This is the Friends of History Debating Society, special edition, The Fires of Los Angeles.

Jeff Bliss, his specific watch.

We were watching Brentwood, and then I saw the headlines come in that Bel Air is threatened.

So I need a geography lesson from Jeff.

He's been watching the fires, the drone feeds feeds and the helicopter feeds overhead. It's past

dark now. It's easier to track the advance of the fires. It looks very much like waves coming up a hillside.

Jeff's taught me that that's moving over the kindling, which is the undergrowth between the hills,

headed towards housing.

It's willy-nilly what it strikes, but there are new kinds of risks because the fires restart.

Jeff, you mentioned all day and yesterday that the Pacific Palisade fire is starting again.

How so? Where? What do we know about it?

Good evening, John. Well, the fire has, it has continued into the other parts of the Santa Monica Mountains,

which run along the coast, you know, that you come from the ocean, you move inland a little bit,

and then soon you get the Santa Monica Mountains. And on the other side is basically the San Fernando Valley, which is a large urban population center.

You know, probably a million, two million people live in that in the valley altogether.

And you have communities that bump right up against the bottom of the hill on both sides of the mountains.

And so what they've been trying to do is keep this fire from spreading beyond where it originated in Pacific Palisades,

but it's been a very difficult task, actually an impossible one with the winds and with the brush and the dry temperatures.

And so it's pushed forward.

It's pushed eastward and northward

into places like Topanga Canyon and into the, you know, a little bit to the east, into the north

through Brentwood and Mandeville Canyon and towards Encino, which is really kind of the beginning

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