Residents who are already going through a lot after losing their homes in the Iton fire now should worry about something else: robbery.
Lieutenant Ethan Marquis of the Tadina station in the Los Angeles Provincial Ministry, confirmed that 142 robberies have been reported in the Iton Fire area of burning since the beginning of the year.
This represents an increase in “several hundred percent”.
The increase in crime causes great concern for the residents of the region, who say society usually does not contain many robberies. The case is the fact that more than 1,600 homes were lost in the fire, leaving “not many eyes” to monitor the evil activity in the region.
“The majority of the population is no longer to the area, so there are no many eyes in itself,” said Litanant Marqus. “This has provided opportunities to try to benefit.”
Kimberly Cheng of KTLA 5 spoke with one real estate owner in Altadena on Monday, whose house is still one of the few who are still standing, although most of his neighbors’ homes are not.
He refused to go to the camera, he said that his house had been hit three times since the Eiton fire broke out on January 7.
He said that the first accident occurred on the night that the fire broke out after his family evacuated. It has been targeted twice in the past three weeks; Thieves took the tools and photography equipment from his mirror.
The man also added at least two nearby housing on the same street.
The unknown resident Ktla told that he believed that more neighborhood patrols will help, as well as bring the National Guard, who were already deployed in Fire Palisades.
He pointed out that these patrols will mainly need to be conducted at night, because the region is generally busy with contractors and the demolition sets during the day.
Speaking of law enforcement in the region, the Fifth Province, Catherine Barger, whose area includes Altadena, said it’s not “not” [her] Call “whether or not more officers can be deployed.
“What I was told is that the National Guard in this field, [but] Ktla was told on Monday: [being deployed] It was exaggerated. “
“At the end of the day, we have [the sheriff’s department] Here, I prefer to give additional resources to [them] To do more patrols, “Barger added.
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