Los Angeles Fires: Searing Images of Devastation in Malibu and Pacific Palisades
variety.comVariety contributor Michael Buckner. Reporting by Gene Maddaus, Variety‘s senior media writer.Netflix took over the five-screen Bay Theater in 2021.The theater and most of the Palisades Village are still standing, though they are surrounded by devastation in all directions.
A shop a few doors down from the theater was burned, and the mall was empty and eerily quiet, except for the ring of a security alarm in the distance.Days after the Palisades Fire left a trail of destruction along Pacific Coast Highway, air tankers continued to fight the flames a couple of ridgelines away.A child’s play house is left standing at a home in the Palisades.Two men survey the damage in the pale light of Antioch Street, which was thick with ash and soot.
Behind them, charred palm trees cast sticklike shadows on the wall.NBC News reporter Jacob Soboroff, who grew up in the Palisades, interviews Albino Fuentes outside Cafe Vida, where Fuentes worked for 15 years. “We’re going to bring this back,” Fuentes told the reporter.Carbon Beach is one of the most desirable beachfronts in the world.
Some of these homes have sold recently for around $20 million.The famous Carbon Beach as seen from the west. One house still smolders while others have been torched to the ground.David Geffen sold his famous Carbon Beach estate for a record-setting $85 million in 2017 to Los Angeles Dodgers owner Mark Walter, according to the Real Deal.
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