was left standing, no one was allowed into the … Continue reading
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Renter’s Insurance Faced Displaced Palisadians (And More Insurance)
Yesterday, CTN ran a musing about a woman who had trouble finding renter’s insurance for her 85-year-old mother, whose Palisades home had been destroyed. When this editor moved to an apartment building in Marina Del Ray a week after the … Continue reading
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Evacuation into Darkness
(Editor’s note: At last week’s Hive, a 28-year-Palisades resident spoke about her evacuation on January 7.) We live in the Highlands and were home during the fire, which broke out at 10:30 a.m. We didn’t evacuate immediately because the reports … Continue reading
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