Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass shared during a Thursday virtual community council meeting that her brother was among the thousands who lost their homes in the Southern California Palisades Fire.
“The loss that you’re going through, I share indirectly. It’s hit my family too,” Bass said. “My brother, who has lived in Malibu for 40 years, been through many fires, evacuated many times — this time didn’t get away.”
The meeting, attended by nearly 1,000 people via Zoom, included Bass and other public officials addressing the community.
Bass shared that the house lost in the fire “was my family home where we went on the holidays” and described the experience as “a type of shock and grief that is trauma that will be with us for a long time.”…