Communities are reeling from the devastation of the severe wildfires with ferocious flames destroying thousands of homes and buildings. NBC’s Jacob Soboroff who grew up in hard-hit Pacific Palisades shares a first-hand look at the destruction.
NBC's Jacob Soboroff, who grew up in Pacific Palisades, California, has been left in shock after his childhood home burned down in the wildfires that have ravaged the Los Angeles area. “Oh, my. This is my childhood home. It’s gone,” he somberly said as he drove by the charred remains of the house in a story that aired Jan. 9 on TODAY. Soboroff tried to process the destruction of the house.
I thought I was going wake up this morning and it’s going be a bad dream.' Soboroff, who said Pacific Palisades “has been effectively wiped off the map, as we know it,” took a drive through a neighborhood, where he noted, “There’s not a single house left standing here.” Thirty-seven thousand residents of Pacific Palisades have evacuated, while over 1,000 homes and structures have been destroyed in the Palisades Fire, per NBC News, leaving questions about what life will be like going forward.
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