Brit Reacts To THE CALIFORNIA WILD FIRES UPDATE - AT LEAST 5 DEAD!

[@scrambler69-xk3kv]

Eighty to one hundred MPH winds just will not let them get control. Such a horrible situation.

[@debischepers2983]

For a really gut-wrenching interview, James Woods was interviewed about his escape and then trying to find out if his neighbors were okay (including a 94-year-old man with dementia). Really incredible and heart-rending.

[@lancekirkwood7922]

I saw that, and Woods was in tears.

[@MRFittedcap5950]

I live in LA and we’re all on pins and needles. Constantly checking our phones for updates and possible evacuation notices

[@wayneperry7413]

As someone who went through Black Saturday here in Australia I can totally relate and sympathise

[@BookDragon99]

I am currently living in the San Fernando Valley. To my slight northwest, there is the Hurst Fire (thankfully my friend and their family evavuated). To my East (heading in my direction) is the Eaton Fire. To my Southwest is the Palisades Fire (my mentor and her family don't need to evacuate yet). To my South, the Sunset Fire (close by to another dear friend and their family). I am a teacher and we were supposed to start the spring semester, but will not start for at least the rest of the week.

[@BookDragon99]

Update: My friend from the Hurst Fire was able to head home yesterday afternoon around 4 pm. Her house is standing and police ensured that there were no looting. The Eaton Fire is no longer moving westward. My mentor and her family thankfully did not have to evacuate. I did have a scare last night when the Foothill Fire (very small) started only 2 blocks away from my home...that was quite an adrenaline rush for a few minutes before our INCREDIBLE FIRST RESPONDERS got it within 10 minutes.

[@dianatopoulos5602]

I live in the Boston/Plymouth Massachusetts area, so I will never experience fire like this, however, I can‘t help but think of the pets and also wild animals lost in these fires. I just saw on the news a story about people attempting to save their horses from the stables. Some horses just had to be set free to have any chance at all to survive. How about farm animals? My heart is bleeding sorrow for everyone affected.

[@mildredpierce4506]

The areas that are burning are not farm areas. At least I don’t think there are any farms in those areas but there could be animal sanctuaries.

[@micheleh3851]

@dianatopoulos5792 - Hello. I saw a video and story on the news tonight of a single horse trapped in a fenced area with huge orange flames burning all around. It showed a fire fighter chopping open the fence and climbing inside. They didn't show further video but the reporter said the horse was now safe.

[@lindacox3662]

Louisville Kentucky here. We have 8 inches of snow and an inch of ice. We are expecting 6 more inches tomorrow from a new winter storm and we have a freezing fog advisory for tonight. Wish we could dump some of this on the fire. Stay safe out there.

[@rubroken]

Thank you for the thought

[@ninjafroggie1]

man oh man, LAYERED snow and ice? that's rough...I was kid in PA in 92 when we had that happen, we got an inch of freezing rain, then 10 inches of snow, then another inch of freezing rain on top of it. They couldn't even get the plow trucks out of the county depots for several days, the driveways were all too steep because theyd been tucked into out of the way places, so they had to manually break up and shovel all that snow and ice just to get the equipment in and out. We didn't have school for a month. The fact that it's in the upper 20s here in FL this morning tells me it must be cold AF up there. Stay safe, stay warm, and stay off the road if you can! And don't forget to toss a bag of kitty litter in the trunk if you do have to go out!

[@rubroken]

@@ninjafroggie1 Interesting comment. every region of the country has its own unique challenges, for sure

[@Stepperg1]

The schools have burned down. As a local, I left you a note yesterday telling you how we're doing here, that's just me and my freaked out cat! Yes, debischepers2983 suggested you watch the James woods interview. Great idea. This isn't even close to over. Thanks for your concern, it means so much.

[@graceito973]

A family I know had just 5 minutes to evacuate and left with literally just the clothes on their backs. Their house was destroyed, but at least they are safe.

[@JenKnee423]

Having grown up in Southern California and having most of my family and a lot of friends there ( I live in Pennsylvania now ), this is breaking my heart. You feel so helpless. My aunt lives in an evacuation zone, but she’s okay. The rest of my family and friends are okay, but they were evacuated from a different fire a few months ago. Praying for everyone who’s being affected by the fires and their loved ones worried sick about them. ❤😢

[@douggaijin]

My son has spent the last 24 years as an Oregon Dept of Forestry Rough Terrain Wildland Firefighter (engine boss/crew boss for many years) and he and his crew have been deployed to California for 22 of those 24 years to fight multiple fires. And once again he and his crew just arrived in California. With those winds a firebrand (flying flaming ember), depending on the composition and size, can travel up to 23 miles/37 kilometers and ignite another fire incident.

