Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Episode 5 -- After Action Report
In May of 2025, we headed to Los Angeles for a week and rode e-bikes around, looking at the recent fire areas and checking out wildfire hazards across the edges of the City with a few of our most-experienced wildland firefighter/fire behavior analysts friends. We were there to try to make sense of the recent fires, and to share lessons we've learned across several careers spent working on large fires in California.

This is the final of our five-part 'Danger in Plain Sight' series.
In this episode, we travel to the origin of the Palisades to look at how the landscape and vegetation drove the fire's rapid initial spread, and we reflect on the wide variety of wildfire hazard conditions we have seen across our 120-mile bike transect of the city.

This episode is sponsored by FyreBx.

Our series notes are posted here, on The Lookout website:
the-lookout.org/danger-in-plain-sight

Here's the playlist for the whole 5 part series: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhM9lgdfXk1o-fRGipOHX3qNWXfEZu2fD&si=PKj5wyRD99rO_J9a

Thanks to our series sponsors:
BurnBot-- burnbot.com
Fire Aside-- fireaside.com
FYREBX - fyrebx.com
Danko Meredith-- dankolaw.com
Aventon--aventon.com

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