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    NOTES FROM THE ASHES

    Jun 16, 2019 5 minutes
    BY JAMIE BRISICK

    The text message came just before 7 a.m: “Mandatory evacuation for the entire city of Malibu.” I grabbed my car keys, wallet, phone, laptop, writing stuff and a change of clothes. It was Friday, 9 November. I was not worried. Malibu gets a fire nearly every year. Never do they creep down the Santa Monica Mountains, leap the Pacific Coast Highway, and take out homes where I live, in Point Dume.

    But this one did. And it took out my home with an almost personal vengeance. Watching the news with a friend in his Venice Beach studio the following evening, he pointed at the screen. “That looks like your house.” The camera zoomed in. “That’s definitely your house.” The shot – a firefighter blasting water at my inflamed bedroom – would play

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