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Former U.S. Olympian Gary Hall Jr. won 10 Olympic medals and six world championship medals in his swimming career. He believes he’s lost them all in the Palisades wildfire, he said to the Sydney Morning Herald.

Olympian Gary Hall Jr. is among the many individuals who have suffered immense loss amid the wildfires raging through parts of Los Angeles County. The American swimmer said in an interview published on Thursday,

U.S. swimmers Anthony Ervin, left, and Gary Hall Jr., center, who tied for the gold medal in the men's 50m freestyle, stand with Dutch swimmer Pieter van den Hoogenband, right, who won the bronze medal Friday, Sept. 22, 2000 at the Sydney International Aquatic Center during the Summer Olympics in Sydney. (AP Photo/David Longstreath) AP

"I’ll shift through the ash and see if the medals melted together. Will I be able to find anything worth saving? Probably not. I don’t know," Hall Jr. said

He believes he’s lost them all in the Palisades wildfire, he said to the Sydney Morning Herald.“It was worse than any apocalypse movie you’ve ever seen and 1,000 times worse,” he said to t ...