Over 12% of Los Angeles Has Burned With 12000+ Houses Destroyed and 50,000+ Houses at Risk

18 thoughts on “Over 12% of Los Angeles Has Burned With 12000+ Houses Destroyed and 50,000+ Houses at Risk”

1. The developers and rent seeking private equity vultures waiting for unrebuilt properties in the wings means home ownership in LA will fall dramatically, and a large population will migrate away as homeless.

2. Most pricy neighborhoods in LA burning like a southeast Asian squatter slum. Unbelivable. California had its day in the 1960s; downhill since.

   • This just accelerated what’s already been going on in Cali for decades. LA will never be rebuilt; it will just become less and less relevant.

3. The insult-to-injury is that the current Permit process here is one of the worst in the rich World, often taking years for simple residences to be approved with countless fees, delays, and overages that often are a signficant part of the total re-construction price and schedule. With rescinded and scaled down insurance coverages much of these neighborhoods wil be charred ruins well into the end of the decade. There is no way that this state will be Blue and this county/city DEI after this monster democrat-flavoured cl**rf**ck. Unions, city workers, sierra club, DEI organizations, other greenies, etc., — you better run for the hills, a grand lynching is at hand.

4. I think that we are seeing easy start of what is about to come. Things will get way, way worse as global warming progresses.

   We are seeing unprecedented fires, floods, extreme events as climate is different since oceans are warmer, land is warmer.

   I think there is no conspiracy to make our planet clean and victimize poor oil, coal lobby.
   There is just common sense, that things are not going in right direction and we will have to do something about it. Otherwise there will be lots of more environmental damages and that will harm civilization even more. Prevention is better that paying for consequences. There were some ideas of mass reforestation, iron fertilization but it seems after expensive covid outbreak and expensive war of Russia against the west changes in that direction were put aside.

   • This was from forest mismanagement.

     • Like majority of all fires right?

   • Climate change hasn’t enabled these fires to exist; it just makes them more likely to occur. Reducing climate change is a long term goal, but blaming the fires on climate change denies that the real problem was for public policy makers to completely ignore the issue (fires in big cities isn’t exactly a new idea). With or without climate change, this type of disaster is entirely preventable.

     • The logic of “more likely to occur” is deeply flawed. LA exists in an area that is desert that has been loaded up with all manner of combustible material while being densely populated. The risk of fire obviously increases.
       Proper vegetation management is a key – fire breaks, removal of debris in the understory, etc. This was only poorly done by those responsible for managing the situation. Also vital that the fire mains have sufficient water in the piping and water reservoirs. Another epic fail on the part of those managing the fire mitigation and suppression resources.
       Another key is having sufficient money to pay for the necessary fire protection measures. Hundreds of millions of dollars spent encouraging and providing for illegal migrants.
       The root cause of the catastrophe is clear. Utter incompetence by the ruling political class who are all democrats.
       I grew up in California (1950’s). At that time, competence was a key trait of those administering government efforts provided the citizens. That has been supplanted by the theatre-of-politically absurd.

       • I don’t see how that means my logic is ‘deeply flawed. I agree with most of what you said; blame lies on the public policy mismanagement of the ruling class. However I don’t deny that climate change makes these sort of catastrophes more likely to occur. Both things can be true.

   • “…Things will get way, way worse as global warming progresses.
     …There is just common sense…”

     Of course all the guys caught going around setting fires didn’t help(who paid them???). Nor the refusal to fill the reservoirs with water. They have, or had, perfectly reasonable ways to manage this. If they had had water they could have put them out. Even brush, they could have put them out.

     And good luck getting rid of the people responsible due to the extrodinary amount of voter fraud. My country is a third world country. It’s corrupt and incompetant people run it.

5. At least LA has a very diverse crew on the job! DEI for the win.

   • Did you see the interview of their Dep Chief of LAFD? When asked if she could carry someone’s husband out of a fire?
     Man…this is surreal.

     • Does the Deputy Chief need to carry a man?

     • Criticize the management and actions by all means but what an asinine question.
       I would guess that even most male fire chiefs are of an age where they would struggle to carry a typical US male out of a building. Maybe the fire depts should be run by body builders LOL.

       • If that’s the case, she could have answered exactly that. Instead she implied that it’s his fault for being stuck in the fire in the first place and is therefore not worthy of rescue. Which is utterly insane.

6. With 11~15% containment of the largest fires, firefighters and aircraft crews working non-stop, after 4+ days (counting from January 7) of that the capability of anyone to do anything about it should be approaching zero, while the fire area is not getting smaller.

   • The ‘good’ news is that all fires must stop when they run out of fuel…

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