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They clutched trash bags and surveyed the expanse of trash-filled sidewalks and gutters before them.

Time and time again, speeding cars have plowed through Plaza Park’s grassy expanses and vibrant rosebushes, demolishing wood benches and slamming into the beloved 88-year-old fountain.

Gone are the carefully tended beds of flowers and the long expanse of lawn.

Although they attract around 2 million visitors a year, they also contain vast expanses of largely untraveled wilderness where it is easy to hide these illegal grows.

County Arboretum, Villa Aurora and more as wildfires continue to damage or threaten cultural institutions across a vast expanse of Southern California.