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Newson on Friday also signed more than two dozen bills related to the January fires in Altadena and Pacific Palisades, including legislation focused on boosting tenant protections and hastening rebuilding.

“I think we’ve done a lot of the hardest part, because the rest comes together. We all know how to rebuild, and we know how to build better than anybody in the world.”

But there is an inner belief within this Proteas group that previous sides have lacked and with the experienced duo of Kapp and Tryon, they gradually rebuilt.

"Everyone will get help to rebuild their homes," she told those whose houses had been swept away or made uninhabitable.

At the time, she described the loss as “heartbreaking” but has since said she plans to rebuild the dwelling, which was estimated to be worth around $1 million.