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

[The Honkler Cometh]

Yes and no. There is no doubt at all the climate is drier and more dangerous because of Climate Change; but also other factors are in play because the area of naturally prone to it anyways. Fires will always happen there from the natural climate it was accustomed to; but the right fire at the right time is always a disaster waiting to happen.

Can we please just give this fag a pink triangle and be done with this?

 

[Kari Kamiya]

wtf.. James Woods' home survived?? Or at least not totally destroyed it seems.

https://x.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1877851867017015355

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Insurance isn't gonna cover for restoration, though, but happy for him he has something he can still repair.

 

[COME ON OUT YOU RAPIST]

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Where is this plan of action mentioned in the Pocket Guide?

If you ever wonder how people die during these events, realize that post got seven people (possibly more) who said "hmm yes... biking 400 miles through the woods during a fast-spreading fire. This will save my life."

 

[CEO of Gay]

How is such absolute insanity even possible?

Infinitely more than someone less insane can ever hope to possibly comprehend.

Heads should roll for this. Regular average citizens lost money, food, school days, all because some retard shot his wad too soon and flipped down the big red lever without asking permission.

I was going to guess the cause was a very old, badly maintained, hackily extended power grid that does not permit finer-grained shutdowns, but this makes sense too.

I will laugh if these hasty shutdowns leave them facing a blackstart situation, and unable to establish any cranking paths. I will laugh even harder if someone volunteering a portable generator to allow them to restart the grid gets prosecuted for violating anti-climate-change regulations. Punishing people for retarded technicalities when they are acting in good faith to make things better, especially if that good faith makes corrupt authorities look bad, is absolutely on model for this cluster fuck of a natural disaster.

 

[MrJokerRager]

A few more. I’m going to hold onto these whenever my family or acquaintances cry about Gaza. Not because I like Israel or care about the Middle East but my justification for not giving a shit about foreigners.
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Al Jazeera is a reminder of how subversive the Qatari government is.

Given these lot funded the HTS headchoppers in Syria and gave them positive PR.

 

[I glow in the dark]

Can we please just give this fag a pink triangle and be done with this?

I'm pretty sure only wignats and groypers ever get pink triangles, at least that's all who i see getting them.

 

[CryptoHermit]

These people just never turn the posturing off, they've always got to be at an 11 out of 10 in faggot underwittery. Why couldn't there have been a digital wildfire that removed all of Reddit from the Internet?

Reddit had to remove their site activity listings because Eglin Airforce Base was the 1 place with 100s of 1000s of users for a base of approx 2k at most. They command the 688th Cyberspace Wing, 690th Cyberspace Operations Group and 692nd Cyberspace Operations Squadron

 

[Space Faring Marsupial]

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https://x.com/RogerJStoneJr/status/1877210220897726935

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https://x.com/SheilaW80615659/status/1877685652151525542

Really makes you think.

I'm sure some people would have done it for nothing. The fish living would have just been a bonus.

 

[Michael Wade]

I occasionally wonder about what will happen to my games if there's an earthquake or a tree falls on the house or something. But the truth of the matter is they are piled high on a giant book case above where I sleep, so odds are they'd just kill me themselves. Fun, fun, fun.

If I lost everything in a fire or something id just buy a steam deck and use an emulator for life

Newsom is going to find a patsy somewhere.

He'll try but at this rate he's going to drag everyone down with him. If those fires reach san fran kiss his chances goodbye.

wtf.. James Woods' home survived?? Or at least not totally destroyed it seems.

https://x.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1877851867017015355

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Nice! That is a god given miracle. Nice to see some good news.

 

[Left Ass Cheek]

Reddit had to remove their site activity listings because Eglin Airforce Base was the 1 place with 100s of 1000s of users for a base of approx 2k at most. They command the 688th Cyberspace Wing, 690th Cyberspace Operations Group and 692nd Cyberspace Operations Squadron

That's very fitting, makes me wish other sites would publicly identify who their most active participants are. The astroturfing and obvious fed shit I've seen all over the internet since the early 2010s has me convinced that information circulation was tainted beyond repair well before AI and other supposed misinformation engines came into use. Sucks to see an AI image of a fake burning Hollywood sign conjured by some shitposter, but its much worse to be led astray by the "688th Cyberspace Wing."

