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This is in my general area and what you're going to see is basically the fire coming over the hillsides.
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And we're driving down a street where...
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we're on the way to Malibu is what we're doing.
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As you're going to see, we're actually following the cop cars.
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And we're watching as the fire is coming over the hillsides to our left.
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And we are following the cop cars so that we don't have to stop.
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Because we figured that...
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Or I was driving.
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I figured they're not going to turn around and arrest me.
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And I figured our safety was more important.
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So you can see the fire coming down.
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As we're driving, I can't believe they saved that neighborhood, believe it or not.
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We're passing houses here closer to the ground, but see the line of the fire?
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And so this is the fire that was on its way.
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Hadn't reached Malibu that night.
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This is all in the Thousand Oaks area.
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I am not in the Oak Park area, but we heard that it was worse over there.
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And we are following cops out of, and you see all the cars parked on the right-hand side, just a very obediently...
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I love how people just do what they're told.
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So if you're going to just burn up and die because a cop wants to get by you, then you're going to do it.
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And we didn't even know what the cops were doing this for.
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Like what were they trying to do?
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Thank you.
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Everyone was trying to leave the area.
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This is the typical kind of thing going on, right?
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So we're all trying to leave the area.
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And then people kind of got wise and said, oh, screw it.
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Let's follow the cops out.
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And so then people started to turn their cars on and get going again, instead of sitting there like sitting docks.
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What we've done here now is mostly the fire is now to the left of us and a bit behind us.
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we've kind of come out, but it is also in the front and to the right in places.
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This
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is a still photo I took of the fire looking over in the direction of Malibu.
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Thank you.
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I think this is on the way back the following morning, like at 7 a.m.
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The fire is coming towards us.
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We are actually going towards the fire.
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It's now gone into what's called the Paramount Ranch area.
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And we are driving in a road up above Paramount Ranch area.
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And...
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You can see how it's this huge fire cloud that's coming towards us and we're going towards it.
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It's over towards Calabasas.
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It's coming through what's called Paramount Ranch.
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Paramount Ranch is Paramount Pictures.
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It's a ranch where they film movies.
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That is Paramount Ranch burning and everyone is standing around watching it.
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