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As mentioned in article below residents living near these encampments have been complaining about them a long time.



No encampments should be tolerated anywhere in the city .



Would be great to have some common sense people running the place .

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In the wake of December’s Skirball fire, which was believed to have been started in a homeless encampment, the Los Angeles Fire Department has assembled a list of 76 brush-heavy hillside areas where there may be encampments that pose a high fire risk.



A task force of city and county officials was formed in January to work on removing such encampments, with priority being given to regions with the highest fire danger.





The recent blazes put the spotlight on the presence of homeless encampments in brush areas and the fire risks they pose, something many nearby residents have long been aware of and have complained about to city leaders.



https://www.dailynews.com/2018/02/07...officials-say/ It's really unfortunate this is only being done because of the terrible Skirball fire but it's good they are finally working to remove these encampments that should of never been there .As mentioned in article below residents living near these encampments have been complaining about them a long time.No encampments should be tolerated anywhere in the city .Would be great to have some common sense people running the place .----In the wake of December’s Skirball fire, which was believed to have been started in a homeless encampment, the Los Angeles Fire Department has assembled a list of 76 brush-heavy hillside areas where there may be encampments that pose a high fire risk.A task force of city and county officials was formed in January to work on removing such encampments, with priority being given to regions with the highest fire danger.The recent blazes put the spotlight on the presence of homeless encampments in brush areas and the fire risks they pose, something many nearby residents have long been aware of and have complained about to city leaders.

Maybe if the city and the shelters stopped playing games, stopped stealing funds meant to help the homeless and using it to build "committees" and pocketing it (what happened to that 1 billion dollars the city got last year to "fix" this? I saw no changes!), re-opened New Image as a year round drop in shelter, and maybe drop the snotty, apathetic attitudes, the problem would not be nearly as bad as it is now.



Yes, they are clearing encampments. They want a ____ing medal or something? But because they didn't try to tackle the ROOT causes of homelessness, they will be back, or they will just set up elsewhere in the city. They are just rearranging the chairs here folks. Maybe if the city and the shelters stopped playing games, stopped stealing funds meant to help the homeless and using it to build "committees" and pocketing it (what happened to that 1 billion dollars the city got last year to "fix" this? I saw no changes!), re-opened New Image as a year round drop in shelter, and maybe drop the snotty, apathetic attitudes, the problem would not be nearly as bad as it is now.Yes, they are clearing encampments. They want a ____ing medal or something? But because they didn't try to tackle the ROOT causes of homelessness, they will be back, or they will just set up elsewhere in the city. They are just rearranging the chairs here folks.