3424 or you can send an email to LAFD.

Brush.

ACCTG at LACity.org.

We understand that many people might be worried about their neighbors' property and that they might have a fire hazard because of some overgrown brush.

And how would you report that?

So, first off, we want you to know that the fire department wants to hear your concerns so we can provide the clearance necessary for our firefighters to protect your property and your neighborhood.

So you can report a brush fire hazard by email to LAFD brush at LACity.org.

Now please make sure that you include the exact location of the brush hazards, the address.

If you have the APN, that would be even better.

But of course, you need to put a brief description of what the hazards are and where those hazards are on the property.

And of course, it's best not to go looking at those hazards on that neighbor's property without permission.

You also can make your complaint by phone.

That same phone number we provided before to our brush clearance unit is 1-800-994-444.

And again, we welcome your complaint, but remember too that we have limited resources to take your call, and those hours are from 7 a.m.

to 3 p.m.

Monday through Friday.

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Hello everyone, I'm Natalia Vilvao, and here's what's happening in LA this week.

Light is overcoming the darkness.

Council Member Nathia Rahman hosted a celebration of Duwali, known as the Festival of Lights at City Hall.

The Indian community came together to celebrate with all the joy that this spread festival brings.

We are here in Council Chambers, and we are doing our Diwali presentation, and we have two incredible guests.

As well as the new consul general for a new consulate that's opening up right here in Los Angeles, the second consulate here in the state of California.

Appropriate given the number of South Asians and people who want to travel to India, but it's incredibly exciting to welcome them as well as so many members of our community here.

So I'm so proud to return to City Hall for the first time in three years as a guest of Council Member Ramon to celebrate Diwali.

And the last two and a half years, I've been representing Los Angeles and representing our country as U.S.

ambassador in India.

And as exciting as Diwali is here, let me tell you, in India, it is a moment when the entire country celebrates.

You see lights and dias, these blessings that people put out, firecrackers going off, people dancing, singing, and really remembering the things that are about light, overcoming darkness, good, overcoming bad.

So this is very close to my heart because every other country has representation here, but our Indian consulate wasn't here.

So it means a lot that Diwali is brought to a lot of people and that we can share our culture as well as the teachings of our festival.

It's not religious, it's more victory of a good over evil, but it's more celebration of lights.

So that everybody is getting on the lighted path.

We are quite excited in the community, and also having opened the Indian consulate for the first time ever in Los Angeles.

We look forward for this collaboration and cooperation between the two countries, and especially with Los Angeles, which is so diverse today.

And so many Indian people with the Indian outfits coming to the city hall, which reaching here, it's not easy with the LA traffic, but a lot of Indian community came here to represent Diwali as now it is as our California state holiday.

So it means a lot to represent at this level.

It's such a proud moment for us Indian Americans to be celebrating Diwali, the Festival of Lights, uh the Los Angeles City Hall.

We've worked so hard, there's so many of us, and to have that representation in Los Angeles, it really means so much to us.

Definitely, it means so much to finally be represented on such a big stage, and very big special uh shout out to Councilwoman Nitya Rahman for all the work that she's done to put together such a wonderful, lovely event.

I know how hard it is to grow up without others knowing your culture.

So I felt it's very that it was very important for us to get Diwali approved within California.

Governor Newsom signed AB 286 into law this year, designating Diwali as a state holiday, only the third state in America to do so, and this was in no small part thanks to the efforts of the Valley Indian Seniors Association and Nishta Goal, who lobbied and pushed for this.