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

[RodgerDodger]

hat was my first thought, tbh.

Cali-kiwis, is there any reason why the Eaton fire would be underreported other than "no one cares cuz lol poor"?

Eaton would appear to be where some of the horrifying deaths happened. Like the 66 year old guy found dead in the street with the garden hose still gripped in his hand from trying to save his house.

 

[cybertoaster]

The eastern half of Oregon is already desert.

Its gonna get worse, and went I mentioned the coast I meant a thin sliver of it, not the west half of the state.

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So the rumors about firetrucks being in a warehouse somewhere were true.

Well at least they are sending those back...

 

[Look--an Alien!]

Sure, why the hell not? Print another couple trillion dollars of our fiat funny money to slap a big inflationary bandaid on a likely IRREPARABLY DAMAGED area. What a fucking joke. Hey, while we're at it, why don't they just replace all those ruined homes with pods? THEN the proles will finally have to grovel for scraps and live in misery like the elites have always wanted!

 

[Anonitolia]

Wasn’t there like a flood or tornado just a few months ago?

putting it lightly

two enormous hurricanes, back to back, one of which almost completely wiped out Western NC. FEMA were explicitly directed not to help people there due to political affiliations, people who'd lost their homes had their replacement shelters torn down because they weren't "up to code", and now in the frigid winter season the tens of thousands of people who were affected by this disaster are being forced to sleep in tents while January weather and an enormous cold front freezes everything over.

 

[There She Glows]

I thought several homeowners were DROPPED from their insurance before the fire. Assuming the number is bigger than projected, a reckoning may soon happen again.

Not that I give a shit whether insurance covers celebrities for the loss of their 5th house but the only known number we have is for State Farm which comprises 70% of Palisades policies dropped all by itself so I'm assuming it will be higher.

 

[Executive Petrel]

Billions must fry.

 

[Anonitolia]

Hey, while we're at it, why don't they just replace all those ruined homes with pods? THEN the proles will finally have to grovel for scraps and live in misery like the elites have always wanted!

don't give them ideas asshole

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

No need for more volunteers because Californians turned out in droves to help furry friends,

Yeah it's really fucking easy to take care of pets you fucking faggot. People hate Californians because they don't help their fellow man. "I'm so charitable I raise puppies!" Meanwhile there are people overdosing outside your front door.

 

[KiwiFuzz2]

Klamath Dam Removal: ‘It’s an Environmental Disaster’

In the name of environmentalism, they're destroying the environment.

The Delta Smelt lives in the Delta, which is about 2/5ths of the way down the state.

The Klamath River is up by Oregon. Although there was initially some (expected) fish kill after the Klamath Dams were taken out, the river is healing and salmon have returned to parts of the river they haven't been in in a hundred years. The only people who live downstream from the Klamath Dams are Native Americans, who were also the people who pushed for this, so if their rez floods, they own it. None of that water was ever going to go to LA. The water politics of the Klamath Basin are their own special fuckery, but LA and the smelt don't factor in.

These two things have nothing to do with one another. They are about as close to one another as New York City and Richmond, Virginia, while LA is all the way down by Columbia, SC.

 

[YouGuysAren'tThatSmart]

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Give back the money too, you fucking coke head.

 

[SpiderBitch]

Fire got big. Sorry to those kiwis affected, hope you and your families and pets are okay.

Want to add that I saw a few suggested videos of crying celebrities who filmed their reaction to their homes burning down. Is it just me who found it quite distasteful? I’m pretty sure their insurance is good, and they have the means to rebuild. Filming yourself crying? Way to milk the situation.

It's especially tonedeaf when its someone like leo dicaprio or paris hilton who's burned down home was just one of the multiple homes they had on the side.

Especially paris hilton. Not only a net worth of 300 million but her daddy owns like 8000 different hotels, she will never have to worry about being unhoused literally ever

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

They people in the Palisades will get nearly all their money back. Too much political power in that area for the insurance company to play games.

Just get ready for sky high premiums.

You’d be surprised. Millionaires ain’t shit against the force of insurance companies - especially since many have no loans and probably skipped insurance because to was too expensive.

 

[Breadbassket]

Eaton Fire victim dies holding a hose, defending home​

One of the five confirmed fatalities from the destructive Eaton Fire was identified on Wednesday morning when his family found his body on the side of the road by their home – with a garden hose still in his hand.

According to his loved ones, 66-year-old Victor Shaw died trying to defend the home that had been in his family for nearly 55 years.

