WEBVTT FILE 1 00:00:02.000 --> 00:00:07.000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:13.000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:08.667 --> 00:00:11.250 The 2000 election was a street brawl 4 00:00:11.333 --> 00:00:13.583 for the presidency of the United States. 5 00:00:14.291 --> 00:00:17.917 What happened in Miami changed this country, forever. 6 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:20.417 While Democrats wanted to do the right thing, 7 00:00:21.792 --> 00:00:23.875 Republicans wanted to win. 8 00:00:24.166 --> 00:00:27.417 The election was lost in many different places. 9 00:00:27.500 --> 00:00:29.458 But it was stolen in Miami. 10 00:00:54.291 --> 00:00:58.041 ...Branch One or Battalion 44. 11 00:00:58.125 --> 00:01:00.333 Get ahold of OES there at the command post 12 00:01:00.417 --> 00:01:02.041 and let's push it all the way out 13 00:01:02.125 --> 00:01:03.917 to the edge of the city of Ventura. 14 00:01:06.875 --> 00:01:10.250 Take a look at this. It has exploded into 500 acres. 15 00:01:10.333 --> 00:01:13.125 These high winds, not so good with the helicopter. 16 00:01:13.208 --> 00:01:14.542 We're working our way over there, 17 00:01:14.625 --> 00:01:15.709 but we can tell you 18 00:01:15.792 --> 00:01:18.500 that this is burning very close to Santa Paula. 19 00:01:18.583 --> 00:01:21.250 It's right off the 126 and the 150. 20 00:01:21.333 --> 00:01:24.959 The 150 is actually the road that takes you to Ojai. 21 00:01:26.875 --> 00:01:29.166 Just wanna make sure you're aware of the fire. 22 00:01:29.250 --> 00:01:31.583 It's moving at a rapid rate of spread. 23 00:01:37.125 --> 00:01:40.583 There's Thomas Aquinas University that's in that area. 24 00:01:40.667 --> 00:01:42.792 That's where it's getting the name. 25 00:01:42.875 --> 00:01:45.625 Now, there are plenty of homes in this area as well. 26 00:01:45.709 --> 00:01:48.375 If they are not evacuating, they will be told to. 27 00:01:48.458 --> 00:01:52.250 Obviously, life foremost, property second. 28 00:01:52.333 --> 00:01:54.750 -I'm in a bad spot, ooh. - As we understood it 29 00:01:54.834 --> 00:01:56.375 listening to some scanner traffic, 30 00:01:56.458 --> 00:01:58.667 they could not get enough resources 31 00:01:58.750 --> 00:02:01.291 to this fire fast enough. 32 00:02:02.291 --> 00:02:03.917 There's helicopters in the air, 33 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:05.583 there's ground crews on the ground, 34 00:02:05.667 --> 00:02:07.750 but the high winds this evening, 35 00:02:07.834 --> 00:02:09.750 along with the dry temperatures, 36 00:02:09.834 --> 00:02:13.458 has made this into a huge fire, and these flames continue 37 00:02:13.542 --> 00:02:15.625 just to gobble up acreage out here 38 00:02:15.709 --> 00:02:18.625 and keep moving out to the west. 39 00:02:51.041 --> 00:02:52.583 What are you making? 40 00:02:52.667 --> 00:02:56.208 NOÉMIE DUMONT MILANO: I'm making a cheese-slash-potato French dish... 41 00:02:56.291 --> 00:02:59.417 that I'm gonna make my husband for the first time tonight, 42 00:03:00.041 --> 00:03:02.625 on the 3rd of December. 43 00:03:06.917 --> 00:03:08.291 Go. 44 00:03:08.375 --> 00:03:10.041 We met in San Francisco. 45 00:03:10.917 --> 00:03:13.917 We fell in love and got married. 46 00:03:17.291 --> 00:03:19.625 When I was around five months pregnant, 47 00:03:19.709 --> 00:03:21.834 we decided to explore California 48 00:03:21.917 --> 00:03:23.792 in the hope to find the right place 49 00:03:23.875 --> 00:03:25.250 to raise our little girl. 50 00:03:26.417 --> 00:03:28.875 As we learned more and more about California, 51 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:32.458 people kept telling us about this special place called Ojai. 52 00:03:34.166 --> 00:03:36.792 There is a place 53 00:03:36.875 --> 00:03:40.083 that everybody finds in this valley 54 00:03:40.166 --> 00:03:41.959 that is home to them. 55 00:03:44.709 --> 00:03:46.792 I grew up here in the Ojai Valley. 56 00:03:46.875 --> 00:03:50.333 "Ojai" is a Chumash word, and it's a village 57 00:03:50.417 --> 00:03:52.375 that's up here in this upper valley. 58 00:03:52.458 --> 00:03:55.500 And it means "moon" or "lunar phase." 59 00:03:58.291 --> 00:04:00.875 So when you're up here and the moon comes up, 60 00:04:00.959 --> 00:04:02.917 it's as if you could touch it. 61 00:04:05.375 --> 00:04:08.000 NOÉMIE: We just fell in love with the weather, 62 00:04:08.083 --> 00:04:11.709 the flower, the smells, and the animals. 63 00:04:17.333 --> 00:04:19.417 Maé was born two months prematurely 64 00:04:19.500 --> 00:04:23.583 and, uh, when we move to Ojai, she was not even two months old. 65 00:04:23.667 --> 00:04:26.291 The size of a tiny little human being. 66 00:04:26.375 --> 00:04:28.166 So as a new mom, 67 00:04:28.250 --> 00:04:32.625 this move across California was pretty rough on me. 68 00:04:32.709 --> 00:04:35.375 We moved here about a month before the fire. 69 00:04:37.667 --> 00:04:39.250 A house directly on the edge 70 00:04:39.333 --> 00:04:41.500 of the Los Padres National Forest. 71 00:05:03.250 --> 00:05:06.375 High wind advisories have all been upgraded to all-out warnings 72 00:05:06.458 --> 00:05:10.625 as the dangerous Santa Ana winds are blowing big time. 73 00:05:10.709 --> 00:05:12.625 NOÉMIE: Uh, I remember telling myself, 74 00:05:12.709 --> 00:05:15.375 "What's going on with this wind?" 75 00:05:15.458 --> 00:05:18.458 I went outside, I was like, 76 00:05:18.542 --> 00:05:19.959 "This is not normal." 77 00:05:20.041 --> 00:05:21.834 I just had a feeling. 78 00:05:21.917 --> 00:05:25.125 I knew that something bad was gonna happen. 79 00:05:28.250 --> 00:05:30.875 -911 OPERATOR: Fire paramedics. 80 00:05:30.959 --> 00:05:33.125 We were just sitting out on the front porch 81 00:05:33.208 --> 00:05:36.750 and I noticed, uh, an orange glow and smoke. 