Altadena
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Nov 10, 2026
Vivian GrayGUEST
And the bar, yeah, we scouted a few days before as well, I believe.
Kim WannopHOST
Yeah, so castles and the Altadena house are gone.
Kim WannopHOST
That was gone in the fire.
Kim WannopHOST
Is there something when you watch the film now that you're so glad they captured specific details of that?
Vivian GrayGUEST
Yeah, in Wayne's world originally, and so to have them, you know, the provenance of those pieces in our film is so cool.
Vivian GrayGUEST
Oh, yeah.
Vivian GrayGUEST
Yeah, and then the Altadena house, I mean, it was just a really classic Californian, interesting build with those rhombus-shaped window frames.
Vivian GrayGUEST
And I'm just really happy that, you know, never would want this to be the situation, but that the beauty of that space could be captured for sure.
Amanda MoritaGUEST
So from the start of the fire, the very first fire, we started getting phone calls early in the day asking us to open shelters because people were being evacuated from the Palisades area.
Amanda MoritaGUEST
As we're working on that, opening shelters, then Altadena started and Eaton, the Eaton fire popped up and we started getting those calls as well.
Amanda MoritaGUEST
So within that first 72 hours, we were, we had opened nearly a dozen shelters across the County because in addition to those two fires, there were other fires that were popping up and creating more evacuation orders.
Amanda MoritaGUEST
And so we were, we were definitely very busy.
Anna VocinoHOST
She's been so successful in the space.
Anna VocinoHOST
And at the very end, because she lived in Altadena and she's done all this stuff to help rebuild stuff in Altadena.
Anna VocinoHOST
She was doing she went to like some clown school and was doing shows at 8 a.m. for parents after they dropped kids off because she's trying out new material for her special.
Anna VocinoHOST
She's quite prolific in her writing.
Anthony DavisHOST
Prior to entering politics, She served as the president of the historic Highland Park Neighborhood Council and worked in the Los Angeles mayor's office.
Anthony DavisHOST
At the time of her election on Tuesday, she held two jobs, working as an academic counselor at Pasadena City College to help formerly incarcerated individuals transition into higher education and serving as a program director for a permanent affordable housing project in Altadena.
Anthony DavisHOST
Her grassroots student-led and anti-corporate campaign centered on progressive policies, including Medicare for All, the expansion of permanent affordable housing, the abolition of ICE, and wealth tax for billionaires.
Anthony DavisHOST
Running a campaign free of corporate donations and backed by Justice Democrats and the Democratic Socialists of America, Gonzalez-Torres capitalized on intense progressive divisions within the district.
Will Smith IIIGUEST
Thank you so much.
Will Smith IIIGUEST
Yeah, like you said, being from Southern California, Pasadena, Altadena area specifically, we've seen natural disasters and fires happen.
Will Smith IIIGUEST
almost yearly, you know what I mean? And especially being, um, where I'm from, we've witnessed multiple fires nearby, you know, every few years, actually just, you know, out of, um, just natural, natural causes.
Will Smith IIIGUEST
Um, but yeah, this one was a lot different, um, coming to us, you know, back in January, 2025, it was a lot, it was a, We didn't know at the moment.
Christopher FrenchHOST
I'm sure, man.
Christopher FrenchHOST
I mean, if you wouldn't mind, I would love to hear kind of like, What was it like growing up in that area? What was the community like? Yeah,
Will Smith IIIGUEST
so I'm born and raised there in Altadena, California, predominantly West Altadena specifically, which is a thriving, diverse community, especially for middle class African American families, specifically being the first unsegregated place where you could actually live and buy a home in the state of California as a black American.
Will Smith IIIGUEST
A lot of people after the war moved there, to Altadena specifically, because they can buy homes.
Tom MalcolmGUEST
So that completes my humble beginnings.
Tom MalcolmGUEST
My mother divorced, as I mentioned, my father, and I... was camped out with my grandparents who lived in Altadena.
Tom MalcolmGUEST
And so my early years were spent with them while my mother decided she was going to find another husband and also develop her own independent career, which she did.
Tom MalcolmGUEST
I went to secretarial school.
Sally NgGUEST
And so as the fire moved from the neighborhoods into the mountains, we're actually seeing these chemical signatures change in real time.
Chris MerrillHOST
Sally, does it matter? Because Altadena's homes were a lot older, generally speaking.
Chris MerrillHOST
Does the age of the home matter? And have building methods changed that may change the composition of smoke in future fires?
Sally NgGUEST
Yeah, so I think it depends on the field that is being burnt, right? So if the house structure is different, then of course we're going to emit different chemical components.
Michael MonksHOST
We are talking with Sally Ng, a professor of environmental science and engineering and chemical engineering division of engineering and applied science division of chemistry and chemical engineering at Caltech.
Michael MonksHOST
And we do appreciate the time that you've given us.
Michael MonksHOST
We're talking specifically about the findings of some study at Caltech that found that smoke from the Eaton fire in Altadena uh was chemically very different from ordinary wildfire smoke because the fire burned through that built environment there that older built environment i'm wondering sally if you don't mind uh looking into the future a bit what does this study do in terms of preparing folks for evacuations is this something that we might need to take into better consideration in the future not just that the flames are coming but that there could be dangerous smoke that we didn't know about before
Sally NgGUEST
Yeah, exactly.
Julia Ann Dudley NajiebHOST
And I think that was the other key race for us because that's what has to do with the fires.
Julia Ann Dudley NajiebHOST
You have a community in Altadena that has not been taken care of.
Julia Ann Dudley NajiebHOST
That's a predominantly Black community, Altadena, California, unfortunately.
Julia Ann Dudley NajiebHOST
And they have just some of them still haven't had insurance payouts.
Julia Ann Dudley NajiebHOST
These are the type of problems that we're talking about that that are ridiculous.
Ron DawsonHOST
She enrolled us in this private school called Omowale Ujamaa.
Ron DawsonHOST
It was an African-American school in the foothills of Altadena, California.
Ron DawsonHOST
And it was expressly designed to teach us kids about African culture.
Ron DawsonHOST
The word Omowale is from Nigeria and it's Yoruba for the lost child has returned home.
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Ron DawsonHOST
Well, your experience is actually almost identical to mine because up until junior high, I had a very black experience.
Ron DawsonHOST
I went to an all-black school, an elementary school, Omowali Ujamaa.
Ron DawsonHOST
And then I grew up, for the most part, in the Altadena and Pasadena area.
Ron DawsonHOST
I went to schools that were heavily integrated.
Josie HuangHOST
Along the coast, high surf and unusually high tides are raising the risk of flooding and making swimming dangerous.
Josie HuangHOST
Coming up, a most unique of wedding cakes and the Altadena Library System celebrates a big birthday.
Josie HuangHOST
More after this break.
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Jalyn GonzalezCORRESPONDENT
It was a slice of home shared with people they love.
Jalyn GonzalezCORRESPONDENT
Jalyn Gonzalez, LAS News.
Josie HuangHOST
And moving to Altadena, a centennial celebration of the Altadena Library System is happening today.
Josie HuangHOST
It's at the Bob Lucas Memorial Branch on Lincoln Avenue.
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