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Done - thank you for sharing this - also if anyone has the means, the la fire dept charity is a great cause and these heroes have been working around the clock
It's not so natural when homeless and illegals are setting fires. I know my comment might sound insincere, but I am filled with so much sadness, frustration and anger. All of this could've been prevented and should've never happened! The California Government doesn't care about its OWN people!
@@carlwells4989 Its just walls, Gucci bags, melted Mercedes....the rest of America is dealing with real housing issues that can't be solved by writing a check.
Arvin, I've been thinking about you throughout this whole tragedy. You have spoken so often about the state of insurance and the serious risk of fires in LA. My heart goes out to everyone affected. Its beyond shocking. I'm very glad you are safe.
Same. I only started watching Arvin a few weeks ago, but was very taken by his insights and perspectives on homes, not houses. Then I switched to YT and saw a live feed of a fire in LA that had started. The super scoopers were there as the fire grew to around 200 acres, circling to drop water despite the very high winds. I hoped Arvin and friends were ok, and watched in disbelief as the fires grew and grew. The scale of the devastation to people's property and lives is terrible, but Angelinos are resiliant, and can rebuild.
Very sorry for all the loss. 82,000 structures were destroyed or damaged in northridge. Fire is worse as it just lays waste to so much, whereas even severely damaged houses aren't counted complete losses in a quake, absent fire.
@@ArvinHaddadOfficial My condolenses for your and your families loss too. I hope you can recover fast and as good as possible under the given circumstances. If you chose to rebuild in fireprone areas, I'd strongly recommend checking out a sprinkler system that is fed by a swimming pool and powered from an independant power source. The normal gardensprinklers can make a huge difference in these kind of situations by preventing embers and grassfires from reaching the house, so they might be a worthwhile investment.
I'm from Valencia, Spain, where last October the floods killed over 230 people and destroyed thousands of homes. All my love, support and best wishes to all the people who are suffering in LA.
This has to be the best video I've seen on the LA fire's so far. To hear the perspective of people who live in the community really helps to put yourself in their shoes.
Dear Arvin, you wanna know what I got from this video, that you’re an amazing uncle, a superb nephew, and an even better brother. You will have my support forever and I hope one day when I can afford to purchase a home in LA, I hope it is you that is able to help me do that! Godspeed brother
Professional journalist has a perspective about the L.A fires that are upsetting to listen to BUT credible th-cam.com/video/4SROWoij2ak/w-d-xo.htmlsi=YcNMEFLzbpRbJ-Gu
Hey guys. Little word of advice. Make sure to have all of you necessities for a forest fire ready to pack easily and efficiently into a backpack/suitcase that can be carried in case of car failure. You never know what the next day will bring so its a good idea to prep for anything.
11:13 I have to pause this video for a moment. Arvin, I stumbled across your videos about a month or so ago. I've always been entertained by home tours and I have a strong interest in architecture. Your channel combines both of those subjects relatively seamlessly and in a way that is fun, educational, and easy to digest. I came for the real estate, but I stayed because you brought a down to earth, comical, human emotion to your videos that turn an otherwise mundane property into an interesting and enjoyable video. I think you would be a pleasure to hang out and have drinks with, just one of the boys. I say that, to say this: This video has already upset me. Not in a bad way, per se, but it made me feel a personal connection to the fires out West. I'm all the way on the East Coast and have been my entire life, so I otherwise don't have any connection to area. This has already been an emotional video to watch. I wanted to say that I'm terribly sorry for the losses you and your family have endured and I'm thankful that you all are safe. Keep your head up and keep making the great content I come back time and time again to see. Maybe, one day, I will have the pleasure of purchasing a property from you. Sending Love from Maryland and wishing you and your family a speedy and complete recovery. ✌🏽🥹💙 Edit: This just might be your best video yet. At some point we need a little bit of Sebby on the guitar to really put a bow on this story. 🫶🏽🎸🎚️🔊🎶
There is no just hoping anymore , if your a resident in California and keep hoping your doomed ... I live in ny I know the pain of your state not caring about you , you need to change it !!!! This entire country stands with California just like we stood with the entire east coast from that bitch of a hurricane ... we need our govt to stand with us
I grew up in the Palisades near the top of Lachman Ln, 1300 block. At 15:23 you pass our old house in this video (and yes, we had incredible views that I totally took for granted growing up.) Weirdly, the neighbors house that also burned down seems to be untouched in this video, so I wonder if it burned later. It's amazing that Via Floresta was mostly unscathed. I remember when they were building houses on Via Floresta and there was nothing beyond those gated streets off Via Floresta. Memories... By the way, how do you know the broken glass is from looters? I saw that in a photo of damage and assumed it was from the heat of the fire that the windows broke. It's unbelievable that my entire hometown is gone. And my father built our house in the 60's for $50k. Lots of my friends who lost their homes (or their parents) were in the same situation. It definitely isn't just rich people there. I'm heartbroken. My friend's mom even died in the fire. She didn't evacuate in time and was found in her car in the driveway, totally burned. PS. You labeled it "Hannington" at 21:04 but it's "Huntington." When I was a kid that was the ritziest neighborhood in the Palisades. A lot of celebrities lived there (and along Chatauqua on the outer edge.) PPS. I just hope Caruso keeps his grubby hands off the alphabet streets and lets the community retain some of its personality (his mall already destroyed some of that in the village.)
God bless to your Aunt Arvin. Thanks for sharing your family memories. Absolutely terrible, all the very best to you & the family in the future. Kindest regards, Richard U.K
False information! There were 10,000 STRUCTURES destroyed by the fire, not HOMES and FAMILIES. Structures are defined as homes, business, out buildings such as sheds, vehicles, RV's, etc. I can't tell you how man times the structure definition has been clarified, yet you don't do your homework that is easily found.
Hey, what I don't understand is how this has been allowed to happen! LA has some of the worlds most expensive real estate with uber high tax brackets, all built in a very dangerous area due to the landscape and extremely hot weather conditions. Many residence of LA are multi millionaires so why have they not protected the land surrounding their properties and cities? If I was silly enough to spend millions on a property in known high risk areas I would hire someone to clean up the trees and dry brush covering an area of atleast 10km. In addition, I would expect the City officials to clean up ALL of dry areas in the surrounding canyons by cutting down trees, cleaning up brush and at the very least install millions of water systems that ensured the surrounding areas didnt become so dry. My heart aches for everyone affected by these fires, the scenes I have watched and the reality of losing everything is too much to comprehend, I truly feel that it could all have been avoided. Surely if they took the risk of building on ground that shouldn't be built on because of the high risk of fires then it would make more sense to build on all of it, therefore eradicating the risk of fires all together. These fires have occurred due to a perfect storm of circumstance, negligence. Maybe I am being naive thinking the way I am but what is obvious is the fact that the government knew the risks but still cut insurance payouts for fire and wasted gallons and gallons of water to the point that the city ran out! IF I was a suspicious minded person, I would think that it was all planned
It's kinda odd that even rich people won't invest into any proactive fire protection measures for their homes. Must feel really awkward having millions in the bank while your house burns down because of some embers flying into the attic.
All of you must now to learn about Villa Botania in Viña del Mar, Chile. The neighborhood saved all of their homes because the prevention planning and right actions taken during the worst wild fire in 2023. Its time to learn. Greetings.
No disrespect but just a question. Were most of those houses built from wood? I am looking at videos and most Houses that are standing were built from concrete and others had far less vegetation ( trees and brushes ) around them while having brick walls
NORTH CAROLINA residents are suffering badly 100 days after Helene. 150,000+ homes damaged or destroyed. Families are living in tents with little resources in the freezing cold. FEMA is a time wasting lie. Little to no help from the government. We are left here to languish with no media attention to what is happening. Bless those affected by the fires . PLEASE help us in NC, too.
well sad to say but they will get the same treatment just give it another week..I already see the news covering it less n less..they will probably have a less fortunate way to go bc they will more than likely not be able to put a tent on their land..
@@angiespradlin1029I wonder how it will go down and if FEMA will storm in and take their supplies etc. The celebrities will keep it in the news. They talking about moving here.
I think this should all be an opener to how broken this country actually is, that money they send to fund wars nobody even knows much about, and the money they put towards more issues that raise our national debt, it could go towards saving a lot of people who also give their entire lives to live here, it may be in different ways but this all could be solved in days, not months and years, we ought to be ashamed of our leadership in this country, this country would not exist if not for its people, please put people in positions that can fix these issues promptly and efficiently, without that we are doomed.
The coverage of the LA fires is already beginning to dwindle. This is typical of how news coverage is handled in America. What is the state of North Carolina doing to help those that were impacted by the hurricane?
Such a shame, I always wanted to eventually move to that region. Apparently the insurance companies pulled out 1 month before. Maybe a huge entity wants to buy the land cheap?
I am not sure I would have included that clip around 21:45 of the young man explaining "it won't be that bad" and I'll have "less clothes I don't wear anyway" and "less vacations." I don't directly blame the mindset of a sheltered teenager but you have to understand how much perspective his comments lack. Just looking out for the kid who has, because of good fortune, not had to deal with the realities of life for many many people.
