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And I think we have to be attentive to adjusting and preparing for the ways that it's going to impact us from day to day. Um, I also think we should remember that everything we have is subject to change from one day to the next, and that the preciousness of each day and the things that we can hold on to, um, are fragile and transient. I think that the emergency planning could stand to be improved. I think that the evacuation of the Palisades was, um, disappointingly difficult and frightening for the people involved. And when you think about other areas in Los Angeles that are potentially subject to fire, um, there are other areas where you can foresee that it would be even worse for people to get out. And I think that the city needs to focus more planning and more thought and more preparation on how to address that when it happens. I'll make it short because it was a long time I was in the house when the fire broke out. I walked outside, I smelled smoke, I looked up the hill and there was smoke rising behind me. And because we live in the Palisades, and because that happens, I walk back in the house and went back to what I was doing. And then about, I don't know, 10 to 15 minutes later, I heard a car horn honking and someone was coming down the hill from above us, um, shouting that the fire was in her backyard and that everybody needed to get out. And just then my phone went off with an evacuation warning, not evacuation, but just prepare to evacuate. And I said, okay, I guess this is serious. And I went back in the house and grabbed a few things, put it in the car, saw other neighbors milling around outside, helped a neighbor get another person into her car. And that went on. And without going into extravagant detail, that was 20 minutes to half an hour until I finally got in my car and rolled down the hill about 100 yards until I had to stop, because there were all these cars stacked up in front of me. So I didn't even get off our street sitting there, sitting there. Marquez elementary is at the bottom of our hill. I think what happened, but I don't know, is that eventually the teachers and other Marquez personnel were able to direct traffic and get parents to be able to pick up their kids to get out of the school, at which point the traffic let up and I was able to get out. I drove down through Marquez Knolls and, uh, got to the bottom of I don't remember the name of the street, but I could turn left on sunset or right on sunset. Right. Being towards the intersection of PCH and sunset. Left being towards the village. Unfortunately, I chose to go left. Um, and I say unfortunately, because I ended up sitting in traffic for maybe the next hour or two hours. Um, I understand from other people who had turned right that if you went right down towards Self-Realization fellowship and PCH and sunset, that the whole thing was on fire, but because it was on fire, they were letting people go through onto the onto PCH and people got out that way, even though it was tremendously harrowing. So over the next, I don't know how long hour to two hours. I eventually get to the corner of Sunset and Bienvenida. And they say, the cops say to me, okay, there's two traffics, two lanes of traffic going west and one, two going east. They say, can you pull up into what was otherwise a westbound lane so that there's now three lanes going east? And because they need the space on the street to be able to pull cars in, because people need to get out of the hills, because the hills are burning and they don't want to leave cars up in the hills. And so now I'm sitting the first in a row of cars at the intersection of Sunset and Bienvenida facing west, and eventually a police officer comes by and sorry, I'm watching and cars are just pouring out of the hills in front of me, and they're letting those cars go through because they're trying to get cars out of the hill. After some period of time not moving, a police officer knocks on my window and says, if you want, you can get out of your car now and start walking. And And I say, I don't understand this. And I turned my head, and there's a woman with a black SUV who's opened the doors and takes her two children out, and they literally go running up sunset. And I held down another police officer sitting in my car and I said, sorry, this other officer just said that I can get out and walk now if I want. Can you tell me what's going on? And he says, well, Self-Realization fellowship is burning and the fire is coming up the hill so we can all get out and walk now, or we might have to run in a little while. Okay. And they're telling people just to leave their cars in traffic. And I say, well, can I at least pull my car over to the side here? They say, yeah, it's a good idea because otherwise how are emergency vehicles going to get through? And he says, yeah, good. They're going to probably have to bulldoze these cars. So I get my car out of the way, facing now east facing west on an eastbound lane in the parking lane at the corner of Sunset and Bienvenida. And I grabbed my backpack, which included the small things that I was able to gather from the house. I look at the photo albums that I dumped in the trunk, and I walk from there through the Palisades, where there were some very crazy scenes down Chautauqua, up the PCH and managed to meet up with our friends kids in their car who were driving. And I got into the car with them and they dropped me off. One of my daughters school and I eventually met up with my family. One of the ways that we were fortunate through this experience is that the kids who had picked me up on the PCH were the children of friends of mine who I've known for 2530 years, who moved to the Palisades before we did. And they were the reason that we went to the Palisades and and once I'd gathered with my family, they happened to have a house in Orange County, so that's where we went. So from the moment that we arrived at their place in Orange County, we were really with the people who represented the Palisades to us and were the reason that we were there. And we were on the phone with other people in the Palisades and texting and calling and checking in with people. So it never left that. I think it goes back to what I said at the beginning, which is just all of these things, all of the day to day, the things that we take for granted, the familiarity, the sense of community is, is precious and it's transient and it's it's more fragile than we think it is when we're experiencing it day to day. So I think being attentive to it and valuing it and not allowing it to recede into the background, actively appreciating it day to day is the most important thing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164607/file/299716#t=4.08,462.15"}]},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164607/file/299716/index/90474","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Auto-generated Index (2025-12-16 22:09:59) [Index]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164607/file/299716/index/90474/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Respecting Climate Forces and the Fragility of Daily Life","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164607/file/299716#t=0.0,48.0"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164607/file/299716/index/90474/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The speaker reflects on the changing climate and its increasing impact on daily life, emphasizing the need for attentiveness and adaptability. 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