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fox business correspondent max gorden covering this live from pacific palisades for us.ts going for? >> hey there, sandra. some of these lots are going for millions of dollars. plot we are standing on right now was one of the first cleared by the army corps of engineers. the folks who were living here had already planned on selling their home before the fire. that was about a 3200 square-foot house. they were planning on selling it in the mid-to-high for million dollar range. now the 6,000 square-foot plot of land is selling for $2.4 million. the mother-daughter real estate team we talked to, they say it is getting a lot of interest and even got an offer of the day after it went on the market. >> what we are mostly seeing right now are locals, may be investment companies that want to help rebuild this town, that are committed to making the palisades back when it was, and that's exciting to really get that. >> this is an opportunity that will never ever see again. >> right now the pacific palisades, there are more than three dozen listings for fire-damaged lots but more s

one such organization fought to block a wildfire prevention project near the pacific palisades to protectub. we can think this group for their efforts to protect this shrub, though such protections were clearly only transitory, since they also burned in the november fires. this is not an isolated situation. we have watched it play out year after year in western states as so-called experts and environmentalists would rather our forests, prairies and homes burned to the ground than allow us to implement common sense and needed treatment techniques to prevent these catastrophes. did you know i -- know in 2020 gavin newsom vetoed a fire prevention bill in the california legislature? that bill provided funding for vegetation management to maintain defensible space around structures, reduce flammable material, reduce fire risk, and harden evacuation routes. in his veto message governor newsom exposed his moral corruption by stating any efforts to fireproof california could not take precedence over his plan to replace single-family homes with affordable housing and multifamily units. i could spe

it began just days after wildfires wiped out most of the pacific palisades. finger-pointing by l.a.or karen bass and fire chief kristin crowley on who dropped the ball for what became the costliest disaster in l.a. history. >> i just met with chief crowley and removed her as fire chief. >> reporter: today the former chief came to city hall pleading to get her job back. >> it is never the wrong time to do the right thing and to speak the truth. >> reporter: crowley blames the mayor for budget cuts she said hampered the department's response. mayor bass claims crowley failed to put 1,000 firefighters on duty that day and for not giving her a warning before she left on a planned trip to ghana. the former chief denied those claims but needed 10 of the 15 council members to be reinstated. >> scapegoating and pointing fingers is not going to aid us in correcting these shortcomings. >> i'm going to support the power of the mayor. >> reporter: in the end, just two supported crowley. including councilwoman monica rodriguez. do you think chief crowley turnd this into a political issue while t

. >> reporter: his pacific palisades home survived the l.a. fires.e he and his wife planted in memory of their late baby girl still standing. >> we think she was kind of looking over house and the neighborhood. that's the reason it's still here. >> reporter: their home, far from habitable. inside, black ash covering nearly every surface. they have been testing for fire emissions in the air, carcinogens, gases, because it's not just about the visible ash that we see here around the home. it's also about the toxins that we can't see. toxic debris expert dawn johnson says anything porous is likely tainted. what are the concerns? >> the concerns i have is we are finding hydrogen cyanide gas here. >> reporter: do you suggest someone move back in? >> not with what i'm seeing now. >> reporter: they are now in a rental with their 1-year-old and another on the way say their insurance, the california fair plan, doesn't appear to see it that way. >> they sent us a document, unprovoked, that basically pointed to language saying that, smoke damage will only be co

. >> reporter: his pacific palisades home survived the devastating l.a.>> this is the plaque? >> reporter: the tree he and his wife veronica planted in memory of their late baby girl charlie remarkably still standing. >> we like to think that she was kind of looking over our house and the neighborhood and that's the reason why it's still here. >> reporter: but their home far from habitable. inside, black ash covering nearly every surface. >> they've been testing for fire emissions in the air, carcinogens, gases because it's not just about this visible ash that we see here around the home. it's also about the toxins that we can't see. >> reporter: toxic debris expert dawn bolstad-johnson says anything porous is likely tainted. >> we're in the nursery. what are the concerns here? >> so the concern i have is we're finding hydrogen cyanide gas in here. >> do you see someone movingack into this home with what -- >> not with what i'm seeing right now, no. >> reporter: but the hardcastles, who are now in a rental with their 1-year-old and another on the way, say

