The Palisades Fire: A Sandcastles Special
The untold story of everyday people rewriting how we live with wildfire
Wave Maker Media · Adriana Cargill
Show overview
The Palisades Fire: A Sandcastles Special has been publishing since 2022, and across the 4 years since has built a catalogue of 9 episodes. That works out to roughly 7 hours of audio in total. Releases follow an irregular cadence.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 52 min and 1h 2m — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. It is catalogued as a EN-language Society & Culture show.
There hasn’t been a new episode in the last ninety days; the most recent episode landed 4 months ago. Published by Adriana Cargill.
From the publisher
The Palisades Fire swallowed homes and lives, reducing whole communities to smoke and rubble in the wake of this massive wildfire. But behind these horrific headlines, a different sort of history was being written — one most people never heard. Ride alongside a brave group of everyday people sick of watching their city burn. They stayed behind firelines to save the place they call home. The Community Brigade is a first-of-its-kind experimental program training civilians to work alongside professional firefighters. During one of Los Angeles’ darkest hours, they came to their city’s aid. We dive into what that could mean for millions of people across the world who live in high-risk fire zones. As wildfires continue to break records and push past what we imagined possible, this podcast tackles one of today’s most pressing questions: is mass destruction inevitable or can there be a different ending to this story?