Maybe that’s his reality. A lot of wealthy people lost their homes and as someone who lost everything before I emphasize greatly. However to the people that can afford to rebuild their life, it’s just a massive inconvenience. (Based on his tone)
I love my small city (25,000 people). I lived and worked in several neighbourhoods, with different jobs. Everywhere I go, I bump into someone I haven't seen in a while. If that would be lost, a part of me would die. Sending lots of love to all the victims of natural disasters, and (even worse) victims of wars.
You do realize that the people in North Carolina and eastern Tennessee are still sleeping in tents and it’s been in the teens every night since the hurricane
That doesn't make this disaster any less important. He doesn't live in North Carolina, he lives in Cali. Can we not share our stories and try and heal?
@christaylor4786 the medias response to this vs other disasters is notably different. Usually with others they imply it was deserved where this one they act like it was unavoidable when this was the most avoidable one in recent memory
@@JJ-zr6fu What do you get out of lying? When has the media EVER implied that any place deserved a natural disaster? Avoidable? There is not a single city on Earth that is equipped to deal with a fire of this proportion. You are genuinely just bitter and hateful because people that live in the Palisades tend to be richer than you and that is eating you up on the inside. Grow up and be better.
They are starting to hear it. People know. Not sure what to do but keep them in the conversation. Perhaps as these people begin to receive the same kind of "help" they can make a bigger uproar. No ones life is any less valuable and as a Californian I can tell you that the media denies us the info about what happened in Helene! They only covered this so thoroughly because it is literally surrounded by news stations. I believe they would have dealt with it the same sneaky way if they could! Now they are leaving out the water issue even in the 60 minutes special. No quarter for us(a).
As someone who lives in Florida and deals with natural disasters on a yearly basis, I understand how devastating the loss of one’s home or business can be. A loss is a loss no matter where you live. Your video was heartbreaking, yet touching with a very real life look at what people of LA are dealing with right now. The emotional devastation can be so much harder than the physical one. Prayers for your family.
In the Philippines, we have a saying that it's better for your house to be robbed than to have a fire. This takes it to a whole new level. Praying for everyone's safety and restoration. Praying for everyone's strength and renewed faith that God will see everyone through this most difficult episode of life.😢🙏
My aunt’s home is gone. I’ve been on the phone for days learning of more friends and friends of friends who’ve lost everything. Be blessed, everyone! 🙏🏾
I know this video was made with 100% complete compassion. But everything you guys were complaining about was little things. LIke a coffee cafe being gone, or your NEW room not being comfortable, or your NEW clothes not being the same. There are people who are literally homeless. Who have NOTHING.
I thought that too. I’m poor. I’m from Canada. Live in a mobile home & make minimum wage. Now, nobody should have to go through what the ppl in LA are going through. Losing your homes. But listening to that kid say he’ll have to take less vacations & buy less clothes & all the fancy restaurants they eat out at. Rich people problems. Anyways i’m sorry for their loss.
That's the problem with this country, just imagine the way they probably treated people who didn't fit into their realm, before this happened, it's truly sad, I don't give a shit if I had a trillion dollars, I'm as human as the person next to me, to hear the things people care for most is a shame to hear sometimes, and it's why this country divides us all into classes, makes no sense, ty for touching on this. It'll never change but we sure can make someone think about it.
Just buy a new home; you were saying how many properties you have bought and sold over the years. You don't really have a home to cry about, just buy an new one that you can live in and sell it a few years later for a profit. This will all work out.
Arvin-joon thank you for giving us some insight to your family and how things look on the ground in the Palisades. Your content has brought my family and I many smiles and laughs and this one brought out a few tears. They were not all bad tears--sebby and his attitude are truly specials. God bless you and your family and I really hope that 2025 can somehow bring peace, prosperity and happiness to every citizen in the world.
I'm sure he will do one on the poors that lost their houses in Altadena. My cousin is dirt poor and she lost her family home in Altadena. She wasn't able to grab anything as they woke up and the fires were at their windows. Also, a big community of trailer homes in Malibu the only place in Malibu poors could live was completely wiped out.
We just moved from the poor area on the outside of Pasadena. Scary to think we could have been right there. We are bout 30 miles from it now. Still has us very nervous because we would never be able to afford anything...
Also in Maui. Killed hundreds of indigenous people. Totally evil. Too many a anomalies for it to have been natural. Please wake up and do your research.
Genuine question... What materials were used to construct these homes? Is it wood? I have never visited L.A., but I find it fascinating to see chimneys (made of stone? cement?) still standing strong after the fire, while the walls, floors, and other parts of the homes have been burned down. Does Los Angeles have specific policies requiring homes to be built with certain materials?
American houses in general are built out of wood. Cheap and quick to put up. With their weather system. It tends to be easier to rebuild with wood than rebuild with bricks. (Brick houses will still be destroyed by tornados etc)
Many of the older homes are wood, raised foundations with lathe and plaster. These nicer or newer homes usually have foundations but yes they are all wood. It's because we arnt allowed to have brick houses here. The earthquakes will destroy them quickly and crush everyone inside. We also can't have basements. I just moved out one of the not so nice neighborhoods close by to about 30 miles away from there. We are all pretty nervous right now.
That scene looks like you couldn't salvage anything but some jewelry which would be buried under tonnes of rubble. It's interesting from a human psychology point of view however that you said "we though that we might be able to retrieve something". That does show that when you invest heavily in anything, you don't see the loss of it as clearly as someone else. It happens with stalkers also, gamblers, sports team fans, litigants in a case, ex-business partners, ex-lovers - to the outside observer, the investment in that no longer has any payoff, but to the investor with the loss, there's always something you can salvage no matter what.
What does this even mean for the LA and California Real estate market? Is fire insurance even going to be obtainable anymore? Are people in the luxury market really going to rebuild in LA with all the problems facing CA? These people can live anywhere.
Can you go show me some poor working class people who have their home burned . I'm sure there are some .....but y'all don't wanna show that . I feel bad for the people who are burned out with no resources or money!!
Arvin so glad you're ok. So sorry to hear your close relatives have been badly affected. Unbelievable devastation. Sending you all very best wishes from the UK.
Guilty or not head of fire department must go, in fact they must be prepared all the time , most of the time they are idle so at a call must respond quickly
Thank you for your passionate job Arvin. My question goes for all these well-off families covered by their home, car insurances: did they by any chance helped their northamerican neighboroughs who lost absolutetly everything besides their jobs in North Carolina hit by a hurricane and the consecuent flood.
Biggest thing that stood out in this video was when driving through the devastation he said "only the chimneys are up"... America needs to stop building homes out of matchsticks for profit and start using ICF. Period.
Cost, even if the chimneys are up, the understructures would have been destroyed, electrical plumbing, drywall, etc, foundation too. You would have to gut or rebuild anyway.
with same condition, dryness, dry vegetation, bushes, extreme wind, london or paris would have burned to the ground the same way… Just outer brick wall with empty houses when they don’t collapse. Have you never seen a brick house with just 2 small walls after a violent fire ??? Of course for a one house fire, brick will let you more time but any city with those exact condition wouldn’t make difference
Sorry for the double comment. I simply cannot recognize any of it anymore. Dozens of my friends homes GONE! Tragic. So sorry for your family’s loss, Arvin.
I’d be interested to see a video where you return to some of the properties you’ve filmed, to see how the fire has affected them. So sorry to hear about your family. But I can see you all have great attitudes and will get through in time ❤️
@@fabienl4979 'Natural'. You sound like you've taken one too many boosters 😂😂😂 Jeeeez......Someone needs to 'dig alittle deeper' and not instantly dismiss other theories or agenda's ffs
@@fabienl4979'Natural' my rosey red arse! 😂😂 You sound boosted!!!! Dig alittle deeper ffs! I suppose your gonna say the water hydrants being off was a total 'accident' or 'huge mistake'. 'Criminal acts disguised as incontinence' imho and it is an honest opinion. We're so far allowed to have those and express them....for now anyway (!) Even the L.A. Mayor Gary Newson has good as admitted that they already have a 'Marshall Plan' in place and its an opportunity to re-imagining an L.A. 2.0..... It's not 'sick' to mention the words 'Smart City' and its not 'sick' to suggest this could have been purposely done. The same applies to Maui in 2023. Do some 'alternative' research before you instantly dismiss what others suggest.
Must admit, the official story sounds as believable as the Hawaii one. Why did this happen in January? To spook more fools into the "Global Warming" lie. Why was the ground dry? Because people do daft things like stockpiling water for agriculture, lawns etc. Why was there a fire? Because it was started deliberately. If it was "natural", common sense would say it would have started in the Summer. But Summer fires aren't scary enough for the Davos gang. Anyway, do as u are told, give your money to the ultra rich who ducked out of paying taxes!🤔🤔🙄🙄🤣🤣
I know you only focus on Pacific Palisade because you know relatives there but maybe you can do a video of Altadena also? Granted its not a rich neighborhood so maybe you dont care but it would be a good thing to do to let people know about it also. They also lost homes and unfortnately doesnt have the means like the people living in Pacific Palisades
Because Los Angeles is on a very active fault line for earthquakes and it would be more destructive if the houses were made out of bricks. Also California has plenty of tress so it’s cheaper to build the houses using wood. Global warming is causing wild fires to be more of a problem in California when it wasn’t as bad as before.