[@kimnapier8387]

Kabir thank you for your concern and showing this. I'm a born and raised Californian who still lives here. Thankfully I am living in Fresno now. I'm not near the fire zones. God bless and keep everyone safe 🙏💓 who is affected. This is horrifying 😢!

[@MsMorri]

I just saw that they sent Oregon Firefighters down to Cali. As an Oregonian, this does make me a bit worried. If fires are starting this early, this could be really bad for the PNW during fire season.

[@JohnHermann-b5t]

I lived in L.A. for fifty years and I don’t think I’ve seen a worse fire. I also don’t think I’ve seen so much destruction there since 93/94 riots,northridge earthquake and Laguna fire.

[@mdsh00]

I live in Southern California for over the last 30 years and I've never seen anything this bad, especially in January. Fortunately I'm safe but some people I work with are evacuated, etc. There's a lot of misinformation and politics being thrown around but the simple fact is that this is a perfect storm of conditions. In California, winter is the "wet season" and the rest of the year is dry. We had three winters of record breaking rain which means more vegetation. This year there has been no rain so far. Most of the time, winds low from the Pacific Ocean into the LA basin. Because of air pressure changes this air flow reverses and now you have warm, dry air blowing from the deserts and funnels through the mountains surrounding the basin. We call them Santa Ana winds and they happen the most between September-November. This windstorm event is an unusual one because it's blowing in unusual areas and much more speed than usual. Now you have the recipe for a disastrous fire. It's been calm most of Wednesday but there's supposed to be more wind coming on Thursday night. Though it's supposed to be much weaker. Also a lot of fire agencies have mutual aid agreements up and down the West Coast. This includes Canada and Australia. You'll often hear of firefighters in California going in our winter to help the Aussies fight their summer fires. Australian firefighters return the favor too. Currently there's Canadian firefighters that have come down to help.

[@brendabaird357]

I read somewhere yesterday that this is the worst fire in history that LA has ever had. Airbnb has offered free places for people to stay at no cost for a week and others away from the fire are opening their homes and offices for people needing a place to stay. Arizona has a few fire departments sending firefighters to help out. Our air quality throughout Arizona has been affected from the smoke of these fires. I read about at least 2 celebrities losing everything after their homes have burned down. The LA Rams vs Minnesota Vikings game may have to moved down here to Glendale, Arizona if they can’t get the fire under control by the weekend.

[@MrReman2u]

There is no way these fires will be under control/contained by the weekend. 😢

[@kimson305]

You all stay worrying about the celebrities. Of course, they are human like everyone else, but let's not act like they can't relocate or have the money to get out

[@EmpressMermaid]

What makes this worse is that previous fires were in wooded areas or the outskirts of the city. These fires are actually burning the city down.

[@daricetaylor737]

5 months ago we lost our beautiful park to the Park Fire. When all was said and done, it burned more than 460,000 acres. The Palisades Fire is burning at a speed of 4 football fields per minute, the Camp Fire in our sister town of Paradise burned at a rate of 80 football fields per minute, that is 16 times faster, and killed 85 people. The fire season in California is only getting worse and worse each year. I personally am so tired of all the bad news. You simply feel helpless. This fire is extremely bad because the shear number of structures lost. The homes and businesses are built so close to each other because of the prime real estate, so it spreads from house to house so easily. It is definitely heartbreaking for all of us here in CA. Unless you have experienced a fire like this, you have no idea how black the sky is in the middle of the blaze. When the Camp Fire hit Paradise, we fell directly under the smoke plume and although it was 10 in the morning, it was as black as 11 at night. You could not see without headlights and street lights on.

[@BigRyan505]

The west coast burns and the east coast is in a severe cold spell. My heart goes out to those in LA. It's horrific. Thanks for taking the time to watch the news about it.

