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Wildfires: Residents Accuse US Firefighters Of Saving Houses Of Rich, Famous Individuals

Residents of Altadena, a hard-hit Los Angeles suburb, criticised the National Guard’s arrival as “too little, too late,” according to AFP.

Wildfires continue to wreak havoc across Los Angeles, California, leaving at least 11 dead, destroying thousands of homes, businesses, schools, and churches, and forcing over 150,000 people to remain under evacuation orders.

The Palisades fire – which continues to burn – already ranks as one of the most destructive in the city’s history.

“We didn’t see a single firefighter while we were throwing buckets of water to defend our house against the flames,” AFP quoted one Nicholas Norman, 40 as saying. 

“They were too busy over in the Palisades saving the rich and famous’s properties, and they let us common folks burn,” said the teacher.

In the upscale Pacific Palisades neighborhood, the first to be hit by the flames this week, wealthy residents share the same resentment toward the authorities.

“Our city has completely let us down,” said Nicole Perri, outraged by the fact that hydrants being used by firefighters ran dry or lost pressure.

Her lavish Palisades home was burnt to cinders. In a state of shock, the 32-year-old stylist wants to see accountability.

“Things should have been in place that could have prevented this,” she told AFP.

“We’ve lost everything, and I just feel zero support from our city, our horrible mayor and our governor.”

Karen Bass, the city’s mayor, has come in for heavy criticism because she was visiting the African nation of Ghana when the fire started, despite dire weather warnings in the preceding days.

Budget cuts to the fire department, and a series of evacuation warnings erroneously sent to millions of people this week, have only stoked the anger further.

“I don’t think the officials were prepared at all,” said James Brown, a 65-year-old retired lawyer in Altadena.

“There’s going to have to be a real evaluation here, because hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people have just been completely displaced,” he told AFP.

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