Joe Rogan's eerily accurate prediction last July is coming true less than a year later.
At least five people have died in wildfires in Los Angeles after a blaze broke out in Hollywood Hills, with a mandatory evacuation order issued in the area.
More than 1,000 structures have been destroyed as six separate blazes burn in and around the city.
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In an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience back in July 2024, Rogan spoke to Sam Morill about wildfires in California.
He then recalled a conversation with a fireman about how wildfires could get out of hand.
"I talked to a fireman once... 'One day, it's just gonna be the right wind and fire's gonna start in the right place and it's gonna burn through LA all the way to the ocean and there's not a f**king thing we can do about it'," he said.
The UFC commentator asked if it was true to which the fireman affirmed, claiming that previous times they've just 'got lucky' with the wind.
Continuing to recount his conversation with the fireman, he said: "'If the wind hits the wrong way, it's just going to burn straight through LA and there's not a thing we can do about it'."
On the dry Los Angeles climate, Rogan added: "These fires are so big... once it happens, it happens in a way that it's so spread out that there's nothing they can do."
What's more, in 2018, Rogan told English mentalist Derren Brown the same story while wildfires burned across Venture County, where he used to live.
A year later, he shared the warning with journalist David Wallace-Wells, noting how California wildfires are projected to worsen dramatically by the end of the century.
This week, around 100,000 LA County residents were forced to leave behind their homes and flee to safety as wildfire rages across the Pacific Palisades and surrounding areas.
Nearly 27,000 acres had burned in the area, with wind gusts topping 100 miles per hour which caused several fires to grow from non-existent to out-of-control within minutes in some places.
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