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Speaker 1: Hey, that folks.

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Speaker 2: In this episode, you are going to hear from several people.

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Speaker 2: You're going to hear their stories of trying to escape,

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Speaker 2: survive the fires that are still continuing to wreak havoc

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Speaker 2: in southern California, in particular the Los Angeles area, which

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Speaker 2: is where Robock and I are right now.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ.

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Speaker 3: Robes.

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Speaker 2: It's much different covering the story from Afar than to

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Speaker 2: come here and get on the ground. And it's one

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Speaker 2: thing to see it, which changed our perspective a little bit.

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Speaker 2: But then once you start talking to people and the

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Speaker 2: next person, and the next person and the next person,

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Speaker 2: it changes your perspective again about this disaster that we've

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Speaker 2: been witnessing for a week now.

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Speaker 4: Yes, and a disaster that is still continuing because the

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Speaker 4: threat of new fires. The winds are still raging here

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Speaker 4: in Los Angeles and will be for a large part

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Speaker 4: of this week, and it's a threat that kind of

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Speaker 4: always hangs over the head of folks who live in

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Speaker 4: this area. So to see it all come almost in

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Speaker 4: a perfect horrific way, where the winds were just right

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Speaker 4: or wrong, no matter how you look at it, and

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Speaker 4: the humidity was low enough. There hasn't been rain here

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Speaker 4: in months, so this was just a tragedy where everything

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Speaker 4: be what it is. And so to hear how folks

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Speaker 4: not only survived this but are continuing to survive and

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Speaker 4: vowing to rebuild, vowing to live and rebuild these beautiful

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Speaker 4: communities that are along the one of the most gorgeous

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Speaker 4: to see the resilience, it's inspiring and it's remarkable, and

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Speaker 4: yet you know, the threat is still there.

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Speaker 1: So many these stories we're hearing.

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Speaker 2: Somebody had to drop everything and rush to their kids'

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Speaker 2: school and get the kid out. Another person had to

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Speaker 2: only had a few minutes to grab a bag and

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Speaker 2: who was just on a hike, was just on a hike,

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Speaker 2: thought it was a lovely beautiful morning for a hike,

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Speaker 2: and the next thing you know, she is scrambling trying

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Speaker 2: of the neighborhood as just a diversity in the experience,

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Speaker 2: but a commonality, like I said, to all of those experiences.

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Speaker 2: So you are going to hear from in this episode. Now,

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Speaker 2: several other people that we talked to, including that woman

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Speaker 2: I'm talking about who was on a hike and Robes,

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Speaker 2: we had a hard time understanding it was that nice

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Speaker 2: that you were not worried about anything that Tuesday morning

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Speaker 2: that she went for a hike, and then the next thing,

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Speaker 4: She abandoned her car. She was abandoning her car and

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Speaker 4: this woman because she was remarkable. Her name is Marissa,

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Speaker 4: and not only did she survive this, get her kids

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Speaker 4: that have survived so far the fires. And Rissa, hats

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Speaker 4: off to you. You've got three children and you are

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Speaker 4: What are the days like? What have what have the

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Speaker 5: The days are long, the nights are longer. I was

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Speaker 5: able to sleep last night, which was nice, But then

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Speaker 5: is still going to be there or not.

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Speaker 4: So it's hard.

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Speaker 1: It's hard.

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Speaker 2: What is what is the I'm not sure how you

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Speaker 2: sometimes we just kind of Sometimes we just go up

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Speaker 5: It depends when I'm asked, because sometimes I am not well.

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Speaker 5: Sometimes I'm sobbing and crying and devastated and hopeless, and

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Speaker 5: other times I am invigorated and galvanized and hopeful and

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Speaker 1: How have we caught you in this moment? How you doing?

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Speaker 5: I'm thankful that my house is still standing, that Matt's

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Speaker 5: house is still standing, that my family, my parents live

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Speaker 5: that that we have family around us, and that's really

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and for people, you know, I know that we've

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Speaker 4: is still standing. Now I look at my phone and

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Speaker 4: you know, am anticipating potentially bad news because the threat

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Speaker 4: isn't over yet. What is that? Like, Yes, your house

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Speaker 4: how much brain power do you even allow to let

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's really challenging to metabolize that. My friend reminded

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Speaker 5: me yesterday to breathe, which is useful sometimes you need that.

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Speaker 5: She like gave me this box breath where you breathe

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Speaker 4: That helps.

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Speaker 5: There's this old saying I think it's can be our

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Speaker 5: So we're doing a lot of walking and thinking and

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Speaker 5: talking we know we can figure it out whatever happens.

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Speaker 5: Is it stressful, Yes, it is incredibly scary. I'm also

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Speaker 5: thankful for every moment that our house is still standing.

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Speaker 5: The majority of our friends have lost their homes, so

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Speaker 5: right now I'm not needing to deal with that extra

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Speaker 5: huge step. Right now, it's just the worrying. But like

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Speaker 2: You told me you have a and we heard there's

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Speaker 2: a lot. There are WhatsApp group chats and whatnot. If

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Speaker 2: are there constant updates you're getting?

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Speaker 5: There's updates every second, so and we're I'm not jumping in.

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Speaker 5: So the chat is for safety and it is it's

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Speaker 5: The neighbor who is running the chat will then send

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Speaker 5: the boots on the ground. Whether it is a something

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Speaker 5: We have the fire. The hydrant is in front of

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Speaker 5: the nearest hoses, and if we see the address come up,

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Speaker 5: we let them know where our house's nearest hoses. And

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Speaker 5: it is I mean, it's when I say a military operation.

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Speaker 2: Wow, you have an active fire fighting situation. You've taken

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Speaker 5: Well, yes, I am not fighting the fire, but my

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Speaker 5: They're all there, and if they're not there, their families

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Speaker 5: are on the outside. And it's a constant communication. So

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Speaker 5: am I jumping into the chat to ask for how

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Speaker 5: my house is? Absolutely not. I will be told and

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Speaker 5: I will see it, but I'm not jumping in. I'm

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Speaker 5: just not watching it like it's such a blessing and

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Speaker 4: You are jumping into action though you are helping people.

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Speaker 4: A lot of food needs to be made, a lot

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Speaker 4: of people are hungry, a lot of people are working

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Speaker 4: people in this area who are giving all of their time,

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Speaker 4: and so you're giving back. Tell us a little bit

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Speaker 5: On Tuesday evening, I was driving down to Laguna with

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Speaker 5: So the path was familiar for me, and so it

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Speaker 5: And people need to help, you know we are. We're

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Speaker 5: galvanized drivers, people who will drive across town to bring

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Speaker 5: we have people who want to help pack food. I

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Speaker 5: we will deliver food to their hotels where they are.

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Speaker 5: It's it's being run out of my kitchen table, really,

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Speaker 5: but it is a way that you know, food is community.

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Speaker 4: That's all I know.

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Speaker 5: And I think in times like this where you don't

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Speaker 5: You know you know how to tell stories, so here

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Speaker 5: you are, you are sharing other people's stories. That's we

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Speaker 5: do the only thing that we know how to do

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Speaker 2: Has it been helpful for you? I mean, given all

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Speaker 2: you're going through, kids, wondering if your house is going

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Speaker 2: can do is help somebody else and that is what

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Speaker 2: will help your pain. Has that been the case for

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Speaker 5: You are, absolutely, I mean altruism is how how you

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Speaker 5: can feel better. And also, my kids are out of

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Speaker 5: school right now, you know, they're school burned down, and

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Speaker 5: so if mommy can show them how teach them something,

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Speaker 5: whether it's giving back or helping their neighbor. You know,

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Speaker 5: I's got a message. Three of my kids teachers. Their

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Speaker 5: house is burnt down, so the kids are going to

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Speaker 5: deliver food to their teachers. You know, it is we are.

