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Complacency sets in when there hasn’t been a fire for a few years and you start to think, it might not happen again,
Why is the hillside on fire?”
I don’t want to die!”
She shares harrowing cellphone footage of people driving through exploding columns of fire as they try to escape, crying out What does a fire-hardened home look like?”
The population is overwhelmingly moving into these wildland urban interface areas,
Walker says, referring to areas where housing meets undeveloped wildland vegetation — exactly the areas most likely to burn If you want to watch a firefighter have their heart broken, it’s when they want to do more,
What I’m hearing from people is not just ‘I can’t wait to rebuild. Let me rebuild,'
Our cats are ready to go, we have their carriers by the door prepped with their little stuffed animals and things like that,
We're absolutely better prepared,
L.A. County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone said when asked what will be different from a week ago, when hurricane-force winds propelled multiple fires across the parched, brush-filled region that has seen almost no rain in more than eight months Life threatening and destructive and widespread winds are already here,
LA city Fire Chief Kristin Crowley told a news conference We have people literally looking for the remains of your neighbours,
I have never known anything with a name like that, that can fight like this pig did,
he said, describing how the terrified and stubborn pig screamed when they tried to get her into the trailer There are a lot of beautiful and positive things coming from this,
she said, watching the ducks as they happily acclimated to their new surroundings in a kiddie pool that was quickly donated by a neighbor I have been talking nonstop to people I have never even met,
said Brittany “Cole” Bush, the founder of Shepherdess Land & Livestock, a ranch in the Ojai Valley that uses grazing animals to reduce the risk of wildfires in southern California, describing the groundswell of action from far and wide that coalesced around the emergencies in LA this week People think they are doing the right thing in an emergency situation and it ends up being the completely wrong thing to do,
Elizabeth Brandon, a member of Muhs team added The very first night there was a call for 40 horses – 32 of them perished,
said Austin Muhs, a Santa Monica local who, in recent years, established a network of animal evacuation from disaster zones After the heightened fray of it all there is a moment of, oh gosh, softness and peace,
As fast as you could get trailers in there, they were loaded and gone,
Everything just felt like, ‘Oh man, the world’s ending,
said Kang, who's staying with his girlfriend in Pasadena