This is heartbreaking. I’ve read nasty comments about people that live in those areas and I do nothing but disagree. This is not a celebrity only area. Normal families lived there. They lost everything and because they are successful it does not mean it hurts any less.
Thank you for making this video. Which must have been very hard for you to do. You see on the news the damage and devastation- but it really brings home the human angle when someone you know (to us that’s you) explains their lived experience of this. I hope you Aunt and Uncle as well as they can be, and the rest of the family and friends too. Please stay safe. ❤
Spain is also earthquake prone country and area. Almost all houses, our second home included, are made from concrete pillars and floors, sun roofs included. It's like a concrete cage. Walls are not structural and they are made from bricks. There's almost nothing for fire to attach to. I believe this should be the new norm in LA too. Sorry for your family's loss of homes, more than sad.
Arvin, I thought about you when the fire started coming over the hill threatening Encino and who knows where else in the valley. I’m so sorry for your family losing their home. I was born in Los Angeles and grew up in the Hollywood Hills at the top of the Outpost Estates. When the fire broke out in Runyon Canyon last Wednesday, my heart sank when I learned of the evacuation area. The Outpost Estates hold such valuable memories of growing up, my friends, and the special houses built in the 1930s and later. To me that area, from Franklin to Mulholland and from the Hollywood Bowl to Laurel Canyon, is the heart of Hollywood. In the late sixties, when I was becoming a teenager, rock music came from Laurel Canyon. People in the motion picture and music industries lived in the Outpost Estates and I was friends and went to school with some of their kids. Friends with some to this day. The thought of my childhood and teen years burned to the ground was deeply disturbing. How your relatives must feel with the loss of their home, their community, is something that I hoped was unimaginable. But now many of us have actually experienced the devastation or are close to it in some way. The thought that a shift in the wind may result in the loss of your house, your neighborhood, your community, your history, is disturbingly real. I don’t have any relatives or friends who were directly affected by the fires, even though some of us were close to them. Again, I am so sorry that you and your family have been directly and indirectly impacted by this disaster. With love and good thoughts, your LA neighbor.
Regardless of whether the fire started intentionally or not, the conditions spread the fire. Climate change might explain the conditions (extreme wind/drought)
Normally I’ve got tears from LAUGHING so hard at..(with) you on here…. Today…. SAD tears! Truly sorry for EVERYONE (and especially animals) affected by this tragedy. Thanks for the update. Was wondering how you made out. God bless 🙏🏼
LA's Worst Natural Disaster? What makes this a Natural Disaster? So the fire started Naturally? Was it lighting, spontoons Commotion, Or what? Disaster Ho yes, but was it Natural?
Lots of water in trees... Also plenty of burned out trees ... The street he drives to with "No houses burned" was not affected by fires because, well, it looks like that street was lower in elevation and the street above that neighborhood protected the houses below ... Maybe the water pressure was better there for Fire Department
You need to go camping. Throw a freshly cut log on your campfire and it will take forever to burn and your fire may even go out. Much better to throw wood that had fallen and died some time ago.
Nature is hard . Here in Indian Ocean , French Island Mayotte , more than 300 000 people lost everything du to a typhon. No télécommunication , no water ect... They are still now under the menace of a new Typhon , one month later. So we are very sorry for your lost, we understand so much the apocalyptique vision you had.❤
The French government has done more to support the victims in Mayotte than the Biden administration has done to support the victims of the hurricanes and the LA fires.
What a disaster. Fire ist the worst thing. It destroys everything. In addition, many houses in the area which are not burned down are contaminated by the smoke and ash.
In a way it is, The wind was too strong that the fire spread quickly. It was like hurricane wind. The wind was blowing hard. It wouldn’t have burned thousands of homes if the wind was normal mph
A younger person is going to have a much different experience than an older person. The person is in a much better position because of time. They have not accumulated as much, have not created a long legacy/history, and instead their rebuild process is an adventure of welcome renewal. For older people, they lost the things that were the fabric of their life, and the rebuild is a stress because time is not on their side. They wanted to enjoy their settled lives.
At this point seeing how Americans build houses out of wood in this kind of areas is just amusing. Such a surprise to see the chimnees made out of brick still standing. What a joke!
@@mapesdhs597Yeah that's usually what builders are worried about in CA. But I wonder if they have other regulations there for fires? In Eastern WA you have to have a 4 foot concrete or rock bed buffer surrounding the entire house on order to offer protection from fire.
@thatcreepyxmastreeinyourat8950 I was having a look earlier at the actual building codes and zoning rules for LA and oh my word it's an absolute nightmare of red tape. For example, even if one doesn't need a building permit for a particular type of small structure, one must still obtain separate permission from a planning authority due to zoning rules, and further permissions & permits if the structure is to contain services such as water, power, sewage, etc. It's very complicated and expensive, so many caveats and exeptions, cross references, interconnected rules, etc. I will try posting an example separate link after this showing some relevant Q&A about the rules, you'll see what I mean. For fences, borders and walls, there are rules concerning joint authority between neighbours and other issues. The regulatory burden for construction is pretty heavy where I live in the UK, but CA is on a whole other level, LA inparticular.
@mapesdhs597 Wow, I literally did the same thing this morning, and you are NOT joking. I spent 2 hours researching before I got a headache. It really makes you wonder why this happened.
@thatcreepyxmastreeinyourat8950 Countless factors involved, but oh boy is it going to be one heck of a mess figuring it out. It's bad enough when many people will not want to hear the likely answers, but in CA the dominant mode of governance means one can't even ask the right questions. The mainstream media will jump on the climate pandic bandwagon and use it to finger point against those they don't like, but climate discussions have become too political, it isn't possible to question narratives without inviting ridicule or worse. When people ask what I mean by this (because even saying the above is enough to get some people hopping mad), I point out that since pollution derives by definition primarily from resource consumption, and assuming the claims about climate are correct, then the intent should be to *reduce* resource consumption, in which case the global govt/NGO response that involves *increased* resource consumption is insane, spending literally tens of trillions. The UN stated spending would be approx. 100 trillion. Worse, since this is state spending and therefore unfunded, a great deal of it is printed/borrowed (stealing from the unborn), the rest made up from taxation, driving inflation and forcing ordinary people and businesses to work all the harder to cover the cost, consuming yet more resources in the process. Naturally, much of the spending is wasted, some vanishing via corruption, much gladly absorbed by megacorps who collude with political elites over allocation (funny how ex-politicians so often end up on boards of directors at big companies). Climate panic has become an industry in its own right, academia thrives upon it, jobs and funding are at stake, influence, reputation and power (travel the world attending conferences, what fun!); the very thing that ought to be reduced has been increased, and now it's become a stick with which to bash the heads of the masses in order to secure via guilt their resources and votes. Social structures emerged to quash dissent, while the masses learned to virtue signal one's adherance to accepted beliefs for social standing, to an almost religious degree. Worse, young people had the utter crap scared out of them, told their futures would be literally in flames, bullied by promoted figures like Thunberg (as she jets the world and lives the highlife, driven by an unelected body that literally believes in, "You will own nothing and be happy."), hence no wonder some have become rabid activists who themselves now consume unnecessary resources and, ironically, promote the very same state power that drives resource consumption. At the same time, systems of free stuff have exploded, becoming an understandable magnet for millions from developing nations, who after moving then increase their resource consumption by an order of magnitude, straining resources & services, driving inflation, diluting the labour force, damaging local culture and stoking social division; a further means to sustain state power, supress wage growth, etc. Hence, it doesn't matter anymore whether the original claims about global warming in the 1970s were correct or not, because it's all morphed into just another way in which state power has been able to expand, massively increasing resource consumption & pollution in the process, creating new ways in which politicians can lie to gain power, along the way forcing everyday pollution issues to be sidelined, eg. water and air quality, toxic metals, soil erosion, etc. It's all gone hand in hand with the abandonment of old norms of reuse and repair (which genuinely minimise resource consumption), replaced with new norms of recycling, systems which themselves almost always actually increase resource consumption (because the most common way the success of recycling schemes is measured is via how much money they save, but any such saved money is then spent on additional resource consumption, negating the intent; plus there are idiot schemes such as those where I am in Scotland, 200M spent on a recycling centre that will never recoup the financial or material cost of its own construction). I had to laugh when food recycling began in my neighbourhood, diesel trucks going round to empty buckets, the plastic used for the buckets & bags, the new state jobs, offices and IT equipment required to run it all, etc. Products have evolved in tandem to become harder to repair or reuse, big business fighting against right to repair, while the culture has shifted to encourage regular