Chad Augustin:
This is as bad as I have ever seen. And, of course, as a fire chief, right, I have the responsibility of overseeing public safety for such a beautiful town.
Just a week ago, right, we were celebrating the parade and the Rose Bowl game. And so while there was such pride in the city, here we are a week later with mass devastation, so really tough for myself and our — your city leadership, but also proud of the hard work of — that everybody has come together to do.
And there was — last night, there was some really heroic efforts by our law enforcement and firefighters as they were pulling people out of burning buildings and rescuing them. And those are the things that really — we lost a lot of buildings, but a lot of lives were saved last night.
