When the fires crossed the Palisades earlier this year, they not only burned houses, but also altered the livelihoods in the community.
Many companies are still without a house three months after Devastators Forest Fire of California. The flames damaged or destroyed more than 16,000 structures in January, without a timeline for when they will be rebuilt.
When the fires crossed the Palisades earlier this year, they not only burned houses, but also altered the livelihoods in the community.
But, many people who work and live in Las Palisades do not accept defeat. Instead, they are adapting to their new routines.
Molly Rabuchin has worked at Elyse Walker for 18 years. (Sunny Tsai / Foxbusiness)
“We closed the store, never thinking that I was going to enter the city, and none of us returned after that. So we went with anything,” said Elyse Walker Molly Rabuchin’s VIP stylist.
Molly Rabuchin has been working on Elyse Walker for 18 years. He flagship for the clothing store It was built in 1999.
But on January 7, the Buy burned.
“He was heartbreaking. It has been a kind of basic element of the Palisades … and for more than 20 years, we have had regular customers, and it was like a family,” Rabuchin said.
The team is taking this time to work creatively. (Sunny Tsai / Foxbusiness)
The store has two other branches in southern California, and Elyse Walker’s team is turning January devastation into new opportunities.
“I think it’s making us creative, so we are doing More emerging windows …And also contributing to charity and turn charity, so it makes us sell in a different way, “Rabuchin said.
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For others, the workload actually increased.
“Obtain properties, prepare the paperwork, obtain permits and then enter, separate different types of rubble from each other, load everything, transport everything, again and again,” said the construction owner Hart, Chuck Hart.
Chuck Hart is a private contractor from Las Palisades. He has been on stage since the first day to rebuild his community.
Chuck Hart has been on stage since the first day to help rebuild his community. (Sunny Tsai / Foxbusiness)
“It has literally been uninterrupted, before the sun arrives after the sun falls every day,” Hart said.
Hart has 12 projects registered and ready to rebuild.
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“And then we have a long list of people who say they want to work with us,” Hart said.
Chuck is like many other Palisadians who say they just want their community to return as it was. (Sunny Tsai / Foxbusiness)
It is like many other Palisadios who say they just want their community to return as it was.
“Hopefully what happens is that everyone joins, and it will not look very different from what it seemed before, because I am not interested in a great increase here, and then here, no,” Hart said.
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Together with private contractors such as Hart, the US Army Engineers. UU. It has more than 100 crews in the palisades that eliminate debris. There is still no timeline for when that will be complete.
