BlueSmoke said:

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Aust Ag said:

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Swan Song said:

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Is this for real?

🚨 WTF?

Firefighters arguing with each other during pacific palisades fire.

Firefighter crew asks why the historical building is more important to protect versus the high school and homes he’s currently focused on.

Response given:
“Our tax dollars pay for it you little… pic.twitter.com/ar82b1krGL

— Frank Fighting For Faith & Freedom 🕊️🇺🇸 (@thinktankfranks) January 8, 2025

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Sounds like the historical building is the Getty Museum.

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Didn't the Getty do something smart a few years back and employ ranchers and hundreds of goats to eat all the surrounding vegetation to create a buffer around it?

I know they did this in the past, and am I just too dense to think that this could be done at scale throughout the canyons at MINIMAL cost? These fires are fueled by dense underbrush that hundreds or thousand of goats could beat back if done consistently.

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That's the fight. Nature preservationists feel removal of surrounding vegetation can potentially harm spotted owl or some rare ground gray squirrels...

AgOutsideAustin said:

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$700 bucks each is the going rate correct ?

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We all know this will be (D)ifferent.

Rick Caruso, billionaire real estate developer, called into LA local news:

“This is like a third world country… there is no water coming out of the fire hydrants. LA Mayor Karen Bass is on a foreign trip to Ghana.”pic.twitter.com/iOjXPkWcko

— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) January 8, 2025

Swan Song said:

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From news today…

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Well, that jackass has his priorities in order, doesn't he?

Eaton fire on the east side is moving in Altadena.

And LA mayor Karen Bass has been in Ghana, Africa for their presidential inauguration…
After a google search, I now understand the problem in LA. SMH

Wondering why they don't pump ocean water for their fire hydrants and pumper trucks. Would need pumps and hoses

And I assume she's traveling on the tax payer's dime.

I feel for these folks but it's like living in Florida on the coast and then deciding you don't want people like DeSantis and then wondering why everything is a disaster after a hurricane. They voted for this overwhelmingly, like +30-50 Dem. They wanted the fire chief to care more about DEI than fighting fires. They wanted to stop spending on the infrastructure necessary to be prepared for the natural disasters that are going to occur in their geography. The same things that make it beautiful there are what make it so vulnerable. This isn't climate change, this is geography. If you don't plan for protecting against disasters they are going to come hard at you until you decide to start planning for them.

Hopefully some of them wake up and it definitely sucks for people to lose their homes and businesses. There is also a minority of folks there that are basically trapped by all the liberals and it sucks for them too. Hopefully they start to figure it out and change, it can happen if they choose to. If not this will just continue to be an ongoing problem.

Ag_07 said:

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And I assume she's traveling on the tax payer's dime.

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For Sure. Grifting.

I'm sure he's cared about the tribal influences on America since his earliest days as a Senator from... Delaware. Whatever, time to sell the Federal lands.

From ucla

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Office of Emergency Management
Dear Bruin Community:
UCLA is open for classes and regular operations today, Wednesday, Jan. 8. The fires in the Los Angeles region do not pose an immediate danger to the campus, and at present, air quality levels in Westwood remain within normal levels. Geffen Academy, UCLA Lab School and our Early Care and Education Programs are open; UCLA Extension also remains open.
We are continuing to closely monitor the impact of fires in the region and are actively coordinating with the Los Angeles Fire Department and other municipal partners. We also have operational teams on standby should anything require immediate attention on campus.

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Fire fighters aren't fighting this fire. The conditions are so bad there is no way they can be fought now that its in the suburbs. You cannot create fire breaks, which would also be useless due to the wind speeds. Fire can move at 50mph and the fuel is now homes.

All they can do is get people out of the way and protect hospitals, refineries and toxic dumps to avoid making things even worse. 100% out of control and they don't have access to the tools they need due to high winds over night.

Seems as through they are using freeways as fire breaks. The 210 is keeping Sylmar from the Hurst fire. If it jumps the freeway, look out.

Hubert J. Farnsworth said:

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Mas89 said:

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And LA mayor Karen Bass has been in Ghana, Africa for their presidential inauguration…
After a google search, I now understand the problem in LA. SMH

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Why in the heck would a US cities mayor need to be at some African countries presidential inauguration?

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Trade Mission! Promoting LA! Recruiting!
Former Houston mayor Sly Turner did this for many years. Africa, Cuba, Japan, China, Brazil, Europe, etc. One international trip after another until term limits recently ended his terms as mayor. Taxpayer funded international trips with his city staff.
Now he is the new US Congressman, appointed to replace Shelia Jackson Lee after she died.

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Now he is the new US Congressman, appointed to replace Shelia Jackson Lee after she died.

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Appointed? he wasn't in a special election?

nortex97 said:

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LOL. If you see a news story in any way similar to this regarding essential services in a city you live in…move far away.

