Greater Los Angeles wildfires (Ongoing)

[Admiral Ackbar]

Da hell...the wind really did that to ALL of those semis?

The containers are not aerodynamic and are basically sails. Driving through Palm Springs and Riverside, the winds reach 100 easily. Carrying all that weight, those trucks tip over and it's hard for the driver to correct.

 

[Admiral Ackbar]

A lot of mofos gonna have to resign or get fired
Fire hydrants not working properly is some third World Country shyt
Negligence all day


P.s it looks like they stopped the Eaton fire from reaching the Southern California communication towers
That would have fukked things.up even worse

Fire hydrants have water only if the public water supply pumps work. If the fires destroy the pumps? No water.

 

[MenacingMonk]

The number of faults on the power grid near three of the major Los Angeles County fires skyrocketed in the hours before the blazes began, according to a company that monitors electrical activity.

Bob Marshall, the chief executive of Whisker Labs, said in an interview with The Times that the areas near the Eaton, Palisades and Hurst fires all saw massive increases in faults in the hours leading up to the fires. Faults on the power grid are caused by tree limbs hitting electrical wires or wires hitting one another, among other causes. Each fault causes a spark.

The fires together have destroyed or damaged more than 9,000 structures. Power equipment has caused destructive wind-driven California wildfires in the past, but L.A. city and county fire officials say their investigators have not determined what sparked any of the fires.

“What I cannot say is one of these faults sparked the fire. I don’t know that,” Marshall said in an interview. “But it just takes one to start the fire.”

Data shared with The Times, but not yet released publicly, showed the increase in faults.

In the area of the Palisades fire, in the hour before the fire started, there were 25 faults on the grid. In the hour that the fire started, there were 18 faults, according to Whisker Labs’ data.

The Eaton fire had even more faults. In that area, there were 50 faults in the hour that the fire started.

At the Hurst fire, there were 51 faults the hour the fire was reported. That came after four hours of continuous high fault levels. There were 120 faults in the four previous hours.

That means that despite the sparks flying in the area, over the previous four hours energy was left on.

“What we know is the lines were not de-energized prior to the ignition of fire,” Marshall said. “The problem is the utilities don’t have the sensors to know this is occurring. This sensor network is sophisticated and sensitive. We have more information than they do. Our objective, we’ve been trying to get utilities to pay attention to the data because it’s valuable to know when the grid is stressed.”

In all three of those areas, faults in the days leading up to the fires were negligible, with only a few occurring.


Whisker Labs monitors electrical data using its Ting sensors, which monitor about 14,000 homes in the Los Angeles area. The monitors help Angelenos stop electrical fires in their homes, but taken together provide information on the entire power grid.


“So when something bad happens on grid — a power outage or surge — we see that because it’s measured by many sensors,” Marshall said.

Robert Garcia, the Angeles National Forest fire chief for the U.S. Forest Service, said at a news conference that the cause of the Eaton fire remains under investigation but there are a number of factors to consider.

“There’s a number of different activities in [Eaton Canyon],” Garcia said. “There was public in there when it was occurring. And there’s power lines [that] run through there. So we have teams looking at all [possible starts].”

L.A. fire officials say the cause of the Palisades fire is also still under review.

Faults on power grid skyrocketed in hours before L.A. firestorm began

The number of faults on the power grid near three of the major Los Angeles County fires skyrocketed in the hours before the blazes began, according to a company that monitors electrical activity.

www.latimes.com

 

[GunRanger]

Isn’t hidden hills where Drake and a lot of famous folks live?

Getting close, most are in Calabasas which is next door

Drake is selling the ‘Yolo Estate,’ his Hidden Hills party compound

After buying a Beverly Crest mansion for more than $70 million, hip-hop star Drake is selling three Hidden Hills homes for a combined $22.2 million.

www.latimes.com

 

[HollywoodP]

Looks homeless, if it's an illegal homeless watch out

If it's an illegal homeless...he was purposefully planted pawn for the incoming administrations plan.

 

[Jaylen Tatum]

 

[Teal.]

Wild fires in December is wild

 

[Damnshow]

Meanwhile bunch of big companies are donating millions to bytch ass trump inauguration when they should rather send that money to LA to fight the fire and show it to Americans as a kind human gesture.

It's not just rich folks suffering from wildfire. Plenty of non rich people getting affected by this.