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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 i'm coming back to a home, and for the main pare inside the house, the integrity of the house is somewhat sound and i've got a home still, which is a little guilty. >> his next-door neighbors don't 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 alive. they barely escape the flames. active fire continues to pose a threat. the entire city, some ...

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 wasn't 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 to me. he dropd in front of me i took off after that. seeing somebody die here is more of a relati...

>> 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 fire's erratic shift, at risk of being overrun himself. fire officials say he followed his training and did everything right so the investigation will focus on what went wrong. >> a significant fire event, a significant weather event and all ...

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. they've had 14. that's 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 didn't get any winter rain. it's already brown like it's september. so the fire season has already started three months early. now, this storm, this fire event here, i mean, i'm talking the winds yesterday 45, 50 miles per hour, it was a big event. but over...

>> 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 fire's erratic shift, at risk of being overrun himself. fire officials say he followed his training and did everything right so the investigation will focus on what went wrong. >> a signif...