Wealthy LA Residents Hire Private Firefighters to Save Their Homes

As fire departments become overwhelmed by the enormous scale of the fires in Los Angeles, billionaires are reaching out to private firefighter companies that charge $2,000 to $10,000 an hour. The shopping mall in Pacific Palisades was untouched by the fire that destroyed so many homes in the neighborhood. It survived because the mall's billionaire developer hired a private firefighting company that used its own supply of water tankers to keep the fire from taking hold.