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On Monday afternoon, firefighters were called to the Sepulveda Basin to respond to a brushfire at a homeless encampment. Ten firefighters were injured, one very seriously, when something exploded in the encampment. Officials said the cause of the fire and the explosion are “under investigation.

” How suspenseful. Maybe they’ll find out that a hot-headed squirrel finally had all he could take. Or maybe, wait for it, maybe the fire and explosion were caused by a homeless encampment in the Sepulveda Basin.



How much of the budget of every fire department in California is spent fighting fires in and around homeless encampments? As always in California, the answer from government officials is, “This is why you have to pay higher taxes.” The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted on Tuesday to place a new sales tax increase on the November ballot for voter approval. The measure is an initiative, and proponents collected signatures from voters in L.

A. County to place it on the ballot. The supervisors technically had two choices on Tuesday.

They could vote to put on it on the ballot now, or they could vote to request a report to be returned to them in 30 days and then vote to put it on the ballot. They voted to put it on the ballot now. Waiting 30 days would likely have caused the initiative to miss the deadline for the November election, and the Board of Supervisors has been battling to get this tax increase on the ballot since June 2023.

They pushed for legislation t.

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