2025-01-19
16 分钟Hi, my name is Eli Saslow and I'm a writer at large for the New York Times.
My job is to write longer stories about how the really big issues
in the country impact people's lives.
And few huge global issues are impacting all of us right now, like climate change,
which all of us saw in devastating ways
over these last weeks with the latest horrific California wildfires.
I went to California looking to find stories
about how people's lives had been upended by this massive tragedy.
And one of the things that I was curious about
in that part of California was how people were going to rebuild
and how they were going to prepare for the next fire.
So I started talking to people who had already built essentially fire bunkers for themselves,
homes that they believed could survive even the worst of these worsening wildfires.
And in these conversations with people who thought they were
as prepared as possible for what this part of California had become,
I found a couple named Philip and Claire Vogt,
who had spent their life savings
and also the last eight years of their lives building the most fire resistant home
in that part of California.
This home