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Adam Carolla On Fires, Failures & Urgent Need for Change | 1.18.25

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The Daily Wire

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4.926.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Comedian Adam Carolla shares his harrowing experience evacuating from the Palisades Fire and critiques the failing fire policies in California. Get the facts first on Morning Wire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Los Angeles fires have wreaked havoc on parts of Southern California with more than 10,000 homes destroyed in the Palisades Fire, Eaton Fire, and others.

0:12.7

In this episode, Daily Wire investigative reporter Spencer Lindquist sits down with comedian and actor Adam Carolla to discuss his experiences evacuating from the

0:22.0

Palisades Fire and its devastating aftermath. I'm DailyWire, editor-in-chief John Bickley

0:27.8

with Georgia Howe. It's January 18th, and this is a Saturday edition of Morning Wire.

0:35.2

The following is an interview between Daily Wire reporter Spencer Lindquist and comedian Adam Carolla.

0:41.7

Hey, Adam, so thanks for sitting down with us to talk about these fires.

0:44.8

You know, there's a wide range of different topics on the policy level that we definitely like to discuss.

0:49.9

But I think, first off, I just wanted to hear a bit about your experience with the fires.

0:57.4

I know that you evacuated and you've got a condo that you've been concerned about.

0:59.9

If you could just walk us through what it's been like personally so far.

1:11.0

Tuesday morning, I was leaving the gym that's on sunset and PCH, which is Pacific Coast Highway.

1:18.1

And I walked, I left the gym about 1045, 1050 in the morning, and I walked down on this open terrace.

1:18.6

I looked to my left, and I just saw smoke at the top of sunset.

1:23.1

And that's exactly when the fire started.

1:25.9

So I got my car, and I came here, which is in the San Fernando Valley, which is 25 miles away,

1:32.7

to come here to work.

1:34.8

And as I was going down PCH, I was seeing fire trucks coming in the other directions

1:39.0

at hearing sirens and, you know, all that goes along with it.

1:42.1

And then I got here.

1:43.7

And by the end of my workday,

1:46.0

probably about three or four o'clock,

1:47.7

I'd heard that the fire had spread,

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