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Through sunday night. the owner of this particular house struggling with mixed emotions tonight. >> i kind of have a little bit of a guild that im coming back to a home, and for the main pare inside the house, the integrity of the house is somewhat sound and ive got a home still, which is a little guilty. >> his next-door neighbors dont want him to feel any guilt. in fact, they say their cat was hiding underneath his house, say they are grateful his house survived and they are grateful to be ali...

To survive. >> we are on the 4th floor which is where i work at and we hear 1, 2, 3. sounds like something like a cap gun. it was loud sounds because it wasnt that close to us. you have people running by telling us to get out of the building. we evacuate the building like we do for any other fire event. i end up on the backside of the building between the boiler maintenance facility and our building. the gentlemen that came out from the back of the boiler building is standing tenext to me talkin...

>> reporter: 19 lost their lives fighting the lightning sparked fire sunday. >> i want to acknowledge brendan here, number 20, he let his life on the line as well. >> reporter: the surviving member of the team attended a public memorial tuesday evening to pay tribute to his fallen comrades. he was the lookout conveying key information, warning them of the fires erratic shift, at risk of being overrun himself. fire officials say he followed his training and did everything right so the investigati...

August and september. we should not have these fires. let me back you up two years. over the past two years if you add up all the rainfall on average, l.a. should have had 29 inches. theyve had 14. thats half of what they should have had. so now these shrub, all the stuff up in the mountains, that should be green from the winter rain that didnt get any winter rain. its already brown like its september. so the fire season has already started three months early. now, this storm, this fire event he...

>> the granite hotshots can begin their journey home. >> reporter: 19 lost their lives fighting the lightning sparked fire sunday. >> i want to acknowledge brendan here, number 20, he let his life on the line as well. >> reporter: the surviving member of the team attended a public memorial tuesday evening to pay tribute to his fallen comrades. he was the lookout conveying key information, warning them of the fires erratic shift, at risk of being overrun himself. fire officials say he followed hi...

Defense attorney calls you to the stan and say have you ever been accused of lying. yes i have. by who? by your own agency. i see. let me ask you, are you currently on the job? well, no, they have got me sidelined. the case is over. he cant work on a case because he would immediately discredit or poison it, if you will. so technically he is, paid but he is at home. but he wants to go back to work. jenna. jenna: what a toll on the family, william. thank you for that exclusive report for us today....