I appreciate your footage. The mainstream news is not doing a good job of showing where the damage is. This is really hard to watch. So many trips up and down these streets. This makes it seem more real because I have had a hard time wrapping my head around this. Thank you.
Makes me think the big stations don't want to be liable if something bad happens to their reporter... But this fellow on an electric bike is putting all other media to shame
This is really eye opening. Fire didn't care if rich, famous ,or poor . Well done video. Thank you. My sympathy for all. Respect for those that were trying to help all.
One way to protect homes from fire. 40 plus years ago my uncle saved his house in West Malibu from fire this way. He was a produce farmer with his home overlooking the Pacific Coast Highway on a bluff above his fields. He had surrounded his house with heavy duty irrigation sprinklers when the fire threatened he turned on the sprinkler system powered by a diesel pumping system drawing water from his pond and evacuated. The heat from the fire wind was so intense that posts on the fence around his house caught fire but the sprinklers which ran for perhaps an hour or less cooled the house roof and air so it was saved with no damage. This system worked for him several times. After the land was sold and sprinkler system removed another fire destroyed the house. Perhaps there needs to be irrigation type sprinkler systems installed bordering communities that in a emergency can soak the roofs and drop the air temp for the short time needed for the fire to pass.
@@alexanderw6309 That's smart thinking. What gets me is how combustible all those houses were- only the stacks were brick, which says a lot about future proofing your home in such a precarious area.
Thank You for sharing this ! Here's hoping some contractors add this to their list of offers to home owners since fire insurance will stay gone or come back priced out of reach for most.
Speaking from experience after losing my home of 20 years and everything in it to wildfire, this kind of post-fire reconnaissance is invaluable to victims unable to make their way back into their neighborhoods to assess extent of damages to homes and surrounding communities. Well done.
😢Bunul Dumnezeu să vă ocrotească pe toți americanii de toate relele. Amin. Ei locuiesc în Europa. Dumnezeu să ne ocrotească Țara și planeta terra, amin. Doamne ajută, 🙏❤️🇷🇴😇🌷
You do great videos and we appreciate you doing this. City/County and State Planners: There is a need to rebuild our communities using smart advice: Install solar generators for homes; and t’s clear that technology and smart materials will have a vital role to play in building the society of the future. Smart cities will create better, more sustainable outcomes for people all around the world, improving quality of life, social interaction, and environmental health conditions by maximizing the use of smart materials; this should be a top priority in the cities quest to build a healthier community for all.
Yes, this is the most comprehensive tour of the Pacific Palisades destruction of the many videos I've seen. Thank you for this. The place was my childhood home and all this brought out lots of memories for me.
I can't get over the sheer capriciousness of the damage - you pass through a neighborhood that's fairly intact, just one or 2 burned out buildings, then turn a corner into Hiroshima. This gives us such a clear picture of what's left, far more so than any media coverage. Many thanks for doing this.
98% percent of readers aren't going to know what "capriciousness" means. In business, we're told to write to the 6th grade level. In our current failed education system, an undergrad might just might know what that means. Just say "unpredictable" and call it a day.
it is horrible to see the devastation, neighbourhoods and businesses burned and then right next door is untouched....and then even the businesses that did survive now what? there will be no one around to use the business
Just horrific. This excellent long format tour of the devastated areas packs a real wallop. To all those who lost a part of their lives in these fires, we in Northern California send our love and our commitment to help you through this. God bless.
MASSIVE PIPES FROM PACIFIC OCEAN. INDUSTRIAL PUMPS POWERING THEM. RUNNING ALONG THE HILL TOPS FOR MILES - to create a curtain of fine rain to protect North Los Angeles.
National news or whoever control national news don’t want us to see all this, a building completely gone, but Evergreen around home is still green alive.
@Jolers63 Really, Fabian, selling his video clips to the TV networks somehow takes away from the people who lost homes? Please tell me how? So nobody needs to make a living and pay bills?
2 Peter 2:6: "And God did not spare ancient cities, but destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, making them an example to those who would afterwards live ungodly".
As bad and tragic as all these fires are, it is nice to see, in this visual documentation, crews in the burned area already working and to see cleanup in progress. Also, to hear all the birds chirping. Far from normalcy but a ray of hope and movement in the right direction.
I wish you would document the very same route, on Jan. 11, 2026, so we could see the change in one years time. Thank you for your effort documenting this horrific situation.
Thank you, Fabian, for your indefatigable coverage of this tragic event. Your footage is exponentially better than the mainstream network news, particularly at showing the sheer scope of the damage. Congratulations on crossing 100,000 subscribers and earning your Silver Play Creator Award.
Thanks! I really needed to see this. When you showed my place it just took the breath out of me. I'll miss that beautiful peaceful community, Pacific Palisades.
With all do respect and very sorry for your loss, maybe you can help me to understand something, why with the house prices in that place and a continuous problem with the fires, all the people dont have sprinklers everywere in the house inside outside, should be mandatory.
The soul of PP is lost forever. Thanks to your work we learn how one household member can visit their home. The irony that the fire station is intact. I hope another stunning neighbourhood, Brentwood, does not suffer the same fate. As a former West L.A. resident, I am lucky to have KTLA in my channel package. Again, great work. Now from Vancouver 🇨🇦. 😢
I got this video from an Israeli friend who lives in LA. I was not aware of the magnitude of this devastation. My heart is with the good people of California, who will have to rebuild their lives.
