Hello, everybody and welcome back to Red Menace and Rev Left.

We are here today to talk about the Los Angeles wildfires.

Obviously, Allison is in Los Angeles, lives there.

You've been, you've born and raised in L.A., right?

Yep.

Yeah.

So you've been there your whole life.

You know the city very well.

And, you know, I, like most people listening, will just be watching these events from afar,

gathering as much information as we can. But certainly you have that on the ground perspective

that is going to be predominant throughout this conversation. I guess the place to start is any

opening thoughts you might have, but also I like to talk about the current situation, because we're

recording this at roughly 11 a.m. on Saturday, and it's an ongoing event. So can you

kind of talk about any opening thoughts you might have and then where the current situation is

before we get into the details? Yeah. So some opening thoughts, you know, some reasons that I think

maybe this is worth talking about. You know, it's really interesting. This has been one of the

craziest weeks in this city that I've ever seen. Like you said, Brett, I was born and raised here

other than a brief college stint up in the Northwest. I've lived here my whole life. You know,

growing up in Los Angeles,

you are used to fires, right? This is like a very regular thing that we have. And there's probably

a certain level of like urban and city privilege to this. But when you live in the city itself,

the way you often see those fires is like those are off happening in the mountains, right? Might be

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