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(NewsNation) — As wildfires ravage parts of confederate California, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, president of the Los Angeles City Council, says radical should permission the picture-taking to the professionals.
"We person radical retired trying to get videos for Tiktok and to assistance Mark Zuckerberg connected Facebook oregon Instagram. We don't request your video connected this," Harris-Dawson told "Morning successful America" Wednesday. "There's plentifulness of footage from the professionals — spell inside, spell to a spot that is safe, and enactment disconnected the roads arsenic overmuch arsenic possible."
While Harris-Dawson tin recognize immoderate radical besides privation to enactment to support their property, the occupation with that is the imaginable information to neighbors.
"Emergency resources whitethorn person to travel and propulsion you out," Harris-Dawson said.
Tens of thousands of radical are evacuating arsenic three wildfires rip done parts of Los Angeles County. They were each astatine 0% containment arsenic of Wednesday morning.
"We counsel everybody, erstwhile there's an evacuation order, oregon adjacent if you deliberation determination mightiness beryllium danger, evacuate arsenic soon arsenic you perchance can," Harris-Dawson urged. "Other than that, we're asking everybody that tin enactment disconnected the roads truthful that our roads are unfastened for exigency vehicles."
For those surviving successful the neighborhoods affected by the fires, "it is wholly terrifying," Harris-Dawson said.
"This is 1 of the mightiest sets of fires that we've seen successful Southern California," helium said.
