Episode 4, Smokeout.

When I was first a TV reporter here in LA, I was sent out to cover a wildfire in Malibu,

and I started to do a stand-up, you know, looking into the camera with the fire on the hill behind me.

When somebody shouted, I turned around and then I had to drop my microphone and run from the

flames. They were moving so fast, I had to get out of the way. Later that day, I put the story

together as a possible threat to celebrity mansions, but now that just doesn't cut it.

Wildfires are so much bigger and faster and more frequent that Calfire says there isn't even a fire

season anymore. Now it's harder than ever to make sure that everybody can get out of the way.

I'm going on Al-Nean. This is In Our Backyard, a six-part series about the local impacts of

climate change in Southern California.

I'm a year older than Joaquin. We've always been very close. I've always felt like we were

twins, actually, and he's my heart.

He's my soulmate.

That's Diana Pastera Carson.

She's talking about her brother Joaquin.

But I remember one year when I think I turned 14, I had a slumber party at the house,

and Joaquin sometimes forgot to put clothes on.

And he came down to there.

He was 13, I think.

He came downstairs and saw all these sleeping bags on the living room floor.

And he jumped on top of somebody and was just jumping on her like she was a trampoline.

And she woke up screaming and anyway.

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