Los Angeles has started clearing brush from the Sepulveda Basin and will soon tear down homeless encampments.
Mayor Karen Bass spoke at an event hosted by the Salvation Army on Sep. 9, saying she sees fire risks in the area as an emergency.
“We are going to clear out the brush and we are going to have the people move. They absolutely have to move,” Bass said. “The problem in the Sepulveda Basin is a danger to everybody that is unhoused and everybody that is housed, because the number of fires that happen there almost on a daily basis.”…