now, richard weintraub is a resident of la who was among those who battled to save his home.d my collague nicky schiller how his family were coping. i think we are in denial. if we were to go through the levels of emotion, it's been a tremendous roller—coaster. we've really blast that our home has been saved, it has tremendous damage to it, we will continue on but our neighbourhood and our neighbours have been eviscerated. it's really devastating to see generations of people's lives and livelihoods completely wiped out. it's really hard. you've centred some videos of how you defended your home which we are going to show, just tell us first what happened and what you did? so, in 1993, my wife and i had lost our home in a fire in malibu, ironically. i saw how that played out and i didn't like the end of that story and so i decided against advice to stay and to fight the fire and i got three houses going with powerful nozzles to wet down all the foliage around us and to wet the ground and to put out the embers. the smoke was incredibly thick, you could not breathe, but i was the

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