After Visiting Palisades Fire Site, Kamala Harris Calls For Leaders To "Understand How We Must Do Better"

KCAL News, CBS Los Angeles

February 7, 2025

After surveying destruction left by the Palisades Fire, former Vice President Kamala Harris said Thursday an increasingly longer California fire season is requiring leaders to think about how they can "do better" in addressing and handling the natural disasters.

"These extreme weather conditions have become far more frequent than we have historically been used to," Harris told reporters, following a visit to the burn area of the wildfire, which spread from the coast to an area of west LA near her Brentwood home.

"We as a nation, as we think about where we are headed, we must see the opportunities that these crises are presenting to understand how we must do better," she said as she spoke from an evacuation shelter in Westwood. "And we can do better around the reality of what we can expect going forward."

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