‘The entire community is just gone’: inside the Los Angeles wildfires

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🗓️ 15 January 2025

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Gabrielle Canon reports from Los Angeles on the wildfires destroying homes and communities. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0	This is The Guardian.
0:09.3	Today, the Los Angeles fires and a warning to the world about life in a new climate.
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1:24.6	When a wildfire broke out a few miles from his home in Altadena in the hills north of Los Angeles,
1:35.6	George Elmerari waited for the order to evacuate.
1:39.3	But it never came.
1:40.6	The fire was faster.
1:42.5	We were just home waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting.
1:46.4	And then finally I got up on the roof and I saw the fire nearby a couple of streets over.
1:55.5	I saw like the mountain burning.
1:58.4	So you just see this like a line of fire that's just getting
2:02.5	closer and closer and closer to you. And at that point when I saw the fire like from our backyard
2:09.9	like almost parallel to our house, I was like, okay, we got to go. We're not going to wait for
2:14.8	this any longer. Like we got to go now. He not going to wait for this any longer. Like, we got to go now.
2:19.2	He piled his young family into the car, grabbing what they could out the door and drove to his
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