Flashback: Rogan warned last summer of a future wildfire that would “burn through Los Angeles all the way to the ocean.”

A clip of podcast host Joe Rogan warning last summer of an impending wildfire that would destroy Los Angeles It has resurfaced now This burns thousands of acres across Los Angeles County.

During a July podcast episode with comedian Sam Morell, Rogan mentioned how a Los Angeles firefighter once told him that one day — under the right conditions — wildfires would devastate the area.

“One day, the wind is going to be right, the fire is going to start in the right place, and it’s going to burn through Los Angeles all the way to the ocean, and there’s nothing we can do about it,” he says. said the hostWhile he was also wearing a T-shirt with the “Los Angeles City Fire Department” logo on it.

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Firefighters are battling in the country’s second-largest city and surrounding areas Multiple devastating forest fires In recent days, it has killed five people, destroyed thousands of homes and other buildings, and forced more than 100,000 people to evacuate.

Los Angeles Fire Department Captain Sheila Kelleher spoke to Fox News on Wednesday and described the scenes of burned hills as “dramatic and horrific.”

Kelleher reported that she saw winds “up to 70, 80 or even 100 miles per hour” fanning the flames throughout the area.

As Rogan pointed out in his July video, a fire department source confirmed that a devastating inferno depends on the wind. He noted that residents have been “lucky” so far.

“Yes, we were lucky,” he said. “We’re lucky with the wind, but if the wind blows in the wrong direction, it’s going to burn right through Los Angeles,” he said.

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Rogan echoed the firefighters’ view that they wouldn’t be able to prevent this. “There’s going to be nothing we can do about it,” he said, quoting the first responder.

“Because these fires are so big, dude, when you talk about them Thousands of acres “Which is burning simultaneously, with winds of up to 40 miles per hour,” the host added.

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Elsewhere during the July episode, Rogan mentioned that the threat of “the next fire” was one of the reasons he left California for Texas in 2020.

“I’ve been evacuated three times from my home due to fires,” Rogan told Muriel. “Last time, two houses in front of my house burned to the ground.”