25: PREVIEW Rick Caruso Visits Massive Homeless Encampments Posing Fire Threat in Sepulveda Basin. Jeff Bliss discusses the persistent issue of homeless encampments in California, specifically mentioning the massive Sepulveda Basin recreation area near Encino
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🗓️ 24 October 2025
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Rick Caruso Visits Massive Homeless Encampments Posing Fire Threat in Sepulveda Basin. Jeff Bliss discusses the persistent issue of homeless encampments in California, specifically mentioning the massive Sepulveda Basin recreation area near Encino, which dwarfs Central Park and has hosted encampments for 10 years. These sites are seen as a severe fire threat because people are cooking or keeping warm and small fires quickly escalate in bad conditions. Firemen respond daily to calls, and large parts of the recreation area have burned. Rick Caruso, an outspoken politician, is on the scene, showing awareness and a desire to make changes.
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| 0:26.1 | about fires in areas that are exclusively dominated by the so-called homeless California, |
| 0:34.8 | people who camp out in the woods. Here Jeff speaks to a place called |
| 0:39.2 | Sepulveda, near Encino, I believe, a large recreational area where there's been an |
| 0:45.7 | encampment for 10 years. Rick Caruso, the outspoken politician who always comments on the |
| 0:53.9 | fires and the palisades, is here walking around, looking at the encampments. |
| 0:59.8 | Why it's tolerated is unknown, but it is a threat. |
| 1:03.9 | And this year, we're told, Jeff tells me, people are concerned that they should be removed because of the fires of last year. |
| 1:12.3 | This is also true in Malibu. |
| 1:15.0 | The puzzle always for those of us who do not live in California is why it's permitted in the first place. |
| 1:22.8 | Fire in a forest, people who are cooking or keeping warm and are not given to being responsible |
| 1:29.9 | about their own lives, let alone someone else's. |
| 1:33.5 | A threat, always a threat. |
| 1:35.3 | And the way fires work in California with the wind and the bad conditions, a little fire |
| 1:41.4 | becomes a big fire very, very quickly. |
| 1:44.7 | Here's Jeff to explain what's going on right now, and Rick Caruso's on the scene. |
| 1:50.3 | More of this tonight. |
| 1:52.1 | Well, the one you're talking about is an Encino in a place called the Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area. |
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