Question Everything

When Lies Spread Like Wildfire


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At a bar that survived the destruction, a group of reporters get together a year later to talk about the personal impact the LA wildfires had on them. And some of the harrowing – and surprising – requests they got from people to check if their homes were still standing.

Thanks to Good Neighbor Bar and West Altadena Wine & Spirits for hosting us.

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Guests: 

  • Tony Briscoe, environmental reporter, Los Angeles Times

  • Jacob Soboroff, senior political and national correspondent, MSNOW and author of “Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America’s New Age of Disaster”

  • Leanne Suter, reporter, ABC7/KABC-TV Los Angeles 

  • Michelle Zacarias, reporter, CALÓ News

  • Randy Clement, co-owner, Good Neighbor Bar in Altadena, California
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