Patricia Heaton Slammed California leadership, claiming officials “failed” in responding to Los Angeles fires.

Heaton, who works with the Los Angeles Dream Center to help residents in need, said in a Fox News Digital interview that city leaders were unprepared and questioned where taxpayer dollars were going.

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Patricia Heaton criticizes government response to Los Angeles fires. (Getty Images)

Heaton explained that Los Angeles seemed unprepared for the fires that began burning on January 7. Pacific Palisades Community. Since then, multiple fires have broken out in different parts of the star-studded city, destroying thousands of homes and businesses. The actress highlighted the need for forestry management and reservoirs to actually be filled with water.

“I know some officials are going to say, ‘Well, the system is overwhelmed.’ Well, if there’s a fire, of course it’s going to be overwhelmed,” she told Fox News Digital. “You should know that and do something about it Be prepared. So, I think a lot of money was spent in Los Angeles, but we didn’t know where it was going. “

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Heaton insisted that California residents “cannot rely solely on the government to take care of things.”

“People came together in the community and insisted on getting things done. Sadly, it was a very, very, very harsh lesson.”

“But I think that’s what it takes to break through the bureaucracy and do what government is supposed to do, which is take care of infrastructure first and foremost,” Heaton said.

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Patricia Heaton moved from Hollywood to Nashville. (Getty Images)

Heaton is partnering with the Los Angeles Dream Center to help with disaster relief efforts, and she’s not the only one. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Kathie Lee Gifford and Chris Pratt have all donated needed items or money to charities to help those affected by the Los Angeles fires.

“They stepped up. They showed up. We spread the word,” Los Angeles Dream Center founder Matthew Barnett told Fox News Digital of the celebrity support. “We had someone like Snoop Dogg the other day — like I’ve never seen him in my life — but he was on Instagram for a whole minute and a half like I was just talking. “

Dwayne Johnson, Kathy Lee Gifford and Chris Pratt have all donated to the Los Angeles Dream Center to help with firefighting efforts, founder Matthew Barnett told Fox News Digital. (Karwai Tang/WireImage | Getty Images)

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Los Angeles Dream Center The center is typically a resource center focused on “supporting those who are homeless, hungry, and undereducated” through community programs, according to the website.

As multiple fires continue to burn in Los Angeles, the charity has changed tactics.

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Patricia Heaton is best known for her role in the television sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond. (Richard Hartog/Los Angeles Times)

While Heaton once called Los Angeles home, the actress knew moving to Nashville, Tennessee, was “the right decision” for her.

“My four sons still live in Los Angeles and we go back and hang out and have meetings,” she told Fox News Digital. “We have a lot of friends there and do business there, but Nashville seems welcoming to a lot of people in our industry. So I’m not the only one making this decision.”

“It’s full,” Heaton noted. “I have a feeling that after this fire we’re going to have another wave of… talented, creative people who have decided, you know, they’ve had enough and are ready to live in a beautiful A place where people are friendly and they can be creative without having to worry about houses burning down, taxes going up, crime, etc.”

Heaton, for her part, helped friends in Los Angeles who had to evacuate and opened a home in Nashville for those who wanted to “leave” the city.

On January 9, in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, a person walked through the rubble left by the Palisades Fire. (AP/Jae C. Hong)

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A home was destroyed in the Jan. 8 Eaton Fire in Altadena. (AP Photo/Nick Curry)

Number of people who lost their homes due to earthquakes Los Angeles fireThe Palisades Fire started on January 7 and has continued to grow in intensity. Multiple fires have destroyed thousands of homes and businesses and killed 24 people so far.

Fierce Santa Ana winds are widely believed to have turned wildfires that started last week into conflagrations that flattened entire communities around the nation’s second-largest city, which has gone more than eight months without significant rainfall.

In less than a week, four fires have ignited more than 62 square miles (160 square kilometers), roughly three times the size of Manhattan.

An aerial tanker drops flame retardant while fighting the Eaton Fire on January 13 in Altadena. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

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The Associated Press contributed to this report.