Thanks for listening to the Town Hall Review with Hugh Hewitt podcast, bringing to you the best voices on the stories and issues that matter. Here's another piece I'll trust you enjoy. When you focus your government on diversity equity inclusion, LGBTQ pet projects, and you are captured by environmentalists, we have been warning for years that you are worried about abstractions, but you can't do the basic stuff.

You can't do the basic necessities of government.

Like have a fire hydrant that works during a fire.

Like being able to clean up the brush to make sure that fires do not consume your entire city. What is happening right now

in California is apocalyptic. I now know of six people personally, not like one-off, six people

personally, of homes I have visited that are now gone, that are just gone, gone. One of our team members, who many of

you know, Stacey, her house is just gone. Got her family out, praise God, I think they had to leave

a pet behind, just terrible. Gone. Another one of our great donors who we actually have the interior

of one of our buildings named after, her entire house is gone.

Gone.

Another one of our friends in the Palisades, whole house is gone.

This is some of the worst fires we've ever seen.

And joining us now is Peachy Keenan, native Los Angeles resident, author of domestic extremist,

and also is in the midst of where a lot of these fires are happening. Pichi, welcome to the program.

What is the latest on the ground? Hey, Charlie, how are you? This is so crazy because I grew up in

the Palisades Village and the Palisades Riviera, and now I live in the

Pasadena and Altadena area. So I'm being hit. Everyone I know right now is basically under

evacuation. Two of my husband's cousins in the Palisades Village, their houses, their homes are burned to

the ground, their children's schools burned to the ground. Pally High. Pally High School is gone.

Flatstones. All these iconic restaurants in the Palisades. I grew up going to. Gone.

The Real Inn. My mother, you know, I grew up in the Palisades. My mother lived in Malibu.

Those neighborhoods are now destroyed. And here I am now, really, on the border of Pasadena and Altadena.

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