[@ProsperingWoman]

The acreage numbers are much larger than the numbers earlier in the video you shared, the number of houses destroyed as of Thursday morning is approaching 1600, as many as half of them don’t have fire insurance. A couple of the fires are suspicious origin because they were not downwind of the fire and as many as 20 miles away. All of the fires in the last 25 years have been devastating, destroying communities and in some cases whole towns.

[@KatyFaulkner-f6c]

This is way worse because it's hitting where so many people live. In the fires from several years ago, the area wasn't nearly as populated.

[@corbinmattson2314]

Love your content Kabir! ❤

[@devinlamigo5818]

Also, to put the size (acrage) of the fires in perspective, 1sq mile is 640 acres, and 1 sq km is 247.105 acres.

[@itsame1139]

I live in NorCal but have family in SoCal. My brother is 2 blocks away from an evacuation zone, so he's staying with his daughter, who is about a mile from the zone. What's different with these fires is the extreme wind and lack of water pressure in a lot of the fire hydrants. Hopefully, some day, we can all get on the same page in regards to climate change.

[@revgurley]

There's a low pressure system near the Gulf, which goes counter clockwise. So on the West side, they're getting these huge winds from the north. Meanwhile, as that low heads eastward, it's bringing snow and freezing rain from moisture from the Gulf with winds from the south. Hopefully when this low pressure system moves out over the east coast, the winds in California will calm down enough for firefighters to get a handle on these horrific fires. We're prepped in Atlanta for several inches of snow, then ice after. Very uncommon for the Atlanta area.

[@George-ux6zz]

I'm 600 miles north of the fire areas. Yet we have a strong odor of burning wood.

[@randysake5031]

The smoke is going south and out to sea.

[@mildredpierce4506]

I’m in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles County and although the fires haven’t affected me per se (it’s causing problems with the Internet) the area is surrounded by mountains and they are on fires to the north, south and south east of here. I’m not far from Universal Studios or the Hollywood bowl and it’s on fire in both places. For the past several days because of the direction of the winds, we were not smelling smoke, but right now the winds are calm, and my daughter just came in and said she could smell the smoke when she was outside.

[@CKaffeineIVStat]

I’m in LA but not near an evacuation zone. I know a bunch of people who’ve lost everything. The sky yesterday was orange but today it’s more gray.

[@reneehomen2226]

Im praying for all the people affected by this horrendous fire. Im grateful that a family member who lives about 50 miles from the affected area this far are safe.

[@license2kilttheplaidlad640]

The channel. Effspot. Did a great job showing the damage

[@JulieYoung-te5mw]

At 5:03 minutes in..."Why are people like that?"...It's horrible... absolute h$$L these people are going through and then worse...😢

[@Amandaarford83]

As a former nurse in a prison I can say I absolutely respect the fact that California allows inmates on a volunteer status to receive some training to help fight the wildfires and earn way more than any other inmate would. After release they can actually request their record to expunged based on the crime and how they acted in prison but this opens the possibility they could actually go to the fire academy and make a better life for themselves. We had a program where our inmates could do work for a factory work in the prison and make money to send to their families and it actually gave them a trade vs just being penalized not there.

[@randysake5031]

We're 60 minutes north of Malibu in Santa Barbara, the smoke is out to sea and heading south. No worries here yet, but we do live in a danger zone,; events like this just reminds us to stay prepared.

[@mbh2743]

I moved out of Southern California in 1977 and into Oregon. Oregon has yearly fires too but few of the reach inhabited areas. I have been soaked in at my property with smoke so thick that you couldn't see past the end of my deck and Lasting for a week at a time the fire 50/60 Mi away from me

[@scottbmedic]

Kabir, the ones years ago you’re thinking of may have been the ones in Santa Rosa County in Northern California. Very similar situation and destruction of property and buildings, but there has been a of fires in California

[@kimzwolinski9919]

I hadn’t heard that people had died until now. 😢 It looks absolutely terrifying.

[@devinlamigo5818]

While I am not a particularly religious person, One could easily say these images look like the Fires of Hell or even Revelation.

[@mildredpierce4506]

Those volcanoes in Iceland a few years ago with the bubbling rivers of lava and flames made me think of the lake of fire described in the Bible.

[@KatyFaulkner-f6c]

I moved to Colorado several years ago from LA, but so far 1 friend has lost their home but he and his family are safe!

[@graceito973]

The Palisades Fire is the worst in all of Los Angeles history.

[@tinagarcia3571]

Feels worse because of the homes lost. Here in Oregon we lost a couple of towns on the interstate a few years ago.