82 00:05:36.834 --> 00:05:39.083 It's really blowing up now. 83 00:05:42.250 --> 00:05:44.542 We have a fire. We are in a house here 84 00:05:44.625 --> 00:05:48.125 at Anlauf Canyon Road above Steckel Park. 85 00:05:48.208 --> 00:05:50.250 911 OPERATOR: Is your structure threatened? 86 00:05:50.333 --> 00:05:52.333 Yes, it is. 87 00:05:52.417 --> 00:05:54.875 The first engine that arrived 88 00:05:54.959 --> 00:05:56.333 was from Upper Ojai. 89 00:05:56.417 --> 00:05:57.834 The fire captain got in 90 00:05:57.917 --> 00:06:00.125 and he said, "Look, it's in Anlauf Canyon, 91 00:06:00.208 --> 00:06:02.542 but we can't access it yet." 92 00:06:04.083 --> 00:06:06.417 It was a total envelopment 93 00:06:06.500 --> 00:06:08.458 of Anlauf Canyon in flames, 94 00:06:08.542 --> 00:06:10.083 50 acres of hell. 95 00:06:10.166 --> 00:06:12.125 Basically, we had about 30 engines ordered 96 00:06:12.208 --> 00:06:13.417 in the first 10 minutes. 97 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:19.625 Has anyone reported a fire? 98 00:06:19.709 --> 00:06:21.500 911 OPERATOR: Yes, ma'am. It was Saint Thomas Aquinas College, 99 00:06:21.583 --> 00:06:22.709 that's-- that's where it started. 100 00:06:22.792 --> 00:06:24.208 We're almost next to them. 101 00:06:24.291 --> 00:06:26.000 -What should we do? -911 OPERATOR: Yes, ma'am. 102 00:06:26.083 --> 00:06:27.792 You do what you feel is best. 103 00:06:27.875 --> 00:06:30.208 For the Highway 150 corridors, 104 00:06:30.291 --> 00:06:32.625 we move into Santa Paula for immediate evacuation 105 00:06:32.709 --> 00:06:35.667 of approximately 500 residences. 106 00:06:35.750 --> 00:06:37.834 Sheriff's office! 107 00:06:37.917 --> 00:06:40.125 -Fire! -911 OPERATOR: Fire paramedics. 108 00:06:40.208 --> 00:06:42.667 We're on Wheeler Canyon Road, 109 00:06:42.750 --> 00:06:44.625 and there's no fire engines here 110 00:06:44.709 --> 00:06:46.500 for structure protection or anything, 111 00:06:46.583 --> 00:06:50.125 and the fire is coming down the mountain right now. 112 00:06:50.208 --> 00:06:52.750 This area has to be evacuated right now. 113 00:06:52.834 --> 00:06:54.542 I'm not kidding around! 114 00:06:54.625 --> 00:06:56.458 Winds on the ridgetop probably... 115 00:06:56.542 --> 00:06:58.709 -...it's 40 to 50 miles an hour. 116 00:06:58.792 --> 00:07:00.542 Active long-range spotting. 117 00:07:02.750 --> 00:07:04.750 Where are the fire department? 118 00:07:04.834 --> 00:07:06.000 911 OPERATOR: They're all there, ma'am. 119 00:07:06.083 --> 00:07:07.583 -They're all there. - No, they're not! 120 00:07:07.667 --> 00:07:11.041 We're surrounded by fire and we can't get out. 121 00:07:11.125 --> 00:07:13.834 -We have no help! 122 00:07:13.917 --> 00:07:15.709 My mom's stuck in the fire down there, 123 00:07:15.792 --> 00:07:18.583 and she can't get out. She's with my brother. 124 00:07:18.667 --> 00:07:20.417 The tree right above my house. 125 00:07:20.500 --> 00:07:22.917 And there's embers. Oh my God, it's starting to go. 126 00:07:23.000 --> 00:07:25.959 I'm at home alone, and I can see the flames 127 00:07:26.041 --> 00:07:27.834 -coming over the next canyon. -911 OPERATOR: Yes. 128 00:07:27.917 --> 00:07:31.291 And I don't know what to do. I can hear the crackling. 129 00:07:32.500 --> 00:07:34.792 There was just fire absolutely everywhere. 130 00:07:34.875 --> 00:07:36.583 It was getting so bad, I couldn't breathe, 131 00:07:36.667 --> 00:07:39.125 I couldn't see much more than an arm's length, 132 00:07:39.208 --> 00:07:40.625 and as we were driving out, uh, 133 00:07:40.709 --> 00:07:43.333 the fire was pinching off and we barely made it out. 134 00:07:43.417 --> 00:07:44.625 Go! Let's go! 135 00:07:44.709 --> 00:07:48.041 And it hopscotched from canyon to canyon to canyon 136 00:07:48.125 --> 00:07:51.458 and moved, in a matter of six hours, 137 00:07:51.542 --> 00:07:53.792 what it would probably take six days 138 00:07:53.875 --> 00:07:56.250 to accomplish on a normal day without the wind. 139 00:07:56.333 --> 00:07:58.542 Residents north of Foothill, 140 00:07:58.625 --> 00:08:00.125 -evacuate your home. 141 00:08:00.208 --> 00:08:03.291 While all this was taking place, a new fire started. 142 00:08:03.375 --> 00:08:05.291 A transformer just blew up, 143 00:08:05.375 --> 00:08:06.959 and, uh, it's going pretty good. 144 00:08:07.041 --> 00:08:08.291 Very end of Koenigstein, 145 00:08:08.375 --> 00:08:10.792 there's, uh-- A transformer just blew, and-- 146 00:08:10.875 --> 00:08:13.417 and there's a major fire started up here. 147 00:08:13.500 --> 00:08:17.000 That new fire started in Upper Ojai. 148 00:08:17.083 --> 00:08:21.000 We were being hit on multiple fronts. 149 00:08:21.083 --> 00:08:24.792 As priorities came through for the Koenigstein Road area, 150 00:08:24.875 --> 00:08:27.208 the fire apparatus was quickly cut off 151 00:08:27.291 --> 00:08:29.583 from traveling the Highway 150 corridor. 152 00:08:30.625 --> 00:08:31.750 We had burning power poles, 153 00:08:31.834 --> 00:08:34.667 we had live electrical lines down across the highway. 154 00:08:34.750 --> 00:08:36.959 And that main thoroughfare that got companies 155 00:08:37.041 --> 00:08:39.750 up to Upper Ojai quick was immediately cut off. 156 00:08:45.750 --> 00:08:48.750 NOÉMIE: It was exactly 8:00 p.m. 157 00:08:48.834 --> 00:08:51.500 and I was very, very excited 158 00:08:51.583 --> 00:08:53.583 because for the first time, I was able 159 00:08:53.667 --> 00:08:56.250 to just put her in bed at the right moment. 160 00:08:57.750 --> 00:09:00.333 My excitement faded pretty fast 161 00:09:00.417 --> 00:09:02.333 because right after that, 162 00:09:02.417 --> 00:09:06.166 I started to hear sounds of helicopters. 