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Hey, this is in Perfect Paradise.

I'm Antonio Serejillo.

It's been nine months since the devastating Eaton and Palisades fires swept through Altadena and the Pacific Palisades.

Finally, we're getting some deep insight into what went wrong.

That clarity is coming thanks to an

after-action report released last week. Particularly with elected officials, when they say we couldn't

have seen this coming and this was unimaginable, people need to push back aggressively against

that level of bullshit. Today on Imperfect Paradise, we're speaking with LAS science reporter Jacob Margolis about that report,

which examined alerts and evacuations that authority sent out during the January fires.

Jacob is going to break down that report and what went wrong and also talk about the alarming similarities he saw in an after-action report released six years ago

after the 2018 Woolsey Fire.

Jacob, thanks so much for being on Imperfect Paradise.

Thanks for having me.

So, okay, before we get into this report, I think it's important to note that the fire authorities

in Southern California are some of the largest and most well-resourced

agencies around the world. You covered the Eden and Palisades fires back in January and the

recovery and cleanup efforts that have followed. Given everything that you've reported as a journalist

who's covered fires for years, what were some of the big lingering questions you had?

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