> Woolsey was the last megafire to blast Los Angeles. It burned nearly a hundred thousand acres around Malibu, destroyed more than 1,500 structures. I asked Davis back then what he expected..once the flames died down. “Bigger mansions,” he said. “What tends to disappear is rental properties, trailer parks, people who don’t have adequate insurance.”
> There’s a lot of Luigi Mangione in the air..I didn’t sense that during Woolsey.
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LA Asks: Was Mike Davis Right?

As Los Angeles burns, the writer Rosecrans Baldwin hears echoes of the furious, compassionate late intellectual.

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