WEBVTT 00:00:01.800 --> 00:00:06.100 California wildfires have already destroyed an area half the 00:00:06.100 --> 00:00:08.000 size of Hawaii since January. 00:00:08.900 --> 00:00:13.200 After the Smoke Clears, Dan Ryan's is on the ground streaming 00:00:13.200 --> 00:00:16.600 the wreckage live on Facebook reporting to an audience. 00:00:16.600 --> 00:00:19.300 Hoping to see if they're home survived. 00:00:20.500 --> 00:00:23.400 Back behind where these cars are here. 00:00:23.400 --> 00:00:25.600 It looks like another structure. 00:00:25.600 --> 00:00:28.700 I don't know if it's all part of the same property or not, 00:00:28.700 --> 00:00:32.900 but that structure is also gone, sir for your loss. 00:00:32.900 --> 00:00:35.800 I really wish I could have delivered better news to you. 00:00:36.700 --> 00:00:40.500 His footage is often the first glance people have into their 00:00:40.500 --> 00:00:45.000 neighborhood after the fire you drove over an hour and a half 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:49.300 to document the aftermath of the north complex fire here in Butte 00:00:49.300 --> 00:00:49.400 County. 00:00:50.700 --> 00:00:54.300 Good morning, everybody broadcasting again from Berry Creek, 00:00:54.300 --> 00:00:54.500 California. 00:00:56.200 --> 00:01:00.000 Ryan's live streams and video calls survivors privately 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:04.600 and for some the videos are a confirmation of the greatest 00:01:04.600 --> 00:01:06.600 fears losing their homes. 00:01:07.300 --> 00:01:11.700 This woman the other day just started crying and I said, 00:01:11.700 --> 00:01:17.300 I'm so sorry that I couldn't give you better news and she has 00:01:17.300 --> 00:01:20.500 no she could have you don't know how much stress you just took 00:01:20.500 --> 00:01:21.100 off with me. 00:01:21.100 --> 00:01:23.700 So again, that's the whole point of me being out here. 00:01:23.700 --> 00:01:25.000 She just validated it. 00:01:26.500 --> 00:01:28.000 It's a volunteer effort. 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:32.300 He does on his own time, and I'm sometimes he found raises 00:01:32.300 --> 00:01:33.700 for expenses through GoFundMe. 00:01:34.900 --> 00:01:39.000 But he says he doesn't want money from those who have lost everything 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:39.500 in the fire. 00:01:39.500 --> 00:01:50.000 Dandy lions in their their new home when they get it rebuilt 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:58.900 as a remembrance since the fire ripped through in early September. 00:01:58.900 --> 00:02:03.100 His first trip down was just days after residents evacuated 00:02:03.100 --> 00:02:07.500 he wants to take away the stress of uncertainty any way he can 00:02:07.500 --> 00:02:12.100 one survive I was able to use his footage to validate an insurance 00:02:12.100 --> 00:02:12.500 claim. 00:02:13.400 --> 00:02:16.800 The insurance company is immediately of giving her a check 00:02:16.800 --> 00:02:20.000 and they were astounded that she already had the the video 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:23.100 footage because nobody has it yet. 00:02:23.100 --> 00:02:26.900 And that's that's kind of the secondary portion of doses that 00:02:26.900 --> 00:02:32.600 it gives him a jump start on rebuilding and in base in their 00:02:32.600 --> 00:02:33.000 future. 00:02:34.200 --> 00:02:38.400 You can spend upwards of 12 hours a day driving through remote 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:43.200 towns looking for houses damaged by fire Brian took a sabbatical 00:02:43.200 --> 00:02:46.800 from his job as a truck driver until the end of September 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:49.000 to devote his days to this project. 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:54.100 He leaves his house in Red Bluff by 7 in the morning with a 00:02:54.100 --> 00:02:54.700 list of addresses. 00:02:54.700 --> 00:02:58.500 He plans to visit all requests that comes through Facebook. 00:03:01.600 --> 00:03:03.400 Some of the homes will be inaccessible. 00:03:06.500 --> 00:03:09.100 Others might be difficult to pick out if a neighborhood 00:03:09.100 --> 00:03:11.600 where address markers are now gone. 00:03:13.100 --> 00:03:16.300 Hey Steve, I need to know if you left your front door open when you 00:03:16.300 --> 00:03:17.600 left you recall. 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:24.800 It can be dangerous work to Ryan sometimes films fires that 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:34.400 are still active and the wind blowing up a ridge in flamzer 00:03:34.400 --> 00:03:36.400 kind of shooting across the road. 00:03:36.400 --> 00:03:39.700 We have no choice but to just pray and keep driving through. 00:03:40.900 --> 00:03:43.400 Hey get up lazy. 00:03:43.400 --> 00:03:46.900 Sometimes he has animals or pets left behind. 00:03:51.200 --> 00:03:57.300 Other times it's too late is also two corpses of they look like 00:03:57.300 --> 00:04:01.200 pit bulls. Both of them have collars on them. 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:06.500 I hope they're not yours if they are. 00:04:06.500 --> 00:04:07.900 I'm sorry for your loss man. 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:12.700 The north complex fire has burned almost three hundred thousand 00:04:12.700 --> 00:04:17.400 acres and area the size of Los Angeles since it ignited in August. 00:04:17.400 --> 00:04:22.600 It's now V deadliest wildfire in State history with the death 00:04:22.600 --> 00:04:25.400 count of 15 and it's still burning. 00:04:25.400 --> 00:04:28.600 But Ryan is no stranger to Devastation. 00:04:28.600 --> 00:04:33.600 He has documented five destructive fires since 2017, 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:42.600 but it's not a job kind of heartbreaking. 00:04:43.800 --> 00:04:48.300 The streets wildfires have become more frequent and more devastating 00:04:48.300 --> 00:04:48.900 in recent years. 00:04:48.900 --> 00:04:51.500 Thanks in large part to climate change. 00:04:53.200 --> 00:04:57.400 The rising temperatures have held dry out for us making them 00:04:57.400 --> 00:04:58.700 more prone to fire. 00:05:01.900 --> 00:05:04.500 I talked to some people that were. 00:05:06.300 --> 00:05:12.000 Victims last survivors of the fire and into a talking to them 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:16.800 if became real clear that there needed to be something 00:05:16.800 --> 00:05:17.800 done to help people. 00:05:19.100 --> 00:05:21.200 Kind of know where they are in life. 00:05:21.200 --> 00:05:25.800 Now. His videos can get hundreds of comments expressing 00:05:25.800 --> 00:05:29.000 appreciation and making requests to visit homes. 00:05:30.100 --> 00:05:33.700 Do he try to accommodate he has to keep a tight schedule 00:05:33.700 --> 00:05:38.400 and sometimes he can't keep up with demand or the physical 00:05:38.400 --> 00:05:40.900 and emotional effort the job takes. 00:05:42.500 --> 00:05:46.100 All I'm having to deal with it is pay your house didn't make 00:05:46.100 --> 00:05:46.300 it. 00:05:47.300 --> 00:05:53.700 And some people that might be easy but we're telling hundreds 00:05:53.700 --> 00:05:55.200 to thousands of people. 00:05:55.200 --> 00:05:57.500 Hey your house going to make it. 00:05:59.700 --> 00:06:01.700 Truly, sorry. I wish I 00:06:02.800 --> 00:06:03.900 could have brought you something better.