[@MarySlack-i5q]

Thank you for thinking of those poor people out there. Its almost like hurricane season this last year. Im lime not again. Devastating

[@denisestorey6923]

How horrible! My prayers are with you!❤️🙏❤️

[@candybarney5469]

That would be scary as hell!! I pray for those people!!

[@tonyarmbrust]

I live in Bakersfield, 100 miles (160km) north of the Los Angles area. It is absolutely surreal what is going on. I look outside, and I'm not seeing smoke plumes or heavy smoke haze. My heart goes out to all of the people who have been affected by this tragedy. Both the City and County fire departments have sent crews and trucks in mutual aid.

[@kathleenshaw838]

The fires of a few years ago didn’t burn just "bush" (which is bad in itself). In November 2018, fires further north wiped out smaller communities, most notably the town of Paradise. Gone.

[@rubroken]

Much more loss of life in that fire 😓🙏🙏🙏

[@richardjordan6104]

Firefighters and apparatus have responded from as far away as Portland Oregon -- that over 900 miles -- along with aerial tankers from Canada.

[@shelaughs185]

My son lives in North Hollywood. He has evacuated to a friend's parent's house. He's 21.

[@mbh2743]

The Santa Ana winds are also pretty much a yearly happening. These are high winds that are dry blowing towards the ocean. This year is some of the worst Santa anas we've had in this last century but they have pushed many of Fire. In 1970 71 I remember watching The Hills burn from Los Angeles to San Diego. You could see the Flames jumping behind the football stadium in San Diego but unlike now there were no homes or people in the fire danger area

[@MrReman2u]

I'm in the far southeast area of Los Angeles County, not too far from the Orange County border (about 25 miles away from the Palisades fire). It's just a little smokey over here, some ash landing and the sun is a deep ominous red, typical effects we see during any fires in the area. I can't even smell the smoke anymore, I'm guessing I just grew use to it. 🤷‍♂ Fortunately, there is no threat of fire where I am with just a slight breeze.

[@prettybullet7728]

My daughter lives in southeast L.A county but thus far no fire around her area but that can change quick, and the winds are still bad.

[@likemeordont5951]

I grew up in San Bernardino County in Southern California. It sits in a valley, surrounded by mountains that have seen more fires than I can count. My house burned down twice. Once when I was 8, and again when I was around 26, narried with two small children. I'm a grandma now and no longer live near the foom. lls. I currently live in The O.C., Orange County, California. Thankfully, I no longer live near any fire prone areas.

[@lordmaru6021]

Yes, the sun and sunlight were oramge even if im not close where the fires are. I have to wear a mask to keep the ash smell low and any asbestos that were released from the burnt houses who had them. Air quality is not good even for those who live a distance from the fire. I live in South LA, hopefully it doesn't reaxh here.

[@David_C_83]

First footage I'm seeing of this, I've heard of the fires but haven't really had time to look them up. I can't imagine what that would be like. I've seen smoky skies from forest fires in my area before but never had any fires that close up, nor do we have such strong winds. The combination of both would be terrifying. I've heard of insurance companies not offering coverage anymore, we could compare it to us losing flood coverage in some places because the risk becomes too high and is repetitive... sadly as time goes I feel like most natural disasters will become less and less covered by insurance so my heart truly goes out to everyone affected who are literally losing everything short of any aid the government might provide. It might help you get back on your feet but it'll never replace everything they worked so hard for.

[@strpdhatldy]

I think these fires are worse because of the location. Usually, the large fires occur more in the northern parts of California where the mountains inhibit effective firefighting efforts. That is not to say that cities and towns are not threatened or destroyed. They do however tend to be smaller and surrounded by wilderness (that can be plowed, cut or burned to prevent spread). These fires are happening in LA county, the most densely populated part of the state. LA is also surrounded by mountains and brush, but there re so many homes and businesses, there is no way to create an effective fire line. It would be similar, I think, to these type of conditions breaking out in the City of London, but without any rivers nearby. (The LA river doesn't count, there is barely any water)The City of London my be small, but greater London is huge. So we are looking at potential devastation like the great fire of London way, back when, but with many more people in harms way.

[@carolmoilanen4530]

So sad!!

