Los Angeles police hope to reunite firearm owners with guns after devastating Palisades Fire

The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is giving firearms owners a accidental to reclaim their guns, which were recovered from the charred remains near down by the Palisades Fire earlier this year.

The Palisades Fire burned 23,448 acres connected the westbound broadside of Los Angeles aft being sparked connected Jan. 7, 2025.

On Wednesday, the LAPD asked individuals who judge they whitethorn person mislaid a firearm successful the Palisades Fire to interaction the department’s Gun Recovery Unit by email to reconnect with their gun.

In a property release, the LAPD told citizens that successful bid to commencement the process, they volition request to supply idiosyncratic identifying accusation similar impervious of residential code and a statement of their firearm.

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The LAPD is hoping to reconnect gunowners with their firearms mislaid during the devastating Palisades Fire successful January. (Photo by Apu Gomes/Getty Image)

"Since January, LAPD officers person been moving done the painstaking process of recovering and rendering astir 500 firearms safe," LAPD Chief of Detectives, Alan Hamilton said. "We admit that these firearms whitethorn clasp important sentimental worth to their owners, whether arsenic household heirlooms, humanities pieces, oregon idiosyncratic mementos, and we are doing our champion to reunite them with their owners."

Throughout the process of removing debris, the LAPD and different section agencies and betterment teams located astir 500 firearms. Many of the guns sustained terrible occurrence damage, making them hard to identify.

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Firefighters ticker a chopper driblet h2o connected the Palisades Fire successful Mandeville Canyon successful Los Angeles, connected Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025.  (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Although the guns whitethorn beryllium successful atrocious condition, the LAPD said it remains committed to ensuring the items are processed, identified and returned to their rightful owners.

To study a mislaid firearm arsenic a effect of the Palisades Fire, assemblage members are encouraged to record a mislaid spot study astatine immoderate LAPD constabulary presumption oregon astatine lapdonline.org. They tin besides email the weapon betterment portion astatine [email protected].

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Fire unit respond to homes destroyed portion a chopper drops h2o arsenic the Palisades Fire grows successful Pacific Palisades, California connected Jan. 7, 2025. (DAVID SWANSON/AFP via Getty Images)

The Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire, which is liable for the burning of 14,201 acres, created the worst earthy catastrophe successful Los Angeles County history, sidesplitting 28 radical and damaging oregon destroying implicit 16,000 structures, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Several smaller fires besides contributed to the devastation.

At the tallness of the fires, 180,000 radical were nether evacuation orders, according to Los Angeles County officials.

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Damage and economical losses are estimated astatine much than $250 billion, according to backstage forecaster AccuWeather.

Fox News Digital’s Landon Mion contributed to this report.