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Last week, on Thursday, they had a tense meeting up in the San Fernando Valley in the Encino area.

Because there is a very, if you're not familiar with the area, you don't live there, there's a very large and beautiful park.

It's called the Sepulata Basin Recreation Area.

And it covers a large swath of land just north of the 101 up to, up to Victory Boulevard.

And then again, from east to west, it goes from west of the 405 to White Oak.

So it's a large area, and it's got everything.

It's got baseball fields and a golf course and, I mean, you name it. It's like a

supersized park. Lots of people go there. And lots of homeless live there. And people are really

fed up with hundreds of homeless people. They think maybe up to 300 are living there. But what's worse is they, they start

700 fires a year, or at least in the last year and a half. And it's about one call to the L.A.

Fire Department every day.

And so people went to a meeting.

And I imagine it was pretty intense because the fire department deputy chief, Jamie Moore, said,

I want to bring some calmness to the room.

I can feel the tension all the way up here.

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