493: What Really Happened During California's Devastating Wildfires: A Deep Dive into the Causes, Consequences, and Critical Failures with Jeremy Ryan Slate and Jen Briney
Food Heals
Allison Melody
4.8 • 635 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Food Heels podcast. |
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| 0:12.3 | developing a more positive outlook on life, an increase in sexual activity, feelings of joy, |
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| 0:27.9 | All right, welcome, Food Heels Nation. Thanks for joining me. I'm Allison Melody. Today, we're diving into the California wildfires that have destroyed people's lives and communities. These fires swept |
| 0:39.4 | through the L.A. area destroying thousands of structures, displacing nearly 200,000 people, |
| 0:45.0 | and tragically claiming the lives of at least 27 people. With insured losses estimated at over |
| 0:51.9 | $20 billion and total economic damage reaching $50 billion. |
| 0:58.0 | These are numbers I can't even comprehend of. This disaster is one of the most catastrophic |
| 1:02.6 | in California history. If you listen to the last episode, I shared my raw and personal |
| 1:07.7 | experience of not evacuating once, but evacuating twice. |
| 1:12.1 | First, I was in Santa Monica where I could see the fires at the end of the street blazing. |
| 1:17.3 | I could see the smoke clouds moving towards us, then ended up going to Pasadena where I thought |
| 1:22.6 | it was safe. |
| 1:23.3 | I was completely unaware that another fire had broken out. |
| 1:26.8 | And the next day, my friend and I were |
| 1:28.8 | awoken to smoke and ash, and we ended up evacuating myself, my good friend Debbie, and |
| 1:35.8 | four dogs to Palm Springs. |
| 1:38.2 | I came back on Sunday. |
| 1:39.4 | I recorded this podcast episode you're about to hear on Tuesday. |
| 1:42.3 | Then I headed to Florida for a pre-planned trip |
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