When the fires were torn in Palisades earlier this year, they not only burned homes, they also changed living in the community.
Many businesses are still homeless three months after California’s devastating fires. The flames damaged or destroyed more than 16,000 structures in January, without a time limit when they will be rebuilt.
When the fires were torn in Palisades earlier this year, they not only burned homes, they also changed living in the community.
But many people who work and live in Palisades are not accepting losses. On the contrary, they are adapting to their new routines.
Molly Rabuchin has worked in Elyse Walker for 18 years. (Tsai with Sun / Foxbbuiness)
“We closed the store, never thinking it would come to the city, and none of us came back after that. So we left with nothing,” said Vip Elyse Walker Molly Rabuchin.
Molly Rabuchin has worked in Elyse Walker for 18 years. The flag for the clothing store was built in 1999.
But on January 7, the store burned.
“It was heartbroken. It has been a kind of Palisades element … and for more than 20 years, we have had repeated clients, and it was like a family,” Rabuchin said.
The team is taking this time to work creatively. (Tsai with Sun / Foxbbuiness)
The store has two more branches in southern California, and the team in Elyse Walker is turning the destruction of January into new opportunities.
“I think it’s making us make creative, so we’re doing more pop-up … and also contributing to charity and making a charity turn, so it’s making us sell in another way,” Rabuchin said.
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For others, the workload actually increased.
“Taking properties, preparing ready -made documents, receiving permits and then entry, separating different types of waste from one another, loading them all, transporting them all, a little further and again,” said the owner of the construction of the Map Built Chuck Hart.
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Chuck Hart is a private contractor from palisades. He has been on stage since the first day to rebuild his community.
Chuck Hart has been on stage since the first day to help rebuild his community. (Tsai with Sun / Foxbbuiness)
“It has been literally without stop – before the sun comes out after the sun every day,” Hart said.
The Hart already has 12 registered and ready to rebuild projects.
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“And then we have a long list of people who say they want to work with us,” Hart said.
Chuck is like many other Palisadians who say they just want their community to return as it was. (Tsai with Sun / Foxbbuiness)
He is like many other Palisadians who say that they just want their community to return as it was.
“Hopefully what will happen is that everyone will come together, and it will not look much different than it seemed before, because I’m not interested in any high rise here, and then here, not,” Hart said.
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Together with private contractors such as the map, the US Army Engineers Corps has more than 100 crews in Palisades removing waste. There is still no time limit when this will be complete.
