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Nearly 50 RVs are being removed from a Hollywood Hills street on Wednesday as part of L.A. Mayor Karen Bass’ Inside Safe program. 

Temporary no-parking signs were added along Forest Lawn Drive to let those who live in the encampments know that they would have to leave by Wednesday. 

Officials with the city and county of Los Angeles and the local council district have been doing outreach in the area for months, offering encampment residents hotel rooms and other types of interim housing options. 

The move to temporary housing is voluntary, officials said, but residents were told that they would have to relocate from the site.

Many were seen leaving the area on Wednesday morning as heavy machinery began to pick up debris and load it into garbage trucks. 

  • Authorities begin massive RV encampment cleanup in Hollywood Hills
    Heavy machinery seen picking up debris and loading it into garbage trucks at the site of a large RV encampment on Dec. 6, 2023. (Sky5)
  • Authorities begin massive RV encampment cleanup in Hollywood Hills
    Heavy machinery seen picking up debris and loading it into garbage trucks at the site of a large RV encampment on Dec. 6, 2023. (Sky5)
  • Authorities begin massive RV encampment cleanup in Hollywood Hills
    An encampment on Forest Lawn Drive in Hollywood, CA. (Sky5)
  • Authorities begin massive RV encampment cleanup in Hollywood Hills
    An encampment on Forest Lawn Drive in Hollywood, CA. (Sky5)
  • Authorities begin massive RV encampment cleanup in Hollywood Hills
    An encampment on Forest Lawn Drive in Hollywood, CA. (Sky5)
  • Authorities begin massive RV encampment cleanup in Hollywood Hills
    An encampment on Forest Lawn Drive in Hollywood, CA. (Sky5)
  • Authorities begin massive RV encampment cleanup in Hollywood Hills
    No parking signs seen along Forest Lawn Drive in Hollywood, CA. (Sky5)
  • Authorities begin massive RV encampment cleanup in Hollywood Hills
    Crews at the site of a massive RV encampment cleanup on Dec. 6, 2023. (KTLA)

City officials told KTLA 5’s Lauren Lyster that they are offering to temporarily store RVs and converted buses in storage yards, as the area of Forest Lawn Drive where they are parked is considered a high fire hazard severity zone, according to CalFire. 

“Over ninety RVs were parked on this stretch of Forest Lawn Drive for years,” L.A. County Supervisor Kathryn Barger said. “Moving forward, we are going to continue to do this type of outreach with compassion and dignity for those who are experiencing homelessness, but at the same time, [we recognize] that we have to have enforcement and make sure there’s a balance between both.”

KTLA spoke with a man who was helping some friends move from their RV. 

“They have been over here for a couple of months,” Andrew Rindge said. “A couple of days ago, people started telling them that they are going to clean the whole area up and that they would have to leave by a certain day, [which is] today.” 

According to Supervisor Barger, officials will continue to clean up and monitor the stretch of Forest Lawn Drive where the encampment was for the next few days in order to prevent people from moving back to the site.