VIDEO: Strangers from around the world came together to show support for a man who lost everything in the Palisades Fire. Garrett Knapp listens to his police and fire scanner every day. The 28-year-old has had a love for firefighting most of his life. “Because you have people all over the world fighting massive fires, and we come together and support each other,” Knapp said. However, a learning disability prevented him from chasing his dreams. “I wanted to be a wildland firefighter since I was a kid to fight fires, but since my problems I have it’s been difficult,” he said.
On Jan. 7, Knapp heard a 911 call come in that would change his life in many ways.”I was on my iPad just having a chill morning, and then I got the notification about a brush fire in the Highlands that went to a first-alarm fire,” Knapp said. The Palisades Fire destroyed his family’s home along with a small collection of firefighter t-shirts he’d collected over the years. “Sad! It just blows my mind what a fire can do today. You lose all your precious shirts and your coins. I got a special coin from the LAPD two years ago that burned,” said Knapp.