163 00:09:09.917 --> 00:09:11.917 We put all of the aircraft 164 00:09:12.792 --> 00:09:14.667 up in the Koenigstein Road area, 165 00:09:14.750 --> 00:09:18.792 but the water that you drop is just being taken by the wind. 166 00:09:21.083 --> 00:09:23.166 The aircraft called Operations on the radio and say, 167 00:09:23.250 --> 00:09:25.250 "It's unsafe for us to be up in the air. 168 00:09:25.333 --> 00:09:26.500 We're shutting down." 169 00:09:28.125 --> 00:09:29.875 As it was rapidly escalating, 170 00:09:29.959 --> 00:09:31.542 the potential for loss of life 171 00:09:31.625 --> 00:09:34.250 was greater than anything that I had seen before. 172 00:09:35.125 --> 00:09:37.417 NOÉMIE: When I went outside the house, 173 00:09:37.500 --> 00:09:42.583 I saw this gigantic glow up in the mountain. 174 00:09:42.667 --> 00:09:47.000 And I decided to check on the Ojai Twitter, 175 00:09:47.083 --> 00:09:49.667 and I just read, "There is a fire... 176 00:09:50.333 --> 00:09:51.834 two miles from your house 177 00:09:51.917 --> 00:09:56.000 with 70-miles-per-hour gusts." 178 00:09:56.083 --> 00:10:00.667 I remember telling my husband, "We gotta go now." 179 00:10:02.041 --> 00:10:06.083 I woke up the baby, put her in her car seat, 180 00:10:06.166 --> 00:10:08.417 -put her in the car. 181 00:10:08.500 --> 00:10:12.250 NOÉMIE: I run back inside the house and... 182 00:10:13.834 --> 00:10:17.917 ...the baby starts screaming, and I turn 183 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:22.917 and I could see this insane, scary glow... 184 00:10:23.000 --> 00:10:25.083 that was coming right at us. 185 00:10:29.625 --> 00:10:31.917 We drove down to the nearest hotel 186 00:10:32.000 --> 00:10:35.208 and spent the night watching the news. 187 00:10:35.291 --> 00:10:37.291 The Thomas Fire in Ventura County 188 00:10:37.375 --> 00:10:39.375 forced new evacuations overnight. 189 00:10:39.458 --> 00:10:41.500 It is the largest of the four fires, 190 00:10:41.583 --> 00:10:43.667 and it's only five percent contained. 191 00:10:43.750 --> 00:10:45.959 Now, winds are actually carrying the fire 192 00:10:46.041 --> 00:10:47.125 toward Ojai. 193 00:10:47.208 --> 00:10:49.291 We saw a wall of flames that had to have been 194 00:10:49.375 --> 00:10:51.250 300 feet or higher. 195 00:10:51.333 --> 00:10:53.875 We've been hearing the sparks and loud booms 196 00:10:53.959 --> 00:10:55.792 from transformers that have caught fire 197 00:10:55.875 --> 00:10:57.375 and they blasted off. 198 00:11:37.291 --> 00:11:39.792 Uh, have 'em head toward the city of Ventura 199 00:11:39.875 --> 00:11:41.875 on Highway 126. It's at the Aquatic Center 200 00:11:41.959 --> 00:11:44.291 is what we're being told for the nighttime spot. 201 00:11:54.458 --> 00:11:56.625 I hear the screaming. 202 00:11:56.709 --> 00:11:58.667 "You need to evacuate! You need to evacuate! 203 00:11:58.750 --> 00:11:59.917 Search and rescue." 204 00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:01.834 He says, "Sweetheart, 205 00:12:01.917 --> 00:12:03.709 the fire is right there in Bill's yard. 206 00:12:03.792 --> 00:12:05.125 You have to get out of here." 207 00:12:05.208 --> 00:12:07.959 I see the fire in that canyon, 208 00:12:08.041 --> 00:12:10.166 and I don't wanna leave 209 00:12:10.250 --> 00:12:13.208 because I spended a lot of time to build my house. 210 00:12:13.291 --> 00:12:16.417 And then all of a sudden, the wall of flame came over. 211 00:12:16.500 --> 00:12:17.917 Then I looked to the left, 212 00:12:18.000 --> 00:12:19.583 and the flames are coming up the valley. 213 00:12:19.667 --> 00:12:21.125 Then I looked behind me, 214 00:12:21.208 --> 00:12:22.834 and the fire was coming behind me, 215 00:12:22.917 --> 00:12:24.375 so virtually surrounded. 216 00:12:24.458 --> 00:12:27.291 When I got to the perimeter of my property, 217 00:12:27.375 --> 00:12:29.875 I could see that my neighbor's house... 218 00:12:29.959 --> 00:12:31.583 was completely on fire. 219 00:12:31.667 --> 00:12:34.125 I've seen a lot of fires in the Australian Outback 220 00:12:34.208 --> 00:12:37.417 and in surrounding suburbs and around the cities, 221 00:12:37.500 --> 00:12:40.667 but I'd never seen it move this fast. 222 00:12:49.000 --> 00:12:51.875 We're alive. And, uh... 223 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:02.166 You go on. 224 00:13:07.500 --> 00:13:09.583 Now we have five fire fronts. 225 00:13:09.667 --> 00:13:11.417 We're still dealing with Santa Paula, 226 00:13:11.500 --> 00:13:13.417 Fillmore, Upper Ojai, 227 00:13:13.500 --> 00:13:15.625 and now the topography drives this dry weather 228 00:13:15.709 --> 00:13:17.166 and the wind is even stronger, 229 00:13:17.250 --> 00:13:19.333 and now it starts moving around Ojai, 230 00:13:19.417 --> 00:13:23.917 and you're getting an idea now how this is a monster. 231 00:13:27.709 --> 00:13:30.500 NOÉMIE: We were in the hotel room in shock. 232 00:13:30.583 --> 00:13:31.792 And in the morning, 233 00:13:31.875 --> 00:13:33.417 when my husband went to get coffee, 234 00:13:33.500 --> 00:13:35.625 one of our neighbor in the lobby said 235 00:13:35.709 --> 00:13:38.375 that he personally witnessed our house 236 00:13:38.458 --> 00:13:40.208 being attacked by flames. 237 00:13:41.959 --> 00:13:44.792 As this news try to sink in, 238 00:13:44.875 --> 00:13:48.750 someone knocked crazy and just yelled, 239 00:13:48.834 --> 00:13:51.709 "Get out, get out, evacuation again." 240 00:13:54.792 --> 00:13:57.375 I mean, everything is on fire. 241 00:13:58.083 --> 00:14:00.750 I was extremely scared... 242 00:14:00.834 --> 00:14:03.667 because we were new to the area. 243 00:14:03.750 --> 00:14:07.667 I just didn't know what was the best escape plan. 244 00:14:07.750 --> 00:14:11.166 Oh, my God, are we driving right at it? 245 00:14:11.250 --> 00:14:14.333 It's okay, this is turning away from it. 246 00:14:14.417 --> 00:14:15.834 NOÉMIE: No, I don't think so. 247 00:14:15.917 --> 00:14:18.041 These people are just looking. 248 00:14:19.333 --> 00:14:21.583 NOÉMIE: Oh, my God. 249 00:14:31.542 --> 00:14:33.625 We escaped north through the mountains 250 00:14:33.709 --> 00:14:34.834 towards Santa Barbara. 