‘Day of Reckoning’: Fox News’ Jonathan Hunt Describes ‘Flattened’ LA Neighborhoods That Resemble Bombed-Out World War II Cities
Fox News’ Jonathan Hunt called Thursday a “day of reckoning” in neighborhoods devastated by the Los Angeles wildfires, likening the scene to English cities bombed during the Blitz in World War II.
“We’re seeing a very different day to yesterday. Yesterday was a day of terror, it was a day of fighting, it was a day of struggling simply to survive for many people,” began Hunt. “Today is more a day of reckoning and a day of recognition of exactly what this fire did. And as you take a look at this one home in the heart of the Pacific Palisades, that is the end result for hundreds and hundreds of homes. Our crew, Bryan Allman, Nikki DiRico, and I have personally seen hundreds of homes destroyed in exactly this fashion. Another one here on the same street — as far as you can see — there is one house at the end of this street that still appears to be standing.”
He continued:
It really is quite breathtaking when you look at this and you look at entire neighborhoods that have gone. I think when people say it’s like a war zone, it’s a terrible comparison. There is nothing like a war zone other than a war zone, having been to a few of those. But when you look at the pictures and the aerial pictures that I know you’ve seen, of some of the neighborhoods here, it does remind me of some of those pictures from World War II and English cities during the Blitz — completely and utterly flattened, just like this building right in front of us now. And the human toll of this is so significant. And obviously, officials, pundits, politicians are going to talk about the water supply. They’re going to talk about whether enough resources were put towards this. And those are important questions, And I think a lot of residents will want to follow up on those in the weeks to come. But right now, thousands of people here in the Pacific Palisades, or who were living here in the Pacific Palisades now are reckoning not with how this happened, why this happened. They are reckoning with what can they save from their lives?
“This, of all the fires I have ever covered in Southern California and in Northern California for that matter, I have never seen anything like this before,” concluded Hunt.
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