Over 30 years ago, before the incineration of Altadena and the Pacific Palisades—before Elon Musk ran wild on X, before Karen Bass and Rick Caruso were in politics, and before climate change became the left’s doomsday explanation for everything—the chaparral-flecked mountains of Southern California burned. From Malibu to Eaton Canyon, and down in Laguna Beach, the hot Santa Ana winds fueled wildfires that scorched tens of thousands of acres and razed hundreds of homes in 1993. Celebrities fled their burning mansions down narrow canyon roads, running alongside average middle-class homeowners whose places had become a precious source of generational wealth thanks to the region’s soaring property values.