251 00:14:34.917 --> 00:14:37.542 The fire got to our house so fast the night before 252 00:14:37.625 --> 00:14:39.709 that we didn't have time to pack anything. 253 00:14:39.792 --> 00:14:41.250 We just ran out, 254 00:14:41.333 --> 00:14:44.291 and, uh, we didn't know what was gonna happen next. 255 00:14:45.792 --> 00:14:47.208 Going into the weekend, 256 00:14:47.291 --> 00:14:50.500 red flag warnings are saturating much of the state. 257 00:14:50.583 --> 00:14:52.125 The Thomas Fire is larger 258 00:14:52.208 --> 00:14:55.125 than New York City and Boston combined. 259 00:14:56.375 --> 00:14:57.542 As we're listening 260 00:14:57.625 --> 00:14:59.875 to how it's just raging towards us 261 00:14:59.959 --> 00:15:02.208 down on the west end of the Ojai Valley, 262 00:15:02.291 --> 00:15:04.000 we started thinking about the things 263 00:15:04.083 --> 00:15:06.500 that we needed to gather. 264 00:15:07.458 --> 00:15:08.875 We had seven cats, 265 00:15:08.959 --> 00:15:12.333 three dogs, two ratties, and two birds 266 00:15:12.417 --> 00:15:14.000 to travel with five of us. 267 00:15:14.083 --> 00:15:17.458 We took two vehicles, and we drove to Santa Barbara. 268 00:15:20.041 --> 00:15:21.625 As of Saturday afternoon, 269 00:15:21.709 --> 00:15:24.750 8,400 firefighters working on this fire. 270 00:15:24.834 --> 00:15:27.709 Already we've seen 1,000 structures destroyed, 271 00:15:27.792 --> 00:15:30.333 18,000 structures threatened. 272 00:15:31.667 --> 00:15:35.041 NOÉMIE: 273 00:15:52.792 --> 00:15:54.917 NOÉMIE: On our wedding anniversary, 274 00:15:55.000 --> 00:15:56.792 we decided to drive back. 275 00:15:56.875 --> 00:15:59.417 It was... apocalyptic. 276 00:16:01.458 --> 00:16:04.583 When we finally turn into our street, 277 00:16:04.667 --> 00:16:07.000 um, I was shocked. 278 00:16:08.375 --> 00:16:12.667 All those houses, so many, they were just gone. 279 00:16:17.125 --> 00:16:19.792 When we finally arrived to our house, 280 00:16:19.875 --> 00:16:21.458 I couldn't believe it. 281 00:16:21.542 --> 00:16:24.834 After thinking that your house is gone, 282 00:16:24.917 --> 00:16:27.792 this feeling of knowing that it's still there 283 00:16:27.875 --> 00:16:31.500 is just amazing, but at the same time, 284 00:16:31.583 --> 00:16:35.917 I just felt so sorry for all my neighbors. 285 00:16:45.041 --> 00:16:47.333 We got really, really lucky. 286 00:16:47.417 --> 00:16:49.959 Because our house is the last house 287 00:16:50.041 --> 00:16:51.583 just before the national forest, 288 00:16:51.667 --> 00:16:53.750 the last fire hydrant on the street 289 00:16:53.834 --> 00:16:57.041 is actually right here, which made it an ideal place 290 00:16:57.125 --> 00:16:59.291 for the firefighters to battle the blaze. 291 00:16:59.375 --> 00:17:03.291 They were literally firing their hoses over the house 292 00:17:03.375 --> 00:17:06.458 as the fire blew over here. 293 00:17:08.125 --> 00:17:11.709 NOÉMIE: Some of my neighbors just were not that lucky. 294 00:17:12.959 --> 00:17:15.583 The people of the Upper Ojai suffered greatly, 295 00:17:15.667 --> 00:17:18.583 due, in part, to the second start 296 00:17:18.667 --> 00:17:20.458 up in the Koenigstein area. 297 00:17:20.542 --> 00:17:21.750 It started right here. 298 00:17:21.834 --> 00:17:23.583 I remember coming up here, and we were already evacuate-- 299 00:17:23.667 --> 00:17:26.083 trying to evacuate, uh, some of these residents up here, 300 00:17:26.166 --> 00:17:27.917 and we looked at it, we go, "Wow. 301 00:17:28.000 --> 00:17:29.041 We know where it's going." 302 00:17:29.125 --> 00:17:30.583 It's going right toward your house, basically, 303 00:17:30.667 --> 00:17:31.959 and everyone else's house down there. 304 00:17:32.041 --> 00:17:33.500 So the whole team is en route. 305 00:17:33.583 --> 00:17:35.208 Mark Scantlin, we went to school together. 306 00:17:35.291 --> 00:17:36.792 Oh, gosh, Mark, yes. How are you? 307 00:17:36.875 --> 00:17:38.125 I'm doing all right, John. 308 00:17:38.208 --> 00:17:39.709 -Were you up here that night? -Yeah. 309 00:17:39.792 --> 00:17:42.041 -How'd it go for you? -Oh, I lost everything. 310 00:17:42.125 --> 00:17:43.375 -Oh, man. 311 00:17:43.458 --> 00:17:44.875 -Everything. House-- -Yeah. 312 00:17:44.959 --> 00:17:47.917 House, garage, barns, cars. 313 00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:50.542 -Yeah. -Looked like a tornado after it went by. 314 00:17:50.625 --> 00:17:52.166 I hope the future's bright. 315 00:17:52.250 --> 00:17:53.375 -We're moving. -Are ya? 316 00:17:53.458 --> 00:17:55.250 -Yeah. Yeah. -Out of the area, or what? 317 00:17:55.333 --> 00:17:56.625 Yeah, I'm done. 318 00:18:01.291 --> 00:18:05.417 The Thomas Fire currently is at 242,000 acres. 319 00:18:05.500 --> 00:18:07.000 It's been burning for 10 days. 320 00:18:07.083 --> 00:18:09.750 It ran through to the western edge 321 00:18:09.834 --> 00:18:11.500 of the City of Ventura in five hours. 322 00:18:13.166 --> 00:18:16.583 We evacuated in this area, I think the estimate's around 323 00:18:16.667 --> 00:18:19.250 60,000 people in that five-hour period. 324 00:18:19.333 --> 00:18:21.250 The first fire started in the creek bed. 325 00:18:21.333 --> 00:18:23.417 Within an hour of that, we get information 326 00:18:23.500 --> 00:18:26.125 that we have a second start on Koenigstein Road. 327 00:18:26.208 --> 00:18:28.208 You couldn't start a fire in a worse spot. 328 00:18:28.291 --> 00:18:31.417 We were watching it from up on the other side of the road. 329 00:18:31.500 --> 00:18:32.583 We saw it start, 330 00:18:32.667 --> 00:18:36.000 we saw you guys lined up, and we saw you guys leave, 331 00:18:36.083 --> 00:18:37.458 and then it came our way. 332 00:18:37.542 --> 00:18:39.750 -We couldn't get out fast enough. - Hmm. 333 00:18:39.834 --> 00:18:41.917 Why weren't you fighting that fire when that-- 334 00:18:42.000 --> 00:18:42.959 when it just started, 335 00:18:43.041 --> 00:18:44.417 when it was just local, right there? 