@@Khalidmahmood-eh8pj I actually do care about palestinians who were devastated by the war, as i am about the Israelis who have also suffered. I don't, however, care for whataboutism, having the palestinian subject raised in irrelevant context.
Thank you for making and posting this video, as heartbreaking as it is to watch. You have provided information that is not otherwise available to those concerned. Thank you!
True photojournalism allows the viewer/audience to see for themselves what the actual conditions are 'on the ground' - and this does that exactly. Thank you so much. The absolute devastation and destruction must drive hard investigations and debates (no matter where they lead) and constructive changes going forward on a massive scale.
So sorry in Germany here! Would have looked in many different angles but your documentation is a one time historical document. May you all rebuild your places for better with the power you have.
The seeming typo of "deviation" instead of "devastation" is fitting here. As he goes up and down different streets, the deviation from completely burned to ash is "still standing."
53:30 The aluminum hub caps are melted and flowed onto the pavement. The melting point of aluminum is 1292 degrees. It starts to melt at 1250, but liquifies at 1292. If people complain that someone didn't do enough to save their house, tell them to suit up and go into hell themselves because that is what this was. No one could have done any more because of the wind and fuel the fire had, especially the wind. It was like a blacksmiths forge with the blower going full blast.
This was totally preventable. First, helping and relocation of homeless. Second, fire breaks and cutting down brush around homes. Controlled burns and trimming trees. Having reservoirs full. Hiring more firefighters and maintenance of all fire trucks, helicopters and equipment. Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom are incompetent af.
Thank you for sharing the after fire perspective of this horrible tragedy. I don’t live in an area with wildfires, but I do understand tornados doing destruction similar. Sending much love to your community. ❤️🩹
Dear Fabian, thank you for showing us. So much terrible devastation. I lived in LA working in the Financial District years ago. So many great memories of PP and Malibu. I lost my Marin home also years ago so I know what they’re going through. I pray for all these folks and the fire crews
The devastation and destruction from this fire is enormous. I am 73 years old and this is the worst I have ever seen from a wildfire. Also this is close to where I live in the San Fernando Valley. Also I have driven this section of Sunset Blvd in the past.
If you own a home in a fire zone in California and it is a stick-built wooden structure it is now not worth 10 cents. Nobody is going to buy a future fire box.
Thank you so much for uploading this video for all of us. Sorry, to everyone is going through this terrible times right now. Many thanks to people are helping one another trying to put out the fire. God bless you all.
I visited Los Angeles area many times because my husband was born and raised there, And every time it was like heaven on earth, this is incredibly sad.
On a gardening channel I watched, the lady there had to put out 10 more Hummingbird feeders bc she thinks they have flown away from the fires. She said she has never seen so many! She said she’ll keep feeding them as many as it takes..this so so sad!
Even if a business's building survived, it is still in a bad situation. First, there won't be electricity for weeks if not months. Second, there are no customers left, and there won't be for years to come.
Looks like something out of the Twilight zone. My brother lost one of his houses but not the other one. I used to spend time in Pacific Palisades beginning in 1966 when I started UCLA. My brother lived there for 45 years, beginning in 1978. These scenes with so few people are other-worldly. News stations have not broadcast these scenes. I'm sure they will rebuild. Thanks for bringing this all to light.
That's a lot of $5-20 Mil houses. The amount of devastation and the sheer amount of wealth is astounding. I feel sorry for all those affected - rich or poor, human suffering is felt by all.
Human suffering is felt by all? What a joke. I can bet with the lead in trump's ass that u people are only selective and biased in feeling the suffering of others. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
i lived in the palisades in the 80's and 90's. i worked in the village. my daughter was born in the house, went to preschool, elementary, junior high, and high school there. i lost her in 2019. i feel i've lost the only earthly thing left of her. gone forever.
Looking at this devastation in Southern California is another peak into what Lahaina Maui experienced only much larger in size than how Hawaiian politicians had to explain about those displaced and death of the loss of life and property as Armaggedon
Outstanding coverage! Thank You for not speaking so,we, that have lost our beautiful city can grieve. I already suffer from PTSD. This will take it to the next level. All we can do is 🙏
😮😮😮😮 Total devastation 😢😢😢; it's unconceivable that this can occur in a city with so much resources 😮😮 !! Sincerely , it hurts me to the core to see the harrowing scenario these apocalyptic fires have left behind. My heartfelt sympathies go out to those that have lost their homes, beloved family members, dear friends or their livelihood. I pray to The Holy Spirit to guide everyone that has been affected to rise up because if you have Faith , you will definately have Hope !! GOD BLESS YOU ALL ❤❤❤ !!
@@gottasay4766 I live in Africa so I can see what is logical without being emotionally involved. Nature does NOT start single fires in a circle - there would have been fires behind or in front of the single fires making up the circle. But once a single fire was set by the arsonists for a certain area they were satisfied. You will see this was deliberate.
This hits hard for a regular visitor (from UK) like myself, so I simply can’t imagine the sickening feeling residents and locals have. I’ll donating to the causes that are setup to get the working class back up and running.
I find it fascinating that while most of the burned structures are completely devastated, that the fronds on the palm trees, and the leaves on many other trees and other bushes while scorched seemed to have largely survived. I presume that this because the spread of the fire was by wind driven embers that needed to land in parts in the building where the wind would not blow them away as well as moisture in the living leaves and fronds making them harder to ignite.
Can't use that logic when you see Sarsaparilla eucalyptus and pine trees which are all highly flammable trees did still have their foliage on them next to homes that are completely gone....
