A clip of podcast host Joe Rogan warning last summer about the wildfires destroying Los Angeles it has reborn now that one is burning thousands of acres across LA County.
During a July podcast episode with comic Sam Morril, Rogan recounted how an LA firefighter once told him that one day – under the right conditions – a wildfire would wipe out the area. .
“He goes, '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 L.A. down to the ocean, and there's no f—ing. thing.' that we can do with it,'” said the hostwhile wearing a t-shirt with the “Los Angeles City Fire Department” logo on it.
Reporter Joe Rogan's summer piece predicting wildfires ravaging Los Angeles has resurfaced as fires are now raging in the area and forcing thousands of residents to flee. (“The Joe Rogan Experience”)
Firefighters in the nation's second largest city and surrounding areas have been battling it out wildfires are very destructive in recent days that have killed five people, destroyed thousands of homes and other structures, and forced more than 100,000 people to evacuate.
Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Sheila Kelliher spoke to Fox News on Wednesday, describing the images of the charred hills as “strange and horrific.”
Kelliher said he was seeing winds “up to 70, 80, even 100 miles per hour” fanning the flames across the area.
As Rogan noted in his July video, his fire department source emphasized that the occurrence of the inferno that destroys the city depends on the wind. He noted that the residents so far have been “lucky.”
“He goes, 'Yeah, we're just getting lucky.' He says, 'We're lucky with the wind… But if the wind blows the wrong way, it's going to burn straight through LA,' ” he said.
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A home is engulfed in flames during the Eaton fire in Altadena, Los Angeles County, California on January 8, 2025. (JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)
Rogan reiterated the firefighters' point that they can't stop it. “And there won't be anything we can do about it,” he said, quoting the first opponent.
“Because these fires are big, hey, if you say so thousands of hectares burning at the same time, with winds like 40 kilometers per hour,” the host added.
Elsewhere during the July event, Rogan said that the threat of the “next fire” was one of the reasons why he left California for Texas in 2020.
“I've been out of my house three times because of fires,” Rogan told Morril. “The last one, the two houses in front of my house burned to the ground.”