We traveled from state to state, driving from affordable Arizona to the warm beach town of San Diego on the tip of SoCal on the border with Mexico, which everyone calls the Mexican border.
First anniversary commemoration of the Eaton Fire starts at 4:30 pm, Wednesday eve.
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Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America’s New Age of Disaster
Firestorm (Jacob Soboroff)
This hardcover -- released January 6, 2026 -- by victim and author Jacob Soboroff has 3.0 out of 5 stars (with 4 reviews) yet is somehow already a #1 Best Seller in Natural Disasters on Amazon.
Why? [It is] A "gripping, unshakeable firsthand account" (San Francisco Chronicle) of the firestorm that consumed Los Angeles, from the MS NOW reporter and New York Times bestselling author of Separated, who covered the fires on the ground as an LA native.
"Read[s] like a sci-fi thriller.” — Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles reporter Jacob Soboroff
[One year ago,] on the morning of January 7, 2025, a message pinged the phone of Jacob Soboroff, a national reporter for MS NOW. “Big Palisades fire. We are evacuating,” his brother texted within minutes of the blaze engulfing the hillside behind the home where he and his pregnant wife were living.
“Really bad.” An attached photo showed a huge black plume rising from behind the house, an umbrella of smoke towering over everything they owned. Jacob rushed to the office of the bureau chief. “I should go. I grew up in the Palisades.”
Pacific Palisades: 'They let us burn!' protest
Grocery Outlet of Altadena has been a hub for events since the Eaton Fire
Soon he was on the front line of the blaze—his first live report of what would turn out to be weeks covering unimaginable destruction, from both the Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire, in Altadena.
In the days to come, Soboroff appeared across the networks of NBC News as Los Angeles was ablaze, met with displaced residents and workers, and pressed California Gov. Gavin Newsom in an interview on Meet the Press.
But no story Soboroff has covered at home or abroad—the trauma of family separation at the border, the displacement of [NATO's] war in Ukraine, the [CIA's] collapse of order in Haiti—could have prepared him for reporting live as the hallmarks of his childhood were engulfed in flames around him while his hometown burned to the ground.
But for Soboroff, questions remained after the fires were controlled:
What had he just witnessed?
How could it have happened?
Is it inevitable something like it will happen again?
This photo is very misleading because two LA fire departments stood down and let it burn.
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New date and location: Jan 11, 2026
This set Soboroff off on months of reporting—with firefighters, fire victims, political leaders, academics, earth scientists, wildlife biologists, meteorologists, and more—that made him keenly aware of how the misfortune of seeing his past carbonize was also a form of time travel into the dystopian world his children will inhabit.
This is because the 2025 LA Fires were not an isolated tragedy, but rather they are a harbinger—"the fire of the future," in the words of one senior emergency—management official.
Firestorm is the story of the costliest wildfire in American history, the people it affected, and the deeply personal connection to one journalist covering it.
Eaton Fire burned LA foothills
It is a love letter to Los Angeles, a yearning to understand the fires, and why America’s new age of disaster we are living through portends that—without a reckoning of how Los Angeles burned—there is more yet, and worse, to come. More
Who's to blame? - Mayor Karen Bass and Gov. Gavin Newsom
Jacob Soboroff (book); FOX 11 LA News; Grocery Outlet of Altadena; Gary and Shannon, Michael Monks (KFI 640 AM); compiled by Ken W., Paige, Editors, Wisdom Quarterly
(Stash - Free Documentaries) This documentary is about controversial Ohio American punk "Zen Master"Brad Warner (former Zero Defex 0DFX bass player), who has sought to strip the sheen off many taboo topics in Zen Buddhism and exhibit a healthy dose of reality to his readers. For more info on this film: imdb.com/title/tt3057770. Stars: Brad Warner, Randy Blythe, Nina Hartley, Pirooz Kalayeh. Directed by Pirooz Kalayeh.
Punk in the Park, North America’s premier outdoor punk rock and craft festival, returns to Southern California this Saturday, Oct. 4th and Sunday, Oct. 5th for two epic days of punk rock at the edge of the Pacific Ocean.
Punk in the Park Los Angeles takes over Berth 46 at the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro with 40+ bands on 3 stages, along with a Craft Festival, Punk Rock Swap Meet, and Vinyl Village.
Punk in the Park Los Angeles features headlining performances from Bad Religion and Pennywise (Saturday), Descendents and The Interrupters (Sunday), along with:
Location: Berth 46, 3011 Miner St., San Pedro, CA 90731
TICKETS
WEEKEND PASSES (2 DAYS)
General Admission tickets start at: $149.99 + fees
VIP tickets start at: $279.99 + fees
San Pedro, Los Angeles, California
Oct. 4th and 5th, 2025 | Berth 46
All tickets provide access to music performances and the option for craft tasting as a $15 add-on purchase for 21+. VIP tickets include access to all GA areas plus
commemorative VIP laminate, dedicated festival VIP entrance lanes, dedicated VIP main stage viewing area, access to VIP lounge with seating, dedicated food, and VIP bars.
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Peru is a country in South America, and the Paracas culture apparently left behind many pyramids. How could they have developed the advanced technology to construct them without extraterrestrial assistance, the same as the incredible technological innovations all over and under ancient Egypt?
In fact, the distribution of such marvels worldwide, overland and undersea, is startling and seems to have been covered up, particularly by China and Nubia (modern Sudan).
North Africa and West Asia DNA in Egypt
The largest pyramid in the world is in Mexico (Great Pyramid of Cholula), and Sudan (Pyramids of Meroë) has more pyramids than Egypt. But if there are 200 more in China, or if Bosnia and Indonesia have mountains that are really superannuated pyramids that science is only slowly coming around to admitting to, we have been deceived about the world.
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