Embers were blown against the eves where there are soffit vents. They are covered with a screen designed to keep rodents and birds out, but not embers. Once the embers were in the attics combining with old insulation, nothing could be done. There are vents designed to prevent ember penetration and they are more expensive than standard vents. They should be required by code in these areas when rebuilding begins.
i watched a video where the tops of the palms were completely on fire, the wind was so fierce that the palms were bending and embers were flying off them like fireworks.
Dude, at 52:29ish you pass a bunch of cars that look like people tried to flee, saw the fire coming down the mountain fast, tried to back up or turn around, hit each other, then people fled on foot in a panic. That is a story worth hearing. Excellent job on your video journal. It is very sobering.
Thank you for your incredible video of the fire's aftermath. I am on Google Earth, going down the same streets you filmed. It is shocking to see what the homes, businesses, schools, and cultural spaces looked like before the fire. A beautiful area. The stark contrast is so shocking, and shows me how much of people's lives were lost to the fire.
@ 0:18. Amazing. The car is burnt out and a tiny bit of grass BUT the wooden gazebo appears in touched and the no parking sign is not even blackened or warped. And the grass is greener further up. Weird way nature works and the winds changed minute to minute. . Even further up area burnt yet traffic lights and signs adjacent not even singed. Nursery burnt but plastic signs on fence not even melted.
It implies that this blaze was ignited by electricity and not by the flames of a brush fire... Look for my main comment for full explanation of what happened here to these poor people!
@@OsotastyLordKC Electricity from where, the electrical power network? Or are you implying a DEW? I think you will find that the fire is really the cause. A fire storm creates its own weather, usually moves fast and certain things that you would not expect to survive actually do such as trees, rubbish bins and not cars, houses that are filled with fuel that can burn for longer
this shit is crazy i install hardwood flooring for a living and ive worked on so many of these houses in this area. its insane to see it all burnt down now wow
Thank you for documenting this tragedy for everyone. I hope you create where you focus on one side of the street, then return on the other side. Going back and forth makes it blurry, and I actually feel nauseous. ❤
This devastation is breaking my heart. Even for the homes and businesses that did survive it will likely be months before utilities are repaired and functional.
Fantastic. THANK YOU. I'm in a state of shock over this, after viewing. Unreal how the SRF Lake Shrine and Temple were untouched. That's one very good thing.
Thank you for shooting and posting this video. By some miracle you videoed my dear friend’s apartment house so we could confirm what happened to it (destroyed).
So weird how a fire will jump from one building to another. Some get burned down to the ground and others are left untouched. This happened to my valley in Oregon, wind driven fire. So very sorry to see this happen. Very painful to witness again.
Right from the start...where i park at Temescal to go for a run along the beach path, the Maggie Gilbert swimming pool where my best friend and I train, the roads around PP where we ride our bikes. My heart is broken 💔
I used to get my hair cut by a lady named Lisa whose shop was a block down the street from that dry cleaners on the corner. All of those small businesses, totally destroyed.
I assume the roofs of the burnt out houses were clad with shingles and exterior walls were also constructed of some sort of flammable material. I also assume these materials were used due to their properties being able to flex during an earthquake.
🎉Big congratulations Fabian on reaching 100,000 subscribers! Your incredible dedication to capturing the beauty and energy of Santa Monica has truly paid off. Your channel is a gem, and it’s no surprise so many people appreciate the amazing content you create. Here’s to this milestone and many more to come. Keep up the fantastic work
I'm not familiar with Pacific Palisades. So when you were going down Via De La Paz I pulled it up on Google Street View. I was utterly shocked when I compared your video to the former houses and businesses on Street View. Now I realize the immense damage caused by the fire 😲
kind of makes me wonder what this area is going to look like in the next 6 to 24 months, how many businesses that survived the fire are going to survive the aftermath, how many people are going to rebuild of those with the means, how many just won't have that option and how much are the property values going to drop leaving the survivors underwater in their mortgages where they can't leave even if they want to
I know this area very well, what is seen in this video is less than 10% of the destruction just in Pacific Palisades alone .. Altadena one is even worse
After the Great fire of London in 1666, all the buildings that were destroyed were rebuilt in Brick or Stone. In fire prone areas like this they should seriously consider not building from wood in the future. I expect that insurance companies may force this on rebuilt properties in this area.
Thank you so much.. you’ve helped confirm the status of a property… So invaluable- we didn’t know if the structure had survived the fire. It did, somehow!! 😮 (on all of the fire maps it’s completely surrounded by the fire).
I'm seeing people in the comments suggesting people shouldn't build wood houses, and I think to myself, "What if the Fire Department's budget hadn't been cut by 17 million USD? What if the Reznicks (Wonderful), and a few other private companies, didn't own LA's water supply?" That's what comes to my mind.
@@dfbaerwald It is because of millions just like you that choose to turn a blind eye to incompetence why the state continues to devolve further into devastation year after year.
I lived in South America in a similar dry place. It doesn't rain for 6 months, and the hills (los cerros) burn every year. Nevertheless even the houses at the very edge of the hills, never burn. Reason: they are build with very little to zero wood. Only bricks and concrete, and metal for the windows. Floors are usually either in tiled cement or granite. I am not an expert, but it would be worth to consider rebuilding with zero wood, going forward.
