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All right.

We're going to go now to that press conference.

It looks like it's Catherine Barger speaking right now.

We cannot, and let me make it clear, we will not, allow this to continue to happen.

Those who evacuated have faced imaginableable devastation, displacement, and loss.

We must stand up against opportunists who want to prey on these victims. I will not stand by

and allow an already traumatic experience to be further compounded. I stand here today with the sheriff as he makes an important announcement that will

amplify our ability to protect our vulnerable communities in their time of need.

My deepest thanks to our first responders who have been battling this place and to the

law enforcement officers who have been standing up against criminal and to the law enforcement officers who have been standing up

against criminal activity to the best of their ability. I am confident that these steps we are

taking today will give us extra leverage and support needed to really crack down on this important

issue. To our residents, we stand with you and will continue to stand

up for you. It's frustrating to me when we ask people to evacuate, their greatest fear is,

am I going to come back not only to a home that's standing, but if it is standing, have

people come in and burglarize my home. They shouldn't have to make that choice. So with that, I would

like to introduce our Los Angeles County Sheriff, Robert Luna. Thank you, supervisor. Just so all

of you know, her leadership's amazing. And we've been on the phone consistently with a lot of the challenges that we're facing.

But we remind each other we're facing them together, and we have a lot of good things going on.

So as we're working through this, I want everyone to know that the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has officially requested the support of the California National Guard for both fires, at least in LA County, both the Palisades and Eaton Fire.

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