“near the “crime scene,” as officers for the Los Angeles Police Department who were posted nearby described it — suggested a range of possibilities, some of them contradictory, for the origin of the fire.”
AKA- even if the evidence points to arson, the NYSlimes will deny it...
Poorly written piece of fluff.
Cleared the path for their bullet train.
It reads like a bad high school “creative writing” class report . And it took 5 sophomores to write it!
The fire could have started in thousands of places and everyone knew there was a real danger the fire would spread quickly because the land around LA is a tinder box waiting for a favorable wind to turn a small fire into a huge, out-of-control fire.
The REAL cause of the fire's SPREAD and property/land the size of Manhattan island being burned to the ground is the INCOMPETENCE and CORRUPTION of the Los Angeles and California governments. It's that simple!
They utterly failed to make sure the right people and fire safety reservoirs and equipment were in place to PREVENT a huge Los Angeles fire -- when everyone in the area knew that was a key danger and real possibility.
The deceit of the New York Times is that its journalists and editors are either too stupid — or too corrupt — to find a single coconut on Coconut Island.
It all started because we b*stards emit too much CO2.
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wonder if these are some of the 100 year old wooden poles that the utility was TRYING to replace with metal wind and fire proof poles .....
...but were prevented from that ......
by an amateur biologist who found an “endangered” plant and hooked up with an econazi org and sued to stop the project.
Every year Costa Rica has a fire season. The main source of the fires is broken glass from bottles. The shards can magnify the sunlight and ignite the dry brush.
The fires are allowed to burn and eventually extinguish themselves from lack of fuel.
The Costa Rican government doesn’t give a crap if some useless plant is destroyed.
EC
**as if the fire had incinerated every trace of chlorophyll.**
I remember sixty years ago when after a fire the state would send in helicopters to spread weed and grass seeds before the rains came and mud slides began.