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Posted on 02/19/2026 3:36:40 PM PST by Libloather
The city of Malibu slapped Los Angeles and the state of California with a lawsuit over the devastating Palisades fire — saying officials didn’t do enough to stop the deadly blaze that “hollowed out” the oceanside community.
Malibu said the city’s “entire character changed” when the wildfire swept through and that it is “still reeling from the destruction it left in its wake,” according to the suit.
The 66-page complaint seeks to “recover significant financial losses” resulting from the devastating fire.
“This decision was not made lightly,” Malibu Mayor Bruce Silverstein said in a statement announcing the lawsuit. “The City has an obligation to act in the best interests of our residents and taxpayers. The lawsuit seeks accountability for the extraordinary losses suffered by our community while recognizing that Malibu must continue to work collaboratively with our regional partners going forward.”
The complaint cites devastation in the Carbon Beach area of Malibu, burn scars near the Pacific Coast Highway and burned-down businesses in the area. It notes that the fire “destroyed over 700 homes and dozens of businesses” in the city.
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“prioritized plants over human lives”
Yes, of course.
That is the essence of progressive government.
Glad to hear it.
Remember the Fish and the dried up farmland
That’s par for the course in California. So many of their massive fires have been been allowed to get so big because they can’t understand basic force management. Gotta protect a hypothetical mouse running in the forest, meanwhile tens of thousands of acres burned down.
Remember the Fish and the dried up farmland
You are talking about Kamala
Confirms what I have often heard about Forestry management. I have read some several articles about how it can be largely improved, but nodody in control seems to be interested.
In most of California forest management is simple, they lack the swamps and marshes that make forest management difficult in Florida to Virginian. Only the most rugged of mountain ranges are inaccessible. Selective logging and thinning, construction of fire breaks is simple and self funding while providing the cash to build extensive timber and fire road access.
Those idiots wouldn’t know what was good for those plants if they ate them (one of the species was a type of “loco weed”). Being a legume, those plants need disturbance (including fire) to reproduce. So the agencies protected them.
That’s if she even knows or cares.
Thinning is easy (even if it isn't cheap). But thin the forests and the weeds move in. Then the gophers and such come in to eat them. That destabilizes entire hillsides. The large majority of those trees being Coast Live and Shreve Oak can germinate at thousands of trees per acre. That makes a fuel bomb in just a few years.
No, it's not simple. It's just different.
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