As I was into this video, I decided to take note for hydrants along your route! Where are they? I saw 1 at an intersection. So many buildings, so few hydrants! Do they hide them due to aesthetics? After all, it is California! Sad to see people suffer such complete loss because they put their trust in the hands of incompetents!! I had a house fire over 30 years ago. Living in a very rural area, the closest fire station was 20 mi. away. When they did arrive my neighbor offered up his pond for the firemen to use. It's what saved my house from a complete ruin!
I appreciate your footage. The mainstream news is not doing a good job of showing where the damage is. This is really hard to watch. So many trips up and down these streets. This makes it seem more real because I have had a hard time wrapping my head around this. Thank you.
Makes me think the big stations don't want to be liable if something bad happens to their reporter... But this fellow on an electric bike is putting all other media to shame
This is really eye opening. Fire didn't care if rich, famous ,or poor . Well done video. Thank you. My sympathy for all. Respect for those that were trying to help all.
Scuze,te rog. 🙏Dar tu nu observi, că focul a fost pus selectiv,... Nu peste tot. 👍
More money for wars and no money for water and homeless
A big shoutout to all the firefighters, and those who helped their neighbors.
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พระคุ้มครอง..ให้เกิดความคิดใหม่ๆ เพื่อแก้ไขให้ขาดเลย..❤🎉
One way to protect homes from fire. 40 plus years ago my uncle saved his house in West Malibu from fire this way. He was a produce farmer with his home overlooking the Pacific Coast Highway on a bluff above his fields. He had surrounded his house with heavy duty irrigation sprinklers when the fire threatened he turned on the sprinkler system powered by a diesel pumping system drawing water from his pond and evacuated. The heat from the fire wind was so intense that posts on the fence around his house caught fire but the sprinklers which ran for perhaps an hour or less cooled the house roof and air so it was saved with no damage. This system worked for him several times. After the land was sold and sprinkler system removed another fire destroyed the house. Perhaps there needs to be irrigation type sprinkler systems installed bordering communities that in a emergency can soak the roofs and drop the air temp for the short time needed for the fire to pass.
Smart guy your uncle but not so much the maroon that removed the sprinklers!
@@alexanderw6309 That's smart thinking. What gets me is how combustible all those houses were- only the stacks were brick, which says a lot about future proofing your home in such a precarious area.
Who was the clever head who thought it advisable to dump the sprinkler system ¿?
@@phaasch Indeed - THE noticeable point throughout ALL of this coverage. 😢
Thank You for sharing this ! Here's hoping some contractors add this to their list of offers to home owners since fire insurance will stay gone or come back priced out of reach for most.
Speaking from experience after losing my home of 20 years and everything in it to wildfire, this kind of post-fire reconnaissance is invaluable to victims unable to make their way back into their neighborhoods to assess extent of damages to homes and surrounding communities. Well done.
😢Bunul Dumnezeu să vă ocrotească pe toți americanii de toate relele. Amin. Ei locuiesc în Europa. Dumnezeu să ne ocrotească Țara și planeta terra, amin. Doamne ajută, 🙏❤️🇷🇴😇🌷
How horrible for you.... I'm so sorry fire took your home 20 years ago! Hope you have recovered.❤ It could NOT have been easy.
Agreed!
You do great videos and we appreciate you doing this. City/County and State Planners: There is a need to rebuild our communities using smart advice: Install solar generators for homes; and t’s clear that technology and smart materials will have a vital role to play in building the society of the future. Smart cities will create better, more sustainable outcomes for people all around the world, improving quality of life, social interaction, and environmental health conditions by maximizing the use of smart materials; this should be a top priority in the cities quest to build a healthier community for all.
😭😭😭 my heart goes out to every person that lost their home, business! Such devastation is hard to watch! Where do you start?
Yes, this is the most comprehensive tour of the Pacific Palisades destruction of the many videos I've seen. Thank you for this. The place was my childhood home and all this brought out lots of memories for me.
I can't get over the sheer capriciousness of the damage - you pass through a neighborhood that's fairly intact, just one or 2 burned out buildings, then turn a corner into Hiroshima. This gives us such a clear picture of what's left, far more so than any media coverage. Many thanks for doing this.
“ capriciousness” never heard or read this word ever. Thanks for teaching me something new.👍🏿
More money for wars and no money for water and homeless
@@sopiananwari2083 el complejo militar - industrial de algo tiene que vivir, no?
palestine my money
98% percent of readers aren't going to know what "capriciousness" means. In business, we're told to write to the 6th grade level. In our current failed education system, an undergrad might just might know what that means. Just say "unpredictable" and call it a day.
better than any of the news stations could possibly do...
More money for wars and no money for water and homeless
Thank you. Finally have some closure after seeing where my old house and neighborhood once stood.
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it is horrible to see the devastation, neighbourhoods and businesses burned and then right next door is untouched....and then even the businesses that did survive now what? there will be no one around to use the business
Tam pieniądz bogiem Sodoma I Gomora też tak się paliła Zamiast na straż pożarną wydawali na kampanie LGBT 👹🔥🔥🔥
This looks like a small nuke went off.
Just horrific. This excellent long format tour of the devastated areas packs a real wallop. To all those who lost a part of their lives in these fires, we in Northern California send our love and our commitment to help you through this. God bless.
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Why didn’t your god prevent this??? Do you ever ever wonder about that???
Ven.la.viblia.yai.ayaras.la.respuesta.aqui.en.esta.vida.no.somos.nada
Fabians coverage is definitely better than anything I have seen on the national news. You should sell your footage to the networks.
