Washington- Luz Rivas barely started her day in Washington when the mobile phone rang at 7 am. By the morning, Los Angeles County District.

On the morning of January 8th, there was a member of George White Side, a new adjacent parliamentary colleague, who was already in a hurry to Ronal Dragan National Airport for the first flight to Los Angeles.

“Are you going to go? Are you staying?” She asked him to ask him. “Let’s adjust.”

The two agreed that the White Side immediately broke out in Silmer and immediately started the ground outreach to those affected by the Hearst Fire in contact with the district. Rivas calls the Federal Emergency Management Bureau and the White House.

She later went to a flight to Los Angeles and joined the parliamentary newcomer Laura Friedman. They were swearing just five days ago as a member of the Congress.

“All three of us were our first instinct. We must be at home. We must evaluate damage. What the community needs. You need to go back and what can we do together in the office in Washington?

“It’s not what I assumed in the first week or one week or month of the month, but I felt it was ready and ready,” said Rivas. “So we will be selected, right? We serve our members and be there for what we need from the federal government. And I felt that the LA representative did it. “

The Democratic trio knew each other before coming to Washington. Livas and White Side held a campaign together last year. Friedman and Rivas worked together in the California Congress. Currently, the members of the three new students have a partnership literally built in fire.

Changed Agenda

Livas anticipated that he had a little time to get used to digging Washington. She was going to re -place the office sitting and put art on the wall. Three weeks later, the wall remained naked. The “New Members of the Orientation” Memento Candle on the side table was equipped.

Livas and Friedman did not have to hire parliamentary staff in a hurry to “open the door and work on the mobile phone.”

Eight years later, Friedman faced a new job in Congress and had the idea that “I feel like I can work and walk.”

“But of course, what I thought would be a more typical transition was a detached fire that hurt my Los Angeles community,” Friedman said. “So, as many others have, I had to change my focus on support and recovery, but I decided to do that job. Masu.”

Rivas, a trade engineer, was campaigning about the elasticity of climate change. She has decided to participate in the same committee of the US home from the Chair of the California State Natural Resources Committee. Now, she has revealed that recovery from a wildfire occupies a lot of time and precautions for two years in Congress.

“While I was a member of the Diet, we experienced some big hills in California, so it’s not completely new to me,” Livas said. “”[But] I didn’t think this was the focus of the first week. “

D-GLENDALE, a member of the parliamentary area, was surrounded by a wildfire, said, “I thought it was a more typical transition … a devastating fire was interrupted.”

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The most destructive fire of the season -the Fire of Parisards and Eaton was held in the veteran parliamentary members Brad Shaman (D -Shaman Oaks) and Judich (D Montely Park). Mass shooting In the ball room in her district.

However, all of the counties in the northern part of Los Angeles were also torched and covered with smoke. The 27th White Side area contains Santa Clarita Valley. In the south and east are the 29th district of Livas. It is related to the 30th district of Friedman, mainly in Barbank.

“We don’t see the vast structures we saw in Altadena and Parisard, but it’s just like dodging bullets. Masu.

A week later, the fuse’s fire exploded in his district.

Sprinkle Fire method gust

California’s fire has baked new members in Washington’s politics. They were consistent with President Trump’s presidential order, including some that Friedman could hinder California’s recovery.

“I can’t hire firefighters to keep California safely,” Friedman said. “We cannot hire enough people to remove debris and build a new house, so there is a deep impact on policies designed without the Democratic Party.”

The state of the lower house, Mike Johnson (R-LA), first observes the strict voter ID law when the first thing that would lead to future federal funds for disasters in California. We have the possibility of inviting federal government funds in the future, such as forcing.

California Congressman Pete Agilal (D Red Lands) and Ted Lew (D Torance), led by the House of Representatives Democratic Cocas, quickly attacked this proposal, adding conditions to Johnson to raise funds for previous disasters. I remembered that it was not done. A few days after the parliament in the parliament, Livas joined the party’s senior leaders and participated in a press conference at the Parliament.

“A member of the evacuation, the house was still called my office and was convinced how to help my neighbors,” said Rivas. “This is the purpose of LA, knowing that my California parliamentary representative colleagues on both sides of the passage are true … this is not related to the party or politics. This is this. It is to obtain the resources necessary to reconstruct your life in the wake of a disaster. “

My friend repeated comments later and said, “It’s really wonderful to be here and see how close the California representative is.”

There are many group text messages chains, and members share articles, updates, meeting hours and places.

A few weeks after taking office, Livas, Friedman, and White Side have promoted laws to deal with wildfires and disaster response, including joining Sara Jacobs, the neighbor and Democratic member of San Diego. Introducing the law Stiged a bureaucracy that responds to the federal disaster.

WhiteSides, which co -founded the organization MEGAFIRE ACTION, co -sponsored Fix OUR FORESTS ACT, a tremendous law that passed the lower house last week.

“Unfortunately, this is what I ran,” said the White side. “All campaign events I have been in the past two years have been wiped out by a dense community, and there is a fire that started by a wild fabric that caused a large fire from home to home. And I didn’t expect one big example in the first week.

“Now,” he added in a hurry. “Is that the only reason I ran? No, I want to solve all kinds of problems.”

However, for the White Side, Rivas, and Friedman, their enrollment in parliament has already been defined by fire, and maybe when the re -election occurs.