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i would now like to invite up los angeles city fire chief kristin crawley to give her briefing. thank you. >> good morning, everyone. i'm kristin crowley, los angeles city fire department fire chief. i would like to start with just a moment, if we could, of gratitude. a moment of gratitude for our first responders, our boots on the ground that are battling this intense and multi bel -- and like the chief said we'll continue to work hard to insure that we save people, lives, and property. with that, i'll be touching on a couple of major points. with the pacific palisades fire, we know that it continues to demand a significant amount of resources and attention. a second major brush fire now referred to as the hearst fire has erupted in the silmar area of los angeles. now together these fires are stretching the capacity of emergency services to their maximum limits. the los angeles city fire department is battling these two major fires while also maintaining -- i want to focus on this as well, 911 services for the city's approximate 4 million residents. now, despite the severity of