Jason

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

So these wind warnings came, and I'm sure you all saw them, to the point that I didn't even believe that they could be true.

Catastrophic, life-threatening winds.

And our team rallied.

We had our firefighters, our water, our retardant stationed there two days before the fire.

And we were ready to go.

And I'm really proud of my team because they not only saved the village, but we saved the whole block of properties.

And 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.

Rick, it's been eight months, I guess, since these fires.

Not enough.

I was out there last night.

It's slower than it should be.

And what is slowing it down?

Slowing it down is an enormous amount of red tape.

I mean, the previous speakers talking about red tape in the state of California.

We have red tape in the city of Los Angeles and the county that's ridiculous.

But let me just give you an example.

Since COVID.

We have still not, we being the city, has still not called back workers to City Hall.