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Trump tours Paradise area, calls wildfire a ‘really bad one’
Associated Press ^ | November 17th, 2018 | By JONATHAN LEMIRE

Posted on 11/17/2018 4:19:04 PM PST by Mariner

PARADISE, Calif. (AP) — From the ashes of a mobile home and RV park, President Donald Trump said Saturday he came to the heart of California’s killer wildfire to fully grasp the scale of the desolation wrought on the landscape.

“We’re going to have to work quickly. ... Hopefully this is going to be the last of these because this was a really, really bad one,” said the president, standing amid the crumpled foundations of homes and twisted steel of melted cars.

“I think everybody’s seen the light and I don’t think we’ll have this again to this extent,” Trump said in Paradise, the town largely destroyed by a wildfire ignited Nov. 8 that he called “this monster.”

With that bold and perhaps unlikely prediction, Trump pledged that improved forest management practices will diminish future risks. The declaration evoked his initial tweeted reaction to the fire, the worst in the state’s history, in which he seemed to blame local officials and threatened to take away federal funding.

When asked if seeing the historic devastation, which stretched for miles and left neighborhoods destroyed and fields scorched, altered his opinion on climate change, Trump answered, “No.”

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: trumpvisit; wildfires
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To: Mariner
The timber companies will do that and pay us for the opportunity in many areas.

So would chain gangs.

21 posted on 11/18/2018 5:04:52 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Sacajaweau
I can't even comprehend the idea of human beings dying in these monstrous fires. God help us.

And how many have DIED because of CHOICE in California in the time this fire has been raging.

22 posted on 11/18/2018 5:06:15 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Sacajaweau

https://abort73.com/abortion_facts/states/california/


23 posted on 11/18/2018 5:08:08 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Mariner

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peshtigo_Fire

How about in 147 years?


24 posted on 11/18/2018 5:09:58 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: combat_boots

When Pigeon Forge was on fire 13 people died, the juveniles who set it got away with it. There are 3 roads leading into my sister’s house, 2 where blocked, the other barely passable. Thankfully their home didn’t burn.

BTW love the handle. Hubby wore Combat boots and dog tags for 20 yrs.


25 posted on 11/18/2018 5:44:16 AM PST by GailA (Wife of RET. SCPO, GET OVER IT, DONALD TRUMP IS PRESIDENT!)
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To: odawg
Anyone venture to explain how it is that houses are burned down to their foundation, cars are burned empty shells in the streets, but the nearby trees still have their leaves.

That is pretty weird. Here is an example of what you are saying. Check ot the plastic garbage carts. I doubt that they were brought there for 'clean up'.


26 posted on 11/18/2018 7:31:35 AM PST by Right Brother
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To: AlanGreenSpam

Very well stated. I would like to add that so many are still missing and families and friends are suffering great tragedies. Not the time to politicize a tragedy on twitter but time for compassion, assurance and yes, assistance.

I am sharing your post.


27 posted on 11/18/2018 7:58:50 AM PST by katiedidit1
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To: combat_boots

That should make the leeching government very happy, they won’t have to dip into their own funds to pay the SS funds that they grifted.


28 posted on 11/18/2018 8:03:23 AM PST by Borax Queen
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To: Mariner; All
"Suggested target locations for arson attacks, the magazine stated, “include houses and apartment buildings, forest areas adjacent to residential areas, factories that produce cars, furniture, clothing, flammable substances, etc., gas stations, hospitals, bars, dance clubs, night clubs, banks, car showrooms, schools, universities, as well as churches, Rafidi [Shiite] temples, and so forth. The options are vast, leaving no excuse for delay.”

Jihadists were advised to time their arson “preferably in the later part of night to the early hours of morning when people are generally asleep,” and instructions were offered on how to block off exits to inflict casualties. For wildfires, ISIS said to look for dry brush “as fire cannot endure in damp or wet environments.” Arsonists were encouraged to leave the mark of ISIS somewhere near the fire site with spray paint or black marker. Suggested target locations for arson attacks, the magazine stated, “include houses and apartment buildings, forest areas adjacent to residential areas, factories that produce cars, furniture, clothing, flammable substances, etc., gas stations, hospitals, bars, dance clubs, night clubs, banks, car showrooms, schools, universities, as well as churches, Rafidi [Shiite] temples, and so forth. The options are vast, leaving no excuse for delay.” https://drudgereport.com/?NF=1

Comments??

29 posted on 11/18/2018 8:31:53 AM PST by patriot08 (5th generation Texan-(girl type)FREEPER FRIENDS! SEE MY TEXAS HX BIO PAGE!)
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To: Mariner

B-but what about the snail darter and the gnat catcher? They’re mighty tasty roasted in their own feathers.


30 posted on 11/18/2018 3:45:58 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Right Brother; odawg
Perhaps this can help.

Notice how the burnt part of the tree trunk only reaches up about 12 feet ? It seems the fire kept to the ground where the most flammable items were.

Here are some of the most flammable items.


31 posted on 11/18/2018 3:53:08 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Right Brother

Amazing that there is SO MUCH greenery left on those trees!!


32 posted on 11/18/2018 6:48:42 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: UCANSEE2
Notice how the burnt part of the tree trunk only reaches up about 12 feet ?

Well; except for that little thingy in the upper left corner; of course.

33 posted on 11/18/2018 6:51:01 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: katiedidit1

Thanks for your comments and for sharing this post.

I wish someone in the White House would read these posts!


34 posted on 11/19/2018 9:45:20 PM PST by AlanGreenSpam (Obama: The First 'American IDOL' President - sponsored by Chicago NeoCom Thugs)
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To: Mariner

They on the left have a habit of critizing Trump’s manner and neglecting to take responsibility for these kinds of horrible disasters they caused.

They had/have not enough sense to know that brush and dead trees were fodder for a fire.. or they did not care and now that whole towns have been burned to the ground and lives lost that may never be found or known for sure if they are dead .. the left environmentalists would shrug and claim it’s someone else’s fault.. not theirs.


35 posted on 11/20/2018 3:21:54 AM PST by frnewsjunkie
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