Heidi Montag calls response to LA wildfires 'unacceptable,' praises husband Spencer Pratt in emotional speech

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00:00Good afternoon. Thank you so much Jeremy for inviting me here and to everybody who

00:05came here and showed up. I wish we were all gathered here for different

00:15circumstances. I wish I was here dropping off my kids at school, seeing you all at

00:23the grocery store. Not marking the one-year anniversary that changed all of

00:30our lives. Looking at your face, I don't just see my neighbors. I see people who

00:37we literally walked through the fire with. One year ago we lost our peace. We lost

00:44our sanctuary. We lost the place that we felt was the safest in the world. For me,

00:51our home wasn't just a home. It was a place where we brought our babies home.

00:58It was the place I rocked them to sleep and dreaming of the years where I would

01:08raise my children. The same place where my husband grew up and had so many amazing

01:14memories of his own. It was our forever. It was where we wanted to be forever. It

01:21was where we wanted to raise our children. And to see all of our dreams go up in flames,

01:28it wasn't just a tragedy. It's a heartbreak that stays with me every night. I remember

01:35the feeling of absolute disbelief and powerlessness as the fire approached on

01:40January 7th. Looking at my children and realizing that the one place that was meant

01:48to keep them safe might be gone forever. As much as that day was about the fire,

01:55today is why that fire was allowed and why they let us burn. Because the truth is my

02:04family and yours were all failed. Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass will tell you the

02:11Palisades fire was an unprecedented act of nature. But nature didn't maintain the

02:18California State Parks. It's unacceptable. It's unacceptable what they let happen. It's

02:26unacceptable that 12 people died that day. People who lost their lives. We need accountability.

02:38We demand accountability. All of us are owed that and our children are owed that. That they

02:44grow up in a state that actually protects them. We cannot let negligence be the new normal.

02:51We are demanding accountability so that no mother has to stand in her driveway and wonder

02:56if her kids are about to lose everything they've ever known. Thank you so much for being our

03:02village this past year. We have truly seen the best of this community in the wake of the

03:08failures. I would like to take a moment to recognize my husband Spencer. Over the last year I've watched

03:19him work tirelessly. Not just for my family but for yours. He has been relentless in exposing the

03:28negligence of the state the city and LADWP. He's not doing this to make friends. In fact he's losing a lot of

03:38people he once thought were friends. But he continues to do this work because he cannot stay silent in the face of

03:44justice. He perseveres because his heart breaks thinking of our barren community.

03:48The place he grew up. The place his parents lost their home. The 12 people who lost their

03:54lives in the fire. He does this all because he loses sleep at night watching our

03:57kids sleep in a bed that's not their own. They let us burn. We will rebuild. We will

04:04recover. And for the sake of our children we will never stop fighting for the truth.