LA home where The Doors hit 'Light My Fire' was written burns to ground
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The house in Los Angeles where “Light My Fire,” the hit psychedelic rock single by The Doors guitarist Robby Krieger, was written, was demolished in the Palisades Fire.

Robby Krieger, a founding member of the genre-bending LA band, penned the lyrics to this classic song in the living room of his parents’ home in Pacific Palisades in 1966.


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The Doors guitarist Robby Krieger (left foreground) wrote the lyrics to the band’s hit “Light My Fire” in 1966 in his parents’ Alma Real Drive home in Pacific Palisades — a property that has now been destroyed by the vicious wildfire sweeping the area. Getty Images

This property on Alma Real Drive, owned by Claudio and Kathleen Boltiansky since 2000, was one of over 5,000 structures destroyed by the relentless Palisades Fire, which left a trail of devastation across many of LA County’s most coveted neighborhoods.

The couple told the Los Angeles Times they’re devastated by the blaze’s widespread destruction.

“It would be one thing to just lose our house, but the biggest loss we’re feeling is our whole community,” Kathleen, 56, told the outlet. “It’s never going to be the same.”

The couple said they plan on rebuilding the house as their “forever home” and said they believe the community will also rise again.

“Pali Strong is about community, and community is not the houses or the shops. It’s the people. We pray that will come back,” Claudio said.

The Boltianskys also sought to set the record straight to the Times that the neighborhood — much of which has been reduced to ash by the ferocious blaze — is more than just an upper-crust enclave.


Firefighter standing on dry brush with a massive fire in the background.
The Palisades Fire has destroyed much of the wealthy Pacific Palisades neighborhood. ZUMAPRESS.com / MEGA

“The misconception people have about the Palisades is that they think that everybody’s rich,” Claudio said.

“People should know that this is not Beverly Hills, which has always been expensive. Before the 2000s, the Palisades was a very affordable neighborhood like any part of Los Angeles.”

“Light My Fire” was released in January 1967 on The Doors’ eponymous debut album and spent three weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It is considered among the first and most essential examples of the psychedelic rock genre.

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