[@ghosthunter1083]

I was born in Santa Monica i still have family in southern California luckily they are all fine I think my childhood home is still standing I believe

[@PattiCrichton]

It was only a temporary lull in those winds.

[@augustuswayne9676]

The mayor of Los Angeles cut the fire department budget $17.5 million dollars . What a great idea.

[@rubroken]

The budget has nothing to do with hurricane force winds

[@GeorgeMaster-xg7lg]

You know,Kabir,posessions can be replaced...lives,no!

[@GenXfrom75]

I’m so interested to find out the origin. They have very little water to fight these fires! And tons of folks had their fire insurance canceled right before this event! 💔

[@rubroken]

Yes, hydrants ran out of water because of the vast amounts of water needed to fight these fires. LADWP(water & power)worked diligently to pump more water into water tanks to replace the empty tanks

[@mrsjackbauer1]

@@rubroken No, they ran out because the incompetent mayor and governor never built a reservoir! They should be jailed!

[@CKaffeineIVStat]

@@mrsjackbauer1the reservoirs are filled with. It’s a water pressure issue.

[@dianajemison105]

​@@mrsjackbauer1Please, don't spread lies.

[@rubroken]

@@mrsjackbauer1 How many reservoirs does LA need. There's Hollywood reservoir, Franklin reservoir, Encino reservoir, Silverlake reservoir, and LA reservoir. Which one didn't they build? And that's just in LA🤡

[@PattiCrichton]

WHAT is left to LOOT in the first place!?? Are they going through all the rubble and sifting through the ashes? WHAT of use are they expecting to find? THAT is CRAZY!!

[@user-wc8fp4cx6c]

"The devastating nature of the fires is in part due to *climate change,* experts say, which has exacerbated the size, intensity, and damage caused by the wildfires in recent years. The southwestern U.S. is undergoing the driest 22-year period in the last 1,200 years. As temperatures have risen, so has the aridity, or dryness of the vegetation, which proved disastrous when coupled with the gusty Santa Ana winds. “The hot and dry Santa Ana winds that often affect the southern California region and fuel large wildfires such as the ongoing one, only make things worse,” said Imperial College London Professor Apostolos Voulgarakis in a statement. “Research has shown that the occurrence of Santa Ana winds in the autumn are also likely to get worse with *climate change,* leading to even drier vegetation, fast fire spread and more intense late-season wildfires.” Time, January 8, 2025 Can we address capitalism driven climate change yet? Or should we wait another ten years?

[@devinlamigo5818]

100mph =~160kph!

[@jimmyb.6272]

Much of Hollywood is destroyed.

[@daveeyde9622]

Mr brother in law is preparing to evacuate. I5s scary as hell

[@lindadianesmith6013]

Canada has sent firefighting planes to Southern California to help. We owe them thanks

[@user-wc8fp4cx6c]

> The LA *Fire* Department's budget was *cut* by $17.6 million. > The LA *Police* Department's budget was *increased* by $126 million.'' The police should've been defunded, as the left said, w/the money allocated to fight fires.

[@sixslinger9951]

This could have also been deliberately set.

[@dianajemison105]

Or it could've been an accident, or a series of unfortunate events. Or how about let's not jump to conclusions, or start rumors.

[@sixslinger9951]

@@dianajemison105 an "accident" from the homeless ? don't tell me what to post lady.

[@dianajemison105]

@@sixslinger9951 Who said anything about the homeless?

[@NorthernNorthdude91749]

​​@@sixslinger9951We will tell you what to post if you're spreading rumors. Cool it. Sit down, be quiet, stay quiet till we get official word on the origin. Got it?

[@RealILOVEPIE]

It is worse.

[@EdnaFlanagan]

it's not out of nowhere; they neglected to clear out the old dried up brush and trees!

[@snmanor2633]

I think it's safe to say that LA Mayor Karen Bass political career is over. I also think it's safe to say that this has taken California Governor Gavin Newsom out of the running for President in '28.

[@bobtedeman5975]

It’s amazing how you can witness events like this and still have the audacity to believe that we can control the climate. What’s really changed over the last decades is the creation of “endangered “ species of plants and creatures that have taken precedence over humans. They divert water to save a snail while whole communities go dry. They ignore forest management necessities. You can’t stop what’s coming but you don’t have to be stupid about it.

