LA Wildfires, Carter's State Funeral, Trump's Agenda
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Wildfires in Southern California reduced entire neighborhoods to ashes.
The street behind us are what caught fire, so our backyard caught fire.
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Today, every school in Los Angeles is closed. It's one sign of the way that wildfires have affected the nation's second largest city.
The fires have sometimes destroyed whole neighborhoods. They wrecked the homes of celebrities. Billy Crystal says he lost the house where he's lived with his wife since 1979. Several people are dead that we know of so far, and new fires appear as desert winds blow embers around the region. We're joined now by NPR's Adrian Florido in Los Angeles.
Good morning, Adrian.
Good morning, Michelle.
Could you just give us an overview of the kind of destruction that these fires are causing?
Well, a lot of the destruction so far is from the Pacific Palisades fire, which is where one of the two biggest fires is burning. News choppers were able to fly over that affluent coastal community yesterday and filmed block after block of homes reduced to ash. Homes in nearby Malibu also burned. The Hollywood Hills caught fire last night, and that blaze has quickly spread, forcing chaotic evacuations there. I was able yesterday to get into a neighborhood ravaged by the other big fire, the Eaton Fire in Altadena on the east side of Los Angeles. I walked past more than 20 homes burning or already burned to the ground, and that was over just a couple of blocks.
I mean, it just sounds just like a horrific sort of scene there. Could you just, would you just describe more about what you saw?
You know, the ruins of many of the houses in the neighborhood where I was were still burning and every so often something under the rubble would explode or a wooden door frame would finish collapsing and it would shoot up this puff of embers. And it was windy, so neighbors were rushing to make sure that those embers didn't set their houses on fire. I met a Brittany man as she and her brother were hosing down their roof and their lawns before evacuating.
The street behind us are what caught fire, so our backyard caught fire. So we're still trying to get those fires out before we leave.
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