I was like possessed in the best way to just be of service to this community.

This was so much bigger than just like what I thought it was going to be.

I was really like giving a voice to all these people who just felt unheard.

If somebody just stepped to the table and said,

I messed up, I didn't do my job, or I failed as a leader,

I should have done better.

It doesn't seem like anybody has done that in LA in terms of leadership.

I'm David Goldblum.

I'm a filmmaker and I was a resident of the Big Rock community in Malibu.

I was making my way more and more towards Malibu over the years.

I've been in LA for 16 years.

But I finally got to Malibu in

2024 and was like, I'm home for the first time really ever. And then I met the community

and I was like, these are my people. It was like this perfect paradise. But I heard while

filming this movie, it's like the price of paradise is the other side of it,

which is the natural disasters.

The night of the fires, I hadn't had any communication. I didn't get in a vac warning.

I looked out the window and I saw the huge fire cloud coming from the Palisades.

And I just jumped in my car and drove off. I wanted to fight or flight.

I didn't have it to go bag. I made it to a hotel and really lost everything.

But I didn't know what was happening.

Even the apps, they weren't delivering the right information, at least in Malibu, so nobody

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