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Speaker 5: Los Angeles is a weird place. It's not like London

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Speaker 5: or New York where that it has that palpable energy.

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Speaker 5: Los Angeles does not. We are a vast our landscape

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Speaker 5: is wide, but now we are connected and stronger than ever,

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Speaker 5: and so we are just connecting the dots with each other.

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Speaker 4: My goodness, Yeah, I mean that is real. I mean

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Speaker 4: there are always silver linings in these types of moments,

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Speaker 4: and community has got to be a huge part of it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, the smoke was coming and the fire was coming.

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Speaker 4: And I was like, oh Jesus.

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Speaker 5: By the way, it didn't even dawn on me because

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Speaker 5: I was like, yes, you're right, So I just pulled

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Speaker 2: You felt comfortable enough that morning that you put a

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Speaker 5: Yes, I mean it was even. I mean that was

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Speaker 4: It's it's hard to put yourself in that situation. What

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you have we you know, we have a responsibility.

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Speaker 2: At the same time, you sound like it sounds like

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that support. Where are you getting your I know

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Speaker 2: You have employees, you have all these things. Where is

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Speaker 2: As you're being this to everybody else, who is that

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Speaker 1: Right now.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I live in California, so it's I'm a

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Speaker 4: Wow, that breath work. Wow, what's next?

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Speaker 5: What do you do after this? Yeah, I'm going to

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Speaker 1: Wow, that's so funny, she said, what's next?

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Speaker 2: And my first thought was make sure you can insurance

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Speaker 5: So, you know, I think Palisades is a different type

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Speaker 4: Well, I'm Marissa. I know that this neighborhood is very

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Speaker 5: I'm we're just doing what we know best.

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Speaker 2: And you don't use how people all over the country

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Speaker 2: hell yeah, I'd sign up for that. Is there a

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean we you can text because we're just

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Speaker 5: It's called Uplifters Ranch. She makes T shirts and it's

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Speaker 4: That's awesome, Rissa, thank you very much. We appreciate it

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Speaker 1: Thanks.

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Speaker 2: We're here with Julianne and Camille, siblings who have lost

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Speaker 2: now a home that's been in your family how long?

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Speaker 7: For over sixty years?

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Speaker 2: For over sixty years you all lived in it. You

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Speaker 7: She was hoping that one day her kids can live

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Speaker 4: The way that she did.

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Speaker 3: I've been going up there pretty frequently.

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Speaker 8: I heard the fire reached Lake, which is a long way.

440
00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:11,960
Speaker 7: More panic in that voice.

441
00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:13,560
Speaker 3: It was a lot more panic.

442
00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:16,639
Speaker 6: It was like the morning.

443
00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:18,560
Speaker 3: I'm like, you gotta get to the house.

444
00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:21,879
Speaker 8: So I get up, you know, I get up, and

445
00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:23,359
Speaker 8: I'm like, okay, I'll go check on the house, you know.

446
00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:25,720
Speaker 8: And then I drove I'm the one that drove up there,

447
00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:28,840
Speaker 8: and you know, I was the one that was going

448
00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:31,600
Speaker 8: up the hill. You know, it's native out to dinner ands.

449
00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:35,000
Speaker 8: You know, we know our way around, you know, the

450
00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:37,320
Speaker 8: blockades and stuff. So I made my way around and

451
00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:39,880
Speaker 8: I'm coming up the street and I was the first

452
00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:41,679
Speaker 8: one to see it. And so the duplex at the

453
00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:44,760
Speaker 8: top duplex was on fire. Yeah, and so that's what

454
00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:47,600
Speaker 8: I walked into. I mean, not walk but drove up

455
00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:50,760
Speaker 8: and you know, the power lines were down and hard

456
00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:53,440
Speaker 8: winds were blowing, and so that was like and I

457
00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:57,280
Speaker 8: had no signal and I was by myself, and so that.

458
00:22:57,320 --> 00:23:00,639
Speaker 2: Was you saw your family home on fire. Yes, yes,

459
00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:03,639
Speaker 2: you rolled up and you saw. Yeah, that's got to

460
00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:05,840
Speaker 2: be a moment. What did What was that moment.

461
00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:08,919
Speaker 8: Like when I I I didn't even know what the

462
00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:15,119
Speaker 8: process because like it was, you know, I felt I

463
00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:17,760
Speaker 8: don't you know, it was it was tough. Like I

464
00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:20,959
Speaker 8: was sitting there in the car and drive and just

465
00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:23,760
Speaker 8: looking at this like in disbelief, like I can't believe

466
00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:26,720
Speaker 8: this is happening. Like I'm you know, like I almost

467
00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:29,200
Speaker 8: started crying right there because I was.

468
00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:32,359
Speaker 3: Just helpless, Like yeah, helpless, helpless.

469
00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:34,879
Speaker 8: And I passed one fire truck on the way up

470
00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:37,720
Speaker 8: and they were just trying to help a home down

471
00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:40,600
Speaker 8: the hill, you know, And but I didn't see any

472
00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:42,480
Speaker 8: other fire trucks. I mean, I know they were there,

473
00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:45,040
Speaker 8: you know, as I you know, I was driving around,

474
00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:48,399
Speaker 8: but yeah, it just felt helpless, you know, And it

475
00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:51,159
Speaker 8: was just our house and the other and there was

476
00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:53,920
Speaker 8: a house down the street but all the other houses

477
00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:59,000
Speaker 8: were still standing, and I just like, you know, at

478
00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,400
Speaker 8: that point, it was just like these houses were plucked,

479
00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:05,160
Speaker 8: and you know, and I didn't know what to do,

480
00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:08,680
Speaker 8: and I wanted to do something, and I'm just there,

481
00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:11,280
Speaker 8: you know, and then I have to drive down the

482
00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:14,639
Speaker 8: hill to talk to them, to tell them what's going on,

483
00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:17,040
Speaker 8: because I couldn't get any signal you know, up there.

484
00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:19,240
Speaker 8: And then I'm telling them and they're like, go back,

485
00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:21,960
Speaker 8: go back again, you know, And and so I go

486
00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:24,320
Speaker 8: back up there and you know, capture some footage so

487
00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:26,480
Speaker 8: I can show my sister who's in New Orleans and

488
00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:29,880
Speaker 8: my brother who's you know, further south and Whittier. And

489
00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:32,560
Speaker 8: it was just it was just hard. It was tough

490
00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:34,440
Speaker 8: because as you know, I'm driving up the hill and

491
00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:40,480
Speaker 8: I'm seeing houses on fire, you know, like blazing, and

492
00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:42,160
Speaker 8: and it yeah, it's just.

493
00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:44,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, it hurts.

494
00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:48,040
Speaker 4: It's your childhood home, it's your memories and how you

495
00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:51,000
Speaker 4: began your families and your lives. And you actually had

496
00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:53,959
Speaker 4: cousins living in the home. They were able to get

497
00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:55,639
Speaker 4: out safely. How did that all take place?

498
00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:57,120
Speaker 7: Yes, yeah, they were.

499
00:24:57,440 --> 00:24:59,159
Speaker 8: So the top unit when I got up there, the

500
00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:02,760
Speaker 8: top unit was on fire. And that was my cousin Stella's.

501
00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:06,320
Speaker 8: That was our cousin Stella's home. Like she was rooted

502
00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:10,960
Speaker 8: there for years, and you know, like I just I

503
00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:14,760
Speaker 8: you know, I just was overwhelmed. I don't I'm not

504
00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:18,160
Speaker 8: a person that gets overwhelmed, you know, and overstimulated.

505
00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:20,399
Speaker 3: And I was over I was that.

