L.A. Resident Says There Were ‘100 Men’ Arriving in Cars and on Scooters Looking to Loot the Homes Affected by the Wildfires

Reporter: “Now, the story this morning, I think for a lot of people, when evacuating yesterday and that fire, the Sunset fire, it broke out around 5.30, but for them, at least this one woman’s accounting was so interesting. She came up this morning before the sun came up and she said, ‘This is one thing people aren’t talking about.’ She had a couple of things people — she says people aren’t talking about, one of them being the looters. She said, ‘As I was getting my whole family out, all you have in your mind is just you’re in survival mode at that point. I saw men coming into our neighborhoods.’ Police confirmed it. She had this to say. Take a listen.”

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AGSTEN: “It was wild. We just started seeing all these cars pull up, doors open, and groups of men running up our street, going up to the doors of these houses. And we weren’t sure what was going on. I’m thinking, ‘Are these people here to help my neighbors? I hope so.’ And I left, and then my husband talked to the police and said, ‘What are those guys doing? These guys don’t live here. Get them him out.’ My next door neighbor said — his quote — ‘There were like a 100 people that came up on scooters and were trying to get into any and all houses on the street.’”
Reporter: “And did you physically see police officers stopping them?”
AGSTEN: “I didn’t, but it’s not to say that they weren’t. It was so incredibly chaotic and I was so worried about my big family and getting them out of our old tinderbox of a house that I was just focused on them first.”
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