MSNBC’s Katy Tur Tours Neighborhood She Grew Up in Destroyed in Wildires: ‘Not a Lot to Come Back to’

MSNBC’s Katy Tur took an emotional tour through the neighborhood she grew up in on Thursday after the Pacific Palisades fire destroyed much of it.

Tur joined fellow MSNBC anchor Chris Jansing from Pacific Palisades where the destruction from the fire was readily apparent, with entire streets of buildings flattened.

“Now it’s completely gone. What I’m standing in front now is what I think was a barbershop, one I grew up with. This was a barbershop. There was a little jewelry shop, there was a boutique clothing store to the left here. The Chamber of Commerce, which held all of the historical information about this historic town, this very old town, is completely gone,” said Tur, adding she can only hope the town records were “digitized.”

Tur also showed her elementary school, which had been up for over 100 years, now partially destroyed. She noted that an art studio she attended, among other places she had a connection to were entirely gone now, including a Bank of America where Tur said she met her best friend.

“I got to say, Chris, and it breaks my heart to say this, there is not a lot to come back to,” she told Jansing as she stood among the rubble.

Tur also found that her childhood home had been destroyed by the fire. According to officials, thousands of buildings and at least five lives have been claimed by the ongoing fires.

“This was the Starbucks,” Tur said as she showed a building almost completely destroyed. “Okay, it’s a Starbucks, okay, who cares about a Starbucks, but it was one of the first ones the country, it was a big deal when it came here. My mom used to sit on the big leather chairs drinking a cappuccino.”

The neighborhood she toured with her childhood home was so devastated by the fires that she admitted it was hard to even distinguish between the properties.

“You couldn’t tell what you were looking at, you couldn’t tell which house was which,” she said.

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