Shame that this also means Reddit is never going anywhere.

 

[kobebyarlant]

It’s fascinating how similar this destructive whirlwind inferno is to the peaceful protests for racial justice from 4 years ago, yes those were entirely good?! So these fires should be supported and encouraged too, right?

 

[BradCarter]

the National Guard is not there to holocaust trannies.

One day inshallah.

 

[mold]

To give the lady credit she was the only voice in charge and doing something when this started. Her first move was to call in everybody. All leaves and schedules cancelled. All hands on deck. That alone saved a lot of lives. She got every firefighter she had on the streets and pulling people out of harms way. That was a degree of clear thinking nobody else in charge has displayed.

but she didn't sound the alarm when it would have done some good

and she didn't, for the same reason everyone else didn't

they are careerists, they value their shot at a big power job in DC more than any single thing else

including their own safety, because they are also very, very stupid

 

[Drip Torch]

Yes and no. Most Fire Departments are required to test the hydrants annually. It's one of the slow day busiwork tasks that truck crews do. You go to each hydrants, put a flow meter on one of the ports and open it up to flow into the street for a minute.

But testing the hydrants one at a time for a minute would not have uncovered how low the reservoirs were. Or that the system could not hold pressure for more than an hour of fire fighting. Only the water authority could see that.

From what I am gathering is water reserves were quickly depleted, which makes sense given the high density and numbers of structures. Older city water infrascture is likely, because every city lets their system go to shit over time and doesn't spent the money to get the systems updated.
Ocean water is being used. Ive seen people asking why ocean is not being used. Yes, but the city fire hydrant system is not connected to ocean. But most people don't pay attention enough too see.

 

[Tonty]

I'm pretty sure only wignats and groypers ever get pink triangles, at least that's all who i see getting them.

What is wignat and groyper? Is it like Hall and Oates?

 

[Haramburger]

To add a little more perspective. The $20 mil cuts she made were in large part to the funds used to Surge in additional help in an emergency like this. The funds that hire the professional wildfire teams. The aircraft. The funds that fly volunteers in and house and feed them. All of the city firefighters that were ordered recalled to work on Wednesday? She cut the money to pay for all of that. They’ve been working for 3 days strait off the clock.

wouldn‘t an audit of LA finances be interesting to see where it’s all going?

I was listening to Last Podcast On The Left's recent stream of the Black Dahlia Murder and one of the in-depth angles they cover is LA's corruption in the 40's(and back farther, and how it effectively never really stopped) but mobsters/gangsters had a culture shock coming to LA from the east & midwest in that they(the criminals) had to pay protection money to the police to operate, it was backwards. The entire police force was corrupt from the top-down, and mayoral officials took kickbacks to give test answers for civil service promotions. It was interesting to listen to, and have already fresh in the back of my mind upon seeing this total mismanagement of the fires this week.

The Black Dahlia Murder was inevitable/unstoppable, but after investigation it remains an unsolved mystery because of the rampant corruption at every level of law enforcement, government, and the private citizens that made & make LA a total hellhole to live in.

 

[oh no its pipkun]

Liberalism is a mental illness

More like central planning is a mental illness.

 

[Drip Torch]

Can we please just give this fag a pink triangle and be done with this?

Explain then why fires are getting more common and more intense. You must be an expert on this subject.

Or

You are confusing buzzwordy "Climate change" with erratic weather patterns and decreasing rainfall, or the fact that arid region native vegetation are adapted to wild fires because the natural environment burns frequently? That the vegetation is naturally oily and burns hotter than more traditional forested environments. Or that society has forgotten about wildfire awareness because of well meaning but overzealous forest fire prevention?

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

This popped up on my feed.

 

[likeacrackado]

Relevant to this thread. Feds pulling FEMA relief from Appalachia while coincidentally pledging to fund disaster relief in place of California's government.

Reminder you don't hate these people enough