Weird fire behavior was pointed out at Lahaina too.
They had plans for “Fifteen Minute Cities” in Lahaina and Palisades, but the residents would not sell.
They are now moving ahead with those plans.
You do the math.
I’m not seeing a good correspondence between the photos and the narrative.
It takes power to melt things. I can’t imagine a microwave based system delivering that much power over that big an area.
The wildfires I have seen were propagated by Class A shingles lifting in high winds to become flying blobs of burning tar that would stick to Masonite siding of the next house drooling fire down the side. Whole subdivisions would burn despite gobs of defensible space. The reason you see nothing about that is that the entire construction permitting bureaucracy in this country blessed those shingles.
Arson ain’t weird. My church pastor last Sunday was calling for “backburning fires to combat injustice” during her sermon.
why go to those lengths when a cup of gasoline and a bic lighter is more than enough.
Live Oaks are the most common oak in California.
One of the easiest trees to catch fire. You can burn it in a wood stove with as little as 2 weeks cure time. Because of its high BTU rating it not only catches fire easily, burns long but also burns extremely hot.
They are mostly illegal to cut in California. In many mountain counties you have to pay to remove them.
In the county I live in it costs $159 per inch to cut one down. For a 10 inch diameter tree, yes that’s $1590.00 !
Those funds are then given to nature conservancies. (You know in the name of protecting our resources)
While I like all other oak trees, the Live Oak is essentially a weed. A nuisance.
This has been a scam on Californians for decades in the name of oak preservation.
Save the other oaks YES but this tree is a menace for helping start fires that burn extremely long and hot.
They should pay to have these trees removed for bio fuel.
My question was, why didn’t they bring in the famous fire boats from Long Beach? They could have put out those fires along the beach using seawater. Never even called them out. I can guarantee you they won’t allow a single home to be rebuilt along that strip.
Interesting observations. A physicist would be hard pressed to provide a cogent natural explanation for why nailed/screwed connections in wood can be the only evidence of fire. It defies natural fire behavior. Ask any fire investigator.
Dunno. Vid smacks of tin hat, but there are many photographs which are not easily explained scientifically, particularly the one with the chainsaw in the back of the truck.