Good morning. Welcome back. Kind of a near and dear isish to my heart today on the episode.

My guest is Jim Prabu. L.A. City Fire Captain was at the Palisade Fires for 72 hours.

And I, like anybody who didn't live in that area, watched it on the news. And it was,

it was almost as if you were watching a horror movie. Seeing just the velocity of the wind and

the completely bent over flames and sparks that were looking like flamethrowers was unbelievable.

Near and dear to my heart, because I used to live in southeastern San Diego and the Santa Ana's anas for those of you who don't know are winds that come from east to west they're blowing offshore and just east of sandyago and the la basin is largely the desert and it just turns into this hair dryer and inferno and have family in the fire service my brother-in-law is a san diego city fire. I remember him getting mobilized with just about every firefighter in that area during those time periods.

And they stay busy because it's a very common occurrence.

We don't have Santa Ana's up here where I live in Montana.

But literally right now outside, visibility, extremely restricted.

Smoke is just pouring in from Canada, which I think it seems like the entire

country is on fire at this point. But it's an issue. Kind of everywhere. More so today, though,

for this episode in the L.A. area. Jim, fantastic episode. And I'd love talking about people who

worked their way up from the very beginning,

the changes they've seen in the fire department, the impact of DEI inside of the LA City Fire

Department. And just the amazing story of those first 72 hours non-stops, trying to save

whatever they could in the palisades. You know, in addition to calling 911 and hoping for the

fire brigade to show up and he'll talk about

the ridiculous number of engines and the personnel that searched that area and how it wasn't enough

the question is going to be what can you do for yourself and you know prepare to be your own first

responder is the best answer that I can give you in most situations j Jim's got a company on the sidefire defense service.com.

I'll put the links down in the show notes.

It's specifically around hardening your house to fires.

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