Wildfires. They're a part of life here in California. They threaten communities in popular

vacation spots like Lake Tahoe, Big Bear, Malibu, even Yosemite these days. But a recent LA

Times analysis found that guests who book vacation rentals in those spots through Airbnb

often have no idea that they're booking in a high-fire

area and that the company provides no warnings or escape plan if disaster strikes.

I'm Gustav Ariano. You're listening to the Times, essential news from the LA Times. It's Monday,

September 12, 2022.

Today, as climate change threatens so many aspects of our lives,

are even our vacations not safe anymore? My Life Times colleagues, Ben posted and Alex Wigglesworth looked into this issue.

Ben, Alex, welcome the Times.

Thanks for having us.

Yeah, thank you.

Wildfires have always been a part of life in California.

Alex are actually one of our masters of disasters, specializing in wildfires.

But Ben, one recent wildfire hit particularly close to you.

Yeah, I was at the time in 2018, I was living in Malibu with my now wife, and we had been there for about a year, and the Wolsey Fire erupted, and also the Hillfire.

I had lived in L.A. for in the city for like four years, and wildfires were just something that happened in remote areas, wilderness areas.

Never in a million years that I think that the fire could reach the ocean.

So we were there that night and we looked on Twitter and saw that we were in the evacuation zone for the hill fire.

So we evacuated on Thursday night and then the next day the Walsi

fire forced people in that area to evacuate. Our apartment complex, 20% of the units and the

apartment complex burned. We were very lucky that ours was just damaged by just a little bit

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