WATCH: Fox News Correspondent Reports on Malibu Wildfires From Block Where He Used to Live, Now in Ruin
A Fox News correspondent delivered a rather personal report Tuesday on California’s raging wildfires, revealing that he was walking down the same street on which he once lived.
Jonathan Hunt spoke to network host Shepard Smith from Malibu where homes were destroyed, the scorched possessions of former residents strewn about the ground.
“This is the actual street I lived on a decade ago,” Hunt said. “This is where I lived when my youngest daughter was born. This is the very street on which I taught my eldest daughter to ride a bike.”
Taken aback by Hunt’s account, Smith said he didn’t realize that was his colleague’s old neighborhood, asking him how it felt to be back.
“It’s heartbreaking,” Hunt said, recalling that one of his neighbors, whose home is now gone, used to watch his daughter as she rode her bike.
“That guy in that house used to come out and encourage her and clap if she got on two wheels for the first time,” Hunt said. “His home is completely destroyed. I hope that he got out. I believe he got out but I don’t know. I have other friends who live across the way here. I’ve been down to check on their homes. They’re thankfully okay.”
Hunt reminded viewers that the area is populated not by millionaires but average people who will be feeling a devastating loss.
“These are ordinary Americans in very simple homes,” he said. “Many of them have lived here for decades. They even took their homes over from their parents. They were here when this was just country side before any celebrity ever discovered Malibu some of these families were here. Now they’ve got nothing left.”
Watch the clip above via Fox News.