Jonathan Vigliotti on his New Book Torched: How a City Was Left to Burn, and the Olympic Rush to Rebuild L.A.
About this episode
Jonathan Vigliotti discusses his new book on the devastating fires in Los Angeles and the city's response to prevent future disasters.
Jonathan Vigliotti is an Emmy and Edward R. Murrow Award–winning CBS News national correspondent whose work has appeared on numerous platforms including CBS Sunday Morning, Face the Nation, 48 Hours, and more. His reporting has taken him to more than forty countries and territories across six continents. He is the author of Before It’s Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America, and his latest book, Torched: How a City Was Left to Burn, and the Olympic Rush to Rebuild L.A., which went on sale this week. Jonathan discusses the origins of the devastating fires in Los Angeles in early 2025, how they could've and should've been avoided, and what the city must do going forward to prevent such a disaster from happening again. He also describes in harrowing detail his own real-time experience navigating through this nightmarish hellscape as he covered the fires. Got somethin' to say?! Email us at BackroomAndy@gmail.com Leave us a message: 845-307-7446 Twitter: @AndyOstroy Produced by Andy Ostroy, Matty Rosenberg, and Jennifer Hammoud @ Radio Free Rhiniecliff Design by Cricket Lengyel
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