The thing to remember about the LA fires is this is not new.

[AZrailwhale]

The force of the winds contributed to the fire being spread and out of control straining resources.

More water and management would not have stopped it. Maybe having engines on standby in areas.

but it's all about a blame game with you troglodytes, isn't it

Santa Anas are common, hundred mph plus Santa Anas aren't. The last time was the Thomas Fire back in 2017 that burned 440 square miles.

 

[Dante]

Santa Anas are common, hundred mph plus Santa Anas aren't. The last time was the Thomas Fire back in 2017 that burned 440 square miles.

The blame game is not helping anyone.

Our society is sick

 

[initforme]

The blame game is not helping anyone.

Our society is sick

I remember rand Paul delaying and fighting against funding 911 responders. It took jon Stewart to get it passed. There should never be delay of one second to hand out money to people who need it through no fault of their own in a nation awash in money

 

[westwall]

Tom Sito:
The thing to remember about the LA fires is this is not new. Prairie scrub and underbrush have been drying out and burning since the Ice Age. The pioneers used to call them prairie fires. The strong dry autumnal winds similar to the Sirocco or Mistral was named Santa Anna Winds in the 1880s. In 1946 Raymond Chandler wrote a story set during one of these called Red Wind. Joan Didion wrote about them also.

The difference this time is Climate Change. We had two wet years which grew a lot of wild scrub followed by the driest year on record. With climate change the winds are much stronger than normal, almost hurricane force. Whether this fire storm is just a one time thing or represents a new normal remains to be seen.


Wow! To think it's FaceBook that is needed to set so many people straight on the facts of life. I remember learning why The Blue Hills outside of Boston are named "The Blue Hills." It was first thought by English colonists that it was haze from fires. Smoke. Why? Many areas in the "New World" were forested and nature deals with it all with fire.

Fires are part of nature. No preventing them all.

Climate change has ZERO to do with these fires, and how terrible they are.

Their destruction is down incompetence on the part of the government officials who are supposed to prepare for these fires.

They didn't, and LA burned because of it.

These lying bastards, bleating about climate change are trying to absolve themselves from their failures.

 

[westwall]

The blame game is not helping anyone.

Our society is sick

Thanks to assholes, like you.

 

[Independent thinker]

Tom Sito:
The thing to remember about the LA fires is this is not new. Prairie scrub and underbrush have been drying out and burning since the Ice Age. The pioneers used to call them prairie fires. The strong dry autumnal winds similar to the Sirocco or Mistral was named Santa Anna Winds in the 1880s. In 1946 Raymond Chandler wrote a story set during one of these called Red Wind. Joan Didion wrote about them also.

The difference this time is Climate Change. We had two wet years which grew a lot of wild scrub followed by the driest year on record. With climate change the winds are much stronger than normal, almost hurricane force. Whether this fire storm is just a one time thing or represents a new normal remains to be seen.


Wow! To think it's FaceBook that is needed to set so many people straight on the facts of life. I remember learning why The Blue Hills outside of Boston are named "The Blue Hills." It was first thought by English colonists that it was haze from fires. Smoke. Why? Many areas in the "New World" were forested and nature deals with it all with fire.

Fires are part of nature. No preventing them all.

That's the whole point! This is not new, except for the high levels of incompetence when they knew the state has a problem with wildfires.

 

[Mac-7]

The difference this time is Climate Change.

Wrong

Climate change didnt cause a major water reservoir serving Pacific Palisades to be bone dry

Or $17 million cut from the fire dept budget that caused scores of fire trucks to be deadlined because there were no mechanics to fix them

There’s more, but you get the idea