Listening in on a town hall for a water district that services places like Agoura Hills, Calabasas, Hidden Hills, discussing water restrictions amid the drought.
One of the questions:

"We have a a few large Koi pond with over 100 fish, is there a special exemption for them." The answer to this question was: Please fill out a budget request form on our website and we can review your request.

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My anti-vax sister just got vaccinated!!!! For the greater good 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽 She approves this message 🙌🏽

More than a month after the LAPD blew up a street block while detonating a cache of illegal fireworks, the ATF report is being released at a community meeting tonight. Only 27th street residents are allowed in. No media, no community organizers latimes.com/california/sto… I gave a resident a recorder to take in with her during the meeting and officers held her up because of it. Ended up in a back and forth with officers over it and once they checked with higher ups that it was ok, they let her and her daughter in

Ready for their shot, vaccine stragglers explain why they waited.

Spent the day at a vaccine clinic. A majority of Latinos I talked to said they had gotten COVID already and felt they had immunity. Says a lot about the conversations we need to be having

latimes.com/california/sto… The people who finally changed their minds cited pastors who helped sway them and Spanish language TV sharing examples of people who had waited to get vaccinated and gotten sick before they could get the shot.

For my latest story, I spent the morning with housekeepers who meet every morning in a Westwood cafe. Over the last few weeks their numbers have dropped as bosses tell them not to come over fear of #coronavirus “They don’t pay and the bills keep coming.” latimes.com/california/sto… There are an estimated 2.5 million domestic workers across the country. Most don’t have access to healthcare and 83% do not get paid sick days, according to @aijenpoo, founder and director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance.

A thread: Getty fire: Housekeepers, gardener go to work despite the flames - Los Angeles Times latimes.com/california/sto… I met Carmen Solano when I spotted her taxi pulling up into a driveway. I’d just seen homes on fire a street over and immediately wondered why she was arriving instead of leaving. Turns out she was a housekeeper and had no idea the area was under mandatory evacuation

So today was truly insane. I’m finally home and can recap the surreal experience I had. I’ve been reporting on fires for the @latimes for four years and I’ve never seen one like this. #WoolseyFire I thought when I started my day that this huge cloud of smoke was the worst it was going to get. Traffic was super jammed up on the PCH, which meant there was no turning back unless I wanted to be stuck in traffic for 5 hours