A clip of podcast host Joe Rogan warning last summer of an impending wildfire that would devastate Los Angeles has resurfaced now that one is burning thousands of acres across Los Angeles County.
During a July podcast episode with comedian Sam Morril, Rogan mentioned how a Los Angeles firefighter once told him that one day, under the right conditions, a wildfire would decimate the area.
“He says, 'One day, there will be the right wind, and the fire will start in the right place, and it will tear through Los Angeles all the way to the ocean, and there won't be a fucking time.'” what can we do about it,'” the host said, while also wearing a T-shirt with the “City of Los Angeles Fire Department” logo.
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A clip from podcaster Joe Rogan from the summer predicting a wildfire that will decimate Los Angeles has resurfaced in light of the fires currently ravaging the area and forcing thousands of residents to flee. (“The Joe Rogan Experience”)
Firefighters in and around the country's second-largest city have been battling multiple devastating wildfires in recent days that have killed five people, destroyed thousands of homes and other buildings and forced more than 100,000 people to evacuate.
Los Angeles Fire Department Captain Sheila Kelliher spoke to Fox News on Wednesday and described the scenes of scorched hillsides as “dramatic and apocalyptic.”
Kelliher said he saw winds “up to 70, 80, even 100 miles per hour” fanning the flames across the region.
As Rogan noted in his July video, his fire department source emphasized that an inferno that destroys a city depends on the wind. He noted that so far residents have been “lucky.”
“He says, 'Yeah, we're just lucky.' He says, 'We're lucky with the wind… But if the wind blows in the wrong direction, it'll wipe out Los Angeles,'” she said.
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A home is engulfed in flames during the Eaton Fire in the Altadena area of Los Angeles County, California, on January 8, 2025. (JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)
Rogan reiterated the firefighter's point that they couldn't help it. “'And there won't be anything we can do about it,'” he said, quoting the lifeguard.
“Because these fires are so big, man, when you're talking about thousands of acres burning simultaneously, with winds around 40 miles per hour,” the host added.
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Elsewhere in the July episode, Rogan stated that the threat of the “next fire” was one of the reasons he left California for Texas in 2020.
“I was evacuated three times from my house because of fires,” Rogan told Morril. “The last one, two houses in front of my house burned to the ground.”
