Greater Los Angeles wildfires (Ongoing)

[tuckgod]

Which is why they should have pushed their government for more fire-suppression systems and less Botox clinics.

You sound extremely poor

 

[xXMASHERXx]

Excuse my ignorance if he's right, but at work we were talking about the fires happening in LA and how bad it is, and one of my coworkers is trying to convince me that "Los Angeles" itself has fires every year.

I told him the actual city is experiencing this and it's not normal, he thinks people living in Los Angeles should've known because LA has fires every year.

I'm not even shocked anymore.

Yes SoCal has fires every year but what a lot of people are missing is that we have some of the strongest winds ever seen. That is why these fires have been so devastating. The wind amplified the spread of the fires as well as made it nearly impossible for emergency services to contain them.

 

[FaTaL]

Yes SoCal has fires every year but what a lot of people are missing is that we have some of the strongest winds ever seen. That is why these fires have been so devastating. The wind amplified the spread of the fires as well as made it nearly impossible for emergency services to contain them.

100 mph winds is crazy

 

[levitate]

You sound extremely poor

Nah, we’re doing OK.

We’re at about $300k household income. Far from rich, but bills are paid. And we have working fire suppression systems.

 

[tuckgod]

Nah, we’re doing OK.

We’re at about $300k household income. Far from rich, but bills are paid. And we’ve have working fire suppression systems.

Put that in Zillow and see what it would get you and your Qween in LA

 

[levitate]

Put that in Zillow and see what that would get you and your Qween in LA

I don’t live in LA.



Would like to visit someday though…

 

[tuckgod]

I don’t live in LA.



Would like to visit someday though…

 

[jerniebert]

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/08/wildfire-threatens-karen-bass-extended-honeymoon-00197228?nname=playbook&nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&nrid=dc17af68-fbd6-4816-b542-880b5b9516f9&nlid=630318

Bass also took heat from far-left activists online, who accused the mayor of cutting the fire department’s budget in order to pay for a costly new contract with the city’s police. Also weighing in against her was Patrick Soon-Shiong, the politically idiosyncratic owner of the Los Angeles Times, who echoed the attack, posting on X that “the Mayor cut LA Fire Department’s budget by $23M.”

That assertion is wrong. The city was in the process of negotiating a new contract with the fire department at the time the budget was being crafted, so additional funding for the department was set aside in a separate fund until that deal was finalized in November. In fact, the city’s fire budget increased more than $50 million year-over-year compared to the last budget cycle, according to Blumenfield’s office, although overall concerns about the department’s staffing level have persisted for a number of years.

 

[JT-Money]

 

[Nomad1]

This is what happens when you dont take climate change seriously. Now with trumps rhetoric things like this will only get worse. Amerikkka is such a joke.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Mayne that's a lot of bread burned up

The one thing I hope comes from this is I hope they rebuild with more multi family housing. It can be luxury, etc, but it shouldn’t just be all big mansions. When Oakland had our big fire in the hills in 91, people rebuilt behemoth homes. Locked out the majority of people from buying up there until the past 15 years when one prices in some of the flat neighborhoods in North Oakland caught up

 

[Dillah810]

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Nah, we’re doing OK.

We’re at about $300k household income. Far from rich, but bills are paid. And we’ve have working fire suppression systems.

Adopt me

 

[BK The Great]

No Lakers games

 

[OJ Simpsom]

So a bunch of rich people lost their 2nd and 3rd homes.

I'm thinking steak for dinner.