The firefighters on site in LA or long term residents of the area all say they have never seen anything like this before, author John Vaillant says.
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00:00Doesn't all of this sound like, you know, you've got a lot of human beings living
00:04in a place where in fact they perhaps shouldn't be living at all?
00:07Well, I mean, here's the thing, Tom. So Los Angeles County is the most populous
00:13county in the United States. It's been heavily populated for 50, 75 years. Fires
00:21have been a feature of that landscape. But in Pacific Palisades, the town,
00:27the community that burnt so totally and tragically a couple of days ago,
00:31some of those buildings were 100 years old. So that tells you that either they've just
00:37been lucky for 100 years or that the fires simply were not as intense. And if you talk
00:42to any firefighter who went through that, any long-term resident, they will all say,
00:47I've never seen anything like this.