Welcome to the global phenomenon, Surviving the Survivor, where we bring you the best guests in all of true crime.

Here's your host, Emmy Award winning journalist Joel Waldman.

What's up, STS Nation, and welcome to another episode of Surviving the Survivor.

It is a podcast that typically brings you the best guests in true crime, but we try to do a very small part in helping when there are catastrophes.

Last time around, it was the Maui wildfires.

And tonight, the COE's hometown of Los Angeles,

the city of Angels is literally on fire.

And moments ago, a new fire broke out,

which we'll tell you about in just a second.

But the purpose of this show, and right off the bat,

no one's sweeter, more generous than canine katherine already a

fifty dollar uh super uh chat here uh after losing the entire historic town of lehina and maui

over a hundred souls restaurants businesses family homes and more it is my sad honor to pay it

forward uh towards his horrible tragedy in California, the home

of my birth in first 30 years.

COE, if we can mute KTLA, I think I'm hearing a little bit of it in background.

But anyone who is able to give a super chat, it's going to go directly to Liz Lynn of the Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation.

She is joining us.

Just very quickly to start this off, at least five people have already died in these historic fires. Governor Gavin Newsom was in Los Angeles

today. He sadly said to expect that number to grow and grow substantially. I was trying to keep

count of these fires. It was virtually impossible. At one point is three, there was five. Literally,

just before going on air,

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