replacement of products even if they're still functional (tech fashion trends such as the iPhone), while many become "outdated" via mechanisms that don't involve actual faults (such as backend coms degradation, software bloat or function creep making older products become non viable, likewise the use of Windows on PCs). In the US alone, some half a billion phones are thrown away each year. In the UK, absurd rules mean very few 2nd-hand shops sell anything electrical anymore. It ends up as ewaste on the shores of India. Manufacturing is outsourced abroad, allowing developed nations to claim green credentials, while in reality it's just been moved to nations where the processes are far more polluting and unregulated, amid a social culture with little proper protection for worker health or environmental concerns, which also means a lot more stuff gets shipped everywhere. Meanwhile, online ordering systems have emerged that allow trivial products to be shipped right round the world at no apparent cost (Temu, Aliexpress, etc.), instead of buying locally (or preferably just not buying such junk at all, eg. a packet of three cotton buds), in the process damaging local businesses that can't compete (outdated trade agreements mean local shipping services must bare the end delivery costs), sustaining wage stagnation and reduced spending power. The list goes on and on. But govts *want* people to spend, not save, because the resulting liquidity helps prop up economies that are so overburdened with debt; if people actually stopped buying unnecessary stuff, a number of national economies would rapidly collapse (and the turnover helps secure votes; GDP good! Please ignore the -ve balance). As Michael Moore put it, "Fear and consume." Personal debt has likewise exploded into the trillions. With such an utter mess of factors surrounding just one issue, it isn't possible or indeed allowed to ask the right questions, as merely trying to do so will invite scorn or worse, especially when employers impose adherance to state directives, while exploiting eco fashion trends to sell more product. I tell people, if they really want to "save the planet", then just stop buying stuff they don't need, repair/reuse instead of recycle, cook proper meals instead of relying on ready meals and processed foods, grow their own food where sensible & viable, don't waste leftovers, and stop voting for parties that by definition seek to expand state power. Long ago I was for a time involved in solo climate research, I went to a conference or two, focusing on oceans and clouds; I gave up when I realised just what a huge academic grift it had all become, such enormous waste with little or no incentive to ensure any productive output from the work done. But it meant plenty of jobs and funding. Suddenly there were massive supercomputers used to run climate models (the hardware used being my own speciality of knowledge, ie. SGIs), thousands of CPUs in hundreds of racks filling huge warehouses, requiring dedicated power systems and cooling to run them (I own a small version of one such old system, with 36 CPUs); look up pictures of the SGI Blue Mountain system, you'll see what I mean. But wait, what? Consuming massive resources just to do the math? Makes no sense. And 20 years later, weather models still get it wrong all the time. :D It's much worse now though, with enormous data centres, hyped AI, Cloud systems, crypto, etc. The world has gone compute mad, the power usage is staggering. But hey, messing about with ChatGPT is fun, yes? :} All of which is to say, in every regard possible, it's one hell of a mess, and people just will not be willing to allow the right questions to be asked, never mind listen to what the answers might be, or be willing to adjust their behaviour accordingly. In every facet of life, individual choice collides with distorted social norms, media/state propaganda and political ideology. It hasn't been possible to hold an honest conversation about virtually anything for at least 30 years. People have been brainwashed into believing that climate should be static, which is absurd, that's not how this planet works, it's inherantly dynamic, constantly changing (I highly recommend the TV series "Earth Story", by Aubrey Manning). Indeed, we owe our very existence to variable climate, it's what forced us via adaptive evolution to become what we are. And yet, while believing weather patterns shouldn't vary, at the same time people demand that their products become ever faster, better, smaller, they want to buy the new cool thing, the next car, TV or phone, etc. It's a bizarre cultural contradiction. Sorry for the rant. Alas, natural disasters have a tendency to highlight hypocritical norms in all levels of society, but nobody wants to hear the truth of things, it means admitting one was wrong, especially wrt to how so many have been conned into supporting something for so long which has ultimately achieved the exact opposite of what they thought was the intent, all because it was such an easy way for elites to secure their votes and resources. People will choose to believe a lie either because they want it to be true, or they're afraid it's true.
Just found your channel and watched this very compassionate video. It’s incomprehensible what has happened and the devastating losses for so many. I can’t even imagine the nightmare insurance stories that have yet to come.
There nothing naturalabout this disaster. All planned, all deliberate. And just like that a lot of the evidence is gone. I am sad for the innocent caught up in this attack.
I grew up in Riverside, I spent 20yrs working in SoCal EMS Esp with Cal Fire. I wish I was home to help out. Blessings to you Arvin and your family. Sebby has an old soul; he is wise beyond his years. It gives me hope for the future.
I’ve been thinking of you and your friends and your family and I’m so sorry. We all need to write our Congressmen and ask them to release emergency funding without any strings attached. Athens, Georgia is praying for LA.
LA is on a very active fault line. It would be a very stupid thing to build homes in a place where earthquakes happen regularly. There’s no earthquakes in the UK. What works in one country is not guaranteed to work in a different one.
How strange would it be to own one of the only homes saved from fires on a massive subdivision complex! Coming home to your home, to nothing but piles or charred rubble.. You'd feel some sort of survivors guilt for your home, for sure!!
Sebby seems like such a cool person! I just did a video today about finding Joy and a sense of community when tragedy strikes. Much love to the people of the Pacific Palisades ❤
Fire turns everything to dust. - not really when you build fireproof and have firefighters who are not DEI hires and have working hydrants at their disposal.
Please consider donating to the American Red Cross to help provide relief and support to ones effected. Thank You🙏❤🩹
www.redcross.org/donate/donation.html/
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Done - thank you for sharing this - also if anyone has the means, the la fire dept charity is a great cause and these heroes have been working around the clock
It's not so natural when homeless and illegals are setting fires.
I know my comment might sound insincere, but I am filled with so much sadness, frustration and anger. All of this could've been prevented and should've never happened! The California Government doesn't care about its OWN people!
Is it Homeless, or just one less home?!
@@carlwells4989 Its just walls, Gucci bags, melted Mercedes....the rest of America is dealing with real housing issues that can't be solved by writing a check.
Arvin, I've been thinking about you throughout this whole tragedy. You have spoken so often about the state of insurance and the serious risk of fires in LA. My heart goes out to everyone affected. Its beyond shocking. I'm very glad you are safe.
Same. I only started watching Arvin a few weeks ago, but was very taken by his insights and perspectives on homes, not houses. Then I switched to YT and saw a live feed of a fire in LA that had started. The super scoopers were there as the fire grew to around 200 acres, circling to drop water despite the very high winds. I hoped Arvin and friends were ok, and watched in disbelief as the fires grew and grew. The scale of the devastation to people's property and lives is terrible, but Angelinos are resiliant, and can rebuild.
Your concern means a lot to me. It’s a tough time for many, and I’m grateful to be safe. Let’s continue to support those affected by this tragedy.
A thought about U since the beggining. i hope U all be ok! Praying 4 U guys ❤ love from Brazil
Very sorry for all the loss.
82,000 structures were destroyed or damaged in northridge. Fire is worse as it just lays waste to so much, whereas even severely damaged houses aren't counted complete losses in a quake, absent fire.
@@ArvinHaddadOfficial My condolenses for your and your families loss too. I hope you can recover fast and as good as possible under the given circumstances.
If you chose to rebuild in fireprone areas, I'd strongly recommend checking out a sprinkler system that is fed by a swimming pool and powered from an independant power source. The normal gardensprinklers can make a huge difference in these kind of situations by preventing embers and grassfires from reaching the house, so they might be a worthwhile investment.
I'm from Valencia, Spain, where last October the floods killed over 230 people and destroyed thousands of homes.
All my love, support and best wishes to all the people who are suffering in LA.
how is the recovery there? hopefully its going good.
How about the 17,000 innocents children slaughtered in Gaza 🇵🇸
@@bubblebath7225 Yes that’s right. Gaza! What about Gaza? The Gaza Strip! Absolutely every fucking thing in the world has to be about Gaza.
i am soooo sorry
@@bubblebath7225dealing with nature of fire is not a choice. The Middle East chooses violence.....
Thank you for all you do.
Lol, the rich keep getting richer
@@BobLoblaw770just wow, explains a lot don't it.
Thank you sir… any requests?
@@ArvinHaddadOfficial No requests other than to pay it forward.
U got it
This has to be the best video I've seen on the LA fire's so far. To hear the perspective of people who live in the community really helps to put yourself in their shoes.
Everyone impacted directly isn’t making content yet
effspot has a great video today showing the community starting to get together. but you're right, this is also very moving
Yes, I agree. I learned a lot about the areas affected. I found it very interesting as well as sad, of course.
@@marilynspriggs5350hi my hot marilyn 🤤🤤😘
Good . That's what you get for voting for Kamala Harris.
Dear Arvin, you wanna know what I got from this video, that you’re an amazing uncle, a superb nephew, and an even better brother. You will have my support forever and I hope one day when I can afford to purchase a home in LA, I hope it is you that is able to help me do that! Godspeed brother
Just go grab your knees pads.