506
00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:23,840
Speaker 8: And so it was an unfamiliar feeling with me, because

507
00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:26,000
Speaker 8: like I can you know, I got tough skin. I

508
00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:30,439
Speaker 8: can handle a lot of things. But that was and

509
00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:33,679
Speaker 8: I'm and and our other cousin Ari, she was on

510
00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:36,480
Speaker 8: the bottom unit, and I just like all of their

511
00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:38,960
Speaker 8: all of their memories, all of their stuff, Like Ari

512
00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:43,640
Speaker 8: she was that was her home, like you know, her

513
00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:47,800
Speaker 8: mom had already passed years ago, and her sisters were

514
00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:51,960
Speaker 8: far away, you know, so like this is her ground,

515
00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:55,199
Speaker 8: this is her home base. And she lost everything. She

516
00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:57,320
Speaker 8: got out with I think a couple bags, she said,

517
00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:01,800
Speaker 8: Because we've had things in the past, you know, like

518
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:04,119
Speaker 8: or the you know, kind of the Altadena way. It

519
00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:06,800
Speaker 8: was like, oh, we're going to evacuate, or maybe we evacuate,

520
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:08,399
Speaker 8: or we're gonna evacuate for a couple hours, and they

521
00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:09,000
Speaker 8: would come back.

522
00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:11,480
Speaker 1: You know, you this is La people.

523
00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:12,760
Speaker 3: Yes fire days.

524
00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:15,920
Speaker 2: I think somebody just said to me, you'll know you've

525
00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:18,280
Speaker 2: been through it's like people go through hurricanes and tornado

526
00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:19,080
Speaker 2: warnings and whatnot.

527
00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:20,600
Speaker 1: Is this the real one?

528
00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:21,800
Speaker 3: Do I really evacuate?

529
00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:24,880
Speaker 8: And at that point, you know, nothing on that side

530
00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:26,639
Speaker 8: of town was on fire, but they were in the

531
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:30,159
Speaker 8: hard evacuation notice and so they got out just out

532
00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:31,960
Speaker 8: of safety and they're like, oh, we'll be back, you know,

533
00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:33,640
Speaker 8: like powers out and.

534
00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:34,320
Speaker 1: Other things are out.

535
00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:37,399
Speaker 8: And so you know, she found out the state of

536
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:40,440
Speaker 8: her house from when I sent them the videos, so

537
00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:41,240
Speaker 8: she didn't even know.

538
00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:43,280
Speaker 4: They thought they'd be back in a couple of hours.

539
00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:47,480
Speaker 4: Probably per usual. We should always been the case, very

540
00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:48,040
Speaker 4: much true.

541
00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:50,160
Speaker 7: And just to piggy yourself of what he's saying, because

542
00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:56,920
Speaker 7: he's leaving out a couple of things from that day.

543
00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:02,320
Speaker 7: One of the things just to kind of experiencing your

544
00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:05,080
Speaker 7: experience through the video. There was a portion in the

545
00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:08,280
Speaker 7: video where he is filming it and it's nothing but

546
00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:14,080
Speaker 7: black smoke. I cannot see next to the house that's

547
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:17,920
Speaker 7: right there and the duplex I was on fire, So

548
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:21,440
Speaker 7: I do want to experience that was absolutely terrifying for

549
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:25,320
Speaker 7: me seeing that on video, but for him seeing that

550
00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:25,919
Speaker 7: in person.

551
00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:28,359
Speaker 2: Can we ask guys? Finally, it just to wrap up

552
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 2: what happens now to the home. And I know there

553
00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:32,600
Speaker 2: is a lot of insurance issues and all this. I

554
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:34,919
Speaker 2: don't know what you old situation might be. But what

555
00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:36,840
Speaker 2: happens next to that property, that home?

556
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:38,639
Speaker 1: What happens?

557
00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:39,439
Speaker 7: Great question?

558
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:42,159
Speaker 6: I know.

559
00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:46,000
Speaker 7: Definitely we want to rebuild. We don't want to just

560
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:50,080
Speaker 7: we have to rebuild the legacy that my grandmother started

561
00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:54,359
Speaker 7: to the best way that we can. It will be

562
00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:58,679
Speaker 7: very hard and challenging to do that because a lot

563
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:01,600
Speaker 7: of the items were just irreplaceable.

564
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, what is there something that was the most painful

565
00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:05,120
Speaker 4: to lose?

566
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:09,760
Speaker 7: I hard to with our mother just passing not that

567
00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:13,960
Speaker 7: long ago. All of the things that we found most

568
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:20,160
Speaker 7: valuable to her we kept there. My dad's who passed away,

569
00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:23,960
Speaker 7: his uh he had this grandfather clock and you know

570
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:27,480
Speaker 7: grandfather clock in the black household. That's like who you

571
00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:33,600
Speaker 7: made it? Yes, all out and winded and they had

572
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 7: to stay wound up. And that's gone. It's just it's

573
00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 7: it's so many things. My grandmother's sewing table, she was

574
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:47,760
Speaker 7: a seamstress in Hollywood and built did costumes for the

575
00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 7: Jackson five. Diana Ross worked on the Star Trek and

576
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:56,160
Speaker 7: her sewing table that's gone, like so we just have

577
00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 7: to fill it with new memories and new items and

578
00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:04,120
Speaker 7: new new, irreplaceable things and build it back bigger and better.

579
00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:06,600
Speaker 2: Well, Julian Camil, I'm sorry for the circumstances that have

580
00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:08,960
Speaker 2: brought us together, but it's a pleasure to see you all.

581
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:10,680
Speaker 2: Meet you all, and you know you've added. We've had

582
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:14,440
Speaker 2: a weird morning and reasons to be down, but you

583
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:15,959
Speaker 2: all came in here and lift its bears and think

584
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:17,760
Speaker 2: you all, after what you've been through, you got smiles

585
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:19,960
Speaker 2: on your face and then you have good energy to you.

586
00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:23,080
Speaker 2: So thank you and good luck to you. Hope we

587
00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 2: can follow up.

588
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:35,880
Speaker 4: Yes, thank you, thank you for talking with us, joining us.

589
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:40,280
Speaker 4: Now we have Adam here who lives in the Palisades

590
00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:45,120
Speaker 4: correct and owns two businesses and a home. And tell

591
00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:45,920
Speaker 4: me how you fared.

592
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:50,720
Speaker 3: So we've fared, I hate to say luckily right. Our

593
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:53,400
Speaker 3: home is still standing. It's one of the only streets

594
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 3: I think that's still standing in the Palisades. But across

595
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:58,400
Speaker 3: the street from us, actually where we are is where

596
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:01,120
Speaker 3: the fire started in the Highlands, and across the street

597
00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:06,840
Speaker 3: from us is completely toast burned down and it's horrible there.

598
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:11,479
Speaker 3: Our street is still standing. It's disgusting. It's dirty, it's

599
00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:14,800
Speaker 3: soot and ash and dirt, and our trees are scorched

600
00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:17,640
Speaker 3: and our lawn is scorched. But our house actually is standing.

601
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:21,240
Speaker 3: We can't live there right now. There's no running water

602
00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:23,840
Speaker 3: or anything like that. We were able to sneak in

603
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:28,160
Speaker 3: the other day on Friday, again feeling guilty that we

604
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:30,600
Speaker 3: were able to get in, but we needed medications and

605
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:33,800
Speaker 3: we snuck past and got in, and like I was

606
00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:36,480
Speaker 3: saying earlier, for some strange reason, our rumbo was on

607
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:38,880
Speaker 3: and we just couldn't believe that this thing was trying

608
00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:42,960
Speaker 3: to clean the house in the chaos. Yeah, and she's working,

609
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:45,200
Speaker 3: and she never works normally, and then all of a sudden,

610
00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:45,800
Speaker 3: she's working.

611
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:49,440
Speaker 4: It's those little moments where you just chuckle in the

612
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 4: middle of total devastation.