MASSIVE PIPES FROM PACIFIC OCEAN. INDUSTRIAL PUMPS POWERING THEM. RUNNING ALONG THE HILL TOPS FOR MILES - to create a curtain of fine rain to protect North Los Angeles.
@@mogadon7 You nutcases think you can beat nature huh.
National news or whoever control national news don’t want us to see all this, a building completely gone, but Evergreen around home is still green alive.
Anything to make a buck?? What a stupid, shallow comment! People are devastated and your FIRST THOUGHT IS MONEY. CREEP!
@Jolers63 Really, Fabian, selling his video clips to the TV networks somehow takes away from the people who lost homes? Please tell me how? So nobody needs to make a living and pay bills?
Crazy how the vehicles and buildings are completely burned/melted yet the road signs and plastic garbage cans remain untouched.
Sepertinya sijago merah pilih pilih yaaa mana yang harus diratakan...
2 Peter 2:6:
"And God did not spare ancient cities, but destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, making them an example to those who would afterwards live ungodly".
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😭😭😭@@OsotastyLordKC
Like tornadoes. Winds go around things. And hit others.
As bad and tragic as all these fires are, it is nice to see, in this visual documentation, crews in the burned area already working and to see cleanup in progress. Also, to hear all the birds chirping. Far from normalcy but a ray of hope and movement in the right direction.
I wish you would document the very same route, on Jan. 11, 2026, so we could see the change in one years time. Thank you for your effort documenting this horrific situation.
Let me spoil it for you: big sign saying "Owned by BlackRock".
да все так же и будет .
@@ЕрмекБагинбаев Maui was still the same after 1 year.
@@Shane-Buell Посмотри как восстановили Северную каролину . Год прошел и особо ничего не изменилось
@@SanchoGracie LOLOL
Thankyou for this. My father-in-law died in July and 6 months later his Palisades home is gone…..We are bereft…
Thank you, Fabian, for your indefatigable coverage of this tragic event. Your footage is exponentially better than the mainstream network news, particularly at showing the sheer scope of the damage. Congratulations on crossing 100,000 subscribers and earning your Silver Play Creator Award.
Thank you Danny!
Thanks! I really needed to see this. When you showed my place it just took the breath out of me. I'll miss that beautiful peaceful community, Pacific Palisades.
You're watching TH-cam while your neighborhood burns? Okay Jan.
@@SanchoGracie Are they supposed to sit in it while burns Jan?
With all do respect and very sorry for your loss, maybe you can help me to understand something, why with the house prices in that place and a continuous problem with the fires, all the people dont have sprinklers everywere in the house inside outside, should be mandatory.
@@charlybianchiwater pressure is limited. Water pumping and water itself notwithstanding.
@@charlybianchipewnie wody brakowało do gaszenia
The soul of PP is lost forever. Thanks to your work we learn how one household member can visit their home. The irony that the fire station is intact. I hope another stunning neighbourhood, Brentwood, does not suffer the same fate. As a former West L.A. resident, I am lucky to have KTLA in my channel package. Again, great work. Now from Vancouver 🇨🇦. 😢
kTLA is a free stationI get it in my Roku but its on my antenna too.
I got this video from an Israeli friend who lives in LA. I was not aware of the magnitude of this devastation. My heart is with the good people of California, who will have to rebuild their lives.
How Palestinians poor people rebuild there houses what is your think
@@Khalidmahmood-eh8pj
I actually do care about palestinians who were devastated by the war, as i am about the Israelis who have also suffered.
I don't, however, care for whataboutism, having the palestinian subject raised in irrelevant context.
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Thank you for making and posting this video, as heartbreaking as it is to watch. You have provided information that is not otherwise available to those concerned. Thank you!
True photojournalism allows the viewer/audience to see for themselves what the actual conditions are 'on the ground' - and this does that exactly. Thank you so much. The absolute devastation and destruction must drive hard investigations and debates (no matter where they lead) and constructive changes going forward on a massive scale.
So sorry in Germany here! Would have looked in many different angles but your documentation is a one time historical document. May you all rebuild your places for better with the power you have.
Great job giving people critial information on damage from fire
The sound of your bicycle adds an eerie touch to the already devastating scene of the neighbors.
Lol
More money for wars and no money for water and homeless
@@sopiananwari2083 The problem isn't wars. The problem is the misguided priority of plants and animals over human flourishing.
Thank You for doing this video. My heart breaks as I look at the aftermath of the Fires I am sending BIG HUGS from Perth Australia.
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You have recorded History of the Great LA Fire of 2025.....very impresive.
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Speechless……thanks for holding it together to document this for us. The deviation is enormous.
⚜ ...and what, pray tell, are they deviating from?
The seeming typo of "deviation" instead of "devastation" is fitting here. As he goes up and down different streets, the deviation from completely burned to ash is "still standing."
53:30 The aluminum hub caps are melted and flowed onto the pavement. The melting point of aluminum is 1292 degrees. It starts to melt at 1250, but liquifies at 1292. If people complain that someone didn't do enough to save their house, tell them to suit up and go into hell themselves because that is what this was. No one could have done any more because of the wind and fuel the fire had, especially the wind. It was like a blacksmiths forge with the blower going full blast.
Literally no one is saying that and I hope they never do, but I get your point. Horrendous
This was totally preventable. First, helping and relocation of homeless. Second, fire breaks and cutting down brush around homes. Controlled burns and trimming trees. Having reservoirs full. Hiring more firefighters and maintenance of all fire trucks, helicopters and equipment. Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom are incompetent af.