336 00:18:44.500 --> 00:18:46.333 -We have-- Hold on. Wait. - Another question. 337 00:18:46.417 --> 00:18:48.959 -Let-- let me finish. Hold on. - You're charging an extra tax to us. 338 00:18:49.041 --> 00:18:51.959 -So, hey, we have a-- -And you're requiring us to have hydrants, 339 00:18:52.041 --> 00:18:53.917 but you won't use them? I don't understand that. 340 00:18:54.000 --> 00:18:56.583 One hose would have reached my house 341 00:18:56.667 --> 00:18:59.125 and put it out and saved five more 342 00:18:59.208 --> 00:19:01.709 from burning down on Cesar. One hose. 343 00:19:01.792 --> 00:19:03.500 Not to downplay any of the losses, 344 00:19:03.583 --> 00:19:06.375 but to not have more life loss is pretty remarkable. 345 00:19:06.458 --> 00:19:08.959 And this is the third time I've been wearing this this year. 346 00:19:09.041 --> 00:19:10.417 How many homes did you save? 347 00:19:10.500 --> 00:19:12.458 More than we lost, I'll tell you that. 348 00:19:12.542 --> 00:19:15.333 The numbers that I'm getting on the property loss 349 00:19:15.417 --> 00:19:19.458 is somewhere around 100, uh, structures in this area. 350 00:19:19.542 --> 00:19:21.333 Per capita, that's the highest loss 351 00:19:21.417 --> 00:19:23.208 we've had on a fire. Um... 352 00:19:24.417 --> 00:19:27.083 That's-- that's a tough discussion to have. 353 00:19:34.917 --> 00:19:38.834 I lost my home from the Thomas Fire. 354 00:19:38.917 --> 00:19:44.500 And, uh, it take me 13 years to build my beautiful house. 355 00:19:44.583 --> 00:19:46.291 And I-- my son told me, 356 00:19:46.375 --> 00:19:49.959 "Daddy, could you please save the house?" 357 00:19:51.750 --> 00:19:54.417 And I said, "Yes. I will save the house." 358 00:19:58.750 --> 00:20:01.041 My daughter who lives in Santa Paula, 359 00:20:01.125 --> 00:20:05.291 she called me and she says, "Mom, our house is gone." 360 00:20:07.917 --> 00:20:09.291 And when I saw it... 361 00:20:11.125 --> 00:20:13.125 it was devastating. 362 00:20:14.875 --> 00:20:16.500 I still can't believe it. 363 00:20:18.834 --> 00:20:21.250 E-- Even though I'm sitting here... 364 00:20:22.125 --> 00:20:23.500 with my back to it. 365 00:20:29.125 --> 00:20:30.333 And my cats... 366 00:20:31.834 --> 00:20:33.083 didn't live. 367 00:20:41.750 --> 00:20:43.208 We just spray-painted some signs 368 00:20:43.291 --> 00:20:45.792 on pieces of plywood that said, "Fire relief." 369 00:20:45.875 --> 00:20:48.000 And the supplies kept coming in. 370 00:20:49.208 --> 00:20:52.333 That's how the relief station was born. 371 00:20:56.917 --> 00:21:00.625 Leona Mote says, "I live right here on this road, 372 00:21:01.500 --> 00:21:04.041 and I've lived there for 54 years. 373 00:21:05.000 --> 00:21:08.166 And my husband just died in October. 374 00:21:08.250 --> 00:21:10.750 And when the fire came, I was panicking, 375 00:21:10.834 --> 00:21:13.375 looking for my cats." 376 00:21:13.458 --> 00:21:16.125 And I say, "Hey, Leona, do you need any help?" 377 00:21:16.667 --> 00:21:17.750 She says, "Yeah. 378 00:21:17.834 --> 00:21:19.291 One of the things that was sitting on my dresser 379 00:21:19.375 --> 00:21:22.041 was my husband's size 13 wedding ring." 380 00:21:26.667 --> 00:21:30.291 First thing we find, size 13 wedding ring. 381 00:21:30.375 --> 00:21:31.709 Swear to God. 382 00:21:32.625 --> 00:21:35.166 The first thing that the sifters found 383 00:21:35.250 --> 00:21:38.375 was this ring and another ring. 384 00:21:38.458 --> 00:21:41.875 I love the way the neighborhood has rallied around. 385 00:21:47.709 --> 00:21:50.583 It's called Star Point Ranch. 386 00:21:50.667 --> 00:21:53.250 We're grateful that, uh, we got this help 387 00:21:53.333 --> 00:21:54.750 to help clean up a bit of the mess. 388 00:21:54.834 --> 00:21:57.125 'Cause as you can see, it's quite devastating 389 00:21:57.208 --> 00:22:00.500 to lose a beautiful 1930s wooden home 390 00:22:00.583 --> 00:22:02.208 and all your belongings. 391 00:22:02.291 --> 00:22:04.417 And we saved bugger all, you know what I mean? 392 00:22:04.500 --> 00:22:06.458 So nothing, and virtually the clothes on our back, 393 00:22:06.542 --> 00:22:07.583 basically. 394 00:22:12.458 --> 00:22:14.208 After the fire, 395 00:22:14.291 --> 00:22:16.709 it looked like we had been through hell. 396 00:22:16.792 --> 00:22:18.917 We couldn't breathe, and we couldn't drink the water, 397 00:22:19.000 --> 00:22:20.834 and we c-- we had to wear masks. 398 00:22:20.917 --> 00:22:22.125 And it was like, 399 00:22:22.208 --> 00:22:24.917 "Are we gonna be able to live here?" 400 00:22:25.000 --> 00:22:26.709 NOÉMIE: The air quality was just so bad 401 00:22:26.792 --> 00:22:30.166 that we just couldn't risk to bring our baby back 402 00:22:30.250 --> 00:22:31.959 before it got better. 403 00:22:33.000 --> 00:22:34.875 The air quality and the conditions 404 00:22:34.959 --> 00:22:37.750 in Ojai Valley were untenable by most people. 405 00:22:37.834 --> 00:22:41.000 There's a lot more going on than the fire itself. 406 00:22:53.250 --> 00:22:55.208 Oh, don't try to walk, buddy. 407 00:22:59.667 --> 00:23:01.041 So, it just happens to be 408 00:23:01.125 --> 00:23:03.458 that this upper valley is a place 409 00:23:03.542 --> 00:23:08.417 where the people considered bear to be their spirit animal. 410 00:23:09.959 --> 00:23:14.750 That poor little bear that-- that survived the dehydration, 411 00:23:14.834 --> 00:23:18.166 it must have suffered the burning of its feet. 412 00:23:18.250 --> 00:23:20.083 Great resilience. 413 00:23:25.291 --> 00:23:28.542 The power and the spirit of these animals, 414 00:23:28.625 --> 00:23:30.041 even the smallest little ones, 415 00:23:30.125 --> 00:23:32.208 hummingbird, butterfly, 416 00:23:32.291 --> 00:23:38.709 they all have abilities that, as human beings, we want. 417 00:23:38.792 --> 00:23:40.792 Oh, it's coming, it's coming. 