Comedian Adam Carolla shares his harrowing experience evacuating from the Palisades Fire and critiques the failing fire policies in California. Get the facts first on Morning Wire.
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The Los Angeles fires have wreaked havoc on parts of Southern California with more than 10,000 homes destroyed in the Palisades Fire, Eaton Fire, and others. In this episode, Daily Wire investigative reporter Spencer Lindquist sits down with comedian and actor Adam Carolla to discuss his experiences evacuating from the Palisades Fire and its devastating aftermath.
I'm Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's January 18th, and this is a Saturday edition of Morning Wire. The following is an interview between Daily Wire reporter Spencer Lindquist and comedian Adam Carolla.
Adam, so thanks for sitting down with us to talk about these fires. You know, there's a wide range of different topics on the policy level that we definitely like to discuss. But I think first off, I just wanted to hear a bit about your experience with the fires. I know that you evacuated and you've got a condo that you've been concerned about.
If you could just walk us through what it's been like personally so far.
Tuesday morning, I was leaving the gym that's on Sunset and PCH, which is Pacific Coast Highway. And I walked, I left the gym about 10.45, 10.50 in the morning. And I walked down on this open terrace. I looked to my left and I just saw smoke at the top of Sunset. And that's exactly when the fire started.
So I got my car and I came here, which is in the San Fernando Valley, which is, you know, 25 miles away to come here to work. And as I was going down PCH, I was seeing fire trucks coming in other directions and hearing sirens and, you know, all that goes along with it. And then I got here and by the end of my workday, probably about three or four o'clock, I'd
heard that the fire had spread and you know but it still wasn't imminent danger because there was a fire three weeks earlier in malibu as well and we had to evacuate but it just not what this one was then at a certain point i drove for about an hour and a half back to malibu not being able to use my normal route but having to go around through pepperdine las virginas malibu canyon area
and come back sort of backside to my condo, which is up the hill and sort of right in the middle of Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu. And then I got there and I sat down and about 20 minutes later, my girlfriend said she got the alert on her phone and we have to clear out. So then we get back in the car and drove back here, but the power was out here.
So then we had to check into a hotel and that was about a week ago and I've just been sort of monitoring it
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