in december i think it was to -- of how to stop donald trump and a reservoir created for the pacific palisades that was empty and fire hit and they were unprepared and there's a really interesting discussion on bill maher the other day between rom emmanuel and another ripping democrat governments and how poorly the cities are managed in the blue cities so i would recommend people watch that and, look, you look at any blue city or state and they're poorly mismanaged and i don't know how anyone would have any trust in democrats to run anything at this point to be honest. joey: jason, lastly on this, i do remember complaining that obama said he had a pen and phone and we wanted congress to do the action. now it feels like that's not even feasible and it's a different scenario for president trump to do these reporters. >> he's been effect and i have locking down the border with the executive order some things you can do a lot of and for these attorneys general, there's opportunity cost what's going on in your state and spending time to get trump and i want to get trump other than hey, i'm going to

del condado de los Ángeles aprobÓ de manera unÁnime el envÍo de escombros de el incendio de pacific palisadesdo para pedir respuestas. >> aventar su basura para otro lado, ya se lavaron las manos, que gente que va a sufrir por sus decisiones, y por lo que estÁ pidiendo y no es justo porque aquÍ no tenemos los recursos que ellos tienen. maribel: cabe mencionar que en el 2010 en respuesta a las preocupaciones de salud de la instalaciÓn, habrÍa mÚltiples investigaciones realizadas hace a la posibilidad de cualquier tipo de impacto de la instalaciÓn. las investigaciones que fueron realizadas y el departamento de salud pÚblica de california ellos determinaron que no hay ningÚn vÍnculo que estarÍa conduciendo ningÚn tipo de impacto entre la salud de la instalaciÓn y el pÚblico . pasemos a mÁs informaciÓn, escucho a juan en su breve promo. , le indicaba que hoy es miÉrcoles de ceniza, es un dÍa de uniÓn no sÓlo en la comunidad catÓlica. se encuentra el santuario nuestra seÑora de guadalupe. reportero: buenos dÍas son polvo eres y en polvo te has de convertir la consigna para los catÓlicos del mundo,

well, how a pacific palisades residents they were able to return to their community in the one they lovedeporter chris trouble has the story. >> in my neighborhood. >> charred rubble, twisted debris and talks like cash. one street nearly wiped out by the palisades inferno. now neighbors returned to share their stories with ktla for the first by a show of hands. >> who lost their home in the palaces? so roughly a little more than it's heartbreaking. it's completely destroyed. there's a driveway but that's about nor and her husband lived in their dream home for just one year before this >> my immediate takeaways tv does not just lauren was working and i called her and i said, you need to come back. it's in our neighborhood. it's on our street. i'm going to have you take a walk with me and ktla zone. lauren lister was reporting on the fires when her husband. >> journalist carter evans called to say the flames were approaching their street despite the evacuation orders, they stayed back to protect their home and to do what they could for their neighbors. >> i'm doing my best for you. trying t

. >> it's how tom hanks $26 million cliffside mansion survived the pacific palisades fire. fire resistant roof. >> it's poured concrete walls. >> or how this home in florida was the only structure in thea neighborhood to survive hurricane michael. its concrete build can sustain up to 240 mile per hour winds. walk me through the cost comparison. >> yeah, so the walls of our homes typically are similar in cost than wood or metal or other types of materials can run anywhere between, with everything included somewhere around about 20 to $35 a square foot. >> it's no question taking these steps will help protect your home, but will insurers drop us anyway? that's the unromantic debate facing california consumers. >> i just felt this sense of betrayal. >> not getting any answers. >> feeling like a divorcee forced to reinvest, fact check or fight back. for seven on your side investigates. i'm stephanie sierra, abc seven news. >> if you are struggling with insurance, contact stephanie in the seven on your side investigates team for help. head to abc seven news.com. seven on your si