418 00:23:43.250 --> 00:23:46.291 And so to see it suffer that way, 419 00:23:47.583 --> 00:23:49.917 I could just feel his grief 420 00:23:50.000 --> 00:23:51.625 and total sorrow. 421 00:23:54.333 --> 00:23:56.250 Oh, he's thirsty as hell. 422 00:23:56.333 --> 00:23:57.667 And then to think about 423 00:23:57.750 --> 00:23:59.792 how many other animals perished... 424 00:23:59.875 --> 00:24:01.709 Here, pal. Little bit more. 425 00:24:01.792 --> 00:24:03.333 One second, one second. 426 00:24:29.542 --> 00:24:33.250 Let's do 1.5 of Telazol and 1.5 of water. 427 00:24:33.333 --> 00:24:35.208 You can't overdose a bear on Telazol, 428 00:24:35.291 --> 00:24:36.667 so that's the good thing. 429 00:24:37.625 --> 00:24:39.291 Just don't hit its lung. 430 00:24:39.375 --> 00:24:41.208 No, I got a front right shoulder. 431 00:24:41.291 --> 00:24:42.917 -You guys ready? - Yeah. 432 00:24:52.333 --> 00:24:54.458 -Clean hit. - Good shot. 433 00:24:54.542 --> 00:24:56.458 So, it was just like the last bear. 434 00:24:56.542 --> 00:24:58.083 The animal had to be immobilized 435 00:24:58.166 --> 00:24:59.750 so it could be assessed for further injuries 436 00:24:59.834 --> 00:25:01.041 to see if, you know, 437 00:25:01.125 --> 00:25:03.834 rehabilitation is something that we can do. 438 00:25:03.917 --> 00:25:05.125 What's the weight estimate now? 439 00:25:05.208 --> 00:25:07.166 - Now, about 30. -Yeah. 440 00:25:07.250 --> 00:25:09.333 - It's a he. -It's a he, yeah. 441 00:25:09.417 --> 00:25:11.417 - Okay. -All right. 442 00:25:11.500 --> 00:25:14.333 Can you tell me sort of about the scale of this event 443 00:25:14.417 --> 00:25:16.500 in terms of its effect on the wildlife? 444 00:25:16.583 --> 00:25:17.834 It's gonna be significant, 445 00:25:17.917 --> 00:25:19.458 especially of a fire of this magnitude, 446 00:25:19.542 --> 00:25:22.417 you know, raging through the Los Padres National Forest 447 00:25:22.500 --> 00:25:24.500 as well as up into the urban community. 448 00:25:24.583 --> 00:25:26.083 And anytime you have wildlife, 449 00:25:26.166 --> 00:25:28.208 just like people living at homes where they're affected, 450 00:25:28.291 --> 00:25:30.625 you're gonna have wildlife that's impacted. 451 00:25:33.583 --> 00:25:35.166 It was a really devastating time 452 00:25:35.250 --> 00:25:37.625 for the natural world out here. 453 00:25:37.709 --> 00:25:40.667 But it isn't our first time that we've experienced fire 454 00:25:40.750 --> 00:25:42.458 growing up here in Ojai. 455 00:25:50.875 --> 00:25:53.208 Evacuation is now taking place. 456 00:25:53.291 --> 00:25:55.458 Three quarters of the town has been wiped out, 457 00:25:55.542 --> 00:25:56.792 Blackened waste. 458 00:25:58.125 --> 00:26:00.625 Entire communities to be evacuated. 459 00:26:04.458 --> 00:26:08.125 The president today proclaimed the fires a national disaster. 460 00:26:10.917 --> 00:26:12.875 We can't keep doing what we've been doing. 461 00:26:12.959 --> 00:26:15.875 And what we've been doing is not considering, 462 00:26:15.959 --> 00:26:17.917 "Well, this is a fire corridor. 463 00:26:18.000 --> 00:26:21.208 We know that. We have to rethink things." 464 00:26:21.291 --> 00:26:23.083 You see something on that side over there? 465 00:26:23.166 --> 00:26:24.083 Yeah. 466 00:26:24.166 --> 00:26:25.875 That means people may not be able to build 467 00:26:25.959 --> 00:26:29.208 in places they wanted to build, and if they do build, 468 00:26:29.291 --> 00:26:30.542 they need to recognize 469 00:26:30.625 --> 00:26:33.959 the fire department's not gonna be able to protect them. 470 00:26:34.041 --> 00:26:37.083 And the fire agencies in these firestorms 471 00:26:37.166 --> 00:26:40.125 are basically at wits' end, and all they can do 472 00:26:40.208 --> 00:26:42.834 is try to keep people safe and get them out of the way. 473 00:26:42.917 --> 00:26:45.542 Okay, sir. Keep your arms in for me. 474 00:26:45.625 --> 00:26:50.000 Sadly, through lack of understanding of nature 475 00:26:50.083 --> 00:26:52.750 and understanding this fire ecology, 476 00:26:52.834 --> 00:26:55.583 we have allowed houses to be built 477 00:26:55.667 --> 00:26:59.583 further and further into the urban wildland interface 478 00:26:59.667 --> 00:27:02.083 right on the edge between the chaparral 479 00:27:02.166 --> 00:27:03.917 -and the urban areas. 480 00:27:04.000 --> 00:27:07.291 The areas that are very difficult to defend. 481 00:27:12.166 --> 00:27:14.375 JONATHAN "YONNI" SCHWARTZ: Well, the fire comes and goes, 482 00:27:14.458 --> 00:27:17.250 but for the vegetation to reestablish itself, 483 00:27:17.333 --> 00:27:19.000 it takes a few years. 484 00:27:20.333 --> 00:27:24.709 Now, concern was how this burned landscape 485 00:27:24.792 --> 00:27:28.458 is going to respond to rainstorms. 486 00:27:38.875 --> 00:27:40.417 Equally as scary to the fire 487 00:27:40.500 --> 00:27:44.208 is the risk of a mudslide or some sort of debris flow. 488 00:27:46.709 --> 00:27:48.250 During the 1969 flood, 489 00:27:48.333 --> 00:27:50.667 there was actually a family living right here 490 00:27:50.750 --> 00:27:52.041 that got washed out 491 00:27:52.125 --> 00:27:55.125 by the amount of water that comes off this hillside. 492 00:27:57.709 --> 00:28:00.667 We were able to move back in about a month after the fire, 493 00:28:00.750 --> 00:28:03.458 just in time for the biggest rainstorm in years. 494 00:28:04.542 --> 00:28:06.625 I started digging some trenches out back 495 00:28:06.709 --> 00:28:08.291 to protect our house. 496 00:28:08.375 --> 00:28:11.083 A cold front and a squall line with lightning 497 00:28:11.166 --> 00:28:13.959 is developing and moving into the Los Angeles area. 498 00:28:14.041 --> 00:28:16.834 The National Weather Service has warned that flash flooding, 499 00:28:16.917 --> 00:28:19.333 debris flow, and mudslides are possible 500 00:28:19.417 --> 00:28:21.417 in the communities already devastated 501 00:28:21.500 --> 00:28:23.917 by the Thomas and La Tuna Fires. 