(5 Feb 2025)
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Altadena, California – 30 January 2025
1. Homeowner Chris Wilson walks past the burned rubble of his home
2. The charred fireplace of Chris Wilson’s home
3. Wilson looks at the burned remnants of his home
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Wilson, displaced homeowner:
"This is 3058 Olive Avenue in Altadena. The night of January 7th, into the morning of January 8th, a wildfire known as the Eaton Canyon Fire came and ripped through all our properties. And this is my property that burned down."
5. A burned statue of a deer on Wilson’s property
6. Aerial drone view of the Olive Avenue destruction
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Wilson, displaced homeowner:
"Last year, I lost my private insurance. We were one of many people who got kicked off our private insurance and I had to get two policies to cover what normally covers what one policy covers it."
8. Wilson and his next door neighbor Louise Hamlin walk through the rubble between their homes.
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9. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Wilson, displaced homeowner:
"At the time I was just frustrated about the cost to pay the premium. I wasn’t thinking so much about the coverage, and now I’m thinking much more about the coverage and it doesn’t cover a lot. I’m real worried about being able to rebuild."
10. Louise Hamlin finds mail for neighbor Chris Wilson
11. Panning shot from Wilson’s home to Hamlin’s home
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12. SOUNDBITE (English) Louise Hamlin, displaced homeowner:
"This was my house of the last ten years. A place of a lot of joy and a lot of work."
13. A red tag of unsafe occupancy on the ground
14. Hamlin and Wilson talk amid the rubble
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15. SOUNDBITE (English) Louise Hamlin, displaced homeowner:
"My hope is the same as maybe everyone on our block. I’d like to rebuild. And I’d like to rebuild a place that we can restart our lives. And it’ll be similar to what we had before."
16. Hamlin finds pottery in the former kitchen area of her home
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17. SOUNDBITE (English) Louise Hamlin, displaced homeowner:
"My insurance has been really supportive. My company reached out to me, uh, two days after the fire without my calling them."
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18. SOUNDBITE (English) Louise Hamlin, displaced homeowner:
"And they’ve already paid out much of the value of the house."
19. Rubble of the fire
20. A view of both homes
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21. SOUNDBITE (English) Louise Hamlin, displaced homeowner:
"It is random. I mean, we have identical homes. They were built, I think, within weeks of each other in 1925."
22. Hamlin and Wilson walk between their burned down homes
23. A knocked down basketball pole
24. Hamlin and Wilson take a photo together
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25. SOUNDBITE (English) Louise Hamlin, displaced homeowner:
"There’s no reason why I continue to have insurance and there’s was dropped. And it, it it really is just luck now I think as insurers grapple with changing risk and what to do about it."
26. Hamlin and Wilson stand in front of their homes
STORYLINE:
Before a wildfire ravaged their entire street in northwest Altadena, Louise Hamlin and Chris Wilson were next-door neighbors in nearly identical houses.
Today, gone are their charming English-style cottages built in 1925 with the welcoming porches and Palladian windows. Amid the rubble and ash, little is left of their historic neighborhood.
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