The Wolf of Los Angeles.

Chapter 323 Big Operation

Early in the morning, Erica woke up from her sleep and touched her left side, but there was no one around her.

She quickly got up, washed up quickly, shouted a few words, and went upstairs after getting a response.

In the howling wind, Hawke was standing on the roof, looking north with a telescope.

"What happened?" Erica came over and asked.

Hawke handed her the telescope. "Malibu Hills, Santa Monica, Hollywood Hills, all had serious wildfires break out in the early morning, and the flames are spreading to the residential communities."

Erica raised the telescope and could see smoke in the north from afar, turning the sky gray.

Santa Monica is on the south side of the mountains, and the north wind blowing over brings a burnt smell.

The phone vibrated and Hawke went to answer it.

Campos called: "Boss, there are fires everywhere in the north."

Hawke said, "Have the men been sent out?"

Campos responded: "Our people have gone deep into the front line and captured a lot of exclusive footage. I have now integrated it with you. I will make a backup and send it to Twitter immediately."

"Tell the frontline personnel to be careful." Hawke glanced at his watch and said, "I'll have someone wait for you."

He hung up the phone and called Caroline: "Is Yang'er up yet?"

Caroline deliberately shouted: "Mee~"

Hawke said quickly, "There was a big fire in Los Angeles. The people at Butterfly Company took a lot of exclusive videos and photos. You go to the company immediately."

Caroline on the other side didn't even eat, she picked up her briefcase and went out: "I'll be there right away."

Hawke hung up the phone and asked Erica, "You guys aren't going to be on field duty, are you?"

Erica put down the binoculars: "Maintaining order is the job of the patrol officers. Don't worry, I won't go to the fire scene."

She sneezed twice and added, "The fire has finally started."

Hawke's phone rang again, this time it was Brian calling.

The latter said: "Let's meet."

"The old place." Hawke hung up the phone and said to Erica, "I should go now."

The two went downstairs together. Erica knew he was going to the north, so she warned him, "Don't get too close to the fire."

Hawke responded and left the villa, and Edward drove over.

Today we are going to the mountainous area, so Edward drove a Mercedes-Benz G-Class specially here.

Hawke opened the car door, stopped before getting in, looked up at the sky, and opened his palms to catch anything falling from the sky.

Those were the ashes from a fire, blown from the north by strong winds.

Hawke got in the car and said to Edward, "Let's go to Beverly Hills."

Edward drove the car and said, "Boss, I followed Carlos and Garcia to the north of the Santa Monica Mountains last night. The fire burned very quickly."

The rainfall in half a year was 16.9 mm, and there was continuous high temperature weather. The dead branches and leaves were everywhere and no one cleaned them up. It would be strange if the fire burned slowly.

Hawke knew very well that since the collapse of the Red Bear in the early 1990s, America's infrastructure construction and public services had declined by more than two levels.

He asked Edward, "How's the situation over there?"

Edward said quickly, "My brother Michael has returned to Compton. Many black people there are paying attention to the fire. These basic movements have almost become an innate instinct. As long as the media reports that the situation is out of control, they will rush out of Compton at any time."

This Straight Outta Compton is completely different from his Straight Outta Compton.

Edward continued, "The homeless people in the Hollywood area are closer, and many of them are ready to make a move."

"The fire had just started, it wasn't chaotic enough," Hawke said.

As the car entered Century City, the wind blew through the tall buildings, making a roaring sound.

Hawke met Brian in the reception room of the Beverly Business Club.

The latter saw Hawke and said, "I have received accurate information. The female firefighters hired by the Fire Department played almost no role in the early morning fire. There was little water in the fire pipes, and the fire hydrants that could release water had seriously insufficient pressure. The male firefighters were full of concerns, and very few of them rushed directly into the fire to fight the flames."

He laughed. “Under normal circumstances, even if there are strong winds, the fire cannot be put out immediately, but the fire can be controlled. Now, the fire is out of control. Two communities on the edge of Sherman Oaks and three communities under the Hollywood Hills have all broken out. The situation in Malibu is even more serious.”

Hawke said, "All the preparations we made have worked." He then asked, "What's going on with Antonio?"

"Antonio went to Asia. Busan, South Korea, is a sister city to Los Angeles. He was invited to Busan to attend an international art festival. It will take time for him to get back." Brian combined all the information and guessed, "The wildfires in Los Angeles happen every year. I don't think Antonio is taking it too seriously at the moment."

Brian took out his phone and took a look at it when a text message alert sounded. He said, "Susan just got accurate information. Antonio instructed the fire department to highlight the power of female firefighters and to demonstrate the superiority of democracy and freedom..."

