As flames scorch the landscape in Southern California, some people are focusing on what comes next. Pacific Palisades neighborhoods have been left in ashes by the Palisades fire. Containment is minimal, while debris, downed trees and power lines remain scattered, posing a dangerous fire risk amid Santa Ana winds.

Without leaving aside, the locals are already planning to rebuild it.
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“Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that what I’m seeing right now would have performed as well as the phone call I got,” said Chuck Hart, a fourth-generation Palisidian.

The second Hart heard over the firehe and his team of contractors jumped headfirst into the front lines to protect their community.

A burned-out playground in Pacific Palisades. (Sunny Tsai/FOXBusiness)

“I’ve put water on the fire before, but when they’re climbing a windy canyon tearing and blowing hot embers and flamesand now the hot steam, my eyes, my nose, my face… I mean, it’s intense,” Hart said.

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After battling the flames, Hart and his team went straight in street cleaning

“I think more than anything, it’s the drive to clean it up, get it going so we can get up and down the streets,” Hart said.

A tractor moves fallen trees out of the way. (Sunny Tsai/FOXBusiness)

These efforts go far beyond Hart and his team.

“I think it’s easy. That’s what we know how to do. Like we don’t want to leave or be far from here… We want to be a part of rebuilding,” said Palisidian Nicole Gyarmathy.

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Gyarmathy and Eli Johnson’s home burned in the Palisades fire. Without hesitation, they returned to the destruction immediately, ready to rebuild their community.

A view of fire-ravaged beach property overlooking the Pacific Ocean that burned as a result of the Palisades Fire on January 12, 2025 in Malibu, California. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images/Getty Images)

“I grew up here, and I know my dad grew up here and knowing my grandparents, I mean this is where my roots are. And you protect that,” Johnson said.
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That’s exactly what these Palisadians will do as they go about their day-to-day efforts.

“This is so new that we’re going to start something we’ve never done before: one day at a time, we’re going to reveal what our next indicated action is,” Gyarmathy said.