Larry Himmel Reports from the Scene of his Burning Home

Larry Himmel is CBS8 San Diego's neighborhood guy -- the personable reporter with the know-how, the hip tips, and just enough wackiness to make any story interesting -- a sort of Huell Howser of the deep southland. But in nearly 30 years of entertaining San Diegans with stories of local and human interest, nothing could have been more personal -- or painful for Himmel than his on location report this afternoon, from the site of his burning home near Rancho Santa Fe.

Himmel returned later in the day to walk through the smoldering remains. Watch the vid after the jump.