fromLos Angeles Times
2 weeks agoWith Pacific Palisades in spotlight, Altadena fights for attention, post-fire justice
"If you just dropped in from another planet and you didn't know and you started looking at L.A. wildfires ... you would think the only area that was hit was Pacific Palisades," said Earl Ofari Hutchinson, president of the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable. "West Altadena has gotten lost in the shuffle." The historically Black community, made up primarily of working-class families, didn't receive evacuation alerts until the fire had already descended on their neighborhoods.
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