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

Cane Skretteburg said:
LA traffic is notoriously bad. Imagine what an actual escape from Los Angeles looks like logistically. Probably bad.

On a funnier note it seems like even the people who aren’t blatantly rooting for the fires ITT are secretly hoping it gets worse.
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dont fucking call me out like that, idk its the elected officals response that makes me want the whole thing to get bad enough to make people mad enough to never elect people like that again
 
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Cat tit bingo said:
I hope David lynch gets out safe, dudes 78, is house bound with emphysema and lives on mulholland dr. in the Hollywood hills. We could really use a weather report right now.
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Yeah, I've never heard bad thing about David Lynch. He always seemed like a cool dude. I hope that that he is able to make it out and have his house unskaved from the fires
 
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It's like learning about the Titanic. "You see, they thought nothing was gonna happen so they didn't have enough lifeboats and the guy who was supposed to watch for icebergs was sleeping and they basically ignored a bunch of safety regulations because nobody thought it could ever sink."

"Well the didn't have any water in the hydrants and they sent all their equipment to Ukraine and hired a pride parade instead of a fire department and didn't follow safety protocols because nobody thought all of Los Angeles could never catch on fire."
 
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If this bitch’s career isn’t totally sunk after this, I’ll have lost all faith in the democratic process.
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LA Mayor Karen Bass cut fire department funding by $17.6M, focused on homeless spending— months before wildfires turned city into hellscape​

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass faced scorching criticism Wednesday as it was revealed she cut the city’s Fire Department budget by $17.6 million ahead of this week’s devastating fires – as she prioritized funds for its massive homeless population that largely went unspent, according to a report.

The cut was the second largest in Bass’ 2024-25 fiscal budget, city figures show – and it wasn’t even the gutting she wanted.

If she had it her way, the LAFD budget would have been slashed by $23 million.

LA budgeted $837 million for the Bravest in fiscal year 2023-2024 — which was shockingly 65% of the $1.3 billion slated for the homeless, according to Fox News.

A city comptroller study found that nearly half of that funding went unused, according to the outlet.

Her budget cuts resurfaced as the LAFD issued a rare plea asking off-duty firefighters to join the battle against three massive wildfires burning across the city, which were kicked up Tuesday by 100 mph Santa Ana winds and have proceeded to grow by the hour.

At least 70,000 people have been ordered to evacuate from their homes as the fire has become the most destructive in the city’s history within just a day.

“It’s all about leadership management, that we’re seeing a failure of, and all these residents are paying the ultimate price for that,” said Rick Caruso, an LA developer who lost the city’s 2022 mayoral race to Bass.

“This is INSANE,” she said.

Elon Musk, who Trump has tapped to serve in his cabinet, even chimed in and called Bass “utterly incompetent.”

Bass finally returned to Los Angeles Wednesday, where she met with California Gov. Gavin Newsom amid the torched rubble as flames still burned uncontained across the city.

As her plane touched down, Bass refused to respond when a Sky News reporter asked if she regretted cutting the Fire Department budget, traveling to Ghana, or whether she had any words of apology to the citizens of Los Angeles.

“Madame Mayor, have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today who are dealing with this disaster?” reporter David Blevins, standing feet away, repeatedly asked Bass as she looked blankly ahead.

And some Angelenos are waiting for answers.

“We have questions. I know where I am, but I don’t know where my mayor was when this was happening,” one furious resident who was forced to evacuate her home told Fox News.

“I’m born and raised in Los Angeles, I spend my life worrying about when the earthquakes come, when the Santa Ana Winds come. I plan my trips around this. For someone to be in charge of my town… where were you?” the woman asked.

At least five people have been killed and more than 1,000 buildings destroyed across the three fires.

The Pacific Palisades Fire, burning on the northwest corner of LA, is over 15,000 acres. The Eaton Fire, to the northeast, is over 10,000 acres after starting the day at around 2,000. The Hurst Fire, north of the city, is around 500 acres.
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HTTP Error 404 said:
Not only that, apparently homeless junkies literally stole some of the hydrants for... god only knows what,
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Scrap metal is a junkies bread and butter when they aren't panhandling, and when you're a cracked out sub70iq you're not thinking things like "this may end up badly". In some places they have similar issues with things like manhole covers.
 
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Left Ass Cheek said:
What a sobering thought. Say what you will about the dystopia we live in now and Israel's wars and whatever, but I feel like 9/11 was something of a rare period of solidarity and patriotism for the United States in the wake of a tragedy. It didn't last, but it helped to shape the character of the country in the 2000s and 2010s, for better or worse. I wonder if this firestorm will end up being so bad that it becomes another culturally and societally transformative moment for America.
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lol fuck no. I don't care if the entire greater city of La turns into a mound of ash. I have literally nothing in common with those fuckers.
 
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Throwaway Email Enjoyer said:
Insurers have insurers of their own, so the extent to which you'll be affected is contingent on the final bill that is going to be allocated to society. If it's too much for the insurer to handle, some of it will be taken by those reinsurers according to their contract. If it's a true clusterfuck who knows who'll have to foot the bill, or if the State will have the political will to bail them out.
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time to turn the ol' money printer back on
 
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