Imperfect Paradise: The first five days: Inside LA’s most destructive wildfires

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🗓️ 16 January 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Larry Mantle has been a radio host in Los Angeles for nearly 40 years. Over the course of hosting his live, daily, public affairs call-in show on LAist 89.3, he’s covered the region’s biggest triumphs and tragedies, hearing from officials and Angelenos alike. Covering the Palisades, Eaton, and other current LA wildfires has been especially trying. “I have never seen in such a short period of time this kind of devastation,” said Mantle. Imperfect Paradise host Antonia Cereijdio and AirTalk’s Larry Mantle take us inside the first five days of the wildfires and how Mantle is helping Angelenos process the devastation throughout Southern California on his show.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's just me, Paula Poundstone, and I'm coming to Glendale for a special live taping,
0:05.1	co-presented by LAIS and Martin Media.
0:08.0	It's February 8th at the Alex Theater.
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0:15.6	I'm Franklin Leonard, founder of the Blacklist, where we celebrate exceptional storytelling.
0:20.2	In our new podcast, we're
0:21.5	turning the Hollywood creative process into a game show with the help of a star panel of guests.
0:26.2	Find nobody knows anything wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by FX. Hey, this is in Perfect
0:31.9	Paradise. I'm Antonio Sedejido. Last week, Southern California was hit with one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history,
0:44.8	a series of 23 ongoing wildfires in the L.A. metropolitan area.
0:49.6	We're recording this episode on Tuesday, January 14th.
0:53.1	As of noon today, more than 40,000 acres have been burned, larger than the area of Washington, D.C. Over 12,000 structures have been destroyed, libraries, restaurants, schools, local landmarks, and homes. At least 24 people have been killed.
1:12.1	An incalculable loss.
1:19.9	Historic and dangerous events, like the ones we've been experiencing over the last couple of weeks,
1:25.5	are the kinds of events that newsrooms like ours at LAist
1:28.8	are set up to cover. And normally, that means deploying our reporters to the scene of the
1:34.2	destruction or impact. But in rare cases, the event makes its way inside the newsroom. And in this
1:42.0	case, it seeped through doorways and windows. No one from our station
1:46.2	is allowed onto the second floor of the building because of the smoke and dangerous air quality.
1:51.8	We have two studios running air purifiers 24-7 so that we are able to keep broadcasting on air.
1:58.4	In the last week, at least four of our colleagues have lost their homes. Over a dozen of
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