On this episode of Nuts World, the fires sweeping across Los Angeles County, California,

for the past week, have burned more than 40,000 acres for an area slightly larger than Washington, D.C.

At least 24 people have died, and more than 100,000 people have been forced to leave their homes.

More than 12,000 homes, businesses, schools, churches and other structures have been destroyed by the fires.

And the fires are still raging.

I wanted to understand more about how the fires initially began and how they will finally be contained,

so I'm really pleased to welcome my two guests, who are both from the city of Laguna Beach in Orange County, California.

Mayor Alice Renagi and Fire Chief, Nico King.

Thank you. Alex Enigo, welcome and thank you for joining the Beets World.

Thanks so much for having us.

Thank you.

It's an honor.

As I understand that you both were in Pacific

policies on Monday, surveying the damage and checking in on your Laguna Beach firefighters,

who were there assisting Los Angeles County firefighters. Tell us for a couple of minutes about

that experience. Why don't we start with you, Mr. Mayor? Well, yes, Speaker Gingrich, you really cannot

overstate the devastation that we saw, the amount of homes that were burned.

There were so many of them, and what was remarkable was it wasn't like all the new homes that were recently built were able to stay.

Some of the homes that were remaining were old homes, some were new.

It was totally inconsistent, and it just speaks to the power of this fire with these winds.

The other remarkable takeaway was how people had to evacuate so quickly. At least 24 people have died.

But it was remarkable that in some ways that so few people have died, given how much devastation there has been.

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