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Lemonada. This is Talk Easy. I'm Sam Forgoso. Welcome to the show. Today, author and journalist, Emily Witt.

She recently published an excellent new book called Health and Safety and as a staff writer at The New Yorker where she covers politics, culture, and climate.

In recent years, that's included coverage of the landslides in Big Sur,

the wildlife in Griffith Park, the increasing consequences posed by oil drilling,

and the debate over electric vehicles.

Witt, who is currently a resident of Los Angeles, has spent the past

couple weeks on the ground covering the wildfires, which to date have claimed the lives of at least

27 people, displacing tens of thousands more. The LA Times reports that upwards of 12,000 structures

across the city have been reduced to ash.

That includes the home of Emily's brother, Stephen, whose Altadena residence was lost in the

Eton Fire, which, at the time of recording, has not yet been fully contained.

We start today by discussing Emily's latest piece for the New Yorker,

which focuses on the black families of Altadena displaced by these fires, specifically the Benz,

who first bought a home in the historic L.A. suburb back in 1959, and has spent the intervening 60 years, creating community and amassing generational

wealth.

Overnight, the Ben family living across four different homes within minutes of each other,

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