Am I the only one who is amazed that there are 40 jails in reach of a single fire? Yeah, it’s a ginormous fire but how many prisons are there in LA?

As of Thursday evening, none of the nearly 100 kids incarcerated in the facility have been moved to safety, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles County Probation Department told The Appeal. The probation department oversees the county’s juvenile facilities.

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Seven jails are within 1.5 miles of the largely uncontained fires. None responded when asked about their plans to protect incarcerated people from air quality issues or potentially evacuate.