replenish its tranquil features, standing as a testament to the city's commitment to sustainability and resourcefulness.

Step into the unique landscape, which invites visitors to disconnect from the dynamic pace of urban life and rediscover a sense of peace.

So whether you're visiting from across town or from across the world, welcome to LA The visionary concept of establishing a Japanese garden adjacent to the reclamation facility was pioneered by Donald C.

Tillman.

Every element of the grounds has been meticulously crafted to harmonize with the modern architecture and the natural environment of the San Fernando Valley.

Visitors can enjoy an expansive wet scrolling landscape where flowing waterfalls symbolizing heaven, humanity and the earth merge with vibrant greenery and crafted stone lanterns imported from Japanese artisans.

The stillness of the water offers a refuge for the spirit mirroring the vital knowledge shared with Angelinos during a recent emergency preparedness day.

We are at the Autra Museum for the second annual Wildfire Day LA, which is an event that we put on to try to prepare Los Angeles for the next inevitable wildfire emergencies that unfortunately are destined to happen.

Whether it's the wildfires here that taught us an awful lot of lessons in January 2025 or any other kind of life safety emergency our mission now as an 18 year old nonprofit organization working with the LA City Fire Department and other city partners and departments is to bridge that gap in the city whether you have a business whether you own a home rent that you know what to do in case of emergency.

Emergency preparedness is critical and I'm glad the city put on this event Los Angeles is actually very unique in that it has so many possible natural disasters.

It has earthquakes it has literally tsunamis it has flooding in fact the major cause of weather death is heat and as we know with environmental concerns we also wind up having more heat.

So there is something here for everybody.

So while some people might think well I don't live in a home in the hills the high fire severity zone is actually moving further south into our urban areas and everybody is potentially affected by an emergency.

We are all one emergency away from a potential personal disaster Wildfire Day LA is an is one of the many ways that we try to reach out to people whether it's holding public events like these and we've done 10 or more all over the city and county second time that we're here at the Autry which is a great venue.

We're surrounded by wild land right so it's a great frame for what we're trying to teach.

But you know in any case we just take we try to use every conduit every medium every form we can to get the word out right we go into neighborhoods and we do home hardening assessments for free for people that are in the brush, the canyons, the hillsides we go into schools and teach kids how to be more fire safe.

We go to build neighborhood council firewise or fire safe council groups to organize their own neighborhoods to be more prepared we're here working with all the folks that are concerned about how we can be more efficient with preventing wildfire right how can we be more mindful of keeping our towns resilient and so tree people our goal is to help make our wild spaces resilient and that means that after a fire rolls through we want to bring in native plants that are going to do well and recover quickly and also withstand the shortened fire regime.

As well as we want to make communities aware of the benefits of native plants right a healthy ecosystem in the mountains is going to bring a lot more resilience to our communities just down the way trees and native species are going to be better suited for when we have drought they're going to be better suited for when there is wildfire they'll recover quickly and they're going to keep our air cycling clean we're going to have a lot of different benefits from a healthy ecosystem.

So the more we can preserve the wild space the more our cities and our wildlife is going to be happy that we've done so we can do our part in stewarding the land wildfire safety includes a lot of things but one of the most important things that it includes is preparation, awareness and education.

Wildfire safety includes a lot of things, but one of the most important things that it includes is preparation, awareness, and education.

We want every community in CD4 and throughout Los Angeles to understand what they can do to be ready in case of emergency as well as how they can participate in preventing an emergency.

I would tell people to make sure that they understand where their exits are, other than their front door.

I would recommend that people do pack some sort of go kit, which includes their medications, identifying information of their pets if they have them in case they're separated.

If you live in an apartment building, please make yourself aware of where the fire extinguishers are in your building.

Please make sure you keep your fire alarms functioning, which also monitor for gas.

And you know, reach out to your landlord to ask them to engage in safety measures for the entire building, which also might lower their insurance costs if they engage safely on how to protect themselves.

All these things are what we're here to teach today in a way that hopefully people can deal with in an affordable and viable way so that they don't feel overwhelmed like there's so much to do, I just won't do anything.

We want them to do something, do one thing, do three things over time, and over time they're gonna get in a better position to withstand a wildfire, and we know they're coming, unfortunately.

It's 1.5 acres, just one way, it's 153 yards.

Capacity is over 3,000, zero depth entry, so it means I it's safe for old family, the middle kids.

It's 1.5 million gallons of water with two beautiful water slides and the obstacle course in the middle of the pool.

So in the city of LA, we have over 50 swimming pools.

So there's a pool near your house.

From San Pedro to Silmark, Is LA, West LA, we have a pool.

Not only we have a pool with well-trained life courts, but we have amazing programs.

We do over 25,000 lessons, swim lessons in the city of LA every year.

We have over 800 kids in our Junior Life Co program, and over 6,000 kids are part of our swim team, water polo, artistic swimming, springboat diving.

So we have an aquatics program for all of Angelino.

So anytime you're on water, if you're at the lake, you're at the beach, you're at a pool, anywhere, always swim near a lifeguard.

It's critical that you kids are supervised at all times, anytime they're close to the water, you know, kids can drown in like a few inches of water, so never never leave your kids unattended.

During the summertime, you know, there's a lot of friends, family, they they have pool parties.

It's a lot of drownings that happen in bike care pools.

So as a parent, there's a lot of things that you can do at home to make sure your pools are safe.

First, you gotta have a fence.

Make sure you have a fence with a gate that you can lock.

You gotta have an alarm.

It's good to have equipment in case you know somebody goes in the water and whoever's watching them doesn't know how to swim.

Make sure you have a ring buoy.

A ring buoy can make a big difference on saving somebody's life where anybody can see it, grab it, and throw it to whoever's in the water struggling, whoever needs help.

Knowing how to use it, how to throw it to make a big difference.

Also, a body hook.

You put on the wall next to the ring buoy so you can reach and hook the body and bring them in.

Or have somebody hold on to it like struggle in the water and bring them in.

By having those two pieces of equipment can make a big, big difference.

So each facility, you know, we have a safety plan.

By having well-trained life force at all of our 50 plus facilities in the city of LA.

Uh our job is to educate the public in water safety.

So when you come in, you have a good safe experience.

So this summer, make it a point to visit our pools and take a swim lesson.

Give us a shut.