Then one video that I watched it actually melted the aluminum exhaust on a car and it flowed like a puddle of water😮
всем спасательным службам нужно поставить ящик пива и концерт блюз.
oh yeah, light aluminium rims also melted like candle. there is a lots of cars that you can see it
Thank you for sharing the after fire perspective of this horrible tragedy. I don’t live in an area with wildfires, but I do understand tornados doing destruction similar. Sending much love to your community. ❤️🩹
Thank you for this. I know every inch of this video before this happened. Walked, driven, picnicked... sunsets, sunrises, full moon, all of it.
It just doesn't seem to end. Such tragedy and loss. Thank you for taking the time to make this so very, very real.
Dear Fabian, thank you for showing us. So much terrible devastation. I lived in LA working in the Financial District years ago. So many great memories of PP and Malibu. I lost my Marin home also years ago so I know what they’re going through. I pray for all these folks and the fire crews
Sorry you lost your home too I hope you're not in a fire area anymore
The devastation and destruction from this fire is enormous. I am 73 years old and this is the worst I have ever seen from a wildfire. Also this is close to where I live in the San Fernando Valley. Also I have driven this section of Sunset Blvd in the past.
If you own a home in a fire zone in California and it is a stick-built wooden structure it is now not worth 10 cents. Nobody is going to buy a future fire box.
I appreciate your lack of hyperbole and sentimentality of the commercial networks....the images say it all.
Thank you so much for uploading this video for all of us. Sorry, to everyone is going through this terrible times right now. Many thanks to people are helping one another trying to put out the fire. God bless you all.
Thanks for sharing.
The vast amount of devastation is very hard to grasp.
Prayers for those affected.
Thanks to all who helped.😢
I visited Los Angeles area many times because my husband was born and raised there, And every time it was like heaven on earth, this is incredibly sad.
Sekarang bagai sebagian kecil dari wujud neraka dunia..
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@@awidbusngang2951 You took the words right out of my mouth
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What u saw like heaven is hell.stay away from curve place like this
On a gardening channel I watched, the lady there had to put out 10 more Hummingbird feeders bc she thinks they have flown away from the fires. She said she has never seen so many! She said she’ll keep feeding them as many as it takes..this so so sad!
Да. Птичку жалко.
I only noticed one bird chirping in the video.
Even if your business store hasn`t burned , what good is that ?? The entire area is desertic and you`re out of business anyway . This is apocalyptic .
This remind me of Gaza with the American bombs.
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@@xavierdaume2757 why don't you try it and see what will happen ?
The business could be used as a staging area
There is nothing there only rich people
Even if a business's building survived, it is still in a bad situation. First, there won't be electricity for weeks if not months. Second, there are no customers left, and there won't be for years to come.
Tanck you for watching reporting. So sad. It is a Apocalisse in the Paradise. Love from Italy
When they rebuild, I suggest making the buildings out of whatever those blue, rolling refuse bins are made of -- virtually indestructible...
I was thinking they should just make everything out of chimney material, but your solution would probably be more cost effective.
Not the material but the color.
What is this about blue things not burning? I've noticed this as well @@kc72186
@@pauljoseph8338you mean bricks and mortar like everywhere else in the world?
How did you miss the green ones? Color blind?
Looks like something out of the Twilight zone. My brother lost one of his houses but not the other one. I used to spend time in Pacific Palisades beginning in 1966 when I started UCLA. My brother lived there for 45 years, beginning in 1978.
These scenes with so few people are other-worldly. News stations have not broadcast these scenes.
I'm sure they will rebuild. Thanks for bringing this all to light.
That's a lot of $5-20 Mil houses. The amount of devastation and the sheer amount of wealth is astounding. I feel sorry for all those affected - rich or poor, human suffering is felt by all.
Human suffering is felt by all?
What a joke.
I can bet with the lead in trump's ass that u people are only selective and biased in feeling the suffering of others.
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And consumer goods - furniture, clothes, purses, shoes, art, wine but also marble, tile & stone from abroad. Never to be recovered!
Nonsense to buy $M houses made of wood and plastic. This disaster can't happen in EU.
Thank you, Fabian, for documenting a devastating piece of history!
Great photo work!
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Simply Heartbreaking. As always Fabian you're on scene and a job well done.
i lived in the palisades in the 80's and 90's. i worked in the village. my daughter was born in the house, went to preschool, elementary, junior high, and high school there. i lost her in 2019. i feel i've lost the only earthly thing left of her. gone forever.
I wish you peace & love and I sincerely hope your heart can heal someday & I will certainly pray for you and your tremendous losses....❤
More money for wars and no money for water and homeless
Bless you
@@anotherartisan857 you are very kind. ty 💚
God bless you
It looks post apocalyptic. The amount of devastation and sorrow is immeasurable.
If the fire was man-made, I wonder what the punishment would be, as I heard the police have arrested a suspect for arson.
You have a way with words. 😢 ty
Да замечательное зрелище . Привыкайте .
This remind me of Gaza with the American bombs.
а вам не жалко юго-восточные страны, где вы проводите агрессию ради денег?