613
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:53,719
Speaker 3: I think that the part that hit me the most

614
00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:56,280
Speaker 3: was when we drove down our street. We have about

615
00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:59,160
Speaker 3: twenty homes in our street, and as we drive down,

616
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:01,920
Speaker 3: I go slowly because there's so many kids on the street.

617
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:05,120
Speaker 3: And then as I'm going slowly, like making the left

618
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 3: hand turn, my daughter's like, why are you slowing up?

619
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:09,320
Speaker 3: No one's here, And I'm just like kind of got

620
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 3: like a pit in my stomach, like, and no one's

621
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:12,920
Speaker 3: going to be here for a long long time.

622
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:15,680
Speaker 2: Get help us on it, because we a lot of

623
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:19,440
Speaker 2: folks consider you the lucky one. Your house is still standing, correct,

624
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:21,120
Speaker 2: but you don't have any hopes of living in that

625
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:24,000
Speaker 2: house for how long? This is not like you can

626
00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 2: go back home any time.

627
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:27,400
Speaker 3: Even if we go back home, right, even if we

628
00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:29,800
Speaker 3: are able to get a hazmat team and clean it

629
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:32,080
Speaker 3: all up and all that stuff. Let's just say we

630
00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:35,440
Speaker 3: are and our neighbors who we have, you know, a

631
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 3: really great relationship with there's about eight couples so to speak,

632
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:41,160
Speaker 3: that all hang out. Even if we are able to

633
00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:45,640
Speaker 3: go back home, we're the only ones there. And they're schools.

634
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:48,640
Speaker 3: I mean, my youngest daughter, her elementary school is completely

635
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:51,160
Speaker 3: to the ground and she's supposed to go to a school,

636
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:54,960
Speaker 3: you know, fifteen miles away now, and we're there my

637
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:58,040
Speaker 3: son and daughter's school. My oldest daughter, their school is

638
00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:00,120
Speaker 3: partially burned. They're going to be doing zoom school for

639
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:02,560
Speaker 3: the rest of the year, just like five years ago.

640
00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 3: And even if we go back, no one's there. The

641
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:05,880
Speaker 3: town isn't there.

642
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:10,440
Speaker 4: It's we drove through and in fact, we drove down

643
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:13,720
Speaker 4: the street where you have two businesses correct that don't

644
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 4: exist anymore?

645
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:15,000
Speaker 1: Correct?

646
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:17,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you know we say I'm the lucky one, right,

647
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:20,040
Speaker 3: I am lucky because I have my memorabilia. Still it's

648
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:22,640
Speaker 3: all disgusting and gross, but we'll be able to get

649
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:26,480
Speaker 3: back to it. But my wife and I owned four

650
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:30,240
Speaker 3: yogurt chops, now two, actually we had three. We had four.

651
00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:32,400
Speaker 3: Two of them burned down completely. One of them is

652
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:36,240
Speaker 3: an evacuation zone and was looted on Wednesday night. So

653
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:38,200
Speaker 3: my god, just kick us when we're down. And you know,

654
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:39,600
Speaker 3: people ask us, how do you feel about that? And

655
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:41,480
Speaker 3: like it is what. I didn't even care about the

656
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 3: looting at that point. As long as my employees are

657
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:46,360
Speaker 3: safe and everything like that, I don't care. Most of

658
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:48,160
Speaker 3: our employees lost their homes because they live in the

659
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 3: palis Ages two. But yeah, it's gonna be really, really

660
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:55,040
Speaker 3: tough to rebuild. I just spoke to insurance yesterday, and

661
00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:57,080
Speaker 3: they're gonna give us. I mean, I don't know if

662
00:32:57,080 --> 00:32:59,040
Speaker 3: I'm not to talk dollars and cents, but who cares?

663
00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:02,240
Speaker 3: Like they're gonna give us sixty thousand dollars to rebuild

664
00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 3: a five hundred thousand dollars rebuild, And I'm like, are

665
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:09,120
Speaker 3: you how insane is that? So I can't rebuild. So

666
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 3: we have a GoFundMe for my employees because they are

667
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 3: not making money.

668
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:14,160
Speaker 1: Now how many employees now?

669
00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:16,480
Speaker 3: We have about fifteen employees. See, that's a big part

670
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 3: of the story.

671
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:18,440
Speaker 1: I think it's missing. Sometimes they're right.

672
00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:22,360
Speaker 2: We could actually Hollywood Hills Palace folks here, I think

673
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:23,040
Speaker 2: rich folks.

674
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:24,000
Speaker 1: All of these plays.

675
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 2: We see all these businesses that those folks do not

676
00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 2: have a job.

677
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:27,400
Speaker 1: Correct.

678
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:31,360
Speaker 2: All of these neighborhoods. There's landscaping, there are gardeners, there

679
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:34,240
Speaker 2: are a housekeep. There are all kinds of folks whose

680
00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 2: job and we don't live anywhere close. Jobs gone that

681
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:38,800
Speaker 2: livelood's gone.

682
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:41,479
Speaker 3: To that point, TJ. You know we were talking. I

683
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 3: was talking to a friend yesterday and my not to

684
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:48,920
Speaker 3: sound obnoxious, but our cleaning lady comes once a week.

685
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:50,520
Speaker 3: We have again, we have three kids, four dogs, and

686
00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:50,960
Speaker 3: two cats.

687
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:51,400
Speaker 1: We need this.

688
00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:54,160
Speaker 3: We give her two hundred dollars a week. She does

689
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:57,440
Speaker 3: five other homes around us. That's two hundred dollars a

690
00:33:57,440 --> 00:34:00,600
Speaker 3: week per five homes is one thousand dollars. That's fifty

691
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:03,080
Speaker 3: two thousand dollars a year. She is not getting anymore.

692
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 3: She's not getting it anymore. We're paying our employees or

693
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:08,880
Speaker 3: the Yorgre chop out of our own our own money.

694
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:11,320
Speaker 3: It's gonna run out eventually, so we have a GoFundMe

695
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 3: for them. But at this point it's like, I can't

696
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:16,839
Speaker 3: let these people go hungry. They have to pay their

697
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:19,839
Speaker 3: rent too. And yes, we talk about quote the rich

698
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:22,960
Speaker 3: people of the Palisades, but we're people. We lost our

699
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:26,919
Speaker 3: homes and just because we may have money doesn't mean

700
00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:30,600
Speaker 3: it doesn't hurt that we lost everything that's valuable to us.

701
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:33,399
Speaker 3: Our kids don't have schools so or that.

702
00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:35,600
Speaker 4: There's an endless supply to it, or that you have

703
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:38,600
Speaker 4: the money to actually rebuild exactly. And your son has

704
00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:41,760
Speaker 4: quite the escape story.

705
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, we didn't introduce yes, Jesse, Jesse, you don't have

706
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:49,200
Speaker 2: it's four dollars and three kids are three dogs.

707
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:54,040
Speaker 3: It's too many. I can't three kids. It's okay, all right,

708
00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:56,400
Speaker 3: but yeah, Jesse said how old are you?

709
00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:56,839
Speaker 1: First of all?

710
00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:00,440
Speaker 3: Oh wow, yeah, he's and.

711
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:02,839
Speaker 4: Are you six five six three?

712
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:04,840
Speaker 3: Just a better version of me?

713
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:08,640
Speaker 4: We saw the video of you with your mom and

714
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:10,319
Speaker 4: your sister or your sister's friend and I think all

715
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:13,400
Speaker 4: of your animals in the vehicle. But can you describe

716
00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:16,759
Speaker 4: what that was like fleeing your home that was and

717
00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:18,320
Speaker 4: everything around you was on fire.

718
00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:20,600
Speaker 9: Well, I mean we've seen fires before.

