lonnie wittenberg would know, because this devastation and this heartache is her heartache. it is her home. she lived here for 41 years as these fires began. lonnie is with me now. i know your daughter was here along with her dogs. and i know lonnie, you haven't had a chance to to come back. so, you know, it's it's hard for me to stand here and know i'm standing in front of your home. um, which is. which is gone. are you able to see any. i mean, how how are you even able to process what is happening right now? >> well, i mean, the magnitude of this fire is just, like, so overwhelming that it's hard to wrap your head around. >> i mean, not only is our home or our homes gone, but our entire community is gone, and our markets and our banks and our gas stations and our yogurt shops, our restaurants, our schools. i mean, everything, everything is just gone. and like, it's you can't even imagine the magnitude of the devastation. and it's such a tight community. and it's it's just it's all gone. it's it's just not like it's unthinkable. >> you know, it's unthinkable. i mean, standin

lonnie wittenberg would know, because this devastation and this heartache is her heartache. it is her home. she lived here for 41 years. as these fires began. lonnie is with me now. i know your daughter was here along with her dogs. and i know, lonnie, you haven't had a chance to to come back. so, you know, it's hard for me to stand here and know i'm standing in front of your home. um, which is. which is gone. are you able to see it? i mean, how how are you even able to process what is happening right now? >> well, i mean, the magnitude of this fire is just, like, so overwhelming that it's hard to wrap your head around. i mean, not only is our home or our homes gone, but our entire community is gone, and our markets and our banks and our gas stations and our yogurt shops or restaurants, our schools, i mean, everything everything is just gone. and like, it's you can't even imagine the magnitude of the devastation. and it's such a tight community and it's it's just it's all gone. it's it's just not like it's unthinkable. >> yeah. it's unthinkable. i mean, standing amidst it. lo

and this house where i'm standing now, a woman who lived in it lonnie wittenberg for 41 years, raised her four children here. we were able to find her and call her. she she hasn't been up here yet. these were the first images, actually, that we were able to show her of her home. you see, on one side of the screen what it looked like a couple days ago. and now here we are, just that chimney left, and it is just total devastation. and i also think it's worth mentioning. and, anderson, i heard you clear your throat. just the air quality that anybody here is experiencing. it's bad. and this isn't just smoke that you can smell even on an airplane as you're flying in, as we did when you get close to l.a., it fills the cabin. just that faint smell of smoke here it is acrid. it is chemical, sometimes sulfuric, as you know. right. you are people here are breathing in everything that's in a house that could burn. so there's that issue as well, even as those you've got the new fire you're talking about and the anticipation that the winds are going to pick up. one last thing i'll say, anderson, w

lonnie wittenberg. this is her home. she raised four children here. we were able to to track her down and show her her home. and she just was you know, you talk about utter devastation, but you know, for her looking at this wreckage, everything was a room. she can see the remnants of chairs. her daughter who was here was able to grab nothing. so no family photos? nothing. no diplomas. she brought that up. she doesn't even have her children's diploma. so the sense of incredible loss is so palpable. just these streets. so much like a war zone. cars burnt out everywhere. the entire downtown lost. you'll see a chase bank machine or a bank of america. the bank machine is there, still tarnished and burned, as if from a war and complete devastation. the elementary school burned down. i talked to a man who lived right over the hill, watched his condo caitlin burn down on live television, watching live tv like so many people were, and then said, oh my god, that is my home. the home where he and his wife raised their two daughters, their school here in pacific

lonnie wittenberg. this is her home. she raised four children here. we were able to to track her down and show her her home. and she just was you know, you talk about utter devastation, but you know, for her looking at this wreckage, everything was a room. she can see the remnants of chairs. her daughter who was here was able to grab nothing. so no family photos? nothing. no diplomas. she brought that up. she doesn't even have her children's diploma. so the sense of incredible loss is so palpable. just these streets. so much like a war zone. cars burnt out everywhere. the entire downtown lost. you'll see a chase bank machine or a bank of america. the bank machine is there, still tarnished and burned, as if from a war and complete devastation. the elementary school burned down. i talked to a man who lived right over the hill, watched his condo caitlin burn down on live television, watching live tv like so many people were, and then said, oh, my god, that is my home. the home where he and his wife raised their two daughters, their school here in pacific