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FEB. 2025. Blues Vol 41 No.2

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  • Blues
  • Hiring
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  • Tina jaeckle
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  • Plane crash
FEATURES/COVER 90 MR PHILANTHROPY, ALAN HELFMAN: RAISES OVER -MILLION FOR HOUSTON AREA OFFICERS 102 HELL ON EARTH: OUR OWN JESSICA JONES BARELY ESCAPES LA FIRES 112 TRUMP: GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICA BEGINS DEPARTMENTS PUBLISHER’S THOUGHTS EDITOR REX EVANS THOUGHTS LETTERS. READERS SOUND OFF GUEST COMMENTARY - MICHAEL BARRON GUEST COMMENTARY - BRIAN MCVEY GUEST COMMENTARY - DAVE SMITH GUEST COMMENTARY - TRAVIS YATES OFFICER INVOLVED - DANIEL CARR NEWS AROUND THE US MIGRANT CRIME BREAKING NEWS AIRBORNE AVIATION-BELL HELICOPTERS POLICE PRODUCTS - PEPPERBALL CALENDAR OF EVENTS REMEMBERING OUR FALLEN HEROES WAR STORIES AFTERMATH HEALING OUR HEROES DARYL’S DELIBERATIONS BLUE MENTAL HEALTH DR. LIGHT BULB AWARD ADS BACK IN THE DAY PARTING SHOTS ISD PD JOB LISTINGS NOW HIRING BACK PAGE

It was Friday evening

It was Friday evening when a group ofus who work in the film industry gatheredin LA for private screening of the movieHomestead. If you haven’t seen the movie, anuke is dropped just outside LA and apocalypticnightmares come true and the cityis leveled. The following day, I kept hearingabout fire warnings and Santa Anna windsreaching hurricane strength and the possibilityof wildfires.If you live anywhere close to LA, you livewith the constant threat of wildfires, earthquakesand mud slides. It’s just somethingyou deal with. Why would anyone live in aplace that is one minute away from disaster,you ask? The same reason people livein Oklahoma and Kansas where tornadoesare a regular occurrence. I had a job in LA,a boyfriend that lives and works in LA andit’s just where life took me.That Saturday, I felt compelled to pack ago bag. It wasn’t something I normally did,in fact I don’t think I’ve ever done it before.But this time seemed different, so I gatheredup my wallet, credit cards, passport,important papers I kept in my safe, myGlock, a box of ammo, a change of clothes,my makeup and set the bag on the couch.Like I said, fires are just taken for grantedin LA. Hell, there was a fire on New YearsDay in Topanga State Park near the Palisades.So, Saturday and Sunday were prettymuch normal days for me. I met my girlfriendsfor coffee at the Starbucks aroundthe corner Saturday morning, ate dinner atVittorio’s Saturday night and just chilled allday Sunday.Monday morning on the short drive towork, the local radio station was againwarning that the Santa Annas were expectedto be severe, and the fire threat wasextreme. Yada, yada, yada. Enough already.104 The BLUES - - FEBRUARY JANUARY ‘25 ‘25

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