It’s Thursday, February 27, and yes, you do have room in your home for another cat.
On today’s L.A. Local podcast: Hollywood lost one of its all-time greats under mysterious circumstances. A high-stakes City Council meeting tomorrow night will decide the former fire chief's fate, and with egg prices hitting record highs, why not rent your own chicken?
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1. Former LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley is appealing her removal.
Crowley, who was fired by Mayor Karen Bass last week, sent an email to the L.A. City Council today to begin the appeal process. This sets the stage for a high stakes city council vote tomorrow night, when the council could decide to overturn Crowley's dismissal.
Councilmember Monica Rodriguez has called the firing “scapegoating” and encouraged Crowley to appeal the “baseless termination.”
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2. Gene Hackman, his wife, and their dog were found dead in their home.
The Oscar-winning actor and his wife both appear to have fallen and died suddenly in separate rooms, but causes of death haven’t been determined.
“He was just, I mean, just magical in terms of taking people into, taking viewers into a situation, into a character,” Variety co-editor-in-chief Cynthia Littleton told KNX News.
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3. The Palisades and Eaton fires caused between $28B and $53.8B in property damage, a new report says.
The study also projected economic losses of up to $8.9 billion in L.A. County alone over the next five years because of business disruptions.
“We have to learn the lessons of this fire and previous fires. We have to build homes better ... so we don't repeat this terrible tragedy,” said Gray Davis, co-chair of the Southern California Leadership Council, which commissioned the report.
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4. L.A. spends $1B a year on homelessness. Where does it go?
That’s a question Councilmember Nithya Raman hopes to answer. She introduced a motion today to create a data collection bureau within the housing department to make sure every dollar is spent as effectively as possible.
“The data that comes to City Council is piecemeal, and it's very, very intermittent, so it doesn’t give us a full picture of how our units are getting used or how quickly they’re getting filled,” Raman told KNX News’ Nataly Tavidian.
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A cat found in the Eaton Fire burn scar is up for adoption.
Three-year-old Whiskers was taken into Best Friends Animal Society with burnt paws, but he recovered well after a few days and is now looking for his forever home.
“He was healing so well that he went to a foster home so he could have a nice, quiet, calm, and loving environment to finish up his healing in,” Marcela Ramos told KNX News’ Emily Valdez.