719
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:21,839
Speaker 6: We had it on a couple of years ago.

720
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:23,880
Speaker 9: We had to drive up it and I was like,

721
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:26,399
Speaker 9: I didn't really think anything of it. But then now

722
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:28,200
Speaker 9: when we're thinking, like we lost two of our younger

723
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:30,480
Speaker 9: shops and we're like that we never thought and like

724
00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:32,680
Speaker 9: anything that would ever happen. So we were driving out,

725
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:34,680
Speaker 9: was like, that's just another fire, nothing's really gonna happen.

726
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:36,399
Speaker 9: And now I was thinking about it's like something really

727
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:36,960
Speaker 9: did happen.

728
00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, you said, And again I talked to

729
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:41,600
Speaker 2: so many folks here in La. They grow up when

730
00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:43,799
Speaker 2: you called them fire days. I'm sitting here looking at

731
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:46,600
Speaker 2: our producer. But how did you know again from the

732
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:49,520
Speaker 2: video we were looking at even as you were driving out,

733
00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:51,359
Speaker 2: did you think, okay, just with another fire and it'll

734
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:52,960
Speaker 2: be fine, or did you know something was different?

735
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:54,879
Speaker 9: Well, we've driven through there where there's a fire before

736
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:57,160
Speaker 9: in our house was perfectly fine, and no, and thankfully

737
00:35:57,200 --> 00:35:57,680
Speaker 9: it still is.

738
00:35:57,719 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 1: But I don't know.

739
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:00,440
Speaker 9: I didn't really think anything of it because the fire

740
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:03,200
Speaker 9: started like right at the top and it grew down

741
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:05,640
Speaker 9: around So I don't know, I don't really like it

742
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:08,319
Speaker 9: doesn't didn't really fear real like. It didn't like I

743
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:10,239
Speaker 9: was like, I knew it was like my home and

744
00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:12,279
Speaker 9: it was around me, but it didn't feel like it

745
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:13,279
Speaker 9: was around me at the same time.

746
00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:15,359
Speaker 4: But it felt hot. It felt warm in the car,

747
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:15,920
Speaker 4: you said.

748
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:17,800
Speaker 9: The whole car, everone was sweating. We couldn't turn in

749
00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:20,279
Speaker 9: the AC because of the air. Still smells bad in

750
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:22,759
Speaker 9: the car, and we couldn't turn these seas it was hot.

751
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:25,279
Speaker 1: We could see everything. It didn't smell that well, it wasn't.

752
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:26,880
Speaker 9: Yeah, it was a rough car right down.

753
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 4: You were surrounded by flames. I saw the video. You

754
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:32,560
Speaker 4: were you you please tell me you were frightened. You

755
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:34,840
Speaker 4: were scared, Like I can't imagine thinking, oh, just another

756
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:38,840
Speaker 4: fire day. You had flames and black smoke all around you,

757
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 4: and your car was heating up from the heat from

758
00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:42,760
Speaker 4: the fire.

759
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,400
Speaker 9: No, it's definitely nerve wrecking knowing that like one of

760
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:47,520
Speaker 9: these could easily land on our car and something could happen,

761
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:49,640
Speaker 9: especially with all our dogs and everyone around us.

762
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:50,160
Speaker 1: I don't know it was.

763
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:51,799
Speaker 9: It was a scary time, but we got through it

764
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:52,960
Speaker 9: and we got down and we were safe.

765
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:56,800
Speaker 2: No, okay, And folks, the chillness of his voice blas

766
00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 2: the fear and anxiety that I even felt watching his video.

767
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:03,440
Speaker 2: If it's right, we're going to try to post his

768
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:05,839
Speaker 2: video to see what we're talking about here. But it's

769
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:08,719
Speaker 2: incredible to see that and Dad, as all this is

770
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:11,920
Speaker 2: going on, Yes, you got employees to think about, but

771
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:15,279
Speaker 2: you got a good sized family to think about. And

772
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:17,360
Speaker 2: I know you will have fire days. Been through this before,

773
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:20,880
Speaker 2: when did it feel different? And you actually thought my family.

774
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:21,320
Speaker 1: Is in danger?

775
00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 3: So I don't know if people realize this, but the

776
00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:27,799
Speaker 3: fire actually started January first, in terms of like when

777
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:31,040
Speaker 3: I was getting nervous, I was coming from Burbank from

778
00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:34,480
Speaker 3: the iHeart offices, and my daughter was picked up from

779
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 3: school from my wife's best friend, who also lost her house.

780
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 3: But she picked her up because my wife couldn't get

781
00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:42,759
Speaker 3: there because they were sheltered in place, so she said

782
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:44,799
Speaker 3: to her friend, can you get her bring her to

783
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:46,600
Speaker 3: your house. I went to go to her house, and

784
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:50,279
Speaker 3: then I went to mescal which is probably about half

785
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:52,200
Speaker 3: a mile from my friend's house, because that's as far

786
00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:54,280
Speaker 3: as I could get to. I walked to get my daughter.

787
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:57,680
Speaker 3: I went to her house and she's kind of las

788
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 3: fair and I'm like, sorry, you have to pack up.

789
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:02,880
Speaker 3: She goes, I am packing, I'm Packing'm like, no, you

790
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:05,080
Speaker 3: gotta get out now. She was sure. I'm like no,

791
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:06,839
Speaker 3: I'm telling you got to get out now because it's

792
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:09,280
Speaker 3: not gonna hit here. And I kind of agreed with her,

793
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:11,360
Speaker 3: but I didn't disagree with her. And I was just like,

794
00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:13,799
Speaker 3: I don't know if I was being frantic, but I'm

795
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:16,279
Speaker 3: not usually like that to but Sarah, I'm kind of

796
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:18,880
Speaker 3: nervous for you guys. And she lives right on Pch.

797
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:22,680
Speaker 3: So then I got my daughter and she gave us masks,

798
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:24,319
Speaker 3: and my daughter looks at me, she goes, oh, just

799
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 3: like COVID. I'm like, yep, just like COVID. So we're

800
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:28,719
Speaker 3: walking through just to get back to my car, and

801
00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 3: then we just walked to the beach for a second

802
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:32,839
Speaker 3: because that's where our cars parked, and looking back, I'm like,

803
00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:36,440
Speaker 3: that doesn't seem right. That is a huge plume. And

804
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:39,000
Speaker 3: then I didn't want to leave like that area because

805
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:41,279
Speaker 3: my family's still up there, and I'm like, okay, and

806
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:45,520
Speaker 3: I'm not again, I'm apprehensive. I'm nervous, but I'm not

807
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:48,440
Speaker 3: completely scared because I'm like, I know my wife and

808
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:50,319
Speaker 3: she's a badass, and she will just take the car

809
00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:52,200
Speaker 3: and ram and whoever it is just to get down there.

810
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 3: So I just like, I just she's in New Yorker.

811
00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:58,120
Speaker 3: She's gonna get it done right. I don't mess with

812
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:01,640
Speaker 3: her for a reason. And I know my son and

813
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:03,279
Speaker 3: my daughter are smart. They're they're gonna figure out a

814
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:05,880
Speaker 3: way to get out right. And then all of a sudden,

815
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 3: I take my daughter finally and I go up to

816
00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 3: I was like, let me go get some cash from

817
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:11,600
Speaker 3: the yogre Chop, so just so we have cash because

818
00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:14,000
Speaker 3: we were gonna go north to Ventura, because get to

819
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,480
Speaker 3: get away. So I went into the yogurt shop. Never

820
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 3: thought it would be the last time I saw the

821
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:18,919
Speaker 3: ogre Chop never ever.

822
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:19,239
Speaker 1: Ever.

