Multiple wildfires break out across LA...

Daily Mail UK ^ | 11 October 2019 | Mary Kekatos and Amelia Wynne

[madison10]

Are the fires purposely started so California can grab Federal funds?

[Cecily]

Nightmarish. I hope they get these fires under control quickly.

[cuban leaf]

I’d prefer that nobody gets hurt, but sometimes you need to clear out all that underbrush, one way or another...

[Kickass Conservative]

I read last night on Fakebook that the Riverside Fire was started by someone burning trash. Can’t confirm it though.

Not a good idea with the Santa Ana Winds blowing at 40+ mph.

[z3n]

This is why PG&E (did I get that acronym right?) cut all the power ahead of time. They didn’t want to get blamed when all the homeless camping in the hills leave dope out and let their embers fly into the wind.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Does this mean they are going to shut my electricity off again? Just got it back on yesterday.

[al baby]

It was supposedly a trash truck fire

[al baby]

This is So California

[BenLurkin]

[gloryblaze]

Eight hundred acres per hour??? That’s downright hard to fathom.

[CondorFlight]

LA and Southern California losing power would be an immense health and social problem — and with no TV reporting to inform residents; no working traffic lights; no refrigerated food, either in homes or in stores; etc. etc.

[BenLurkin]

I’m thinking maybe Daily Mail maybe tacked on an extra zero, but this things do get quite large and widespread

[deport]

the fire is burning at a rate of 800 acres per hour

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Yep burning along at about 1.3 sq miles per hour.

[smokingfrog]

[BenLurkin]

https://webmail.lerctr.org/~transit/healy/Uh_Yeah.mp3

[ClearCase_guy]

For some reason that map made me think of the "Downfall" movie with Berlin being encircled by Soviet troops. Hitler waves his hand and says "That's alright, Steiner will tell PG&E to cut off the power and the fires will stop."

"Mein Fuhrer …"
"Mein Fuhrer, PG&E has already cut off the power. The fires cannot be stopped."

[Lurkinanloomin]

Power was cut in Northern CA, this is Southern CA.

[Sacajaweau]

You’re absolutely right. They got scr****.

[MrEdd]

Perhaps you should move to a state that maintains firebreaks. I thought that the painfully obvious lack of proper firebreaks was totally insane when I lived there fourty years ago. Except for a conference in San Jose in 2013 I haven’t been back.

That’s not just asking for it. That’s stomping your feet and walking up and down the street with a sign demanding fires.

When your fellow citizens are that insane the only sane option is to remove yourself from the insanity.