As of Wednesday night, Victor’s body was still on his family’s property in the 3000 block of Monterose Avenue as conditions were not yet safe enough for the coroner’s office to retrieve him


Victor Shaw, seen here in an undated photo, was identified by his family members as one of the 5 people who died in the Eaton Fire. (Shari Shaw)

Victor lived in that home with his younger sister, Shari Shaw, who said that she tried to get him to evacuate with her on Tuesday night as the fire moved toward them.

Those close to Victor said he had some health problems that prevented him from moving around very well.

As she was running out the door, Shari said Victor told her he wanted to stay behind and try to fight the fire.

“When I went back in and yelled out his name, he didn’t reply back, and I had to get out because the embers were so big and flying like a firestorm – I had to save myself,” Shari told KTLA’s Rick Chambers. “And I looked behind me, and the house was starting to go up in flames, and I had to leave.”

A family friend, Al Tanner, told KTLA that the next morning, they found Victor’s charred body on the side of the road with the hose.

“It looks like he was trying to save the home that his parents had for almost 55 years,” said Tanner.

“I fell to the ground, and I didn’t know – I didn’t want to look at him,” said Shari. “They just told me that he was lying on the ground and that he looked serene, as if he was at peace.”

As of early morning Thursday, the cause of the 10,600-acre Eaton Fire remained under investigation.

The Eaton Fire was one of four large, active wildfires in the Los Angeles area. The largest, the 17,234-acre Palisades Fire, destroyed an estimated 1,000 structures. A separate 855-acre fire, the Hurst Fire, burned in the L.A. neighborhood of Sylmar. A fast-moving fire in the Antelope Valley called the Lidia Fire has burned at least 348 acres and forced evacuations. Crews have made progress on the 43-acre Sunset Fire which forced rapid evacuations in the Hollywood Hills

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[Kheapathic]

Yeah it's really fucking easy to take care of pets you fucking faggot. People hate Californians because they don't help their fellow man. "I'm so charitable I raise puppies!" Meanwhile there are people overdosing outside your front door.

The problem with the majority of the homeless, is they're homeless by choice; the rest have legitimate mental issues and don't have a place in a group home or anything. Majority of them just want to panhandle, steal, and get high; they don't care about hygiene or anything, they do what they want when they want. It also doesn't help that a recent look at millions of dollars for a homeless program went nowhere; just most politician's pockets. You want to "help the homeless," volunteering at a soup kitchen and stuff like that is your best bet; money gets shuffled around and misused, and they're too dangerous to let into your home.

 

[SpergioLeonne]

Yeah it's really fucking easy to take care of pets you fucking faggot. People hate Californians because they don't help their fellow man. "I'm so charitable I raise puppies!" Meanwhile there are people overdosing outside your front door.

They’re convinced that doing nothing IS helping, that’s the California way.

How could they be so mean as to expect someone to suffer withdrawal?

 

[You're MDNWU]

Upside to having rebuild an entire city is that they're already full of illegals for all the construction work.

 

[John Badman]

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"50 fire starts have been ended"
"three current fires"
"water shortage?... Utilities turned off electricity so lines wouldn't fall and start fires"
"sending all possible resources... 400 firefighers... 30 helicopters and planes... 8 C130s"
"500 wildfire ground clearing members"
"Canada"
"winds are likely to continue until next week"
"FEMA has been working with the state"
loses thought while talking about firefighters are heros
"God made man then he made a few firefighters, to run into the flames"
"you fire away"


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"this is an urgent matter"
"what we have seen is apocalyptic"
"extremely dynamic, very much in play, and to some degree unpredictable, because we are literally waiting to see which way the wind... blows"
"[firefighters] working 12 hour even longer shifts"
"this will have an impact for months and years to come"
"many insurance companies have canceled insurance for a lot of the families who have been effected"
"Many of the families will not have the resources"
Kamala explains what a firefighter is

"no, turn it back to me [Biden]"
"the a look, I've talked to a lot of [politicians in the region]"
"chief why don't you fire away"

Fire away Jack, put the dang fire away man!

 

[General Emílio Médici]

Biden Surges Aid to California to Address ‘Catastrophic’ Fires
Bloomberg (archive.ph)
By Josh Wingrove
2025-01-09 22:07:01GMT

Biden says federal funding to cover 100% of costs for 180 days

Compare the response time to East Palestine, Maui and North Carolina.

 

[#FF0000]

Via LA Scanner:

Palisades fire is at 19,978 acres. 0% contained

 

[Crocodylus Acutus]

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I have ordered all firetrucks donated in 2022 that we can still find in good order to be sent back to California as soon as possible!

Lmao, how many of these firetrucks were bombed out by the Russkies, or used as personnel carriers and are now stranded in a muddy ditch somewhere forgotten? I'm sure they are all in tip top shape, thanks Zelensky (never mind the fact that they shouldn't be there in the first place)