The house was built by my mother and father in 1960, and I lived here my whole life.

So there's a lot of memories here.

And I think I owed it to them as well to try my best to save it.

Some things in life are worth fighting for.

I mean, if I were to lose this house, it would be very difficult to afford to be able to build a new house, to pay the enormous

property taxes they have here.

What would I do?

When I was out here, hosting the house down and getting ready, and when the houses started

to burn, I didn't see one single fire truck out here at all. Zero.

If they had some fire trucks, just put a squirt here, a squirt there, and kept an eye on things,

all these houses would be here now. I'm telling you right now, I saw it with my own eyeballs.

All these houses, the houses behind me, they're all gone. They started with one little

spark, one little small fire. They just squirted those out. I had a few people out there. They'd all be here now.

I did what I needed to do. I did what I wanted to do. I did what I thought I could do. And that's

what I did. President-elect Trump has blamed you for this crisis.

He called you incompetent. What's your response? Well, I called for him to come out, take a look for

himself. We want to do in the spirit of an open hand, not a close fist. He's the president-elect.

I respect the office. We have a president of the United States that within 36 hours provided

a major disaster declaration over a text. We had support from the President of the United

States, Joe Biden, with 100% reimbursement, all the resources you could hope for or imagine,

constant communication. I'd like to extend that to the President-elect. I don't know what he's

referring to when he talks about the Delta smelt and reservoirs. The reservoirs are

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