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Evacuations Underway As Fire Spreads Near Fallbrook

KPBS Midday Edition
KPBS Midday Edition
Episode • Dec 24, 2020 • 44m
A brush fire that broke out overnight near Fallbrook has grown to over 3,000 acres, prompting evacuations. A planned field hospital being built to care for COVID-19 patients on an unused floor at Palomar Hospital could provide much needed relief to overburdened Imperial County. In Los Angeles, thousands of homeless veterans were in line to move into a new housing complex. Then, a fire burned it to the ground. Then, four years of disputes over President Donald Trump and his policies have fractured some San Diego families to the point of estrangement. Finally, how screwball comedies provided an escape during the Great Depression.

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