That's a lot of ambition up in smoke, and I imagine rebuilding will take it's time.

Sucks to be them.

not forgetting studio equipment, classic fenders, Eames furniture and plenty of Apple Vision pros if anywhere. It had to happen, at least it's winter, in summer it could have taken everything.

ItWasntMe wrote: ↑Sat Jan 11, 2025 8:11 am That's a lot of ambition up in smoke, and I imagine rebuilding will take it's time.

Sucks to be them.

Rebuilding will no doubt take a lot of time, and not only because of a lack of builders.

What's the bet a lot of people get f*cked by their insurance companies, and then refused coverage if they do try to rebuild in the same place.

My sister in Kent, England, lost her home in a fire last year, and barely got out with her pet cat and dogs, but without her small aquarium. She told me that the real loss was not the house, or the furniture, drapes, carpet etc which could all be replaced by insurance, but the literally hundreds of small but extremely important items that are so difficult to replace - college certificates, various sports awards, passports, family photos, and memorabilia passed down from previous generations, even simple stuff like a favourite shirt or sneakers, and all the minutiae gathered over a lifetime. She said it was like starting life all over again, at her age (70), starting from scratch but never really getting back to where she was before the fire.
Thats the situation for all those people in LA - they lost not their houses, but everything in their lives. Even the rich ones can not replace everything they lost.

Fire will keep trying to claim those hills above Malibu, all the way up Mulholland Drive, even to the tippy top of Pepperdine's ivory towers.