Working to Keep You Safe: Too Bad It Didn’t Happen During the Fire

Posted on January 20, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO9CYHHYEb4 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…

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Community Council Meeting Scheduled: Officials to Answer Questions

Posted on January 20, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

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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The Palisades Fire Never Should Have Happened: Here’s Why

Posted on January 19, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

(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

Posted on January 19, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

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

Posted on January 19, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

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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Officials Offer Aid and Try to Appease Those Who Lost Homes

Posted on January 17, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

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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Some Palisades Residents Allowed Back in Home

Posted on January 17, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

Palisades Senior Lead Officer Brian Espin sent email that as of noon on Friday, January 17, some residents would be allowed back in the evacuation zone that was set up during the Palisades Fire. Only the areas on the Southern/Eastern…

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Odds and Ends From Evacuees and from Palisades

Posted on January 16, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

LETTER TO SM MAYOR: One resident sent a letter that he had sent to Santa Monica Mayor Lana Negrete: I wanted to give the city of Santa Monica a heads up that a very dear friend was getting a parking…

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Rams Hosting Essentials Distribution Tomorrow

Posted on January 16, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

Palisadian Sam Lagana, the SoFi Stadium “voice” of the L.A. Rams sent Circling the News information about a essentials distribution event to support victims of the Los Angeles Wildfires. With the devastating impact of the recent wildfires and to support…

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If I Rebuild, What Happens to Assessed Value?

Posted on January 15, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

A reader sent the following query to Circling the News: “We owned a condo on Via de la Paz. The building is insured through the California Fair Plan. The property taxes are covered under Prop 13. “My question is: ‘would…

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