Widespread looting in LA

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There have been incidents of looting in Los Angeles by people taking advantage of the wildfires, the editor for KNX News Radio in Los Angeles Jerry Edling says.   #LosAngeles #LosAngelesFires

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00:00to see it reduced to rubble and now to have it looted as well.

00:04While you were talking, we were looking at surveillance video of looters in action.

00:11How widespread is the looting at this stage?

00:14Well, it's very widespread.

00:17There have been incidents all the way through the fire, even when the fire was very close.

00:26California has a history of this kind of thing.

00:32It resurged a couple of years ago.

00:35They had a lot of smash and grab looting in department stores, and that was blamed in

00:42some quarters by lax legislation.

00:48This has been a recurring problem in different sectors.

00:52This is in a fire zone.

00:53We had it in department stores before, very high-end department stores, and it just so

01:00happens that this fire came in one of the toniest neighborhoods in Los Angeles.

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