The Times podcast: A wildfire with your Airbnb?

Becca and Jon Rutledge, sit at an outdoors table with Boomer, their Australian shepherd, on the grass.
Becca and Jon Rutledge, with their Australian shepherd, Boomer, evacuated from their Malibu Airbnb rental days earlier than their marriage ceremony in the course of the 2018 Woolsey fireplace.
(Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Occasions)

A Los Angeles Occasions evaluation discovered that throughout California there are millions of short-term Airbnb leases in the state’s most hazardous fireplace zones. However the firm doesn't present warnings or evacuation info to visitors after they make reservations, and a few clients say the corporate’s refund coverage provides to the potential risks.

Immediately, as local weather change threatens so many features of our lives, are even our holidays not secure anymore? Learn the full transcript right here.

Host: Gustavo Arellano

Friends: L.A. Occasions reporters Ben Poston and Alex Wigglesworth

Extra studying:

In California’s high-risk fireplace nation, Airbnb gives visitors no warning or escape plan

Is your trip rental in a dangerous wildfire zone? What you want to know

California fires are burning quicker, hotter, extra intensely — and getting tougher to struggle

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