502 00:28:29.959 --> 00:28:32.875 Mandatory evacuation orders are in place here. 503 00:28:32.959 --> 00:28:36.375 Thirty thousand people are in these evacuation zones. 504 00:28:36.458 --> 00:28:40.250 Many of these slopes right above Ojai 505 00:28:40.333 --> 00:28:43.959 have very high probabilities 506 00:28:44.041 --> 00:28:46.417 of producing debris flows. 507 00:28:48.875 --> 00:28:52.625 People have these big boulders in their backyards, 508 00:28:52.709 --> 00:28:53.834 really like them. 509 00:28:53.917 --> 00:28:56.667 It was great landscaping, but none of them thought, 510 00:28:56.750 --> 00:28:59.291 "Well, how did these boulders come here?" 511 00:29:00.458 --> 00:29:02.917 For the second time in about a month, 512 00:29:03.000 --> 00:29:05.166 search and rescue was on our street, 513 00:29:05.250 --> 00:29:06.792 evacuating residents. 514 00:29:09.125 --> 00:29:10.542 It happened in the past. 515 00:29:10.625 --> 00:29:12.750 It will happen again in the future. 516 00:29:12.834 --> 00:29:14.875 That's a basic law of geology. 517 00:29:16.000 --> 00:29:18.250 Developing tonight, the search is on 518 00:29:18.333 --> 00:29:22.583 for mudslide survivors in Southern California. 519 00:29:22.667 --> 00:29:26.250 Rescuers are trying to reach 13 people reported missing, 520 00:29:26.333 --> 00:29:28.250 17 have already died. 521 00:29:28.333 --> 00:29:30.542 Authorities say at least 100 homes are destroyed, 522 00:29:30.625 --> 00:29:33.208 -washed away by the wall of mud. - The staging area 523 00:29:33.291 --> 00:29:34.667 for the urban search and rescue efforts 524 00:29:34.750 --> 00:29:36.333 -had been set up... - Live in Montecito 525 00:29:36.417 --> 00:29:40.083 where the streets are absolutely littered with cars and debris. 526 00:29:40.166 --> 00:29:43.834 I heard the rumble of the rocks and I looked over at the river, 527 00:29:43.917 --> 00:29:46.500 and the trees are just coming down. 528 00:29:50.625 --> 00:29:55.625 We were able to crawl out our window to the roof. 529 00:29:55.709 --> 00:29:58.709 House is wiped out. Just took everything out. 530 00:29:58.792 --> 00:30:01.667 And then later, we were worried about our neighbor's house 531 00:30:01.750 --> 00:30:04.625 and we went over to see if, uh, they were okay, 532 00:30:04.709 --> 00:30:07.000 and we heard a little baby crying 533 00:30:07.083 --> 00:30:10.125 and, uh, dug down, found a little baby. 534 00:30:10.208 --> 00:30:12.083 I don't know where it came from. 535 00:30:12.166 --> 00:30:16.333 But, uh, we got it out, got the mud out of its mouth. 536 00:30:18.208 --> 00:30:19.417 I hope that it's okay. 537 00:30:19.500 --> 00:30:20.625 They took it right to the hospital. 538 00:30:20.709 --> 00:30:23.834 But it was just a baby four feet down in the mud, 539 00:30:23.917 --> 00:30:26.458 in nowhere, just under the rocks. 540 00:30:26.542 --> 00:30:27.959 I'm glad we got it. 541 00:30:28.041 --> 00:30:30.333 But who knows what else is out there. 542 00:30:36.750 --> 00:30:39.166 ALEXANDER "TREY" ROBERTSON IV: Okay, folks. We'll go ahead and get started. 543 00:30:39.250 --> 00:30:40.583 Thank you for coming. 544 00:30:40.667 --> 00:30:43.083 Collectively, our group represents 545 00:30:43.166 --> 00:30:46.166 about 455 clients 546 00:30:46.250 --> 00:30:49.250 whose homes were either completely destroyed or damaged 547 00:30:49.333 --> 00:30:52.750 in the fire or the resulting debris flow. 548 00:30:52.834 --> 00:30:55.875 Cal Fire investigators are looking at burn patterns, 549 00:30:55.959 --> 00:30:57.125 how it spread, 550 00:30:57.208 --> 00:30:59.083 and they specifically are looking 551 00:30:59.166 --> 00:31:03.375 at Southern California Edison's power lines and poles. 552 00:31:03.458 --> 00:31:05.166 I was sitting in our family room 553 00:31:05.250 --> 00:31:07.667 that has the beautiful view up to the Topas, 554 00:31:07.750 --> 00:31:09.917 and I said, "Oh, my gosh! 555 00:31:10.000 --> 00:31:13.125 I see two flashes, two fires just started." 556 00:31:13.208 --> 00:31:15.583 And it was the transformers that had exploded 557 00:31:15.667 --> 00:31:16.834 on Koenigstein. 558 00:31:16.917 --> 00:31:19.041 As soon as the transformers exploded, 559 00:31:19.125 --> 00:31:20.458 our power went out. 560 00:31:21.542 --> 00:31:23.250 It was about a 50-foot wall of flame 561 00:31:23.333 --> 00:31:25.291 that actually came up and hit the house. 562 00:31:25.917 --> 00:31:27.458 It looked like a war zone. 563 00:31:28.959 --> 00:31:31.417 It's amazing to me in that, 564 00:31:31.500 --> 00:31:34.375 in this age of technology, 565 00:31:34.458 --> 00:31:39.625 we're still relying upon World War II infrastructure 566 00:31:39.709 --> 00:31:41.834 to transmit electricity. 567 00:31:41.917 --> 00:31:43.750 It's-- it's just crazy. 568 00:31:47.041 --> 00:31:49.625 Overall, all the fires in 2017, 569 00:31:49.709 --> 00:31:53.458 you're talking almost 10,000 structures lost. 570 00:31:53.542 --> 00:31:55.291 If you count the Montecito mudslide, 571 00:31:55.375 --> 00:31:58.667 you're talking 60 plus fatalities. 572 00:32:00.333 --> 00:32:04.834 I was hoping that event would create a wake-up call 573 00:32:04.917 --> 00:32:07.500 and force us to ask the hard questions. 574 00:32:07.583 --> 00:32:10.250 Should the utilities do something to create 575 00:32:10.333 --> 00:32:13.333 a more resilient system? Absolutely. 576 00:32:14.333 --> 00:32:16.000 But we have to look at the big picture, 577 00:32:16.083 --> 00:32:18.750 because what we're really doing is putting Band-Aids everywhere. 578 00:32:18.834 --> 00:32:21.041 We're not looking at the disease. 579 00:32:22.125 --> 00:32:24.000 The last drought we had recently 580 00:32:24.083 --> 00:32:27.166 was the worst drought we've had in a thousand years. 