MSNBC's Katy Tur showed viewers the fire-ravaged devastation in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles from her position on the ground — including the remains of the elementary school she once attended.
Tur grew up in the area, and has grown visibly emotional as she had to cover the disaster.
"This is the heart of the Palisades, of the village ... now it's completely gone," said Tur. "What I'm standing in front of here, I think, was a barbershop when I grew up. This was a barbershop, there was a little jewelry shop, there was a boutique clothing store to the left here. The Chamber of Commerce, which held all of the historical information about this historic town, this very old town, is completely gone."
"We're on Arnie Wishnick lane here, and he was the guy who was in charge of the Chamber of Commerce for decades," Tur continued. "Loved this place, put all of the records in that small building. He recently died a few years ago. And now there's nothing left of this building. You gotta hope somebody digitized the records, albums, photos."
She then finally arrived at where the school stood.
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"The elementary school, which, by the way, is just over here. you can see a little green grass there," she said. "Heavily, heavily damaged. The elementary school, by the way, that I went to, is over 100 years old. Stood for a hundred years, now it's partially demolished.
"But there were pictures of it in that Chamber of Commerce. There was a really wonderful music class called the Maze of Music. You could buy a guitar, get guitar lessons. It was right down here. You could do karate right here. My brother did karate next door. There was an art studio that I learned how to use chalk and pastels in. That's all gone. It's all gone."
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