My Pacific Palisades: A Reporter's Home Burns on Live TV
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Journalist Jacob Soboroff grew up in the wealthy Los Angeles neighborhood of Pacific Palisades. In 2025, he was forced to report on its destruction.
Soboroff provided live television coverage as a catastrophic fire devastated his hometown. He describes watching everything he knew burn down around him.
His new account, *Firestorm*, provides a minute-by-minute story of the disaster. It details the 2025 blaze from his unique perspective as both a resident and a reporter.