Youth Facility in Los Angeles Refuses to Evacuate

Parents have desperately been trying to get a Juvenile Hall in Los Angeles to be evacuated due to the fire but LA officials won’t do it

PHONE CALL from kid inside facility “I still have ashes in my room — They brought us to the day room and we was in the day room for like four hours at most. And we were just like watching the fire get bigger and bigger and bigger. And it was coming closer to us, like really closer than a couple streets after the downhill”

“They offered us sweaters. I don't know why, but they said like my worst comes to worst. We would just have to like put water on our sweaters and go outside”

“The guy was just coming through the door and I was just breathing in (the smoke) Everyone was breathing in. But they wouldn't let us like leave, or anything”