AS WE ROLL INTO THE,
THE TOWN PROPER OF,
OF THE PACIFIC PALISADES,
AGAIN,
WE'RE NOT THERE YET,
BUT IT IS HARD TO TAKE IN.
PEOPLE ARE,
ARE ON BIKES,
UH,
BUT SO MANY OTHERS HAVE EVACUATED
RIGHT HERE BIEN BENIDA,
YOU'VE GOT SOME,
SOME BUSINESSES THAT HAVE BURNED,
YOU'VE GOT
MULTI-LEVEL HOMES
THAT ARE NOW REDUCED TO ASH
AND
RIGHT HERE YOU'VE GOT HOMES THAT ARE BURNING,
HOMES THAT ARE BURNING.
TAKE A LOOK OVER HERE.
THIS IS AN APARTMENT COMPLEX.
THAT HAS GONE UP.
THERE'S A MULTI-LEVEL APARTMENT COMPLEX HERE AND
A STRING OF OTHER MULTI-LEVEL APARTMENT COMPLEXES
THAT HAVE NOT BURNED.
WOW.
THAT IS THE PACIFIC PALISADES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH,
OR,
OR WHAT IS LEFT OF IT.
THOSE ARE,
ARE THE REMNANTS OF A BEAUTIFUL CHURCH THAT USED TO BE UP ON THE HILL THERE,
AND,
AND YOU SEE THOSE
CONCRETE PILLARS
AND THOSE,
THOSE BEAMS SKYWARD,
BUT THAT'S,
THAT'S ABOUT ALL YOU SEE.
THIS IS A GELSON'S UP HERE.
IF YOU LIVE IN THE PALISADES,
YOU KNOW THIS GELSON'S.
IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN,
UM,
THAT SIDE OF GELSTON'S IS UNDAMAGED,
BUT IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S A TOTAL LOSS.
THAT IS JUST A SHELL OF A BUILDING.
UH,
THE FIRE HAS RIPPED THROUGH THERE,
AND THIS IS
THE PALISADES.
LOOK AT THIS.
FROM HERE ON OUT,
FOR PROBABLY 1 MILE.
IT IS
JUST
NONSTOP
DESTRUCTION.
ALL OF THESE BUSINESSES,
ALL OF THESE HOMES,
THAT'S A,
A HOME THAT SO MANY PEOPLE
UM PROBABLY RECOGNIZE AS THEY DRIVE THROUGH
UH SUNSET.
IT'S UP THERE,
UH,
OVERLOOKING SUNSET AND YOU CAN SEE IT'S,
IT,
IT IS ALSO A,
A
SHELL OF,
OF WHAT IT WAS.