This is Friends Vister Debating Society. I'm John Batchel with Jeff Bliss, Pacific Watch,

who is watching the fires very carefully for the last several days as they move across the landscape of Los Angeles.

I know enough about L.A. to know this headline is terrifying. Los Angeles Times in these last hours.

L.A. shaken by mass evacuations in Brentwood and Sino.

Two different places.

Brentwood and Sino.

Flames visible for miles as fire siege enters day five.

We have a new word, Jeff, siege.

Brentwood and Encino.

Those neighborhoods are closely put together for very expensive homes, very beautiful homes.

Right now, what is the status of Brentwood?

Are they evacuating everyone or just parts of it? It's very

large. Good evening to you. Good evening, John. They have evacuated parts of Brentwood, as well as

Encino, the Manneville Canyon area. They're all somewhat contiguous running from West L.A.

through the hillsides over into the San Fernando Valley.

So if people don't know Los Angeles, you have the Los Angeles basin.

And then, you know, around it are hills and to the eastern mountains.

And so when you get to the north and the west part of L.A. proper, West L.A. You know, you have, you have Brett

Wood and then other communities that are well-known, Santa Monica, on the west side, and then

going over the hill through the Sepulveda Pass, which is a major transit route. You have,

Encino is really kind of the start of the San Fernando Valley on that side of the valley.

And so Encino, Brent Wood, as you pointed out, well known as wealthy enclaves, a lot of very moneyed people live there.

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