USG issues proclamation to honor wildfire first responders
Senator Jad Kilani said he hopes to place emergency allergy kits in dining halls.
By ASIANA GUANG
The Undergraduate Student Government presented a Proclamation of Recognition for the First Responders of the 2025 Los Angeles Fires on Tuesday night. Several firefighters from L.A. Fire Department Station 15 attended the USG senate meeting.
“I call upon the students of the University of Southern California to recognize the heroic efforts of these first responders, to express gratitude for their sacrifices, and to support continued efforts to enhance wildfire preparedness, emergency response, and community resilience,” the proclamation read.
The external affairs committee held a panel discussion with the firefighters from LAFD Station 15 before the meeting about wildfire prevention awareness, external affairs committee chair Karen Borglund said in an interview with the Daily Trojan after the meeting.
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“It was an educational opportunity, but it also built community resilience and made sure that USC students have this avenue to interact with the first responders because a lot of people know people who were affected by the fires directly,” Borglund said.
Speaker of the senate Elijah Barnes said the proclamation was a formal way to show USG’s gratitude for the firefighters’ dedication and service.
“It’s just a formal way of announcing acknowledgement, respect and gratitude to an outside entity, and in this case, in all the work [the firefighters] do with the wildfires,” Barnes said after the meeting.
Senator Jad Kilani presented his spring projects, which included implementing allergy emergency kits in campus dining halls with epinephrine injectors, bringing back the USC Volunteer Center, allocating funding towards the USG communication department to increase voter turnout and revamping the current USG project tracker.
Kilani said that in a meeting with dining hall leadership, he was told that the emergency EPIPEN project has to go through the USC Student Health and the University’s legal team first because it deals with prescribed medication.
“It’s a couple $1,000 that can prevent a major catastrophe,” Kilani said in an interview with the Daily Trojan after the meeting.
