Mansions and mobile homes leveled by Palisades Fire

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Oceanfront mansions, upscale neighborhoods, and tightknit mobile home parks were reduced to rubble by wind-drive flames from the Palisades Fire.

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00:00From oceanfront mansions to

00:01neighborhoods in the hills and a

00:04mobile home park by the beach,

00:06we talk about it like it's a war zone.

00:09Nothing survived the fury of the flames

00:12and the extreme heat from the Palisades

00:15fire. We were in a mobile home park,

00:17so it was affordable and we had a lot

00:20of creative people. Lisa Atkinson

00:22and every single one of her neighbors

00:24at Pacific Palisades Bowl Mobile

00:26Home Park lost nearly everything

00:28they owned. We have fires in

00:30Southern California. It's a fire zone,

00:32so we're like, yeah, yeah,

00:33there's another. It's not going to

00:35come to us because we're on the ocean.

00:38Like there's the ocean.

00:39This windstorm was different.

00:41Hurricane force winds sent flames

00:43racing down the mountains and canyons.

00:45All that's left now is warped steel,

00:47piles of ash and memories.

00:49My insurance was canceled,

00:51so I'm kind of upset about that,

00:53but I know we'll find a way.

00:55Firefighters warned people

00:57before the windstorm to pack a go

00:59bag and be ready to evacuate.

01:01If a fire sparked nearby,

01:02have that emergency plan and make

01:04sure everyone in your family knows

01:06it before the emergency like old

01:08Santa Ana wind driven fire moves

01:10so quickly it doesn't give you

01:12time to come up with it. Then

01:14Lisa listened. It was a decision

01:16that made a difference because of

01:18that I could help my neighbors

01:20and I'm so glad because one of

01:22my neighbors just had a stroke

01:24and she didn't make it.

01:26And she didn't know like she didn't know.

01:29What's the most important thing?

01:30What's truly truly in your heart?

01:32What you will never regret?

01:34You know people first, right?

01:36People first reporting for Accuweather.

01:38I'm Bill Waddell.

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