Professional journalist has a perspective about the L.A fires that are upsetting to listen to BUT credible th-cam.com/video/4SROWoij2ak/w-d-xo.htmlsi=YcNMEFLzbpRbJ-Gu
Hey guys. Little word of advice. Make sure to have all of you necessities for a forest fire ready to pack easily and efficiently into a backpack/suitcase that can be carried in case of car failure. You never know what the next day will bring so its a good idea to prep for anything.
Yes, that’s the most important thing I also got of this very good video.
Agreed, I was really impressed with how he handled this. You’re a good man Arvin.
11:13 I have to pause this video for a moment.
Arvin,
I stumbled across your videos about a month or so ago. I've always been entertained by home tours and I have a strong interest in architecture. Your channel combines both of those subjects relatively seamlessly and in a way that is fun, educational, and easy to digest. I came for the real estate, but I stayed because you brought a down to earth, comical, human emotion to your videos that turn an otherwise mundane property into an interesting and enjoyable video. I think you would be a pleasure to hang out and have drinks with, just one of the boys.
I say that, to say this: This video has already upset me. Not in a bad way, per se, but it made me feel a personal connection to the fires out West. I'm all the way on the East Coast and have been my entire life, so I otherwise don't have any connection to area. This has already been an emotional video to watch. I wanted to say that I'm terribly sorry for the losses you and your family have endured and I'm thankful that you all are safe. Keep your head up and keep making the great content I come back time and time again to see.
Maybe, one day, I will have the pleasure of purchasing a property from you. Sending Love from Maryland and wishing you and your family a speedy and complete recovery. ✌🏽🥹💙
Edit: This just might be your best video yet. At some point we need a little bit of Sebby on the guitar to really put a bow on this story. 🫶🏽🎸🎚️🔊🎶
Here’s hoping lessons are learned so the impact of future fires can be lessened.
They’ll just learned how to spin it better. At least Newsome’s presidential aspersions are over.
It cant, this is senario is quite literally, unavoidable. Its inevitable.
Some may call it divine justice or punishment… its does indeed seem so.
@@FeloniousPunk-w4zits aspirations, and he had nothing to do with this. Stop politicizing this and concentrate on the people and the loss.
@zerperior The extent of damage is absolutely avoidable but keep drinking the kool aid
There is no just hoping anymore , if your a resident in California and keep hoping your doomed ... I live in ny I know the pain of your state not caring about you , you need to change it !!!! This entire country stands with California just like we stood with the entire east coast from that bitch of a hurricane ... we need our govt to stand with us
I grew up in the Palisades near the top of Lachman Ln, 1300 block. At 15:23 you pass our old house in this video (and yes, we had incredible views that I totally took for granted growing up.) Weirdly, the neighbors house that also burned down seems to be untouched in this video, so I wonder if it burned later. It's amazing that Via Floresta was mostly unscathed. I remember when they were building houses on Via Floresta and there was nothing beyond those gated streets off Via Floresta. Memories... By the way, how do you know the broken glass is from looters? I saw that in a photo of damage and assumed it was from the heat of the fire that the windows broke.
It's unbelievable that my entire hometown is gone. And my father built our house in the 60's for $50k. Lots of my friends who lost their homes (or their parents) were in the same situation. It definitely isn't just rich people there. I'm heartbroken. My friend's mom even died in the fire. She didn't evacuate in time and was found in her car in the driveway, totally burned.
PS. You labeled it "Hannington" at 21:04 but it's "Huntington." When I was a kid that was the ritziest neighborhood in the Palisades. A lot of celebrities lived there (and along Chatauqua on the outer edge.)
PPS. I just hope Caruso keeps his grubby hands off the alphabet streets and lets the community retain some of its personality (his mall already destroyed some of that in the village.)
Arvin, just wanted to send positive vibes and best wishes to you and your family. I can only imagine what you guys are going through.
God bless to your Aunt Arvin. Thanks for sharing your family memories. Absolutely terrible, all the very best to you & the family in the future. Kindest regards, Richard U.K
Thank you for sharing such intimate, painful moments with us. I witness your family’s loss. I pray for healing and rebuilding for your family.
False information! There were 10,000 STRUCTURES destroyed by the fire, not HOMES and FAMILIES. Structures are defined as homes, business, out buildings such as sheds, vehicles, RV's, etc. I can't tell you how man times the structure definition has been clarified, yet you don't do your homework that is easily found.
Your aunt is very courageous and I'm sure your compassion and empathy will be remembered and appreciated by her
Hey, what I don't understand is how this has been allowed to happen! LA has some of the worlds most expensive real estate with uber high tax brackets, all built in a very dangerous area due to the landscape and extremely hot weather conditions. Many residence of LA are multi millionaires so why have they not protected the land surrounding their properties and cities? If I was silly enough to spend millions on a property in known high risk areas I would hire someone to clean up the trees and dry brush covering an area of atleast 10km. In addition, I would expect the City officials to clean up ALL of dry areas in the surrounding canyons by cutting down trees, cleaning up brush and at the very least install millions of water systems that ensured the surrounding areas didnt become so dry.
My heart aches for everyone affected by these fires, the scenes I have watched and the reality of losing everything is too much to comprehend, I truly feel that it could all have been avoided.
Surely if they took the risk of building on ground that shouldn't be built on because of the high risk of fires then it would make more sense to build on all of it, therefore eradicating the risk of fires all together. These fires have occurred due to a perfect storm of circumstance, negligence. Maybe I am being naive thinking the way I am but what is obvious is the fact that the government knew the risks but still cut insurance payouts for fire and wasted gallons and gallons of water to the point that the city ran out!
IF I was a suspicious minded person, I would think that it was all planned
İt's Godless Titanic arrogance. Simples
Maui comes to mind…no water no excuse… not surprising Insurance co,s pulled out… why were the masses so complacent?
It's kinda odd that even rich people won't invest into any proactive fire protection measures for their homes. Must feel really awkward having millions in the bank while your house burns down because of some embers flying into the attic.
All of you must now to learn about Villa Botania in Viña del Mar, Chile.
The neighborhood saved all of their homes because the prevention planning and right actions taken during the worst wild fire in 2023. Its time to learn.
Greetings.
There is nothing natural about this fire.😢
SEBBy is an old soul!!
He doesn’t care about things. 🙌🏽
Katrina was 200,000 structures and $200billion. These fires will be 10,000 structures and $200billion. Puts prices into perspective.
Oh no.. not the rich people’s holiday mansions!
Katarina was also 20 years ago.
I think you’re pointing out rich people live there?
@@iggi3985bro, these are people's lives you're mocking.
@ not mocking anyone’s lives. Just mocking the loss of the holiday mansions. Try and stay on topic.
No disrespect but just a question. Were most of those houses built from wood? I am looking at videos and most Houses that are standing were built from concrete and others had far less vegetation ( trees and brushes ) around them while having brick walls
Thank you for sharing this footage and sorry for the distress it caused. Best wishes from all of us from across the pond
I find the timing of this fire very interesting. Are we sure it wasn't started intentionally
NORTH CAROLINA residents are suffering badly 100 days after Helene.
150,000+ homes damaged or destroyed.
Families are living in tents with little resources in the freezing cold.
FEMA is a time wasting lie. Little to no help from the government.
We are left here to languish with no media attention to what is happening.
Bless those affected by the fires .
PLEASE help us in NC, too.
well sad to say but they will get the same treatment just give it another week..I already see the news covering it less n less..they will probably have a less fortunate way to go bc they will more than likely not be able to put a tent on their land..
@@angiespradlin1029I wonder how it will go down and if FEMA will storm in and take their supplies etc. The celebrities will keep it in the news. They talking about moving here.
I think this should all be an opener to how broken this country actually is, that money they send to fund wars nobody even knows much about, and the money they put towards more issues that raise our national debt, it could go towards saving a lot of people who also give their entire lives to live here, it may be in different ways but this all could be solved in days, not months and years, we ought to be ashamed of our leadership in this country, this country would not exist if not for its people, please put people in positions that can fix these issues promptly and efficiently, without that we are doomed.
The coverage of the LA fires is already beginning to dwindle. This is typical of how news coverage is handled in America.
What is the state of North Carolina doing to help those that were impacted by the hurricane?
Such a shame, I always wanted to eventually move to that region. Apparently the insurance companies pulled out 1 month before. Maybe a huge entity wants to buy the land cheap?
I'm so sorry for your loss. For everybody's loss. Its all so evil for those who know. God Bless You All. Wa, State🙌
I am not sure I would have included that clip around 21:45 of the young man explaining "it won't be that bad" and I'll have "less clothes I don't wear anyway" and "less vacations." I don't directly blame the mindset of a sheltered teenager but you have to understand how much perspective his comments lack. Just looking out for the kid who has, because of good fortune, not had to deal with the realities of life for many many people.
Im at 15:56
Maybe that’s his reality. A lot of wealthy people lost their homes and as someone who lost everything before I emphasize greatly. However to the people that can afford to rebuild their life, it’s just a massive inconvenience. (Based on his tone)
I love my small city (25,000 people). I lived and worked in several neighbourhoods, with different jobs. Everywhere I go, I bump into someone I haven't seen in a while. If that would be lost, a part of me would die.
