Jessica Rogers, president of the Pacific Palisades Residents Association, told Newsmax on Monday that her neighborhood "lost an entire community" to the Los Angeles wildfires last week.
Rogers, who lost her own home, said on "Wake Up America" that the situation is "absolutely unthinkable."
"The worst part of it is when you realize that it's not just that you lost your home," she said. "Lot of people lose their homes. It’s that you lost an entire community, your churches, your schools, all of your resources."
She added that "the real support that we need right now is we need our new president-elect to come" and visit the Pacific Palisades to see the damage firsthand.
"I would love to give him a detailed tour of that community, let him know what the heart of the community felt like and what it needs to return back to," she said.
Rogers went on to point out that residents "have concerns of rezoning. We have concerns of tax issues for rebuilding. This is a community that was started many decades ago and began to thrive in the 1960s. Lots of elderly people live there. Lots of homes were passed on to families. We want to keep it ... as a community."
Rogers added: "We need to keep it as a village. It is one of the one and only in California and currently with the existing laws and policies of our California leadership, we are in absolute jeopardy of not just losing our homes, not just losing our community, but actually losing the value and what the Pacific Palisades stands for."
Rogers added that her message for California Gov. Gavin Newsom would be that "the current zoning of the Pacific Palisades absolutely has to remain the same."
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