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The Great L.A. Fire

By David Samuel McCalmont

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Santa Barbara Current
Jan 10, 2025
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The damage is done. Nobody prayed for an inferno of apocalyptic proportions. Few people thought it possible that one windstorm, even on top of a rainy season that has yet to begin in Southern California, could visit such cataclysmic destruction in such multiple thrusts at one time.

Pacific Palisades is gone – history – leveled to the ground; thousands of…

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