Sending lots of love to all the victims of natural disasters, and (even worse) victims of wars.
You do realize that the people in North Carolina and eastern Tennessee are still sleeping in tents and it’s been in the teens every night since the hurricane
That doesn't make this disaster any less important. He doesn't live in North Carolina, he lives in Cali. Can we not share our stories and try and heal?
@christaylor4786 the medias response to this vs other disasters is notably different. Usually with others they imply it was deserved where this one they act like it was unavoidable when this was the most avoidable one in recent memory
@christaylor4786 no it doesn't but the 'we need to give these people what they want so they stay' is a very tone deaf statement.
@@JJ-zr6fu What do you get out of lying? When has the media EVER implied that any place deserved a natural disaster? Avoidable? There is not a single city on Earth that is equipped to deal with a fire of this proportion. You are genuinely just bitter and hateful because people that live in the Palisades tend to be richer than you and that is eating you up on the inside. Grow up and be better.
They are starting to hear it. People know. Not sure what to do but keep them in the conversation. Perhaps as these people begin to receive the same kind of "help" they can make a bigger uproar. No ones life is any less valuable and as a Californian I can tell you that the media denies us the info about what happened in Helene! They only covered this so thoroughly because it is literally surrounded by news stations. I believe they would have dealt with it the same sneaky way if they could! Now they are leaving out the water issue even in the 60 minutes special. No quarter for us(a).
As someone who lives in Florida and deals with natural disasters on a yearly basis, I understand how devastating the loss of one’s home or business can be. A loss is a loss no matter where you live. Your video was heartbreaking, yet touching with a very real life look at what people of LA are dealing with right now. The emotional devastation can be so much harder than the physical one. Prayers for your family.
it' s time to leave USA , too dangerous to live here, and futur will be worst than ever
"Natural" disaster???? You're joking with that title...nothing
" natural" about those fires
So much unnatural about this fire, just like Lahaina, Paradise, etc.
In the Philippines, we have a saying that it's better for your house to be robbed than to have a fire. This takes it to a whole new level. Praying for everyone's safety and restoration. Praying for everyone's strength and renewed faith that God will see everyone through this most difficult episode of life.😢🙏
My aunt’s home is gone. I’ve been on the phone for days learning of more friends and friends of friends who’ve lost everything. Be blessed, everyone! 🙏🏾
I know this video was made with 100% complete compassion. But everything you guys were complaining about was little things. LIke a coffee cafe being gone, or your NEW room not being comfortable, or your NEW clothes not being the same. There are people who are literally homeless. Who have NOTHING.
I thought that too. I’m poor. I’m from Canada. Live in a mobile home & make minimum wage. Now, nobody should have to go through what the ppl in LA are going through. Losing your homes. But listening to that kid say he’ll have to take less vacations & buy less clothes & all the fancy restaurants they eat out at. Rich people problems. Anyways i’m sorry for their loss.
You're absolutely right mate. Good observation
That's the problem with this country, just imagine the way they probably treated people who didn't fit into their realm, before this happened, it's truly sad, I don't give a shit if I had a trillion dollars, I'm as human as the person next to me, to hear the things people care for most is a shame to hear sometimes, and it's why this country divides us all into classes, makes no sense, ty for touching on this. It'll never change but we sure can make someone think about it.
Just buy a new home; you were saying how many properties you have bought and sold over the years. You don't really have a home to cry about, just buy an new one that you can live in and sell it a few years later for a profit. This will all work out.
Arvin-joon thank you for giving us some insight to your family and how things look on the ground in the Palisades. Your content has brought my family and I many smiles and laughs and this one brought out a few tears. They were not all bad tears--sebby and his attitude are truly specials. God bless you and your family and I really hope that 2025 can somehow bring peace, prosperity and happiness to every citizen in the world.
Ya what about the people who lived in Pasadena. Middle class families. Not rich people who can easily replace everything
I'm sure he will do one on the poors that lost their houses in Altadena. My cousin is dirt poor and she lost her family home in Altadena. She wasn't able to grab anything as they woke up and the fires were at their windows. Also, a big community of trailer homes in Malibu the only place in Malibu poors could live was completely wiped out.
We just moved from the poor area on the outside of Pasadena. Scary to think we could have been right there. We are bout 30 miles from it now. Still has us very nervous because we would never be able to afford anything...
Also in Maui. Killed hundreds of indigenous people. Totally evil. Too many a anomalies for it to have been natural. Please wake up and do your research.
Genuine question... What materials were used to construct these homes? Is it wood? I have never visited L.A., but I find it fascinating to see chimneys (made of stone? cement?) still standing strong after the fire, while the walls, floors, and other parts of the homes have been burned down. Does Los Angeles have specific policies requiring homes to be built with certain materials?
American houses in general are built out of wood. Cheap and quick to put up. With their weather system. It tends to be easier to rebuild with wood than rebuild with bricks. (Brick houses will still be destroyed by tornados etc)
This is severe earthquake country. Brick and masonry homes are too dangerous here.
@@ru2225brick buildings are illegal in most parts of California because they fail very quickly in earthquakes. Tornadoes don’t happen in SoCal
Lol you still have time to delete this
Many of the older homes are wood, raised foundations with lathe and plaster. These nicer or newer homes usually have foundations but yes they are all wood. It's because we arnt allowed to have brick houses here. The earthquakes will destroy them quickly and crush everyone inside. We also can't have basements. I just moved out one of the not so nice neighborhoods close by to about 30 miles away from there. We are all pretty nervous right now.
That scene looks like you couldn't salvage anything but some jewelry which would be buried under tonnes of rubble.
It's interesting from a human psychology point of view however that you said "we though that we might be able to retrieve something". That does show that when you invest heavily in anything, you don't see the loss of it as clearly as someone else. It happens with stalkers also, gamblers, sports team fans, litigants in a case, ex-business partners, ex-lovers - to the outside observer, the investment in that no longer has any payoff, but to the investor with the loss, there's always something you can salvage no matter what.
What does this even mean for the LA and California Real estate market? Is fire insurance even going to be obtainable anymore? Are people in the luxury market really going to rebuild in LA with all the problems facing CA? These people can live anywhere.
Can you go show me some poor working class people who have their home burned . I'm sure there are some .....but y'all don't wanna show that . I feel bad for the people who are burned out with no resources or money!!
That would be Altadena. Which is an area that has redlining in its history.
Arvin so glad you're ok. So sorry to hear your close relatives have been badly affected. Unbelievable devastation. Sending you all very best wishes from the UK.
bro at 21 was a little tone deaf, "a little less vacations" is a crazy thing to say.
You’re tone deaf too then. Everyone experience is different. Practice empathy and then you’ll be the change you want to see
16:44 im not t here
Guilty or not head of fire department must go, in fact they must be prepared all the time , most of the time they are idle so at a call must respond quickly
Thank you for your passionate job Arvin. My question goes for all these well-off families covered by their home, car insurances: did they by any chance helped their northamerican neighboroughs who lost absolutetly everything besides their jobs in North Carolina hit by a hurricane and the consecuent flood.
Biggest thing that stood out in this video was when driving through the devastation he said "only the chimneys are up"... America needs to stop building homes out of matchsticks for profit and start using ICF. Period.
😅😅😅
Cost, even if the chimneys are up, the understructures would have been destroyed, electrical plumbing, drywall, etc, foundation too. You would have to gut or rebuild anyway.
with same condition, dryness, dry vegetation, bushes, extreme wind, london or paris would have burned to the ground the same way…
Just outer brick wall with empty houses when they don’t collapse.
Have you never seen a brick house with just 2 small walls after a violent fire ???
Of course for a one house fire, brick will let you more time but any city with those exact condition wouldn’t make difference
Sorry for the double comment. I simply cannot recognize any of it anymore. Dozens of my friends homes GONE! Tragic. So sorry for your family’s loss, Arvin.
I’d be interested to see a video where you return to some of the properties you’ve filmed, to see how the fire has affected them. So sorry to hear about your family. But I can see you all have great attitudes and will get through in time ❤️
Bro this is a landgrab and was done on purpose. Say the real things we re nit here to hear condolences
are you so sick to not see a natural catastrophe ?!? Damm
@@fabienl4979 'Natural'. You sound like you've taken one too many boosters 😂😂😂 Jeeeez......Someone needs to 'dig alittle deeper' and not instantly dismiss other theories or agenda's ffs
@@fabienl4979'Natural' my rosey red arse! 😂😂 You sound boosted!!!! Dig alittle deeper ffs! I suppose your gonna say the water hydrants being off was a total 'accident' or 'huge mistake'.
'Criminal acts disguised as incontinence' imho and it is an honest opinion.
We're so far allowed to have those and express them....for now anyway (!)
Even the L.A. Mayor Gary Newson has good as admitted that they already have a 'Marshall Plan' in place and its an opportunity to re-imagining an L.A. 2.0.....
It's not 'sick' to mention the words 'Smart City' and its not 'sick' to suggest this could have been purposely done.
The same applies to Maui in 2023.
Do some 'alternative' research before you instantly dismiss what others suggest.