581 00:32:29.083 --> 00:32:30.417 There's probably gonna be towns 582 00:32:30.500 --> 00:32:32.083 in the western side of the Sierras 583 00:32:32.166 --> 00:32:35.000 that are just gonna become drought ghost towns. 584 00:32:36.375 --> 00:32:39.667 I knew my neighbors were not doing great. 585 00:32:39.750 --> 00:32:43.709 I knew my neighbors were uninsured or underinsured, 586 00:32:43.792 --> 00:32:45.959 living in tents. 587 00:32:46.041 --> 00:32:48.583 But there are certain times where I'm like, 588 00:32:48.667 --> 00:32:51.250 I don't wanna be waking up at 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning, 589 00:32:51.333 --> 00:32:53.625 looking out the windows when there's 70-mile-an-hour winds, 590 00:32:53.709 --> 00:32:55.417 thinking my house is gonna burn down. 591 00:32:55.500 --> 00:32:57.458 That's not normal. 592 00:32:57.542 --> 00:32:59.375 It's sad because I always thought 593 00:32:59.458 --> 00:33:01.000 I'm gonna live here forever. 594 00:33:03.250 --> 00:33:06.125 I raised my kids here on this property. 595 00:33:06.208 --> 00:33:09.667 And this is my new home. 596 00:33:09.750 --> 00:33:13.000 I got myself two four-month-old kittens. 597 00:33:13.083 --> 00:33:15.583 And they are filling my house with love. 598 00:33:15.667 --> 00:33:18.709 This is my sanctuary. 599 00:33:23.000 --> 00:33:25.458 NOÉMIE: You hear a lot of people that say 600 00:33:25.542 --> 00:33:27.458 that we shouldn't be living here, 601 00:33:27.542 --> 00:33:29.542 but I'm looking all around the news 602 00:33:29.625 --> 00:33:33.375 and seeing all of those big natural catastrophes 603 00:33:33.458 --> 00:33:35.583 happening everywhere, and I'm just wondering, 604 00:33:35.667 --> 00:33:37.208 "Where am I safe to be living in?" 605 00:33:37.291 --> 00:33:39.750 Tonight, rivers are rising to record levels, 606 00:33:39.834 --> 00:33:43.208 threatening homes and businesses in Arkansas, Oklahoma, 607 00:33:43.291 --> 00:33:44.750 Kansas, and Missouri. 608 00:33:44.834 --> 00:33:47.166 Hurricane Michael closing in on the Florida Panhandle. 609 00:33:47.250 --> 00:33:49.375 It could be the strongest storm ever to hit that area. 610 00:33:49.458 --> 00:33:51.125 The Mendocino Complex Fire 611 00:33:51.208 --> 00:33:53.625 is now the largest wildfire in state history. 612 00:33:53.709 --> 00:33:55.750 Sixty-six million Americans 613 00:33:55.834 --> 00:33:57.333 are bracing for impact. 614 00:33:57.417 --> 00:33:59.709 In the past week, at least 15 people 615 00:33:59.792 --> 00:34:01.500 have been killed by tornadoes and flooding. 616 00:34:01.583 --> 00:34:04.041 There are more severe storms in the forecast 617 00:34:04.125 --> 00:34:05.667 for later on this week. 618 00:34:16.041 --> 00:34:17.750 All burned in here. 619 00:34:17.834 --> 00:34:19.458 This high up. 620 00:34:23.709 --> 00:34:24.875 When we look back 621 00:34:24.959 --> 00:34:27.709 at how the Native people survived here, 622 00:34:27.792 --> 00:34:31.667 their connection and their conversation with nature 623 00:34:31.750 --> 00:34:33.166 was supreme. 624 00:34:34.625 --> 00:34:37.834 We can learn a lot from the natural world. 625 00:34:41.959 --> 00:34:44.208 Plants have tremendous intelligence, 626 00:34:44.291 --> 00:34:47.500 the way they've adapted to this fire climate. 627 00:34:47.583 --> 00:34:50.166 We can see corollaries for our lives. 628 00:34:51.792 --> 00:34:54.583 And I know there's a mystique about Ojai, 629 00:34:54.667 --> 00:34:57.542 uh, being a "spiritual center" and stuff like that. 630 00:34:57.625 --> 00:35:00.375 And, uh, I think that's-- I think it's in the mountains. 631 00:35:00.458 --> 00:35:03.250 I think if you get up to some of these amazing, 632 00:35:03.333 --> 00:35:05.375 beautiful places up there, 633 00:35:05.458 --> 00:35:08.792 you can have a spiritual experience in nature. 634 00:35:11.250 --> 00:35:12.667 Oh, my God. 635 00:35:19.583 --> 00:35:21.000 Made it to the top. 636 00:35:22.041 --> 00:35:23.959 Really, really spectacular. 637 00:35:56.709 --> 00:35:58.458 NOÉMIE: You know, I'm still traumatized. 638 00:35:58.542 --> 00:36:00.709 You don't want nobody to just feel 639 00:36:00.792 --> 00:36:02.333 what we felt that night. 640 00:36:03.750 --> 00:36:06.458 Every time I hear the helicopters, 641 00:36:06.542 --> 00:36:09.208 every time the wind picks up, 642 00:36:09.291 --> 00:36:12.542 I have this scared feeling inside me. 643 00:36:12.625 --> 00:36:14.667 If we wanna continue living here, 644 00:36:14.750 --> 00:36:16.834 that's what we will have to deal 645 00:36:16.917 --> 00:36:19.041 for the rest of our time here. 646 00:36:19.125 --> 00:36:21.583 And I don't know if I'm just ready for that. 647 00:36:22.917 --> 00:36:26.333 Offshore winds begin, really, by tomorrow. 648 00:36:26.417 --> 00:36:29.458 Extreme fire danger for Southern California. 649 00:36:30.667 --> 00:36:32.542 After the Thomas Fire, 650 00:36:32.625 --> 00:36:34.250 after Casitas Fire, 651 00:36:34.333 --> 00:36:38.792 another fire was right here where I live right now. 652 00:36:42.333 --> 00:36:44.417 My daughter see me sometimes, 653 00:36:44.500 --> 00:36:47.792 that I went out of the house and look in the stars, 654 00:36:47.875 --> 00:36:49.041 and I say, 655 00:36:51.166 --> 00:36:52.792 "What's going on?" You know? 656 00:36:54.458 --> 00:36:58.291 A 150-acre brush fire broke out here 657 00:36:58.375 --> 00:37:01.083 at approximately 6:15 this afternoon. 658 00:37:01.166 --> 00:37:03.583 My phone starts going crazy and I look up, 659 00:37:03.667 --> 00:37:04.875 and what do you know? 660 00:37:04.959 --> 00:37:08.500 There's another fire. And that's one ridge away. 661 00:37:08.583 --> 00:37:10.959 Monsters come in different forms. 662 00:37:13.250 --> 00:37:17.125 Halloween Night, 2019, 663 00:37:17.208 --> 00:37:19.709 there's a fire in Santa Paula. 664 00:37:19.792 --> 00:37:23.000 We can see it here from Sulphur Mountain Ridge. 665 00:37:23.083 --> 00:37:25.750 And it begins again. 666 00:38:53.333 --> 00:38:54.709 Okay. That's it.