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Circling the News

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Circling the News

@CirclingN

Local LA news source! Independent journalist reporting on what matters.

Pacific Palisades

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Aug 16, 2025
I asked FireAid who was paying for the lawyers that they hired about the money distribution. No answer. I asked how many fire stations/trucks were sent to the Palisades Fire. No answer. I asked how many electrical poles were destroyed in the fire. No answer. These are not hard
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Jul 18, 2025
Marla Tellez on Fox, listened as this editor spoke about where the FireAid Funds went--Surprise - it didn't go to the victims.
FireAid Sue Pascoe at 6P__636c04d7-f813-449e-b0fa-eaba56e1ec3e.mp4
From dropbox.com
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@CirclingN
Jun 27, 2025
FireAid money goes to nonprofits, who purport to help those who were affected by the fires. Instead those nonprofits donate to other nonprofits. No money for the victims. Why doesn't anyone care?
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@CirclingN
Jul 13, 2025
L.A. Mayor Karen Bass is giving cash cards with "couple hundred dollars" on them. Are they going to fire victims that lost everything? Nooo. They're going to immigrants who are in need of cash. And fire victims are not in need of cash?
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@CirclingN
Jul 22, 2025
In a press release, L.A. Mayor Karen Bass noted that she has met with children who had to leave MacArthur Park because of a military-style operation designed to strike fear. It’s amazing that the children were not afraid of junkies, needles, mentally ill or the homeless
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Aug 4, 2025
People across the United States should know about California Insurance and the fires. The game is: insurance pays some, then holds off paying more until they’re forced or someone takes them to court, or people give up. Unethical behavior condoned in the Golden State
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Jul 18, 2025
If you want your soul sucked out, go to a two-hour city/community council meeting and listen to politicians and politican wannabees wax on. And you have to attend, so you can stop them if they propose something awful.
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Aug 27, 2025
A 93-year-old man thanked the Army Corps for clearing his lot after the Palisades Fire. He said he doesn't want to live anyplace else and wants to rebuild. There are so many elderly who just want to go home, but can't because someone allowed the town to burn.
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Jul 25, 2025
CalVolunteers, Governor Gavin Newsom's state nonprofit "magically" disappeared off the list of FireAid receipients. Did they give the money back, or just take the name off the site?
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@CirclingN
Aug 3, 2025
FireAid administrators hired high-powered attorneys to prove that the advertising during concerts saying money would go to fire victims really meant it would fund nonprofits. And are the lawyers being paid through FireAid funds?
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@CirclingN
Aug 2, 2025
I was told that FireAid money going to nonprofits is good because the people running them are sooo caring. Nice to know. I care about the victims/survivors who lost everything, and need the money more than a nonprofit executive, with a six-figure salary.
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@CirclingN
Jun 19, 2025
People in Pacific Palisades don't have money to rebuild homes after the Palisades Fire, yet all the money that was collected by FireAid, meant for victims, is going to nonprofits. Such an injustice. circlingthenews.com/nonprofits-sco……dual-not-so-much/
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Aug 1, 2025
Where will the last $25 Million from FireAid go? One reader speculates that since FireAid has hired lawyers Latham & Watkins “we now know where that last $25 million is going! It’s bad enough for the dollars to go to nonprofits but even worse to high priced lawyers."
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Jul 27, 2025
In order to rebuild our home (destroyed by the Palisades Fire), we had to sign a form saying we’d remove any graffiti on the job site. To be fair, Mayor Bass should sign a form saying the city will remove graffiti from the freeway walls and downtown, too.
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