[@LordLOC]

Only moronic right-wing wack jobs think we can control the climate. Or the weather in some cases these days. What we are doing is altering the climate. Big difference. And trying to save endangered species doesn't take precedence over humans, but when possible, they try to do what they can to save them. Diverting water in a state known for major fires wasn't the smartest thing to do, I don't think anyone would argue that. But they certainly don't ignore forest management either. Budgets being cut, manpower dwindling, lack of empathy from others, all adds up to what we have going on now sadly.

[@graceito973]

It doesn't help that Mayor Karen Bass cut more than $17M from the Fire Dept budget several months ago, leaving the LAFD short staffed, needing equipment, etc.

[@LordLOC]

While it's true she cut that from their budget, the 2025 fiscal year budget for the LAFD was still nearly $1 billion. That's a pretty small percentage of the overall budget in the end. Sure, more money might have helped with staffing. But in the end, you can't plan for 100 mph winds like this.

[@kellyp136]

That is not the cause of this-stop spreading this kind of BS rhetoric

[@graceito973]

@@kellyp136 never said it was the cause

[@Kerppu68]

"They know what they're DEWing"

[@pamelahoracek]

The wilderness type of fires burns more ground/acreage and lasts for days because of the location and the terrain. This fire I believe will be more financially costly due to the property damage. The Pacific Palisades/Malibu fires was in a residential neighborhood with blocks or homes one after the other. Malibu has more of the large homes, property (more landscaping to maintain) in the hills, mountainous, canyons that have limited access of getting in or out or along the coast line with very little distance between homes. We do not know of the cause that started the fire, either mother nature/lightning strike, accident along with negligence of a car driver throwing out their cigarette butt, or a spark from a passing car or landscaping tool, or purposely by arson. We are given about the upcoming weather reports of the Santa Ana winds and warning not to do open outside fire pits, fireplaces, fireworks because the strong, dry, warm winds and dry landscapes. It will also be debated and finger pointed by L.A./CA lawmakers and how they use the collected tax budgets and mismanagement of funds in regard to their personal projects when the first priority should be the safety (fires, crimes) of our city/state's residents and property, then cutting back the police and fire departments. These two neighbors have very costly homes (cost of being at a certain location and how they run their communities, less crime, better run public schools, community activism and very influential people that come from the world of entertainment, sports and/or business/wealth). It is a shame the amount of property taxes they pay and the services they receive, that is why the community has to help each other because the government services cannot be relied on in urgent times of need. Unfortunately, many of these people have the money that help elected leaders that run our city. CA is a left leaning state and after decades of not finding solutions and funds wasted on projects that might help a few with no guarantees if it would help the person to do things on their own or they will forever take and take without bettering themselves, generations after generations. I have been around L.A. for over 6 decades and I feel the last 40 years has started the decline in services, education, self=sufficiency and respect, and the taxes go up and up. I always felt, in time we will hit rock bottom to turn our voting in a different path. I really thought last November's election the people of CA (L.A. and other coastal communities who have the most voters that decides on what government we will have locally, state and national), especially what has happened to our cities the last several years. But no, there is more negative to get to the bottom to convince our voters maybe another view, laws, commitment, sacrifice including higher taxes. At least with the higher taxes, we will see things done and improved to make our state functional, hopefully less crimes, business thriving, improving our infrastructure, better utilities, respecting and appreciating the work of the police, firefighters and military, respecting and helping our neighbors, and we can all get along. Once we can get in another mind set and CA becomes the golden state and sunshine, then we can lower the taxes since everything will be in place, functioning and productive. In the end, the majority of Californians/Angelenos vote for the city/state we live in. L.A. was the desert before and when L.A. (the film industry, jobs and weather) was starting to grow, the question was, we need water and then the aqueduct came, unfortunately the areas we took the water from lost too. Our lawmaker's priority was not how to capture mother nature's free rain, and some years we do get record levels that can help most years of lack of rain. Or even the costly de-saltation plants with our Pacific Ocean that that borders our state. Along with our mindful of not wasting water and conserving. In my neighborhood, once a year the property owners need to clear the weeds and dried brush around their properties to prevent the spread of fires. We need to invest how to do that in rural and state/national parks and forests to minimize the spread of fires by controlled (so it does not cause the start of a fire, by checking the weather and winds) burns. Also, the homeless that build fires to keep themselves warm during the winter. It will be interesting regarding the lack of water issue in the Palisades area that might be responsible to the excess of homes being destroyed, and if City's mismanagement on of water supply and function had a part in it. Yesterday, our mayor did not give any answers, the governor (as with other negative issues) flips the story and/or blame elsewhere, and the President spoken how he became a great, grandfather that day.

