Amid the devastation of the California wildfires, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna addresses the growing concerns of looting in evacuation zones. In this interview with KCAL's Ross Palombo, Sheriff Luna discusses the potential for a curfew to protect properties, updates on recent arrests, and the resources being deployed to help affected communities. Watch as he provides crucial information on how authorities are tackling the crisis.
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00:00Just a quick overview, we have close to 500 sheriff deputies working throughout the county,
00:08working on evacuations, working on traffic control, both ingress and egress, and we are
00:16also working what we call looter suppression.
00:19It's unfortunate that we have to assign people to do that task, but we have, and we have
00:25made arrests behind that.
00:27In regards to resources on the way to this press conference, our northern command made
00:35a request for 100 more deputies, or roughly 100 more deputies, so we are in the process
00:42from a mutual aid perspective of sending what we have internally and then requesting resources
00:48from counties around us as we are working, as you see and hear, many different priorities.
00:57Because this event continues and we continue to get new fires, the mayor mentioned it,
01:02Chief McDonald mentioned it, I've been working with the state, the Office of Emergency Services,
01:09for the last several days in trying to estimate the California National Guard and how they
01:17would be utilized.
01:19We made the official request earlier today, and I'm happy to report that they have been
01:26staged and ready to go.
01:30They're going to be start, they're going to get deployed to specific missions.
01:35The first missions will be at the Palisades Fire, at the Eaton Fire.
01:40They will be supporting the city of Los Angeles as well.
01:43Mayor Bass and Chief McDonald made that request to us.
01:47There are several other cities that have requested National Guard resources, the city
01:52of Santa Monica, the city of Pasadena, the city of Arcadia.