Los Angeles recently appointed its very 1st female, LGBTQ+ fire chief with the goal of recruiting more women & gay firefighters pic.twitter.com/h8vfAYkbiV

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 8, 2025

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And the reporter is wearing a Covid mask when he's interviewing her at her desk. Too LA.

But she spills the beans on the fact that there's never enough "diversity".

Who thinks FEMA won't help anyone who voted blue???

AggieDruggist89 said:

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Langley said:

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Why do you always put a smirking emoji? Kinda weird in a Thread like this

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It's not a smirk.

It's a small smile saying it's going to be ok. Maybe because I've lived in CA for about 2 decades and have lived through wild fires every year. If it's a smirk then because I know what's coming, doubling of my home owners insurance. And I'm back in CA for 3 weeks with one of the primary objectives of fireproofing my property.

Wild fire is actually a natural part of CA climate. Some plants require it to grow. Here's an interactive map that shows historical fires of CA. And the area on fire now actually gets fire a lot. I do hope everyone comes out safe and no one gets hurt.

Fire is destructive. But I've seen the nature recover from it. Right in front of my eyes. Like I said, the CARR fire in 2018 came within 1.5 miles of my house. It devastated our area. But 7 years later, we can hardly tell here was fire in many places.

I'm hoping the fire goes out with minimal destruction.

https://projects.capradio.org/california-fire-history/#5/37.37/-122.6

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Thanks for sharing that map. Pretty interesting.

Logos Stick said:

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nortex97 said:

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LOL. If you see a news story in any way similar to this regarding essential services in a city you live in…move far away.

Los Angeles recently appointed its very 1st female, LGBTQ+ fire chief with the goal of recruiting more women & gay firefighters pic.twitter.com/h8vfAYkbiV

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 8, 2025

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Yeah, I don't get it. Conservatives choose to stay there despite the liberal, woke incompetence in their government. James Woods is about to lose his house. He's a very smart, hardcore conservative. He could have easily sold his house to an insane lefty and moved away long ago. SMH.

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Perhaps they have the financial ability to be able to get more out of living there than the political things they hate?

Logos Stick said:

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fc2112 said:

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So a big supplier of ours in Sylmar is closed due to the Hurst fire being about 1.5 miles north of their plant.

Manager there told me the one good thing about this fire is all the people living in their RVs along the street in front of their plant have found away to get them running and gone someplace else.

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Yeah, I saw a vid of miles of RVs camped along the side of a highway, not in an RV park. Are people living in those things as a permanent resident on the roadside?

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Sadly, those are permanent residences.
I'm very surprised that any of them are able to move under their own power.

aggiehawg said:

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Just saw a woman, mid 30s maybe early 40s complaining that she couldn't get her car out of the garage because her garage door opener was electric and the power was off.

So dumb.

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Jesus. Even if that were true, ram it

aggiehawg said:

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Just saw a woman, mid 30s maybe early 40s complaining that she couldn't get her car out of the garage because her garage door opener was electric and the power was off.

So dumb.

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Yes, dumb. But you know Hawg, some people have no idea how things work.

Hope all these EVs were fully charged.

Statement from resident Biden on the California wildfires… pic.twitter.com/ODUJLgKhoM

— Politi_Rican 🇵🇷 𝕏 🇺🇸 (@TheRicanMemes) January 8, 2025

Logos Stick said:

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nortex97 said:

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LOL. If you see a news story in any way similar to this regarding essential services in a city you live in…move far away.

Los Angeles recently appointed its very 1st female, LGBTQ+ fire chief with the goal of recruiting more women & gay firefighters pic.twitter.com/h8vfAYkbiV

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 8, 2025

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Yeah, I don't get it. Conservatives choose to stay there despite the liberal, woke incompetence in their government. James Woods is about to lose his house. He's a very smart, hardcore conservative. He could have easily sold his house to an insane lefty and moved away long ago. SMH.

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Being LGBT++++ should not stop you from being a good fire fighter. Being WOKE will.

I will echo,

Yes, I've been doing chores around the house up north state CA, and it is beautiful and conservative here.

But we spent the weekend with 10 of our buddies in a golf outing in Monterey - pebble beach (Poppy) and spent a day in Carmel by the Sea (Most unique and best city in the USA imo). There's nothing like it.

All the smoke detectors are going off in our house and transmitting to our iPhones.

I couldn’t believe our lovely little home in the hills held on this long. It feels like losing a loved one.

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) January 8, 2025

aggiehawg said:

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Just saw a woman, mid 30s maybe early 40s complaining that she couldn't get her car out of the garage because her garage door opener was electric and the power was off.

So dumb.

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Back in July during Hurricane Beryl, one of my neighbors moved her car into the garage to protect it from the storm.

After the storm knocked down her fence and a tree, her car was trapped in the garage. Kind of funny.