Zeke, Denny O’Neil, and Tim Chavez had a phone call today week to catch up on the LA Fires. The three of us, along with Harrison Raine, toured the fire areas and Santa Monica Mountains back in May 2025, and made a docu-series about it called ‘DANGER IN PLAIN SIGHT’. The three recounted their journey to Los Angeles five months after the LA fires. Here’s their conversation:
If you didn’t get a chance to watch the five-part video series DANGER IN PLAIN SIGHT yet, we’ve included the videos below.
As the anniversary of the LA Fires approach, a lot of us are still asking: WHY? Our film series, DANGER IN PLAIN SIGHT, takes fire experts into LA to ask the same questions. In May of 2025, Zeke and fellow fire experts spent a week on e-bikes in Los Angeles, looking at the recently-burned areas and exploring wildfire-prone neighborhoods. They were there to try to make sense of the recent LA fires, and to share lessons we’ve learned across several careers spent working on large fires in California.
Danger in Plain Sight – A Five-Part Original Film Series
Episode one is called SCOUTING MISSION.
Here’s more information about the LA fires series, DANGER IN PLAIN SIGHT. Including a biography of all four fire experts featured in the series.
Did you know? During the LA Fires Zeke Lunder did livestreams twice a day reporting on the position of the fires and updating hundreds of thousands of watchers about the fire severity. Here’s a link to those livestreams.
Episode two is called PLAN ON IT HAPPENING.
In David Wallace Wells’ article “Which City Burns Next?” he finishes his essay covering THE LOOKOUT’s video series.
If you’re interested, check out the full article in the NY Times.
Here are some quotes from the article:
Here’s Episode three, HOME HARDENING.
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Episode four is called PALISADES.
The final and fifth Episode is called AFTER ACTION REPORT.
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Thanks for watching THE LOOKOUT’s original series DANGER IN PLAIN SIGHT.
