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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

ON THE GROUND UPDATE FROM LOS ANGELES FIRES

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

Health & Fitness, News, Society & Culture

4.93.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Disaster relief specialists, Steve Slepcevic & John Knox, join Del from ground zero of the California fires with heroic details of the first responders fight to save homes and tough questions about the colossal failure of government leadership in funding to help prevent and fight these kinds of disasters. Hear critical information on how you can help in the staggering relief.

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0:00.0

It's being described in many sort of descriptions as a hellscape, an inferno, hell on earth.

0:08.8

Many of us are making calls to loved ones and people that we know that find themselves in the middle of this incredible tragedy.

0:16.1

It's unfolding right before our eyes.

0:18.5

Of course, I'm talking about the incredible images of the fires

0:23.1

that are happening right now in Los Angeles that look something like this.

0:26.6

Breaking news out of Southern California where dangerous and fast-moving wildfires

0:31.6

are currently raging in Los Angeles.

0:34.6

The Palisades fire hitting the affluent Malibu in Pacific Palisades areas.

0:39.3

Then there's the Eaton fire ripping through the neighborhoods of Altadena, Pasadena, and other surrounding towns.

0:46.3

And tonight the sunset fire encroaching on the Hollywood Hills, the Hollywood Bowl, and the Dolby Theater, where the Oscars are held.

0:56.7

A severe drought and fierce Santa Ana wins.

1:02.5

Some gusting to 90 to 100 miles per hour have made for a deadly and horrific combination here,

1:06.6

turning parts of Los Angeles County into a hellscape in just 24 hours.

1:10.1

The Palisades Fire exploding to more than 15,000 acres.

1:14.6

75 mile per hour wins overnight, pushing the flames up the Pacific Coast Highway, where it overtook the iconic city of Malibu.

1:17.6

The normally stunning Pacific Coast Highway, unrecognizable.

1:21.6

Fire raging on both sides, destroying businesses and homes.

1:25.6

Here at PCH.

1:26.6

Here in Altadena, home after home after...

1:29.3

Home after home after home of beachfront properties are...

1:33.3

Completely destroyed.

1:34.3

You have entire neighborhoods that have been reduced to rubble.

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