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I don't know the right term. Well, Angelenos, Palestinians, uh, Eaton survivors. Um, I think it's really important for us to know more about the natural landscape of where we live and about these weather phenomenons that can start to happen, uh, or when something happens, how weather can escalate something like this. And what that could mean for where you live or adjacent to where you live. I never really paid attention to that before. Um, I never had to go kits. We never practiced any drills to leave our house. Even when we were evacuated. We thought it was a formality and we thought we'd be back, so we didn't grab anything of sentimental value. So, um, I would encourage everyone to really figure out and think, worst case scenario, if something were to happen, how do you keep you and your family safe? Number one. And number two, how can you also quickly grab the things that are important to you? Um, I love this city. I love Los Angeles. I moved here 11 years ago, and I didn't think I'd be here at this song, but I love it. And then I moved to Pacific Palisades four years ago, and I love it. And I'm very disheartened and sad about things that were not in place, that I relied on my city leaders to have, at least from what I have learned and discerned from the information available to me. And as you can see, it breaks my heart. So, um, I think there's a number of things I wouldn't even know where to start, but, um, it I do think it just it hurts. It feels like my city let me down in some ways. There are so many things that the Palisades can do to be ready for the future. So this does not have to happen for future generations. I'm really lucky that I'm learning about all of these because of my work with Team Palisades. So I'm hearing about all kinds of programs and grants and becoming a fire safe community, um, and getting training for your community. And there's a lot of things out there that I don't know if the ball was rolling to get those those trainings happening before, but they most definitely are now. And so I really hope that Palestinians will take advantage of the opportunity as, as more comes out about these programs and how they can learn from them and be part of them. And it will be an ongoing thing to educate ourselves and to enact these programs so that we are fire safe communities moving forward. Sure. Team Palisades is one of the grassroots organizations that was founded after the fires. At its heart, it's neighbors connecting neighbors. We've implemented a block captain framework to help neighbors connect with one another. This was recommended to us by a national nonprofit called After the Fire USA. After the fire has helped many fire ravaged communities begin having the right resources to pick your lives back up and, you know, get your community back on track. And this is one of the things that has worked for many communities they've worked with. And so it's it's a really beautiful thing getting to work with the people who are volunteering, especially the block captains, because they were not only people affected by the January fires, but now they're raising their hand to say, I want to help my neighbor. I now know more people in the Palisades than I and and in the Eaton affected areas as well. Then I knew beforehand, and it's hard to believe that I didn't even know so many of the Palestinians. Um, and now we're all in this club that we didn't want to be in together. So when we come back, we are going to be the most tight knit community there is. Um, as as far as community. It's nice. It's really nice to see us becoming stronger. I already thought it was a strong community, but this has definitely made us stronger. I still wish it never had happened, but it is beautiful to see people coming together. It's beautiful to hear from block captains saying, I connected with this person and I never knew them. And they were two doors down from me. And now we talk every other day. So I get to hear a lot of stories with that. Um, given the role I have with Team Palisades, and it just fills my heart in the community response after the fires, we just had a lot of people traumatized and wondering what we do. Where do we go from here? From that, a number of grassroots orgs started, and they were started by people whose intention was to help Pacific Palisades, help residents, help individuals, and just do what they could. So there are a lot of organizations, and they all were formed with the greatest of intentions. And now that we're six months out, I think the challenge is trying to figure out how all the groups work together. But I'm already hearing that of those talks happening, so it's really reassuring to me. Another great example of the community coming together. Everyone who started these seems to be talking to one another to say, hey, how can we work together? And that's how it should, should be. I don't quite know. Um, and in my own community neighborhood of the Huntington area, we just completed a survey on that, but I haven't looked at the results yet because the main question I hear from all my neighbors and residents are, do you know who's coming back? Do you know when people are coming back? If people are coming back? So I don't have any answers on that. But what I can tell you from things I've heard is that it sounds like the intention is to come back and people are trying really hard, and they're trying to make that work financially, and they're trying to make that work with their insurance companies. Uh, and so I think the majority intention is that people want to come back as a nation. I think we can all just keep enhancing our compassion and empathy for when things like this happen. And we've already seen some terrible things happen since the fires at other parts of our nation, not necessarily fire related. Um, I now have more compassion for those communities ever, because I've seen what happened to mine. Mhm. Um, so I hope our nation, um, understands that when these things happen, it affects on so many levels and people need help. And I really hope our nation can, can address the major issues and just and provide the best ways to be there for people in times like this. 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