7/ Epilogue: take a listen to Alice using assistive technology on KQED to keep speaking out. It’s a beautiful audio essay www.kqed.org/perspectives...

If you can afford travel time & expense to get the hell out of dodge and you've got kids or older people to think about, that's a good option. But indoor air purifiers & better building infrastructure is going to be essential, speaking as someone who has also been caught in hurricane evac traffic.

Miles from Altadena or Sylmar or PP, smoke is spreading, a public health hazard. For several years I've written about research into smoke's risks and every time I talked to scientists what they learned was worse than before.

Some tips for staying safe inside: www.nytimes.com/live/2023/06...

In 2020, over 2 dozen fires caused >100 care homes to relocate or evacuate seniors. At the time, advocates told us California’s weak oversight left facilities unprepared for emergencies. This could be another big year.

Check on seniors, obtain and use air filters. www.nytimes.com/explain/2022...

Fire takes buildings; smoke steals your lungs.

Avoiding evacuations, and staying inside with clean air, experts say, is the best way to protect older people. If you know people in risky areas who aren't yet under an order to leave, you can still ask questions. calmatters.org/projects/nur...

At KQED our Older and Overlooked reported on the risks climate-worsened wildfires pose to skilled nursing facilities and care homes around California. Pasadena Park is in a risky area, and has had some citations for fire safety concerns, like many other care homes.

www.kqed.org/olderandover...

CNS describes crowd as “hostile” and moving to 9th and Grand, as of 20 minutes ago. How and when did they become hostile? Dispersal order was reported at 10:51; they were hostile 13 minutes later on the wires.

at least in part this seems to be motivated by avoiding street takeovers. but streets in East LA and downtown were closed in anticipation of stunting. the big complaint floated in local media seems to be igniting fireworks. which…this is nothing compared to the 8 days of Independence Day

i get that there have been declared unlawful assemblies in days leading up to this. i wonder about those too.

if we shut down fireworks this fast on the fourth of july we’d probably prevent emergency room visits.

now a dispersal order. 50% of this city rents, and sometimes in high density housing. are so many people fireworking the cops that shutting down the streets is justified?