CBS News Correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti has penned a book on covering the Los Angeles wildfires earlier this year and the implications for the city as it prepares for the Olympic Games.
Torched: How a City Was Left to Burn, and the Olympic Rush to Rebuild L.A. will publish on May 12 from Atria/One Signal.
Per the publisher, Vigliotti “brings readers inside the inferno that devastated Los Angeles, weaving on-the-ground reporting with the deeper story of how a century of unchecked development and political mismanagement set the stage for disaster.” The book also will place the fire within the larger history of Los Angeles, and whether the post-fire rebuild in advance of the 2028 Games will address prevention of similar disasters and the “rampant inequities this blaze brought to global attention.”
Jonathan Vigliotti
Vigliotti, based in Los Angeles, joined CBS News in 2015, and his work has appeared on Sunday Morning, Face the Nation and 48 Hours. He was recognized with an Emmy and an Edward R. Murrow Award, and has covered the Syrian civil war, the Mediterranean refugee crisis and Arctic climate change, among other stories worldwide.
Vigliotti is the author of Before It’s Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America, also published by Atria/One Signal.
MSNBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff also is publishing his account of covering the fires, Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America’s New Age of Disaster, set to be published in Janaury.