At home with Laurens Nuyens and Roos Vandekerckhove in Los Angeles: “What is happening here is a story of incompetence and unwillingness”

The ‘wildfires’ in Los Angeles are not only the result of drought and strong winds, they are also the result of government mismanagement. This is what Laurens — ‘Lau’ — Nuyens and his wife Roos Vandekerckhove say in a conversation with reporter Sabine Vermeiren and photographer Pieter-Jan Vanstockstraeten. The couple lives on the edge of a risk area, where a new, fierce fire broke out last night. “There are rules for everything here. The color of your walls, the depth of your pool. But rules to prevent disasters like this? Nougat balls!”

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