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Earik Beann, author of the book “Pointe Patrol: How Nine People (and a Dog) Saved Their Neighborhood from the Most Destructive Fire in California History”, speaks to how he knew he was going to write the book and how quickly it was written, shares his story of what he and his family endured when the fire reached his neighborhood, the looters that continually threatened his community, the relationships that he developed with members of his neighborhood through this tragedy, how the final book was created and became a way to raise money for fire victims, and how it helped him recover psychologically: