33 hours ago Maria Shriver is latest celebrity to tear into LA's woke leaders as even LA fire chief now turns on mayor Karen Bass saying her $17m budget cut left fire department under

Former first lady of California Maria Shriver is the latest celebrity to criticise LA's leadership for the way they have handled the raging fires that have been burning through the city for the last week. 

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41 hours ago Inside one of Pacific Palisades' last standing malls after billionaire developer who ran against under fire mayor Karen Bass saved it from LA fire

Billionaire developer Rick Caruso 's Palisades Village Mall was directly in the path of the Palisades fire , which has already burned through 23,713 acres of prime southern California real estate.

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5 hours ago California fires live: 6m people under critical fire threat as dangerous winds expected; governor says conditioning aid ‘un

Forecasters warn of ‘particularly dangerous weather situation’ in California; Gavin Newsom hits back at House speaker for ‘politicizing’ tragedyBig oil pushed to kill bill that would have made them pay for wildfire disastersTell us about financial consequences you are facingLA mayor, Karen Bass, has shared a phone number for residents who have evacuated to get assistance in finding and retrieving pets in evacuation areas.Posting on X, Bass wrote:Pets are family.The City is making help available to find and retrieve pets in evacuation areas. Continue reading...

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16 hours ago ‘The entire community is just gone’: inside the Los Angeles wildfires – podcast

Gabrielle Canon reports from Los Angeles on the wildfires destroying homes and communitiesAs the Los Angeles wildfire spread closer to his home, George Elmaraghi was anxiously waiting for an evacuation order. “When I saw the fire, from our backyard, almost parallel to our house, I was like, OK, we gotta go.” George’s home in Altadena was destroyed in what is now the city’s most destructive wildfire. That fire is still burning and George and his family, along with 150,000 other displaced people, are now grappling with trauma, homelessness, insurance claims – and the ultimate decision of whether to rebuild or walk away. For Gabrielle Canon, the Guardian’s extreme weather correspondent, this unprecedented fire must be understood as a compound climate disaster: the disastrous end result of a chain of events exacerbated by the climate crisis.Gabrielle explains to Michael Safi why popular anger is growing around the Los Angeles mayor, Karen Bass, and unpacks the potential climate crisis i...

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19 hours ago LA Mayor Karen Bass's shocking response in new car crash interview as she faces recall over fires disaster

Bass was in Ghana on a diplomatic trip on Tuesday, when the first fire broke out in the ritzy celebrity enclave of Pacific Palisades and spread rapidly up to Malibu.

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