Live updates: Brush fire burns in Pacific Palisades as Santa Ana winds blast Southern California - Live video at link

[George Lucas]

Natives knew how to manage and set controlled fires, the state of California refuses to do it. I watched the Oakland Hills from San Francisco go up right before I left across the bay; we could feel the heat and had hot ash occasionally hit the pier and that's Northern California. A desert area is far more susceptible to this kind of fire. They know but will never learn.

This is dumb. Indians didn’t live in the forest. They did not have fire trucks.

Controlled fires have been a thing for millennia for a reason, but those are verboten in California.

There are literally controlled fires in the state every day.

The fire started in the woods just outside of a heavily-populated area on a perfectly clear day (no lightning). What else could it be? If it was just a freak occurrence of nature why has it never happened here before?

It’s dry and windy. Sparks can be created by static electricity in these conditions.

Updates: wind has really died down. Not sure where the ‘80–90 mph’ gusts the forecasts are talking about were. There are areas that are windy but it’s not the huge wind event of the century we were getting warned about.

The real problem is the dryness with Santa Anas starting again on Friday. That means no natural help for at least a week. Thankfully concrete doesn’t combust.

 

[pikachudidnothingwrong]

Here's a shot of what the Palisades area looks.. or looked like:



A LOT of damage if those shots from the air are correct and of what it looks like.

 

[SaidNoOneEver]

To be fair, I’ve seen a brake pad bust in half from overheating and land in roadside brush from a passing truck before. All sorts of shit can happen.

It's possible it could be a blown transformer as has started previous CA fires during summer heatwaves. Except right now it's January and 60F in LA right now.

 

[The Nothingness]

You think the LA mayor will get heat (pun not intended) for being in Africa like how Ted Cruz got heat for being in Mexico when Texas had an ice storm?

This is a rhetorical question by the way.

 

[tehpope]

Trump warned them years ago. But did they listen. No.

 

[AnotherPleb]

There are literally controlled fires in the state every day.

If California did controlled burns and practiced forest management like they should they would be in a less deadly situation.

 

[Return of the Freaker]

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Trump warned them years ago. But did they listen. No.

Ackshually this is drumpf's fault cause he's dumb and insane and he thinks forests have tile floors

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

Don’t worry guys the DEI heroes are on the case!

 

[pikachudidnothingwrong]

To be fair, I’ve seen a brake pad bust in half from overheating and land in roadside brush from a passing truck before. All sorts of shit can happen.

True.


Also found this on wiki:



That was after the first big fire started but still.

 

[SaidNoOneEver]

Ackshually this is drumpf's fault cause he's dumb and insane and he thinks forests have tile floors

Good thing Biden still has three more weeks as President to get disaster recovery going properly. This is the Vice President's neighborhood too so they'll surely hit a home run here.

 

[Strangolapreti]

Trump warned them years ago. But did they listen. No.

Maybe we should get enviromentalists out of California and give them a free tour to india. How long you think it would take before they start protesting in order to have that place nuked?

 

[Nameless One]

Hoping city slicker parts of California resembles Mad Max even more by 2050. LA is a shithole, the landmark deserved it.

 

[Maori Kiwifruit Growers]

why is the mayor of la in ghana?

 

[tehpope]

why is the mayor of la in ghana?

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is nowhere to be found because she is attending the inauguration of Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama in Accra, Ghana.

https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/evacuate-now-fire-tears-through-upscale-pacific-palisades-los-angeles

tldr

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

why is the mayor of la in ghana?

She was chosen for some presidential envoy for some reason.

 

[he who has thus come/gone]

why is the mayor of la in ghana?

Because black people.

 

[Maori Kiwifruit Growers]

Because black people.

Wait actually? Is it because muh blacks?

 

[Balanced Boomer]

The most surprising part for me about all of this is that Mahoney from Police Academy actually owned a mansion.

 

[Sneed Lurker]

why is the mayor of la in ghana?

Because she's a nigger with no loyalty to the gay whiteys in California who vooted her in

 

[cans.wav]

So far we aren't hearing about roads full of burnt out cars full of dead bodies like during the Camp Fire (quote me later if this turns out to be poorly aged) so while this might be burning a lot of buildings, the fact it's a populated area might mean more people took the evacuations seriously for once.