Looking at this devastation in Southern California is another peak into what Lahaina Maui experienced only much larger in size than how Hawaiian politicians had to explain about those displaced and death of the loss of life and property as Armaggedon
Outstanding coverage! Thank You for not speaking so,we, that have lost our beautiful city can grieve. I already suffer from PTSD. This will take it to the next level. All we can do is 🙏
Wow, thank you for capturing this😢
😮😮😮😮 Total devastation 😢😢😢; it's unconceivable that this can occur in a city with so much resources 😮😮 !! Sincerely , it hurts me to the core to see the harrowing scenario these apocalyptic fires have left behind. My heartfelt sympathies go out to those that have lost their homes, beloved family members, dear friends or their livelihood. I pray to The Holy Spirit to guide everyone that has been affected to rise up because if you have Faith , you will definately have Hope !! GOD BLESS YOU ALL ❤❤❤ !!
Because it was deliberate arson and non commitment to prevent it - that is why it is conceivable.
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@@hendrikdebruin4012do you have evidence of this? You sound so sure. Are you somehow connected?
@@gottasay4766 I live in Africa so I can see what is logical without being emotionally involved. Nature does NOT start single fires in a circle - there would have been fires behind or in front of the single fires making up the circle. But once a single fire was set by the arsonists for a certain area they were satisfied. You will see this was deliberate.
@ it may be logical but is it true?
This hits hard for a regular visitor (from UK) like myself, so I simply can’t imagine the sickening feeling residents and locals have. I’ll donating to the causes that are setup to get the working class back up and running.
I find it fascinating that while most of the burned structures are completely devastated, that the fronds on the palm trees, and the leaves on many other trees and other bushes while scorched seemed to have largely survived. I presume that this because the spread of the fire was by wind driven embers that needed to land in parts in the building where the wind would not blow them away as well as moisture in the living leaves and fronds making them harder to ignite.
Can't use that logic when you see Sarsaparilla eucalyptus and pine trees which are all highly flammable trees did still have their foliage on them next to homes that are completely gone....
Embers were blown against the eves where there are soffit vents. They are covered with a screen designed to keep rodents and birds out, but not embers. Once the embers were in the attics combining with old insulation, nothing could be done. There are vents designed to prevent ember penetration and they are more expensive than standard vents. They should be required by code in these areas when rebuilding begins.
@@IgotstaknowitThanks for bringing that up; had no idea.
@@OsotastyLordKC yes , that's weird
i watched a video where the tops of the palms were completely on fire, the wind was so fierce that the palms were bending and embers were flying off them like fireworks.
Dude, at 52:29ish you pass a bunch of cars that look like people tried to flee, saw the fire coming down the mountain fast, tried to back up or turn around, hit each other, then people fled on foot in a panic. That is a story worth hearing. Excellent job on your video journal. It is very sobering.
Thank you for your incredible video of the fire's aftermath. I am on Google Earth, going down the same streets you filmed. It is shocking to see what the homes, businesses, schools, and cultural spaces looked like before the fire. A beautiful area. The stark contrast is so shocking, and shows me how much of people's lives were lost to the fire.
@ 0:18. Amazing. The car is burnt out and a tiny bit of grass BUT the wooden gazebo appears in touched and the no parking sign is not even blackened or warped. And the grass is greener further up. Weird way nature works and the winds changed minute to minute. . Even further up area burnt yet traffic lights and signs adjacent not even singed. Nursery burnt but plastic signs on fence not even melted.
Oh true! Call the cops maybe?
What does it imply?
It implies that this blaze was ignited by electricity and not by the flames of a brush fire... Look for my main comment for full explanation of what happened here to these poor people!
@@OsotastyLordKC I will. Thank you.
@@OsotastyLordKC Electricity from where, the electrical power network? Or are you implying a DEW?
I think you will find that the fire is really the cause. A fire storm creates its own weather, usually moves fast and certain things that you would not expect to survive actually do such as trees, rubbish bins and not cars, houses that are filled with fuel that can burn for longer
Prayers for all. Good job on getting this and the other footage. Be careful
What are you praying for?
Hello friends.This is Germany.What a horror.Many are sad and would like to help because we love America and are on your side.
Remind me to invest in whoever makes the rubbish bins. I don’t know how many bins I saw that haven’t melted but everything around them is burnt.
Plastic doesn't react with the oscillatory waves but metallic objects will have a violent reaction... Think putting foil in a microwave oven...
@@OsotastyLordKCwhy did some trees burn from the inside?
@@XXtheJUMPoffXX Microwave energy cooks from the inside out
Its the color 😉
@@XXtheJUMPoffXX does a microwave oven not cook from the inside out?
😢 just so unfathomable..Thanks for the effort of putting this video out there so people can see their homes etc. Its just heart wrenching.
LASER DEW shots are incredibly accurate 😅😢🎉😮
Directed Energy Weapons for sure…
thank you Santa Monica closeup and everyone involved for making it UNMISTAKABLY CLEAR
this shit is crazy i install hardwood flooring for a living and ive worked on so many of these houses in this area. its insane to see it all burnt down now wow
It looks like you are going to have hundreds of jobs in the future rebuild.
The roads are so quiet…. The energy is palpable, even through the screen. 💔
Thank you for documenting this tragedy for everyone.
I hope you create where you focus on one side of the street, then return on the other side. Going back and forth makes it blurry, and I actually feel nauseous. ❤
Thank You again Fabian. The score of the loss becomes more startling when seen as candid video. Just horrible!
This devastation is breaking my heart. Even for the homes and businesses that did survive it will likely be months before utilities are repaired and functional.
May God almighty comfort everyone and bring healing to the hurting people and salvation.
Drága jó Istenem! Ez szívszaggató látvány. Olyan, mint egy háborús övezet. Borzalom, nincsenek szavak. Amerikai testvéreim, lélekben veletek vagyok.
