Rebuild:LA

When the firestorms of January 2025 raged through the Pacific Palisades and Altadena, they left 31 people dead and historic destruction in their wake. Recovery will be a long, uphill road, and rebuilding will take years and dedicated planning. This podcast takes a deep dive into the circumstances that led to the fires, how people can prepare for future wildfires - which are inevitable - and how Angeleños can come together to rebuild our beautiful city. Rebuild:LA is the proud winner of the 2025 Award of Excellence from the Communicator Awards, the 2025 Silver W3 Award, and the 2026 Silver NYX Award for podcasting!

Rebuild:LA is a science podcast hosted by MySafe:LA, with 88 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

MySafe:LA hosts Rebuild:LA, a science show with 88 episodes published.

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  Episode #87

  ENCORE EPISODE! Rebuild:LA Episode 003: Fighting the Palisades Fire From The Sky with CAL FIRE Aviation's Linnea Edmeier

  Aug 18, 202648 minS4

  Send us Fan Mail Our latest Encore Episode brings you back to just a few weeks after the Palisades Fire and introduces you to someone who fought that fire…from the skies. Linnea Edmeier is the Public Information Officer for CAL FIRE’s Aviation Unit. She responded to the Palisades Fire hours after it broke out, deploying to Catalina Island, where she and CAL FIRE pilots set up a base of operations to drop water and fire retardant from tankers and helicopters. Turns out, hurricane-force winds don’t mix well with aircraft flying low over dangerous terrain that happens to be on fire. Despite the dangerous conditions, Edmeier and her unit battled for days. Her firsthand account of those conditions and a life-threatening drone strike features in Episode 3 that originally aired back on February 4, 2025. Resources: CAL FIRE Aviation LAFD Air Ops Drone Laws in Los Angeles 2025 California Wildfires Support the show

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  Episode #86

  ENCORE EPISODE! Rebuild:LA Episode 050: No Warning - Surviving the Eaton Fire with Department of Angels’ Andrew King and Angela Giachetti

  Aug 11, 202647 minS4

  Send us Fan Mail We’re busy retooling our podcast, and the new Rebuild:LA will premiere September 1st! In the meantime, another ENCORE EPISODE comes your way. Episode 50 first aired on November 11, 2025, and was the first of a two-part episode featuring Eaton Fire survivors Angela Giachetti and Andrew King. Their evacuation stories are as frightening as they are frustrating. Neither King nor Giachetti ever received an official evacuation order, even though they waited hours for one, and both of them finally decided to leave their Altadena neighborhood as flames consumed familiar landmarks and the lives they once lived. Giachetti and King met months later when they were hired by the newly formed Department of Angels, a non-profit working to help LA's recovery. The group's latest quarterly report, released just last month, shows that the vast majority of survivors in Altadena, Pacific Palisades, and Malibu are still not home, 18 months after the fires. So sit back and listen (or re-listen!) to Episode 50, about two fire survivors and their work to rebuild LA. Resources: Eaton Fire Department of Angels Community Voices: LA Fire Recovery Report California Community Foundation Support the show

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  Episode #85

  ENCORE EPISODE! Rebuild:LA Episode 059: Marking the First Anniversary of the January Firestorms WITH US

  Aug 4, 202642 minS4

  Send us Fan Mail We’re busy retooling our podcast and the new Rebuild:LA will premiere September 1st! In the meantime, another ENCORE EPISODE comes your way. Episode 59 originally aired on January 5, 2026, and marked the first anniversary of the Palisades and Eaton Fires. Host Cameron Barrett and the MySafe:LA production team recorded the episode at an art exhibit marking the anniversary, at the City Market Social House in Downtown Los Angeles. The exhibit presented fire survivors through an immersive experience featuring sound, still photography, film, and original artwork. It was only open for a few days in early January, but thousands of people visited, bringing donated food, financial aid, and volunteer hours. A dozen organizations attended the opening, and MySafe:LA was on hand to talk to them, record their reports from the fireground, and hear their hopes for the future of Los Angeles. Listen (or re-listen!) to this heartbreaking, yet hopeful tribute to the survivors of the Altadena and Palisades Fires. Resources: With Us Department of Angels Extreme Weather Survivors Project:Camp Eaton Fire Survivors Network Team Palisades Palisades Recovery Coalition Support the show

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  ENCORE EPISODE! Rebuild:LA Episode 030 - A Fire Retardant You Could Drink with M-Fire’s Silvio Lanzas

  Jul 28, 202642 min

  Send us Fan Mail We’re busy retooling our podcast, and the new Rebuild:LA will premiere September 1st! In the meantime, another ENCORE EPISODE comes your way. Episode 30 originally aired on June 20, 2025. Host Cameron Barrett sat down with friend, colleague, and former Glendale Fire Chief Sylvio Lanzas, who had recently retired to join the private sector as the Chief Operating Officer for a company called M-Fire. They have a spray-on fire retardant made of food-grade materials that Lanzas believes can revolutionize home building in fire-ravaged areas and help prepare high-risk communities for wildfires. The product is called AF31 and is widely used in other parts of the world but has had trouble gaining traction in the United States. Why? Well, that’s a story you have to hear to believe. So listen…or re-listen to episode 30, all about M-Fire’s AF31. Resources: M-Fire Technologies M-Fire Suppression Questions about AF31? Email asklanzas@mfiretechnologies.com Support the show

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  Episode #83

  ENCORE EPISODE! Rebuild:LA Episode 001 - How to Protect Your Home and Your Neighborhood from Wildfires with MySafe:LA's David Barrett

  Jul 21, 202641 minS4

  Send us Fan Mail Do you remember what it was like in those first few weeks after the Palisades and Eaton Fires? The raw emotions? The confusion? The rumors?! We started Rebuild:LA in those dark days after the January 2025 Firestorms, and we've been trying to break through the noise ever since. Welcome to another Encore Episode as we retool our podcast for the fifth season, which premieres on September first! This week, we go all the way back to those weeks right after the fires, and bring you our very first episode. We wanted to bring facts to the post-fire conversation. We wanted to find the subject matter experts, the scientists, the firefighters, the elected officials, the non-profit and community leaders who could help make sense of our post-fire world. In our very first episode, we also had another objective in mind. We wanted to give people hope. We wanted to tell them that they were not powerless. They could protect themselves, their families, and their homes from wildfires. There were steps they could take. So we brought on MySafe:LA’s Executive Officer, David Barrett, to outline three steps homeowners could take. And then we offered to help with all three steps...for free. That’s MySafe:LA’s job. It was before the fires. And it remains our job today. Help people prepare for wildfires and build community resilience. So let’s go back in time to those raw days right after the fires, and hear words of hope from MySafe:LA’s David Barrett. Resources: For free home wildfire inspections : 213-634-0100 Support the show

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