all gone

"Every movie that you see, every film that makes anybody from any other part of the world want to come to California is based on their seeing that Pacific Coast Highway and those beautiful homes in Malibu, across along the beach. They're all gone," he said.

Mr Thompson told the BBC that his phone rang at around 20:50, and Mr Stockings told him: "I can't live, we've all gone together" and that "armed police will probably shoot me."

Neighborhood landmarks and spaces that protected generations of families in the mountain-framed town — all gone in an inferno.

"We would be lost if we hadn't got this place to come to, there was quite a few different places you could go to with miners and they've all gone," she added.

The people knocked out in his living room — Christy Giles, Hilda Marcela Cabrales Arzola and Michael Ansbach — had all gone out with Pearce and his roommate, Brandt Osborn, for a November 2021 night at a warehouse rave that involved heavy cocaine use.