For more than a week, firefighters have been battling massive wildfires that have ravaged Los Angeles and killed at least 25 people, with officials warning of incoming dangerous winds that could whip up the blazes further. The fires have ripped through the United States' second-largest city, reducing whole communities to scorched rubble and leaving thousands without homes.
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00:00I'm frustrated, I'm frustrated, and I'm scared.
00:05Paradise in Northern California and Maui are two towns that got completely lost to fire
00:11and now we've lost Pacific Palisades and Altadena.
00:14When is something going to change?
00:17You've seen what these downtowns look like.
00:20I mean, they look like a bomb hit them.
00:23Recovery from these fires is going to be complex.
00:26I've seen many disasters throughout my four years in this role.
00:30This is certainly one of the worst.
00:43This looks like the apocalypse, it just doesn't feel like the normal things that happen in
00:48your life.
00:49My son was calling me, my other kids were calling, Dad, get out of there, get out of
00:54there.
00:55And that's the way we continued to fight until we couldn't fight no more.
01:14The house next door is on fire.
01:16Our house will definitely be next.
01:18Sometimes it's hell that we're living in.
01:22All the people who were there were trying to escape.
01:24I was one of them.
01:28I'm angry, I'm sad for everything that has happened to us.
01:34All the people who lost their homes, we're like refugees here.
01:38I don't know how long we're going to last.
01:42As soon as you walk in, you would be met with the living room, which is literally right
01:49here in this area.
01:51And then to the left of it was the kitchen and the dining room.
01:55And then right here was a room.
01:58And then we had two more rooms behind that.
02:01But as you can see, the only thing that's basically standing is the chimney.
02:06And yeah, now it's nothing.
02:11The flames have consumed all of our dreams of years here.
02:17It's all turned to ashes here.
02:41It's going to cost tens of billions of dollars to get Los Angeles back to where it was.
03:01So we're going to need Congress to step up to provide funding to get this done.
03:06And we're going to get that done, God willing.
03:11The situation in Hollywood is fraught.
03:31For quite some time, there has been calamity.
03:35There was the pandemic, which upended the whole world.
03:39A lot of people's jobs and lives were completely upended.
03:43Then right after that, we had both the writers and the actor strikes, which was devastating.
03:48And for quite some time, people were saying the phrase, survive until 25.
03:53Well, 2025 is here.
03:55We have a massive wildfire and a citywide crisis.
04:09This is obvious that stuff like this is happening because of global warming.
04:26And people that just want to deny it just don't know science and don't know how to research those things.
04:30So I think that humans are funny because they think anywhere they move in this world, they'll be safe.
04:34But the entire world has global warming.
04:38So there's disasters wherever you move.
04:40Move to Florida, hurricanes.
04:42Move to the Mideast, you got tornadoes.
04:45You know what I mean?
04:47So I guess pick your disaster and live there.
04:49What disaster makes you feel most comfortable?
04:51Because that's the world we're living in at this point.
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