Violet Affleck was stuck in hotel room arguing with mother Jennifer Garner during California wild fires

Violet Affleck was stuck in a hotel room arguing with her mother Jennifer Garner during the California wild fires.

The 19-year-old student opened up about her family's experience of the disaster in an essay written for Yale University’s student-run Yale Global Health Review in which Violent revealed her mother was "astonished" by the destruction in the family's neighbourhood of Pacific Palisades back in January.

She wrote: "I spent the January fires in Los Angeles arguing with my mother in a hotel room. She was shell-shocked, astonished at the scale of destruction in the neighborhood where she raised myself and my siblings.

"I was surprised at her surprise: as a lifelong Angelena and climate-literate member of generation Z, my question had not been whether the Palisades would burn but when.

"As I chatted with adults in the hotel where we’d gone to escape the smoke, though, I found my position to be an uncommon one: people spoke of how long rebuilding would take, how much it would cost, and how tragically odd the whole situation had been.

"The crisis was acute, a burst of bad luck. It had come from a combination of high winds and low rains ... "