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“The city didn't even have enough equipment because they've underfunded the fire department for so long, and Mayor Bass cut even more out this last budget cycle That they had equipment mothballed in parking lots.”

“We were actually on the seventh loaning equipment to LA Fire Department, who was running short of equipment, and we were actually loaning water because we were bringing in our water tanks when the water hydrants failed to work.”

“We are spending in the city of Los Angeles. 900,000 dollars per person that they're moving from the streets. 900,000 dollars.”

“There's a whole reservoir that was empty. That was drained because they wanted to have repairs on it. Well, we had a fire in Malibu, 10 minutes from the Palisades fire, three weeks before. That's probably a pretty good sign that we needed to be prepared, and w…”

“The hydrants are empty. We're not getting water. It had nothing to do with broken pipes. It had everything to do with the reservoirs not being filled. Everything up there is gravity flow. So those reservoirs draining are coming into the hydrants, and there's p…”

“I was convinced nine months ago, I'm more convinced today, that fire was completely preventable. And if you think I'm wrong and it wasn't completely preventable, the damage could have been significantly mitigated.”

“We had the largest reservoir not filled with water.”

“The, any kind of federal interference, I think, should be the very, very last resort. So I don't support that. I don't support it.”

“The Palisades fire was fueled by 40 years of brush that was never managed, and so you have an enormous amount of brush in those hills behind the Palisades, and when you had the winds coming up the city was not prepared adequately to deal with it.”

“For fires, we immediately engage with companies that can pour retardant on the building, which we had out there. We had backup water systems out there, and we had a private firefighting department out there because we had been through this about six years prio…”

“About 90% of the homes in the Palisades and Altadena burned from the inside out.”

“Since COVID, We have still not, we being the city, has still not called back workers to City Hall. So plan checkers in LA City are working from home.”

“I think actually Gavin has done some good things, waiving CEQA, waiving the Coastal Commission, those are really smart things that he's done.”

“Well, you know, it may, David, but I may give that a try.”

“The good news is Gavin suspended Coastal Commission and whatnot in order to pull a permit.”

“Shouldn't be past a year. Maybe the hazardous cleanup is three, four months. The infrastructure is going in right after that.”

“The most active fire station in the United States is in an area around MacArthur Park in Los Angeles. It's the most active because of the amount of people dying on the streets from overdoses.”

“Knowing that we were building in an area that was prone to fires. We did not build with any combustible materials. There's no combustible materials. Even what looks like wood is concrete formed to look like wood”