Right they started a fire right when it was gonna get windy
Must admit, the official story sounds as believable as the Hawaii one.
Why did this happen in January?
To spook more fools into the "Global Warming" lie.
Why was the ground dry? Because people do daft things like stockpiling water for agriculture, lawns etc.
Why was there a fire? Because it was started deliberately. If it was "natural", common sense would say it would have started in the Summer. But Summer fires aren't scary enough for the Davos gang.
Anyway, do as u are told, give your money to the ultra rich who ducked out of paying taxes!🤔🤔🙄🙄🤣🤣
From 6:40:
OMG, the trees are still standing.
I find it pretty much like interesting.
I know you only focus on Pacific Palisade because you know relatives there but maybe you can do a video of Altadena also? Granted its not a rich neighborhood so maybe you dont care but it would be a good thing to do to let people know about it also. They also lost homes and unfortnately doesnt have the means like the people living in Pacific Palisades
how come the trees did not burn?
pour quoi les gens utilise le bois pour construire là plupart des maisons et villas et pas de ciment ? ?
C'est plus facile de les reconstruire quand il y a un tremblement de terre, ils n'ont pas anticipé les incendies apparement.
Because Los Angeles is on a very active fault line for earthquakes and it would be more destructive if the houses were made out of bricks. Also California has plenty of tress so it’s cheaper to build the houses using wood. Global warming is causing wild fires to be more of a problem in California when it wasn’t as bad as before.
tremblements de terre
This is heartbreaking. I’ve read nasty comments about people that live in those areas and I do nothing but disagree. This is not a celebrity only area. Normal families lived there. They lost everything and because they are successful it does not mean it hurts any less.
Still someone is gonna buy a $50m mansion in LA after these disasters.
😅 Nice one but I guess they can sell it Volodymyr Zelenskyy
No doubt, the government will make sure of it
Trying to see if any africans from a 3rd world country can come and do some upbeat poverty tourism about this disaster
Lol what
Thank you for making this video. Which must have been very hard for you to do. You see on the news the damage and devastation- but it really brings home the human angle when someone you know (to us that’s you) explains their lived experience of this. I hope you Aunt and Uncle as well as they can be, and the rest of the family and friends too. Please stay safe. ❤
Look where the kid is staying now ......he not hurting at all .
Most these homes could be saved if they had roof sprinklers installed. Not like they couldn't afford them and wild fires are guaranteed. Crazy imo
Do a video with poor people .
No comprendo cómo la gente rica puede pagar millones de dólares por una casa que se quema tan fácilmente.
Spain is also earthquake prone country and area. Almost all houses, our second home included, are made from concrete pillars and floors, sun roofs included. It's like a concrete cage. Walls are not structural and they are made from bricks. There's almost nothing for fire to attach to. I believe this should be the new norm in LA too. Sorry for your family's loss of homes, more than sad.
Trees are intact!
Arvin, I thought about you when the fire started coming over the hill threatening Encino and who knows where else in the valley. I’m so sorry for your family losing their home.
I was born in Los Angeles and grew up in the Hollywood Hills at the top of the Outpost Estates. When the fire broke out in Runyon Canyon last Wednesday, my heart sank when I learned of the evacuation area. The Outpost Estates hold such valuable memories of growing up, my friends, and the special houses built in the 1930s and later. To me that area, from Franklin to Mulholland and from the Hollywood Bowl to Laurel Canyon, is the heart of Hollywood. In the late sixties, when I was becoming a teenager, rock music came from Laurel Canyon. People in the motion picture and music industries lived in the Outpost Estates and I was friends and went to school with some of their kids. Friends with some to this day.
The thought of my childhood and teen years burned to the ground was deeply disturbing. How your relatives must feel with the loss of their home, their community, is something that I hoped was unimaginable. But now many of us have actually experienced the devastation or are close to it in some way.
The thought that a shift in the wind may result in the loss of your house, your neighborhood, your community, your history, is disturbingly real. I don’t have any relatives or friends who were directly affected by the fires, even though some of us were close to them.
Again, I am so sorry that you and your family have been directly and indirectly impacted by this disaster.
With love and good thoughts, your LA neighbor.
"Natural" Disaster?
Regardless of whether the fire started intentionally or not, the conditions spread the fire. Climate change might explain the conditions (extreme wind/drought)
Normally I’ve got tears from LAUGHING so hard at..(with) you on here…. Today…. SAD tears! Truly sorry for EVERYONE (and especially animals) affected by this tragedy. Thanks for the update. Was wondering how you made out.
God bless 🙏🏼
I don’t think walking around with a nice but spoiled kid is going to help people feel better.
The kid is clueless, but he can't help it, so be kind....
LA's Worst Natural Disaster? What makes this a Natural Disaster? So the fire started Naturally? Was it lighting, spontoons Commotion, Or what? Disaster Ho yes, but was it Natural?
The Santa Ana winds are notorious for causing wildfires… 100 mph wind gusts that knock down power lines … causing arcing & massive wildfires.
Miss your videos Arvin. Prayers for everyone in LA
Anyone else shocked how there are trees still standing but the houses are all gone??
Lots of water in trees... Also plenty of burned out trees ... The street he drives to with "No houses burned" was not affected by fires because, well, it looks like that street was lower in elevation and the street above that neighborhood protected the houses below ... Maybe the water pressure was better there for Fire Department
Also Maui had no water in their hydrants. Too many anom
You need to go camping. Throw a freshly cut log on your campfire and it will take forever to burn and your fire may even go out. Much better to throw wood that had fallen and died some time ago.
Nature is hard . Here in Indian Ocean , French Island Mayotte , more than 300 000 people lost everything du to a typhon. No télécommunication , no water ect...
They are still now under the menace of a new Typhon , one month later.
So we are very sorry for your lost, we understand so much the apocalyptique vision you had.❤
The French government has done more to support the victims in Mayotte than the Biden administration has done to support the victims of the hurricanes and the LA fires.
Nature is interesting:
That special kinda
"fire"avoids the trees.
I'm sorry I hope you guys are ok ❤️
What a disaster. Fire ist the worst thing. It destroys everything. In addition, many houses in the area which are not burned down are contaminated by the smoke and ash.
My heart goes out to you and your family and everyone affected by these horrible fires, God Bless you and your Family and all of LA.
This Was NOT A Natural Disasters!
In a way it is, The wind was too strong that the fire spread quickly. It was like hurricane wind. The wind was blowing hard. It wouldn’t have burned thousands of homes if the wind was normal mph
A younger person is going to have a much different experience than an older person. The person is in a much better position because of time. They have not accumulated as much, have not created a long legacy/history, and instead their rebuild process is an adventure of welcome renewal. For older people, they lost the things that were the fabric of their life, and the rebuild is a stress because time is not on their side. They wanted to enjoy their settled lives.
"Natural". Just wait and see who is gonna buy everything up.
At this point seeing how Americans build houses out of wood in this kind of areas is just amusing.
Such a surprise to see the chimnees made out of brick still standing.
What a joke!
In CA the use of brick, stone and concrete construction pose far greater risks for earthquake damage.
@@mapesdhs597Yeah that's usually what builders are worried about in CA. But I wonder if they have other regulations there for fires? In Eastern WA you have to have a 4 foot concrete or rock bed buffer surrounding the entire house on order to offer protection from fire.
@thatcreepyxmastreeinyourat8950 I was having a look earlier at the actual building codes and zoning rules for LA and oh my word it's an absolute nightmare of red tape. For example, even if one doesn't need a building permit for a particular type of small structure, one must still obtain separate permission from a planning authority due to zoning rules, and further permissions & permits if the structure is to contain services such as water, power, sewage, etc. It's very complicated and expensive, so many caveats and exeptions, cross references, interconnected rules, etc. I will try posting an example separate link after this showing some relevant Q&A about the rules, you'll see what I mean. For fences, borders and walls, there are rules concerning joint authority between neighbours and other issues. The regulatory burden for construction is pretty heavy where I live in the UK, but CA is on a whole other level, LA inparticular.
@mapesdhs597 Wow, I literally did the same thing this morning, and you are NOT joking. I spent 2 hours researching before I got a headache. It really makes you wonder why this happened.
@thatcreepyxmastreeinyourat8950 Countless factors involved, but oh boy is it going to be one heck of a mess figuring it out. It's bad enough when many people will not want to hear the likely answers, but in CA the dominant mode of governance means one can't even ask the right questions. The mainstream media will jump on the climate pandic bandwagon and use it to finger point against those they don't like, but climate discussions have become too political, it isn't possible to question narratives without inviting ridicule or worse.
When people ask what I mean by this (because even saying the above is enough to get some people hopping mad), I point out that since pollution derives by definition primarily from resource consumption, and assuming the claims about climate are correct, then the intent should be to *reduce* resource consumption, in which case the global govt/NGO response that involves *increased* resource consumption is insane, spending literally tens of trillions. The UN stated spending would be approx. 100 trillion. Worse, since this is state spending and therefore unfunded, a great deal of it is printed/borrowed (stealing from the unborn), the rest made up from taxation, driving inflation and forcing ordinary people and businesses to work all the harder to cover the cost, consuming yet more resources in the process.