823
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:22,120
Speaker 3: I make her right onto sunset. My daughter goes, Daddy,

824
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:24,880
Speaker 3: look back, that's bad, right. I look back and the

825
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:28,080
Speaker 3: entire Palisades is up in flames, and I'm like, holy,

826
00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:30,480
Speaker 3: she goes, Daddy. Can't say that. I'm like, no, I

827
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:33,000
Speaker 3: can say that right now, I can say that, and

828
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:34,960
Speaker 3: I'm like I can And I was like nervous because

829
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:36,840
Speaker 3: I wanted to hurry up, but like didn't want to.

830
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:39,319
Speaker 3: I'm like, Jamie, just look ahead, just look ahead, goes why.

831
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:41,440
Speaker 3: I'm like, just look ahead because I don't want that

832
00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:43,200
Speaker 3: in her head for the rest of her life. And

833
00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:45,000
Speaker 3: it's going to be for the rest of her like

834
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 3: in her head, you know. And again she's not scared

835
00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:52,360
Speaker 3: because she doesn't know any better that how dangerous it is.

836
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 3: But I'm like, and now I'm freaking out. I'm like, Okay,

837
00:39:54,719 --> 00:39:56,279
Speaker 3: my wife and kids have to get out. So we're

838
00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:58,680
Speaker 3: on a text chain. Remember there's other people up there

839
00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:00,920
Speaker 3: to shelter in place because they to get out yet

840
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:03,759
Speaker 3: because of all the roadblock. And then there was like

841
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:05,520
Speaker 3: a we got a text from one person saying, hey,

842
00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:08,200
Speaker 3: they're letting people out now, and I text my wife like,

843
00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:09,480
Speaker 3: get the hell out of there now. She was what,

844
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:12,279
Speaker 3: I like, just two cares, take everything and go. She's

845
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:14,319
Speaker 3: got the dogs, and we got like a couple pair

846
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:17,040
Speaker 3: of shorts and later on she like, here's the shorts,

847
00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:18,480
Speaker 3: Like have you ever seen me wear those shorts?

848
00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:18,799
Speaker 5: Ever?

849
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:19,640
Speaker 3: Ever?

850
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:21,480
Speaker 9: Like, you're kidding me.

851
00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:25,879
Speaker 3: I'm like, I've never I find you safe. But those

852
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:28,000
Speaker 3: are the things you have to joke about, right, So

853
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:31,319
Speaker 3: anyways would say, oh, that's a cute story. We need

854
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:33,880
Speaker 3: that kind of yeah, and real human stories.

855
00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:35,480
Speaker 1: That is great. The place is on.

856
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:45,880
Speaker 3: Fire, now, my little lemon, come on. So she they're

857
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:50,799
Speaker 3: like face timing me as they're going down, and she's like,

858
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:52,719
Speaker 3: I can't do this right now, give the photos, and

859
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:54,279
Speaker 3: like I was, I didn't mean to be fighting with her,

860
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:55,799
Speaker 3: but I just wanted to know that they were safe

861
00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:58,080
Speaker 3: the entire time. And I'm like, just face timey so

862
00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:01,000
Speaker 3: I can see. So he faced timey for few and

863
00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:02,680
Speaker 3: I'm like and I had a pit in my stomach.

864
00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:04,799
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, this this is not this is not real.

865
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:07,840
Speaker 1: And how was he on the FaceTime? Was he calm?

866
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:08,359
Speaker 1: Was he?

867
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:10,680
Speaker 9: I think he kept yelling at me to like show that,

868
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:12,360
Speaker 9: show the camera everything.

869
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:13,799
Speaker 3: I was like, I'm trying to get out. He was like,

870
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:15,400
Speaker 3: show me the flames. I want to see, Like I

871
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:17,239
Speaker 3: was just trying to get out, so I want to

872
00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:19,200
Speaker 3: see how close it really was. Like I go back

873
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:20,160
Speaker 3: for my good shorts.

874
00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:23,879
Speaker 4: Get I don't like those either.

875
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:26,960
Speaker 3: She didn't bring me shoes. Oh, we had to go

876
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:30,279
Speaker 3: to coals and get a pair of sneakers that were

877
00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:31,239
Speaker 3: two sizes too big.

878
00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:34,920
Speaker 4: But do you think you know to what you're describing?

879
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:37,319
Speaker 4: Because everyone's so used to this thread of fire. Even

880
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:39,799
Speaker 4: if you saw a fire, people didn't imagine it could

881
00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:42,879
Speaker 4: get as bad as it got as quickly as it did.

882
00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:46,439
Speaker 3: There's no way anybody thought it would get as bad

883
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:48,439
Speaker 3: as it did. There's no way. And then you see

884
00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:51,200
Speaker 3: some of the because remember that night, there was no

885
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:55,680
Speaker 3: cameras there. There's no aerial view because the planes were

886
00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:58,200
Speaker 3: not flying over. So we were like, well, what's happening?

887
00:41:58,480 --> 00:41:59,840
Speaker 3: And then all of a sudden you see some instagram

888
00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:04,960
Speaker 3: of people's ring cameras of the flames, Like, holy sh Now,

889
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:06,799
Speaker 3: I get why the whole tide place is burned down.

890
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:09,960
Speaker 3: I just it was unfathomable to think that that's what

891
00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:12,920
Speaker 3: would actually happen during the situation.

892
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:15,480
Speaker 1: What's the plan now? Moving back to New York?

893
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:17,640
Speaker 3: Oh, I would never I listen. I love I love

894
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 3: being from New York. I love saying I'm from New York.

895
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:21,800
Speaker 3: I love the badge of honor of being a New Yorker.

896
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:25,480
Speaker 3: I was there last week for the two weeks ago

897
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:28,000
Speaker 3: for the holidays, and I'm glad to be back here,

898
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 3: even without a house to be in, even though our

899
00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:33,800
Speaker 3: house is standing. I love la I love the city.

900
00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:36,160
Speaker 3: It has been my dream to move here since I'm

901
00:42:36,239 --> 00:42:39,160
Speaker 3: very very young. We're going to rebuild, and I know

902
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:42,080
Speaker 3: a lot of our friends. I'd say some of our

903
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:45,279
Speaker 3: older friends are thinking now that they're going to move

904
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:48,800
Speaker 3: out because they're like why not. But you know a

905
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:51,359
Speaker 3: lot of our younger friends, we're coming back. We're gonna

906
00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:53,600
Speaker 3: be back better, We're gonna be back bigger and stronger.

907
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:56,440
Speaker 2: You use the word rebuild versus just clean out. Do

908
00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:58,080
Speaker 2: you are you going to have to tear your house?

909
00:42:58,719 --> 00:43:01,520
Speaker 3: And we don't know about that information to tell you

910
00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:04,719
Speaker 3: the truth, like we I could say no, it looks great,

911
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:06,040
Speaker 3: and then somebody can come by and be like, oh no,

912
00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:08,719
Speaker 3: you can't live there. We don't know, right, you know,

913
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:11,520
Speaker 3: I've work in advertising. I don't work in that world

914
00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:13,440
Speaker 3: to know that. All I know is that when I

915
00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:16,799
Speaker 3: spoke to the insurance company yesterday, there were a lot

916
00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:19,120
Speaker 3: of four letter words used a lot because they're like,

917
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:21,239
Speaker 3: because you know, to build a yoga chop is about

918
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:24,480
Speaker 3: half a million dollars and it's our yogurt chops are

919
00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:26,680
Speaker 3: very community oriented. And the reason I have two is

920
00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:29,000
Speaker 3: because we had one and then our competitor wasn't doing well,

921
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:31,520
Speaker 3: so I bought it. And it's like coke and pepsi

922
00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:33,680
Speaker 3: in that town where like people love one or the other.

