Israeli firefighter battling LA fires says California has similarity to home that could give her advantage

A delegation of Israeli firefighting experts spent a week successful California helping American crews combat the Palisades inferno, and 1 subordinate of the squad described the acquisition arsenic an "honor" and an accidental to springiness back. 

Li-shay Amor, a 34-year-old Israeli firefighter, arrived successful Los Angeles past week with a squad of different occurrence experts from her state who worked alongside section units and the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services utilizing "advanced Israeli exertion to assistance incorporate the fires," the Israeli consulate successful Los Angeles said successful a connection connected X. 

"It doesn't substance if you unrecorded successful Los Angeles, if you unrecorded successful Miami, if you unrecorded in Tel Aviv oregon successful Jerusalem. We are each quality beings. We request to beryllium together. We request to assistance each other," Amor told Fox News Digital successful an interview. 

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The devastation of the Palisades Fire astatine sunset successful the Pacific Palisades vicinity of Los Angeles Jan. 14, 2025.  (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)

With conscionable a day's notice, Amor hopped connected a 15-hour formation crossed the world, leaving her 3 young children down with her hubby due to the fact that she believed successful the value of helping her "brothers" successful America. 

"You consciousness that you indispensable bash thing due to the fact that …. you spot each the damage," she said. "The archetypal happening that you deliberation astir is … those radical … those citizens that, they've got everything, their houses. And close now, they … person nothing. Everything burned to the ground."

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Amor described witnessing devastation upon her accomplishment successful Los Angeles arsenic American firefighters informed her squad astir the enactment that had already been done and what they were continuing to do. 

"The infinitesimal that we arrived implicit determination and that we arrived to the tract and to the fires, we met each those firefighters. They opened their mind, and they opened their hearts … to fto america in, to explicate to us, to perceive what we person to accidental to them … from our knowledge," she explained. 

"We came with a radical … that everyone is an expert. We've got a logistics expert. And we've got idiosyncratic that is successful operation. And we've got idiosyncratic with expertise successful wildfires."

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A squad of Israeli firefighters helped American occurrence crews combat the Los Angeles inferno. (X/IsraelinLA)

The Israeli experts were sent to Los Angeles with the assistance of the Emergency Volunteers Project, a nonprofit enactment funded by federations and donors and established 16 years agone to assistance Israeli citizens and exigency services during times of nationalist emergency, according to its website. 

"EVP has sent implicit 180 firefighters, implicit 250 aesculapian unit and a fewer 100 civilians to Israel since the warfare started. So … fixed the accidental to wage backmost the favor, they benignant of jumped close astatine it," Scott Goldstein, the main operating serviceman of catastrophe alleviation operations with Emergency Volunteers Project, told Fox News Digital, referring to the Israeli firefighters' willingness to help. 

"We person a elemental ngo — save lives," Goldstein previously told Fox News astir EVP.

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A squad of Israeli firefighters helped American occurrence crews combat the Los Angeles inferno. (X/IsraelinLA)

"Those American firefighters … came present to Israel … to assistance america and to enactment us," Amor said. "This is my crook to springiness the aforesaid emotion … similar each my American brothers did for america since Oct. 7."

When asked astir her ain work successful Los Angeles, Amor praised American firefighters connected the ground.  

"They are truthful brave," she said emphatically. "They are really heroes. … They bash everything that they tin to rescue and to save."

Amor repeatedly described the beardown connection and collaboration betwixt the Israeli and American firefighters. 

"The peculiar narration betwixt America and Israel connected display," the House Foreign Affairs Committee Republicans posted connected X Saturday.

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Fire engulfs a gathering arsenic the Palisades Fire burns during a windstorm connected the westbound broadside of Los Angeles Jan. 8, 2025.  (Reuters/Ringo Chiu)

Both Amor and Goldstein mentioned the value of the akin landscapes successful Israel and California. 

"The terrain is identical," Goldstein said. "If you spell to astir places successful Israel, it beauteous overmuch looks similar that area."

Amor explained that she grew up successful Haifa, where, similar successful parts of Los Angeles, the determination includes mountains, the formation and houses perched betwixt trees. She past described a 2016 occurrence successful Haifa, which forced thousands of radical to evacuate their homes and said her "knowledge" from that catastrophe allowed her to travel to Los Angeles "to assistance and to support." 

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On her agelong formation location to Israel, Amor reflected connected her clip volunteering successful Los Angeles and the brave radical connected the crushed successful LA, warring and risking their lives each day. 

"My lone thought was, ‘Wow, what an astonishing satellite we each unrecorded in,'" she said. "What astonishing firefighters. What astonishing people."