[@mbh2743]

The sad part is this could have been mitigated by proper Wildfire management. Southern California Burns every year. The pinyon Pines in the Angeles Crest forest need fire to release its seeds. In the 1950s 60s and 70s when I was a young kid we had fires every year but nothing like this Devastation because no one lived in the Hills Now The Hills are covered with homes. California is a semi-arid region. And all the people in La want green Lawns fancy trees fancy bushes at adds to the destruction of this fire. All my life I have questioned why they never take into consideration that this happens all the time

[@neldadavis2793]

My ex works on these rich and shameless but at this time I feel sorry form all of them. There were traitor homes wiped out in minutes. My kids grandkids and great grandkids are still there. 30 miles away from this

[@gordondry]

Thank the policies of the californian democrats for lacking forest management, water management and emergency services management. And thank those guys in black hoodies for playing with matches again.

[@LordLOC]

Of course it was the democrats fault, what else could it possibly be? Everything is a liberal's fault. Liberals made Taco Bell remove menu items, liberals made Playboy stop being Playboy. Democrats are to blame for everything in this country. That's how it goes, right? Or maybe it's the fact the LA area hasn't seen a single drop of rain since last April? Or the 100 mph winds?

[@jenniferheath6010]

Hi Kabir, There is no water. None in the hydrants either. California is sending the water from the mountains out to the ocean to save a tiny fish. Their needs to be some common sense!

[@grantlow6392]

Nonsense

[@rubroken]

Good grief. Los Angeles has nothing to do with saving the snail dart in NORTHERN California. The hydrants did lose pressure from the vast volumes of water needed to fight these fires. Los Angeles Water & Power worked overtime to try to pump water and refill the water tanks and regain pressure. You don't know what you're talking about, foo

[@mildredpierce4506]

@jenniferheath6010 you don’t know what you’re talking about

[@CKaffeineIVStat]

There’s water but. It enough water pressure due to need outweighing how the water is pumped through the system.

[@rubroken]

@@CKaffeineIVStat I would reply if I knew what you were saying. LA's biggest water problem is with aging pipelines. They are expensive to replace and unduly disrupt traffic(almost all pipelines run under the streets

[@purplepumkinX]

Most of these people affected in LA or celebrities or are well beyond their means to be able to bounce back from this situation like nothing happened. Given, I genuinely hope everyone and their pets and loved ones are safe but you still have workers finding dead bodies in WNC with no help🤷🏻‍♀️. No one really needs Los Angeles anyways. Glad they're getting plenty of media coverage..

[@buddystewart2020]

So available material to feed the fire is higher than in the past? Golly, it's almost like, the local govts haven't responsibly managed their forestry responsibilities.

[@lancekirkwood7922]

Los Angeles area is still under drought, having only 10% of their normal rains. How do you manage that? Do a dance??

[@buddystewart2020]

@@lancekirkwood7922 ... How indeed. Looks like it's time for you to do a little research.

[@lancekirkwood7922]

@@buddystewart2020 perhaps you should.

[@devinjenkins4752]

Irony being this is annually occurring in Cali. Ain’t none new but the view.

[@mildredpierce4506]

Wildfires happen in other states but no one talks about them when they happen.

[@devinjenkins4752]

@ Given their occurrence vs Cali it’s no comparison outside of Texas which is mostly unused dry vegetation with minimal housing/human population or dense fauna. The MAJORITY, by far, of homes and fauna displacement is from California. The largest is Alaska but that fire burned unused land which regrows and there were plenty of locations for animals to go in the surrounding areas. California has condensed forests which cause mass death in animals as there’s nowhere really to go. As far as deadly goes Cali leads

[@Phoenixphyre001]

Google: 15314 Sunset Blvd. Pacific Palisades CA to see what that street looked like pre-fire. I grew up in Southern CA (now in MA), and it breaks my heart that some friends have lost their homes. It is incredible that the fire hydrants were devoid of water.

[@dianajemison105]

"water availability was impacted at higher elevations, which affected some fire hydrants due to limited replenishment of water tanks in those areas" "The extreme demand caused a slower refill rate for these tanks,"