2025-01-15
28 分钟This is the Guardian.
Today, the Los Angeles fires and a warning to the world about life in a new climate.
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When a wildfire broke out a few miles from his home in Altadena, in the hills north of Los Angeles, George El Maraghi waited for the order to evacuate.
But it never came.
The fire was faster.
We were just home waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting.
And then finally I got up on the roof and I saw the fire nearby a couple of streets over.
I saw like the mountain burning.
So you just see this like line of fire that's just getting closer and closer and closer to you.
And at that point, when I saw the fire, like from our backyard, like almost parallel to our house, I was like, okay, we gotta go.
We're not gonna wait for this any longer.
Like, we gotta go now.
He piled his young family into the car, grabbing what they could out the door, and drove to his brother Matthew's house.
They were safe, but they had left so much behind.
And Matthew and George decided they needed to salvage what they could.
They needed to drive back towards the fire.
Here's Matthew.
I mean, it's just, there's no visibility whatsoever and it's kind of chaos.
There's like, people are trying to respect traffic laws and stay in single file order, but everyone is also scrambling.