Mayor Karen Bass said no one is better equipped to create a rebuilding plan. "He knows our communities. He knows how to activate City Hall. He's been in City Hall."

Mayor Karen Bass selected developer and civic leader Steve Soboroff to lead Los Angeles' recovery and rebuilding efforts in the wake of the Palisades fire.

Soboroff also led efforts to move space shuttle Endeavour through the streets of L.A. to the California Science Center.

A quick-strike crew of Native American firefighters and journeymen utility workers from the Navajo Nation are helping Los Angeles residents cut through landslides, mangled trees and charred debris of