County Officials Provide Update on Los Angeles Wildfires

In this video, county officials provide an update as firefighters are battling to control major fires in the Los Angeles area

Transcript

00:00It is safe to say that the Palisades fire is one of the most destructive

00:06natural disasters in the history of Los Angeles

00:10Damage assessments are ongoing at the Palisades fire. However

00:15preliminary reports estimate the damage or destroyed structures to be in the thousands

00:21evacuation orders are impacting

00:241,000 or a hundred and seventy nine thousand seven hundred and eighty three

00:28Residents that's nearly a hundred and eighty thousand people in Los Angeles County that are currently under evacuation orders

00:36with another close to

00:38200,000 residents that under evacuation

00:41Warnings I'm going out through my staff

00:44Hey

00:44Give me some stories where our deputies are just constantly putting their life on the line and in every

00:50Example I'm given is as a result of somebody who chose not to evacuate. I don't want to tell those stories anymore

00:58I don't want to give stories of our first responders being injured

01:02Specifically our communities being injured, please if you're told to evacuate

01:07evacuate