Hawke understood what was going on as soon as he heard it: "Antonio has not yet realized the seriousness of the problem. Perhaps the information given to him by the fire department misled him and made him regard this fire as a political show."

Brian said: "The new fire chief, Karen Crowley, is more like an expert in female social activities. Susan found out that in Karen's telephone report to Antonio, she said that the fire was completely under control."

Hawke said, "Let's act now."

"Let the fire purify everything!" Brian muttered and left the reception room.

After Hawke came out, he went to the company with Edward. Campos sent him videos and pictures, and he also got the content she shot from Susan. Most of them were exclusive.

But after careful selection, Hawke left out the content about the female firefighter and the lack of water in the fire pipe, and released only the content that reflected the fire situation.

There aren't enough people affected right now, and the public pressure isn't strong enough, so if these things were released, the effect wouldn't be achieved.

The flames are going to expand further. There are many celebrities in the residential area in the north. It will be exciting when their houses burn down.

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In Sherman Oaks, Spider-Man actor Tobey Maguire woke up from a hangover in the middle of the morning because he drank too much the night before.

Patting his head that felt like it was about to explode, he picked up his cell phone and took a look, then went into the bathroom to wash his face and brush his teeth, came out with his toothbrush, stood in front of the balcony window, and looked outside.

The toothbrush fell to the ground with a thud.

Tobey Maguire stared blankly ahead. Was that fire and smoke? What was going on?
He ran back to rinse his mouth, then quickly put his cell phone in his pocket and went out to check.

I could vaguely hear the broadcast from the loudspeaker.

The community reminds residents that the fire is coming and they should evacuate immediately!
After leaving the villa, without the air conditioning and fresh air system, Tobey Maguire smelled the choking smell of smoke.

The wind blowing over was scorching.

There are also some sparks mixed in.

Tobey Maguire started coughing due to the smoke. His cell phone rang and he quickly answered it.

Leonardo, who was on the other side, heard his best friend coughing and shouted, "I saw a report on the TV news that the wildfire has reached your home. Are you still at home?"

Tobey Maguire said: "I was drunk last night and just woke up. Can't I get burned?"

Leonardo was much more clear-headed than him, and shouted, "Two communities in Malibu have been burned to ashes. Let's go!"

Tobey Maguire was stunned: "My property..."

"Don't worry about it. If you lose those things, you can earn them again. If you lose your life, you lose everything!" Leonardo almost shouted, "Drive away now and come to my place. Don't want anything else."

Tobey Maguire listened to Leonardo's words and did not go back into the house. He ran directly into the garage, drove a Porsche Cayenne, and hurried out of the house.

There was no one on the street outside except for two cars from the community.

Some houses on the east and north sides of the community have been engulfed in flames.

Amid the whistling wind, the flames spread at an alarming speed.

Tobey Maguire parked his car in the square outside the street, where a large number of community residents gathered.

He saw TV star Sarah Parker, American sweetheart Jennifer Aniston, Oscar winner Kevin Spacey, last year's best actress Halle Berry, famous producer David Heyman and many others.

Many reporters nearby were filming with cameras.

Further out, there are several fire trucks and dozens of firefighters.

But those people were just watching and no one went to put out the fire.

Tobey Maguire found David Heyman, who he knew well, and asked: "No one is helping the fire?"

David Highmore stared at the middle-aged woman in uniform: "You expect a female chief to put out a fire?"

Tobey Maguire looked carefully and found that many of the firefighters were women.

"Oh my God!" Sarah Parker screamed in pain.

Everyone gathered together, and in full view of everyone, the Hollywood actress's mansion engulfed in flames.

Spider-Man stood there and watched the fire spread with the wind, setting his house on fire, and the entire villa turned into a torch.

At this moment, Tobey Maguire thought of what the house sales manager had said, that specially treated wooden houses were the most fire-resistant homes in the world.

How could I have been so stupid as to believe such nonsense?

Spider-Man's house was burning in flames. Garcia turned the camera in his hand to this side, first capturing Tobey Maguire's helpless expression, and then filming the burning house.

"Spider-Man watched a $1000 million mansion burn down, but was unable to do anything!"

This news is sure to attract attention.

Seeing the damage to their houses, the residents of the community were quite angry. Many of them went to the fire department and the community committee to argue, blaming them for doing nothing.

We got shocking news: there was no water in the fire-fighting pipes, which should have had sufficient water pressure!
Tobey Maguire's mansion is worth $1000 million, and the items and decorations inside are also worth millions of dollars. He yelled at the female director: "The fire is burning right in front of you, but you do nothing!"

The new fire chief, Karen Crowley, is a novice at firefighting but an outstanding social activist.

She responded: “Who says we don’t do anything?”

Women have to win, have to be celebrated.

So, she decided to launch a major operation.

(End of this chapter)