Gary Hall looks back on the Los Angeles fires where he lost everything (LA Fires)

Gary Hall couldn’t put it any simpler: “There’s nothing left”says the former swimmer, reached this Thursday by telephone from San Diego, where he found refuge with one of his sisters, after the devastating fires in Los Angeles. He tells a “total chaos, absolute panic”, “people running in all directions to save their skin”, “cars crashing into each other”, “parents who pass by to pick up their children from school”…