ALTADENA, California — After being largely reduced to ashes by wildfire, Altadena was being patrolled by National Guard soldiers on Friday.
For residents of this devastated Los Angeles suburb, the arrival of these men in uniform is too little, too late.'We didn't see a single firefighter while we were throwing buckets of water to defend our house against the flames' on Tuesday night, said Nicholas Norman, 40.'They were too busy over in the Palisades saving the rich and famous's properties, and they let us common folks burn,' said the teacher.But the fire did not discriminate.
But this explanation alone falls short for many Californians, thousands of whom have lost everything.Karen Bass, the city's mayor, has come in for heavy criticism because she was visiting the African nation of Ghana when the fire started, despite dire weather warnings in the preceding days.Budget cuts to the fire department, and a series of evacuation warnings erroneously sent to millions of people this week, have only stoked the anger further.
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