923
00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:36,799
Speaker 3: So I just kept them open. And to build them

924
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:39,760
Speaker 3: is about about a half million dollars, and our insurance

925
00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:41,360
Speaker 3: is like, hey, well, we'll give you about seventy And

926
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:45,560
Speaker 3: I'm like, are you freaking kidding me? Like that's not

927
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:48,800
Speaker 3: it's actually an insult. So we have a go fund

928
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:50,880
Speaker 3: me for to help rebuild, but also for employees to

929
00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:53,080
Speaker 3: help pay for them now. And people in the community

930
00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:55,320
Speaker 3: have been so generous. And I actually feel guilty for

931
00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:56,920
Speaker 3: a gofund me to tell you the truth, but like

932
00:43:57,480 --> 00:43:59,200
Speaker 3: my employees need to live.

933
00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:02,160
Speaker 4: And I mean, I'm curious. We've heard a few people

934
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:04,560
Speaker 4: mention it, but is there any sort of survivor's guilt

935
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:07,080
Speaker 4: the fact that your house is intact and others are not,

936
00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:10,680
Speaker 4: a lot of folks have talked about feeling almost guilty

937
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:13,000
Speaker 4: that they didn't suffer the same fate.

938
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:15,920
Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely right, Like you look at it and someone's like, oh,

939
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:19,359
Speaker 3: how's your house. It's okay, Oh okay, and then that's it.

940
00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:19,880
Speaker 7: Yeah.

941
00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 3: I'm like right, I'm we're still displaced. Yeah, we're still out.

942
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:27,680
Speaker 3: We still don't know what's going on. But it's not

943
00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:30,239
Speaker 3: about me. It's not about my guilt. This is not

944
00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:32,839
Speaker 3: about that at all. It's about the community. It's about

945
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:35,080
Speaker 3: the fact that my son can't go to school for

946
00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:37,520
Speaker 3: the rest of the year. My daughter's school's burned down

947
00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:40,960
Speaker 3: to crisp, my youngest and my oldest school with him.

948
00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:42,880
Speaker 3: They can't do their sports, they can't see their friends.

949
00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:45,360
Speaker 3: Some of their friends are in San Diego, somewhere in Colorado.

950
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:47,920
Speaker 3: I mean that it's not about survivor's guilt anymore. It's

951
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:50,480
Speaker 3: about we're still dealing with the situation where our lives

952
00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:53,719
Speaker 3: are completely turned upside down and we can't have the

953
00:44:53,800 --> 00:44:57,120
Speaker 3: normal life. And like, I think about retirement and I

954
00:44:57,160 --> 00:44:59,279
Speaker 3: love working for iHeart and it's great, and I would

955
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:02,160
Speaker 3: retire in let's say, five, ten, fifteen years and on

956
00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:04,839
Speaker 3: the yogurt shops. And now I can't write, so our

957
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:09,880
Speaker 3: futures are completely in flux. So yes, survivor's guilt, but

958
00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:11,480
Speaker 3: I don't even think like that. It's just more of

959
00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:14,040
Speaker 3: the community at large of like, how are we going

960
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:18,160
Speaker 3: to make the Palisades the best? Possibly one more time.

961
00:45:18,040 --> 00:45:20,000
Speaker 2: And you're looking forward to that moment. It sounds like

962
00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:22,399
Speaker 2: that day, which is years and years down the road,

963
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:24,680
Speaker 2: but you've seen as a New Yorker, you see such

964
00:45:24,719 --> 00:45:26,480
Speaker 2: a proud member of the Palasades.

965
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:31,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, I so am being the yogurt shops have done

966
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:34,320
Speaker 3: so much for the community, giving back to the community,

967
00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:37,719
Speaker 3: giving back to charities, giving back to the sports. We

968
00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:39,920
Speaker 3: would have happy hours where people come in and we

969
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:44,120
Speaker 3: donated portion back. So like the shops are the community,

970
00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:46,279
Speaker 3: it is the community, and then we've only done well

971
00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:48,319
Speaker 3: because of the community. So I wanted to be the

972
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:50,440
Speaker 3: first thing back in the community and make sure that

973
00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:52,839
Speaker 3: everybody knows like we're back and you're going to.

974
00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:55,319
Speaker 4: Be back to We wish you the very best. Thank

975
00:45:55,320 --> 00:45:57,880
Speaker 4: you for sharing your stories and we're just so happy

976
00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:00,759
Speaker 4: everyone in your family, pets included Roka, Thank you so much.

977
00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:01,400
Speaker 1: Thank you.

978
00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:13,560
Speaker 2: We are joining now by Tyler Florence, a celebrity cheff

979
00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:16,640
Speaker 2: at restaurant tour who has been very busy.

980
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:18,840
Speaker 1: Tyler, you give us an idea.

981
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:21,839
Speaker 2: You came here to La to help out, but give

982
00:46:21,920 --> 00:46:24,000
Speaker 2: us your impressions once you got here, of the people

983
00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:26,799
Speaker 2: you interacted with and the things that you saw.

984
00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:32,080
Speaker 10: Well, you know, living in California for the last eighteen years,

985
00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:35,480
Speaker 10: you start to understand the California is a beautiful place.

986
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:39,359
Speaker 10: It's also a little fragile. We get extreme weather, we

987
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:41,759
Speaker 10: get fires, we get earthquakes, we get these things that

988
00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:43,759
Speaker 10: other parts of the world in the country don't really

989
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:46,799
Speaker 10: have to deal with, although Florida does get their fair

990
00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:51,000
Speaker 10: share of hurricanes. You know, we have now an extended

991
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:53,040
Speaker 10: fire season that almost kind of goes you around, which

992
00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:55,320
Speaker 10: is kind of crazy. So La hasn't had a drop

993
00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:58,000
Speaker 10: of water or drop of rain seven months, which is

994
00:46:58,080 --> 00:46:59,440
Speaker 10: kind of wild if you think about it, right, So

995
00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:03,799
Speaker 10: everything's really dry. So the red flag warnings, you know,

996
00:47:03,800 --> 00:47:06,240
Speaker 10: went to effect last Monday, you know, the crazy Sanate

997
00:47:06,239 --> 00:47:09,280
Speaker 10: and the winds came through, you know, winds hitting eighty

998
00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:11,000
Speaker 10: miles an hour, one hundred miles an hour, just a

999
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:14,200
Speaker 10: hurricane level winds. And they always start a fire, They'll

1000
00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:17,080
Speaker 10: they'll knock down a fire pole or something else happens,

1001
00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:20,040
Speaker 10: and and just the winds sort of accentuate the situation

1002
00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:23,360
Speaker 10: where it becomes an epic fire that happened in the Palisades,

1003
00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:25,920
Speaker 10: and you know, we had a chance to be on

1004
00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:31,120
Speaker 10: the ground for the last like two days, Saturday and Sunday,

1005
00:47:31,880 --> 00:47:35,640
Speaker 10: helping out both with the Eaton fire in Pasadena and

1006
00:47:35,640 --> 00:47:38,040
Speaker 10: then also at the Palisades fire. And that's where I

1007
00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:42,719
Speaker 10: was yesterday feeding fire rescue, National Guard, l A p D.

1008
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:43,759
Speaker 6: Santa Monicipedi.

1009
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:47,120
Speaker 10: We had seven food trucks lined up, you know, feeding

1010
00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:50,000
Speaker 10: hundreds and hundreds of first responders. So it felt like

1011
00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:53,520
Speaker 10: it feels like you know, as remember you know, of California,

1012
00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:54,839
Speaker 10: this is just kind of what we do.

1013
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:56,560
Speaker 6: We have a big open heart.

1014
00:47:56,600 --> 00:48:00,200
Speaker 10: We love our state and we love our rescue people,

1015
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:03,480
Speaker 10: and when disaster happens, we re lean in.

1016
00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:05,200
Speaker 6: And that's exactly over day.

