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Months before the wildfires raging in Southern California, American podcaster Joe Rogan made ominous predictions about it. On a July 2024 episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan discussed wildfire danger with comedian Sam Morrell. On the podcast, he recalled his conversation with a firefighter who predicted a catastrophic scenario for the region.
“One day, it’s going to be the right wind and the fire is going to start in the right place and it’s going to burn all the way through L.A. to the ocean,” Rogan told the firefighter.
In the clip, Rogan, wearing a Los Angeles Fire Department T-shirt, described how the firefighter highlighted the terrifying scale and speed at which wildfires can spread. “These fires are so big, you’re talking about thousands of acres burning with 40 mph (64 km/h) winds. Once that happens, it spreads so much that they Can’t do anything,” Rogan said.
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According to The New York PostJoe Rogan has often echoed his concerns about Los Angeles’ wildfire threat during various episodes of his podcast.
In 2018, while Rogan was still living in Bell Canyon, Ventura County, he hosted English psychic Darren Brown on The Joe Rogan Experience. Wildfires were already burning in the area, and Brown said at the start of the interview that he was lucky to make it through the ongoing fire. Rogan responded by repeating the same warning from the firefighter, describing how “the right wind” could carry a fire from the city to the ocean.
A year later, in 2019, Rogan brought up the topic again while speaking with journalist David Wallace Wells. During his talk on climate change, he touched on predictions that California wildfires could be “64 times worse by the end of the century.”
Rogan’s warning resurfaced as wildfires, particularly the Palisades Fire in the west and the Eaton Fire in the east, forced mass evacuations and destroyed homes in Los Angeles County.
As reported. CNNThe forest fire has claimed at least 10 lives. But officials have warned that the true extent of the death toll may not be known until investigators can safely enter affected neighborhoods. The fires have forced tens of thousands of people from their homes, with evacuation orders continuing to affect large parts of the region.
