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Karen Bass: “It's unprecedented the amount of staff that the federal…”

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Mayor Karen Bass Discusses Los Angeles Fire Response and Recovery Efforts

Published February 20, 2025 | Video Starts at 16:03

Or you could go to LA city.gov, fill out that form so that the debris can be removed by the Army Corps of Engineers. But It's unprecedented the amount of staff that the federal government has sent in from the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers. And just lastly, what is your main message to the people of Los Angeles at this point? Incredibly perilous time for our city? My main message is we are going to recover, we're going to rebuild. (16:03–16:12)

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Asserts that an unprecedented number of federal staff have been sent to assist with disaster recovery.

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“An evaluation of the entire emergency management system in our city, the weaknesses. And I think that that's something that we have to look…”
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“I am in the process of evaluating all of that and looking at restructuring, reassignment, all of that. That needs to be done.”
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“I was very happy when he did reconsider and decided that he would be willing to do this for free.”
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“They are projecting that it'll be done in the next few weeks and that was supposed to have taken months.”
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“The governor is passing executive orders to help with the expediting the things that I can't do on a local level.”
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