1017
00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:08,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, and Tyler, it's so incredible to see the work

1018
00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:10,759
Speaker 4: that you have done with World Central Kitchen and the

1019
00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:12,680
Speaker 4: mission you all have around the world, but when it's

1020
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:14,759
Speaker 4: this close to home, it has to have a much

1021
00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:18,240
Speaker 4: more special impact, at least knowing that these are your friends,

1022
00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:21,480
Speaker 4: these are your colleagues, these are the people who you are.

1023
00:48:21,960 --> 00:48:23,799
Speaker 4: Everyone here has said, you know, at least ten people

1024
00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:26,120
Speaker 4: who have lost their home, so to be personally affected

1025
00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:29,560
Speaker 4: through relationships and friendships has to be something that takes

1026
00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:31,080
Speaker 4: on a whole other level with your work.

1027
00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:32,479
Speaker 6: It really does.

1028
00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:35,320
Speaker 10: We have lots of friends in Los Angeles, you know,

1029
00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:37,839
Speaker 10: I've been shooting and filming with through network from here

1030
00:48:37,880 --> 00:48:41,800
Speaker 10: for twenty five thirty years there, and you know, lots

1031
00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:45,000
Speaker 10: of friends inside the restaurant industry. You know, LA is

1032
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:47,000
Speaker 10: one of the greatest food cities in the world, so

1033
00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:50,440
Speaker 10: lots of great chefs here, and so the community hits

1034
00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:52,120
Speaker 10: home for me in a couple different directions.

1035
00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:54,600
Speaker 6: It's the hospitality industry, it's also the entertainment industry.

1036
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:57,280
Speaker 10: So lots of friends, lots of people that are impacted

1037
00:48:57,320 --> 00:48:58,400
Speaker 10: in a couple different communities.

1038
00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:00,640
Speaker 6: So yeah, it definitely home to four.

1039
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:03,200
Speaker 10: But with World Central Kitchen, I mean, this is the

1040
00:49:03,280 --> 00:49:04,960
Speaker 10: organization that I think a lot of people should be

1041
00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:08,080
Speaker 10: paying attention to. They're faster than FEMA. Not that FEMA

1042
00:49:08,120 --> 00:49:10,080
Speaker 10: doesn't do more once they get on the ground, because

1043
00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:13,600
Speaker 10: of course they do. But I think that immediate emergency

1044
00:49:13,840 --> 00:49:18,120
Speaker 10: relief of just having hot, live food available, no one

1045
00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:20,759
Speaker 10: does it better than World Central Kitchen. So I think

1046
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:23,360
Speaker 10: it's a really important opportunity for people to give back

1047
00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:27,440
Speaker 10: and so if you go to WCK dot o rg's

1048
00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:30,320
Speaker 10: that's World Central Kitchen dot org. There's a couple of

1049
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:33,400
Speaker 10: things you can do. You can donate because money equals meals.

1050
00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:37,200
Speaker 10: Every dollar that you donate, the majority of that hits

1051
00:49:37,239 --> 00:49:40,360
Speaker 10: the ground in a hot life meal for someone in

1052
00:49:40,520 --> 00:49:43,680
Speaker 10: need all over the world. And also it's a really

1053
00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:47,280
Speaker 10: good opportunity to sign up to volunteer. So they'll organize

1054
00:49:47,280 --> 00:49:49,759
Speaker 10: you based on your zip code, and so if a

1055
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:52,920
Speaker 10: natural disaster happens in your part of the country and

1056
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:54,759
Speaker 10: you're a part of the world, you will be the

1057
00:49:54,760 --> 00:49:57,319
Speaker 10: first person or a first team of people that gets

1058
00:49:57,320 --> 00:49:59,840
Speaker 10: reached out to. But then also you'll get a notification

1059
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:03,520
Speaker 10: you want to, you know, travel to come. You coordinate

1060
00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:05,359
Speaker 10: and help volunteer and the more you do it, the

1061
00:50:05,360 --> 00:50:07,960
Speaker 10: more you understand how it works. But it's a fascinating organization.

1062
00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:11,600
Speaker 10: It's a very lean organization, but they get the job

1063
00:50:11,680 --> 00:50:13,759
Speaker 10: done in such an incredible way. So I always feel

1064
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:19,000
Speaker 10: like their logistics and then our muscle from the culinary standpoint,

1065
00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:20,880
Speaker 10: we're an incredible change.

1066
00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:23,439
Speaker 2: Thank you for that, because so many people are looking

1067
00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:26,920
Speaker 2: for ways to help, and yes, that is a wonderful

1068
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:29,960
Speaker 2: organization to your point, and they do need food out here.

1069
00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:32,320
Speaker 2: Sai's minor. We talk about water, we talk about equipment,

1070
00:50:32,360 --> 00:50:34,160
Speaker 2: but yes, we've got to feed a lot of these

1071
00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:36,560
Speaker 2: guys and gals we're helping. We're gonna let you go here,

1072
00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:38,839
Speaker 2: but give me the lasting, Give me the one thing

1073
00:50:38,880 --> 00:50:40,439
Speaker 2: that stood out that maybe you're going to be thinking

1074
00:50:40,440 --> 00:50:42,600
Speaker 2: about on the plane as you leave. We've seen plenty

1075
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:44,680
Speaker 2: of things that just stand like, wow, I can't believe that,

1076
00:50:44,840 --> 00:50:47,239
Speaker 2: or I can't believe she said that, Or give me

1077
00:50:47,440 --> 00:50:50,000
Speaker 2: some lasting, something that made such an impression on you

1078
00:50:50,440 --> 00:50:52,080
Speaker 2: here that it's going to stay with you.

1079
00:50:53,040 --> 00:50:56,080
Speaker 10: So yesterday we when we were set up at Command

1080
00:50:56,120 --> 00:51:00,319
Speaker 10: Central on the Pacific Coast Highway at Will Roger State

1081
00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:04,040
Speaker 10: Park in the Palace itdes we loaded up our car

1082
00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:08,839
Speaker 10: with a few hundred portions of chicken tenders and burritos

1083
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:14,160
Speaker 10: and tacos from a few other food trucks that were there,

1084
00:51:14,200 --> 00:51:17,480
Speaker 10: and we drove deep up into the hills to go

1085
00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:22,200
Speaker 10: find fire trucks and fire companies that were almost like

1086
00:51:22,360 --> 00:51:24,359
Speaker 10: hand to hand combat putting.

1087
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Speaker 6: House fires out. For two days.

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Speaker 10: They had not slept for two days, and they had

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Speaker 10: not had a meal in two days, and so finding

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Speaker 10: them and handing them a warm burrito, and to see

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Speaker 10: the look on their face with somebody, I'll never forget.

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Speaker 10: It's the reason we do this, and it's the reason

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Speaker 10: that I think the hospitality industry cares so much.

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Speaker 6: This is what we do. We open up our hearts

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Speaker 6: in our restaurants every single night.

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Speaker 10: We know how to feed people, we know how to

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Speaker 10: run a team, we know how to get food on

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Speaker 10: the ground fast. And so it was that moment where

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Speaker 10: you know, if you go to my Instagram story it's

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Speaker 10: still come up right now you can kind of see

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Speaker 10: some firefighters Tyler Florence on Instagram.

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Speaker 6: You'll get a chance to see it. But I'll never

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Speaker 6: forget that as well.

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Speaker 4: They won't forget it either, Tyler. And so thank you

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Speaker 4: on behalf of the folks who are fighting the fires

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Speaker 4: and doing so many things to just ensure the safety

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Speaker 4: not just of people but of property. I know they're

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Speaker 4: so grateful for you and all of your efforts. So

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Speaker 4: thank you for joining us and sharing that with us.

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Speaker 4: We appreciate it.

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Speaker 6: Thanks not take care for you back you