Rebuild:LA
When the firestorms of January 2025 raged through the Pacific Palisades and Altadena, they left nearly 30 people dead and historic destruction in their wake. Recovery will be a long, uphill road and rebuilding will take years and dedicated planning. This podcast takes a deep dive into the circumstances that led to the fires, how people can prepare for future wildfires - which are inevitable - and how Angeleños can come together to rebuild our beautiful city.
Episodes
15 episodes
Rebuild:LA Episode 015 - Where the Next Destructive Wildfire Will Be with NASA’s Dr. Chris Potter
Dr. Chris Potter calls it VERM, or vegetation ember index. He’s an earth scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, and he’s developed a new mapping product that shows VERM areas. And VERM areas are those places most vulnerable...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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39:27
RebuildLA Episode 014 - Disasters Are Going to Keep Happening with Bright Harbor's Joel Wish
Monday, March 31, 2025 (an extended date) is an important deadline if you’ve been effected by the Eaton or Palisades fires. That’s when you have to register for FEMA benefits if you’ve had losses. It’s also the deadline to register for SBA loan...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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45:37
Rebuild:LA Episode 013 - The City Failed Us with Survivor Sue Pascoe
Sue Pascoe, her husband, and their two dogs evacuated the Palisades Fire on January 7, 2025 with a couple of overnight bags and the dogs' food bowls. They'd evacuated plenty of times before. This would be like the last few times. They'd be back...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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47:07
Rebuild:LA Episode 012 - Build Back Better with Alexis Rivas of Cover
Nearly two months after wildfires swept through the communities of Pacific Palisades and Altadena, the dust and ash have settled. People are now taking stock of what they have and whether they’ll be able to rebuild. Can they afford what they on...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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48:45
Rebuild:LA Episode 011 - Can We Out-Think Wildfires with the NFPA's Michele Steinberg
The National Fire Protection Association has been creating fire code in American since the late 1800's. We have the NFPA to thank for fire sprinklers in apartment buildings and fire doors in high rise buildings. In the 1980's, the NFPA realized...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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46:41
Rebuild:LA Episode 010 - Are The Kids Alright with Chloe Canton
5,000 Los Angeles school children were affected by the Palisades and Eaton Fires. That's a lot of kids who either lost their homes, or their schools, or both. Cameron Barrett asks licensed children and family therapist Chloe Canton to help expl...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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33:43
Rebuild:LA Episode 009 - A Particularly Dangerous Situation with Rich Thompson from the NWS
Rich Thompson is an incident meteorologist (IMET) with the National Weather Service, which means he predicts weather during disasters to help first responders during the active phase of an incident. He was on the ground during the Palisades Fir...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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34:17
Rebuild:LA Episode 008 - Rebuilding LA for All of LA with Councilmember John Lee
Councilmember John Lee of Los Angeles' CD #12 sits down with Cameron Barrett to talk about his district's recovery efforts in the wake of the January fires, how he plans on managing the independent investigation into the Palisades Fire as the h...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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26:15
Rebuild:LA Episode 007 - The Ripple Effects of the Fires with Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez
Eunisses Hernandez is the Councilmember representing District #1 in the City of Los Angeles. Her constituents live miles from both the Palisades and the Eaton Fires. No one in Council District #1 lost a home to fire. But many have lost jobs, em...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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25:36
Rebuild:LA Episode 006 - A Tornado of Fire with Justice Tricia Bigelow (ret)
We mark the month anniversary of the January firestorms with our first survivor story. Cameron Barrett sat down with retired Superior Court Judge, Justice Tricia Bigelow. She barely had time to evacuate her Pacific Palisades home, but was chase...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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30:00
Rebuild:LA Episode 005 - Stories from the Firestorms of January with Greg Doyle
Greg Doyle has been shooting photographs of wildfires for the last 12 years. His works has been featured in fire magazines and websites, including www.wildfirela.org. It's safe to say that in those 12 years, Greg has never been as busy as he ha...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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37:19
Rebuild:LA Episode 004 - Do You Have Enough Wildfire Insurance with Real Estate Broker Pat Hanley
When homeowners who lost everything in the Eaton and Palisades Fires called their insurance companies, some of them had a rude awakening, adding more misery to families who had already lost nearly everything they owned. What happens when you lo...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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31:00
Rebuild:LA Episode 003 - Fighting the Palisades Fire From The Sky with CAL FIRE Aviation's Linnea Edmeier
Linnea Edmeier sits down with host Cameron Barrett, to bring us her story from thousands of feet above the Palisades Fire. Edmeier is the Public Information Officer for CAL FIRE's Aviation Unit, and was deployed to the Palisades Fire. There she...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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45:30
Rebuild:LA Episode 002 - Making Sure Your Pet Survives Wildfire with SPCA LA's Madeline Bernstein
For the last 30 years, Madeline Bernstein has been fighting the good fight to help rescue, shelter, and find forever homes for the pets of Los Angeles. She is the president of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty...
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38:20
Rebuild:LA Episode 001 - How to Protect Your Home and Your Neighborhood from Wildfires with MySafe:LA's David Barrett
In the first episode of the Safe Community Project's Rebuild:LA, we talk with MySafe:LA Executive Officer David Barrett about how his non-profit is helping HOAs, neighborhoods and individual homeowners find ways to make their houses safer from ...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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38:29