Here in Los Angeles, a lot of people are still replaying exactly where they were last Tuesday,

when the Palisades fire began roaring through the mountains, like Barbara Tejada, who was speeding down the Pacific Coast Highway.

I threw on the hazard lights and we kind of upset a few people probably, but we were driving on the shoulder of the road so that we could get

here. Here, as in the historic ranch home of Will Rogers, the vaudeville performer and radio

and movie star, he was known as America's cowboy philosopher. And last week, as smoke billowed in the

hills just beyond his ranch, park officials like Tejada jumped into action.

We pulled up trucks right here where we're standing on the lawn.

You dashed into the house. What was your first room?

The main living room. We have a lot of Charles wrestled bronze sculptures.

There were some key things owned by will, like his, you know, his boots, his typewriter.

And people are packing, people are packing.

We're moving things into trucks.

And you keep spinning around and looking out the windows.

I kept, yes.

And at one point I came out and I literally saw the smoke plume start to churn. And that was the clue. Like, I realized,

okay, guys, whatever you have in your hands, that's it. We've got to go. Like, this is the last

round of things. We've got to go. They hopped into their trucks. And before they left, Tejada took one last

look at the house. And something told me to take a picture, because this might be the last time we see it.

So I did take a, I do have a photo from the, from the truck.

Oh my God.

So the ranch house is right there.

The sky's just lit, orange, red, yellow, gray. It looks like a watercolor.

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