Greater Los Angeles Wildfires

[lib123]

Sad to hear about people losing irreplaceable items like this. But also surprised that they didn’t keep them in fire proof safes? Or were these wildfires too powerful to protect items even in fireproof safes?

 

[Absolut]

It started from New Year’s Eve fireworks?

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

Was the Palisades Fire started by a rekindling of a blaze from New Year’s Day?

Firefighters stopped a fire from reaching Pacific Palisades before dawn on New Year’s Day. Could high winds have re-ignited undetected embers six days later?

www.sfchronicle.com

https://archive.fo/2Kc9a

In this composite: (Left) Don Griffin snapped a photo from his backyard of an early morning Jan. 1, 2025 fire in Pacific Palisades that started after reports of fireworks in the neighborhood. Firefighters held that fire to eight acres, but six days later on Jan. 7, 2025 he photographed the start of the deadly Palisades Fire in the same area. Experts said it's possible the first fire rekindled under strong winds.

PACIFIC PALISADES – Six days before waves of flames crashed into Pacific Palisades, another wildfire broke out on the same parched hillside.

Residents called 911 with reports of pre-dawn New Year’s Day fireworks and snapped pictures of the fledgling fire, which firefighters declared they had stomped out before it reached the neighborhood.

The Chronicle showed a pair of experts in wildfire investigations photos of both fire origins and their close proximity. The experts said severe winds could have rekindled smoldering embers from the earlier blaze and kickstarted the deadly Jan. 7 Palisades Fire – even six days later.

It could be months before investigators determine what started the Palisades Fire. The Los Angeles Fire Department has asked the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to lead the inquiry, and a Bureau spokeswoman said it was “way too early to make any determinations” about the fire’s cause.

Ginger Colbrun, an ATF spokesperson, cautioned against drawing conclusions prematurely and “repeating theories.”

Some of the American West’s worst wildfires began with undetected embers – including the 1991 Oakland hills fire, which killed 25 people, and the 2023 Maui firestorm that leveled the town of Lahaina.

Could it have happened again in this high-end Los Angeles suburb, where dry and rugged parklands surround million-dollar homes?

“Yes, without a doubt,” Terry Taylor, a retired wildland fire investigator who now works as an instructor, said of the possibility. “These sorts of fuels, especially when they are dry, the fire goes deep down into the root structure, so you may not get it out even if you dump water on it.”

Official government reports and neighbors’ observations put both fires’ origins in the same brushy hillside between the Summit neighborhood of Pacific Palisades and a trail running behind the neighborhood in Topanga State Park.

Los Angeles Fire Department spokesperson Margaret Stewart provided the Chronicle details about the New Year’s fire, but she declined to say whether the agencies were investigating a link between the fires.

“I can’t answer that, that would be part of the investigation,” Stewart said.

 

[JT-Money]

The pistachio billionaires who guzzle more water than all of fire-ravaged Los Angeles​

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...c00ns-water-usage-los-angeles-california.html

 

[altruicsense]

This is going to sound crazy, but do water missiles exist?

this is the most american sentence ever. congrats.

 

[FAH1223]

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

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[dora_da_destroyer]

Wow, the idiot who just had to have fireworks living out in a tinderbox like that needs to have his/her claim denied and that money shelled out to their neighbors

 

[getmoney310cpt]

Where will people go? How will they survive while rebuilding takes place? A home doesn’t just get built overnight and contractors/builders will be in excess demand as a result of thousands of homes being destroyed.

Most the rich that choose not to or can’t rebuild in the palisades will either go to the South Bay (Manhattan beach, Hermosa beach, Redondo beach) or South Orange County like Aliso Viejo Laguna Nigel etc

 

[BuddahMAC]

People underestimate the impact Jason Schwartzman has had on their media lives.

Also, whatever you think on him, good on Hasan for going to ground level and interviewing the inmates in the firefighting squads as opposed to everyone else grabbing clickbait clips on the fires and pushing their own agendas about them from afar off whatever articles cross their targeted algorithm. This tragic event has shown a spotlight on how completely inept they made the once effective tool of social media during natural disasters.

 

[Spliff]

Interested to see how they rebuild with 26 World Cup and 28 Olympics approaching.

 

[#1 pick]

If someone arson your house. Does that mean it's not a natural disaster and you can have an insurance claim on your home?

 

[#1 pick]

Why do you keep posting like she left during this and not before? You just willfully ignore reality?

They are being ignorant. Cruz bytch ass dipped and that's what he do

 

[#1 pick]

Why do you keep posting like she left during this and not before? You just willfully ignore reality?

I told you a couple of days ago, this site has members who have mentally regressed. I am not sure why or how but they did

 

[#1 pick]

Those are full size mountains. A lot of it is uninhabitable.

When I went to Nor Cal, I didn't realize how limited land was there. Most of the land is not habitable. Maybe in France it is but not in America where insurance is required