MSNBC host Katy Tur toured her childhood neighborhood in Pacific Palisades, California, in the aftermath of the destructive wildfires in a gut-wrenching segment Thursday.
The five wildfires have spread across areas of Los Angeles, causing at least 5 deaths and over 100,000 home evacuations since the fires began. Tur, who grew up in Pacific Palisades, traveled to her old neighborhood and local downtown area that had almost completely perished after it had been set ablaze by the flames and heavy winds.
“[The town] is completely gone,” Tur said. “I mean, what I’m standing in front of right now I think was a barber shop when I grew up. There was a barber shop, a little jewelry shop, there was a boutique clothing store to the left here. The Chamber of Commerce which held all the historical information about this historic town, this very old town, is completely gone … The elementary school by the way that I went is over 100 years old, stood for over 100 years is now partially demolished. There were pictures of it in that Chamber of Commerce.”
The entire downtown area is currently in shambles and has very few remains, likely leading many of its residents unlikely to return. The inside of a building constructed in 1924, that contained one of the first Starbucks and a Bank of America, had been completely demolished by the fires. (RELATED: Mayor Karen Bass Silent When Confronted At Airport About Wildfires After Returning From Africa)
Many of Tur’s previous childhood houses and her peers’ homes have perished in the natural disaster, she said. Not a single one of the houses she or her childhood friends lived in have survived the fires, and the neighborhoods she once knew are now in ashes and unrecognizable, the host said. […]
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