Wellingtonian Tim O'Brien has made Los Angeles his home for more than 20 years and before that he studied at university in LA in the 1990s. The images coming out of Los Angelese are gut-renching - the devastation to peoples' lives with the loss of their homes and businesses, whole neighbourhoods and communities in parts of Los Angeles destroyed these past days. Tim joins us now from his home in Pasadena - he's a journalist beginning with RNZ back in the 1980s a film producer, a husband and a father.
A man carries a bronze statue found amid the rubble of his parents' home, destroyed during the Palisades Fire, California, on 9 January 2025. Photo: AFP/Patrick Fallon