Fantastic. THANK YOU. I'm in a state of shock over this, after viewing. Unreal how the SRF Lake Shrine and Temple were untouched. That's one very good thing.
Anyone else following along with Google Maps? It's terrifying! Good to see the Fire Station #69 survived!
Thank you for filming this and uploading this to TH-cam
Unfortunately like in Hawaii 🔥 I believe the majority of debris is hazardous waste or contaminated.
Thank you for shooting and posting this video. By some miracle you videoed my dear friend’s apartment house so we could confirm what happened to it (destroyed).
And still the smoke of the fires still burning a little bit away.
This is an unbelievable video. Sending live from Australia 🇦🇺🇦🇺🥺
So weird how a fire will jump from one building to another. Some get burned down to the ground and others are left untouched. This happened to my valley in Oregon, wind driven fire. So very sorry to see this happen. Very painful to witness again.
Would that be the Rogue Valley Phoenix and Talent fire
@@steveholley9508 yes
Right from the start...where i park at Temescal to go for a run along the beach path, the Maggie Gilbert swimming pool where my best friend and I train, the roads around PP where we ride our bikes.
My heart is broken 💔
I used to get my hair cut by a lady named Lisa whose shop was a block down the street from that dry cleaners on the corner. All of those small businesses, totally destroyed.
That's why they burned it...cashgrabsbydews
Wow..incredible close up look around! Thank you so much for this❤
Thank you for doing and sharing this - really is heartbreaking to watch🙁🙁
Thank you Fabian. This is very helpful.
Thank you for doing this
I assume the roofs of the burnt out houses were clad with shingles and exterior walls were also constructed of some sort of flammable material. I also assume these materials were used due to their properties being able to flex during an earthquake.
In Oregon, we are on the Cascadia Subduction Zone. Our rural house rooves are made of metal to resist fires.
🎉Big congratulations Fabian on reaching 100,000 subscribers! Your incredible dedication to capturing the beauty and energy of Santa Monica has truly paid off. Your channel is a gem, and it’s no surprise so many people appreciate the amazing content you create. Here’s to this milestone and many more to come. Keep up the fantastic work
Thank you so much, Eric! It's always great to see you on your GRIND!
It's incredible to see all this devastation. My prayers and sympathy go out to all those who have lost everything.
I'm not familiar with Pacific Palisades.
So when you were going down Via De La Paz I pulled it up on Google Street View.
I was utterly shocked when I compared your video to the former houses and businesses on Street View.
Now I realize the immense damage caused by the fire 😲
kind of makes me wonder what this area is going to look like in the next 6 to 24 months, how many businesses that survived the fire are going to survive the aftermath, how many people are going to rebuild of those with the means, how many just won't have that option and how much are the property values going to drop leaving the survivors underwater in their mortgages where they can't leave even if they want to
I know this area very well, what is seen in this video is less than 10% of the destruction just in Pacific Palisades alone .. Altadena one is even worse
What I was thinking- and also Malibu.
Hello Califórnia! I'm very sad about this catastrophe. God bless you. Brazil!😢😢
You are documenting history people will be looking at for 50 years and more.
After the Great fire of London in 1666, all the buildings that were destroyed were rebuilt in Brick or Stone. In fire prone areas like this they should seriously consider not building from wood in the future. I expect that insurance companies may force this on rebuilt properties in this area.
Fires are a natural phenomenon Mother Nature replenishes the earth
Wild how trees and shrubs, gardens still stand. Some houses burn, some just dont. Mysterious ways isnt it.
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Appreciate your video-recording and all True photojournalism
Thank you so much.. you’ve helped confirm the status of a property… So invaluable- we didn’t know if the structure had survived the fire. It did, somehow!! 😮 (on all of the fire maps it’s completely surrounded by the fire).
I'm seeing people in the comments suggesting people shouldn't build wood houses, and I think to myself, "What if the Fire Department's budget hadn't been cut by 17 million USD? What if the Reznicks (Wonderful), and a few other private companies, didn't own LA's water supply?" That's what comes to my mind.
Do,you have all the details behind those decisions?
I saw some "Wonderful" pistachios at the grocery store yesterday & educated a couple on who & what they are 😢
The budget was not cut by anything. Stop listening to Donald Trump.
@@dfbaerwald It is because of millions just like you that choose to turn a blind eye to incompetence why the state continues to devolve further into devastation year after year.
NO WATER......
I lived in South America in a similar dry place. It doesn't rain for 6 months, and the hills (los cerros) burn every year. Nevertheless even the houses at the very edge of the hills, never burn. Reason: they are build with very little to zero wood. Only bricks and concrete, and metal for the windows. Floors are usually either in tiled cement or granite. I am not an expert, but it would be worth to consider rebuilding with zero wood, going forward.
anyone wonder why the trees are still standing...i guess they are stronger than the paper mache mansions😅
We pray for all and help as we can. So very heartbreaking.😢😢😢😢
Thank you for documenting this.
As I was into this video, I decided to take note for hydrants along your route! Where are they? I saw 1 at an intersection. So many buildings, so few hydrants! Do they hide them due to aesthetics? After all, it is California! Sad to see people suffer such complete loss because they put their trust in the hands of incompetents!!
I had a house fire over 30 years ago. Living in a very rural area, the closest fire station was 20 mi. away. When they did arrive my neighbor offered up his pond for the firemen to use. It's what saved my house from a complete ruin!