Naturally, much of the spending is wasted, some vanishing via corruption, much gladly absorbed by megacorps who collude with political elites over allocation (funny how ex-politicians so often end up on boards of directors at big companies). Climate panic has become an industry in its own right, academia thrives upon it, jobs and funding are at stake, influence, reputation and power (travel the world attending conferences, what fun!); the very thing that ought to be reduced has been increased, and now it's become a stick with which to bash the heads of the masses in order to secure via guilt their resources and votes. Social structures emerged to quash dissent, while the masses learned to virtue signal one's adherance to accepted beliefs for social standing, to an almost religious degree. Worse, young people had the utter crap scared out of them, told their futures would be literally in flames, bullied by promoted figures like Thunberg (as she jets the world and lives the highlife, driven by an unelected body that literally believes in, "You will own nothing and be happy."), hence no wonder some have become rabid activists who themselves now consume unnecessary resources and, ironically, promote the very same state power that drives resource consumption. At the same time, systems of free stuff have exploded, becoming an understandable magnet for millions from developing nations, who after moving then increase their resource consumption by an order of magnitude, straining resources & services, driving inflation, diluting the labour force, damaging local culture and stoking social division; a further means to sustain state power, supress wage growth, etc.
Hence, it doesn't matter anymore whether the original claims about global warming in the 1970s were correct or not, because it's all morphed into just another way in which state power has been able to expand, massively increasing resource consumption & pollution in the process, creating new ways in which politicians can lie to gain power, along the way forcing everyday pollution issues to be sidelined, eg. water and air quality, toxic metals, soil erosion, etc. It's all gone hand in hand with the abandonment of old norms of reuse and repair (which genuinely minimise resource consumption), replaced with new norms of recycling, systems which themselves almost always actually increase resource consumption (because the most common way the success of recycling schemes is measured is via how much money they save, but any such saved money is then spent on additional resource consumption, negating the intent; plus there are idiot schemes such as those where I am in Scotland, 200M spent on a recycling centre that will never recoup the financial or material cost of its own construction). I had to laugh when food recycling began in my neighbourhood, diesel trucks going round to empty buckets, the plastic used for the buckets & bags, the new state jobs, offices and IT equipment required to run it all, etc.
Products have evolved in tandem to become harder to repair or reuse, big business fighting against right to repair, while the culture has shifted to encourage regular replacement of products even if they're still functional (tech fashion trends such as the iPhone), while many become "outdated" via mechanisms that don't involve actual faults (such as backend coms degradation, software bloat or function creep making older products become non viable, likewise the use of Windows on PCs). In the US alone, some half a billion phones are thrown away each year. In the UK, absurd rules mean very few 2nd-hand shops sell anything electrical anymore. It ends up as ewaste on the shores of India. Manufacturing is outsourced abroad, allowing developed nations to claim green credentials, while in reality it's just been moved to nations where the processes are far more polluting and unregulated, amid a social culture with little proper protection for worker health or environmental concerns, which also means a lot more stuff gets shipped everywhere.
Meanwhile, online ordering systems have emerged that allow trivial products to be shipped right round the world at no apparent cost (Temu, Aliexpress, etc.), instead of buying locally (or preferably just not buying such junk at all, eg. a packet of three cotton buds), in the process damaging local businesses that can't compete (outdated trade agreements mean local shipping services must bare the end delivery costs), sustaining wage stagnation and reduced spending power. The list goes on and on. But govts *want* people to spend, not save, because the resulting liquidity helps prop up economies that are so overburdened with debt; if people actually stopped buying unnecessary stuff, a number of national economies would rapidly collapse (and the turnover helps secure votes; GDP good! Please ignore the -ve balance). As Michael Moore put it, "Fear and consume." Personal debt has likewise exploded into the trillions.
With such an utter mess of factors surrounding just one issue, it isn't possible or indeed allowed to ask the right questions, as merely trying to do so will invite scorn or worse, especially when employers impose adherance to state directives, while exploiting eco fashion trends to sell more product. I tell people, if they really want to "save the planet", then just stop buying stuff they don't need, repair/reuse instead of recycle, cook proper meals instead of relying on ready meals and processed foods, grow their own food where sensible & viable, don't waste leftovers, and stop voting for parties that by definition seek to expand state power. Long ago I was for a time involved in solo climate research, I went to a conference or two, focusing on oceans and clouds; I gave up when I realised just what a huge academic grift it had all become, such enormous waste with little or no incentive to ensure any productive output from the work done. But it meant plenty of jobs and funding. Suddenly there were massive supercomputers used to run climate models (the hardware used being my own speciality of knowledge, ie. SGIs), thousands of CPUs in hundreds of racks filling huge warehouses, requiring dedicated power systems and cooling to run them (I own a small version of one such old system, with 36 CPUs); look up pictures of the SGI Blue Mountain system, you'll see what I mean. But wait, what? Consuming massive resources just to do the math? Makes no sense. And 20 years later, weather models still get it wrong all the time. :D It's much worse now though, with enormous data centres, hyped AI, Cloud systems, crypto, etc. The world has gone compute mad, the power usage is staggering. But hey, messing about with ChatGPT is fun, yes? :}
All of which is to say, in every regard possible, it's one hell of a mess, and people just will not be willing to allow the right questions to be asked, never mind listen to what the answers might be, or be willing to adjust their behaviour accordingly. In every facet of life, individual choice collides with distorted social norms, media/state propaganda and political ideology. It hasn't been possible to hold an honest conversation about virtually anything for at least 30 years. People have been brainwashed into believing that climate should be static, which is absurd, that's not how this planet works, it's inherantly dynamic, constantly changing (I highly recommend the TV series "Earth Story", by Aubrey Manning). Indeed, we owe our very existence to variable climate, it's what forced us via adaptive evolution to become what we are. And yet, while believing weather patterns shouldn't vary, at the same time people demand that their products become ever faster, better, smaller, they want to buy the new cool thing, the next car, TV or phone, etc. It's a bizarre cultural contradiction.
Sorry for the rant. Alas, natural disasters have a tendency to highlight hypocritical norms in all levels of society, but nobody wants to hear the truth of things, it means admitting one was wrong, especially wrt to how so many have been conned into supporting something for so long which has ultimately achieved the exact opposite of what they thought was the intent, all because it was such an easy way for elites to secure their votes and resources.
People will choose to believe a lie either because they want it to be true, or they're afraid it's true.
Just found your channel and watched this very compassionate video. It’s incomprehensible what has happened and the devastating losses for so many. I can’t even imagine the nightmare insurance stories that have yet to come.
There nothing naturalabout this disaster. All planned, all deliberate. And just like that a lot of the evidence is gone. I am sad for the innocent caught up in this attack.
I am soooooo sorry for your aunt and family and community. Strength, blessings, prayer, love and light be with you. So sorry.
All my love and support from a small country in the eastern Mediterranean, Cyprus.
I grew up in Riverside, I spent 20yrs working in SoCal EMS Esp with Cal Fire. I wish I was home to help out. Blessings to you Arvin and your family. Sebby has an old soul; he is wise beyond his years. It gives me hope for the future.
I’m so sad and sorry, from Maryland, with love and compassion. May the Divine comfort and assist you❤️
I’ve been thinking of you and your friends and your family and I’m so sorry. We all need to write our Congressmen and ask them to release emergency funding without any strings attached. Athens, Georgia is praying for LA.
Build with brick like we do in the uk
LA is on a very active fault line. It would be a very stupid thing to build homes in a place where earthquakes happen regularly. There’s no earthquakes in the UK. What works in one country is not guaranteed to work in a different one.
Arvin, I am so sorry for your families loss. Thankfully you are all safe.
How strange would it be to own one of the only homes saved from fires on a massive subdivision complex! Coming home to your home, to nothing but piles or charred rubble.. You'd feel some sort of survivors guilt for your home, for sure!!
Best live report of the disaster, I wish you and your family all the strength that you need...
I’m glad you’re okay Arvin. Thank you for sharing with us. I was practically in tears at points. This is true journalism. Thank you.
The picture and video of the Hollywood sign is AI. The Hollywood sign did not burn down.
So much news and fandare for such little suffering
Little?! The fire is still going on and over 10k have lost everything! What is wrong with you?
Thank you for this video.... excellent.
I am so sorry for your loss.
Hay what in the hell why are the tree's not burned . Also bush's . Sorry man , for your family , but please explain that one .
Sebby seems like such a cool person! I just did a video today about finding Joy and a sense of community when tragedy strikes. Much love to the people of the Pacific Palisades ❤
All the trees still standing
Thank you for sharing a powerful, personal perspective on this overwhelming tragedy. Your Aunt’s reaction to her destroyed home was heartbreaking.
Fire turns everything to dust. - not really when you build fireproof and have firefighters who are not DEI hires and have working hydrants at their disposal.
My heart's with you big brother. You'll inshallah get over it. ❤❤❤
Why are not in tents, they seem to afford second homes or expensive hotels