{"id":42613,"date":"2025-01-10T14:31:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T05:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=42613"},"modified":"2025-01-10T14:31:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T05:31:05","slug":"tekken-katsuhiro-harada-responds-to-california-wildfires-reveals-that-his-former-firefighter-father-wishes-he-could-help-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/tekken-katsuhiro-harada-responds-to-california-wildfires-reveals-that-his-former-firefighter-father-wishes-he-could-help-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Tekken&#8217;s Katsuhiro Harada responds to California wildfires, reveals that his former firefighter father wishes he could help out\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tekken series producer Katsuhiro Harada took to X to comment on the devastating wildfires that are currently impacting southern California. In his post, he revealed that his father is a former firefighter who wishes that he could travel to California to help deal with the disaster.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, Harada stated that his father was once involved in joint training with the Los Angeles Fire Department. Apparently, firefighters from LA were invited to Japan to learn about Japanese firefighting techniques.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I cannot contact my friends.<br>Is everyone evacuated? I\u2019m worried.<br><br>My father is a former firefighter who participated in joint training with the Los Angeles Fire Department and invited firefighters from the United States to Japan to pass on Japanese firefighting techniques.<br>He saw\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/32viZC5skJ\">pic.twitter.com\/32viZC5skJ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Katsuhiro Harada (@Harada_TEKKEN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Harada_TEKKEN\/status\/1877551087538049392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 10, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Wildfires are continuing to spread through drought-stricken southern California, with the ongoing Palisades fire already becoming the most destructive fire in LA\u2019s history (source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2025\/01\/08\/us\/california-wildfire-la-palisades\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New York Times<\/a>). Harada\u2019s post has already attracted many positive responses, with users thanking him for his father\u2019s concern and praying for people\u2019s safety.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tekken&#8217;s Katsuhiro Harada shares revelations about his former firefighter father&#8217;s history with the LA Fire Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":42615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-42613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-global-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tekken&#039;s Katsuhiro Harada responds to California wildfires, reveals that his former firefighter father wishes he could help out\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 - 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