Posted on 12/10/2024 7:36:07 AM PST by Twotone
An evacuation order is in place near the city of Malibu in the US state of California after a fast-moving wildfire broke out and burned hundreds of acres of vegetation.
The blaze has been dubbed the Franklin Fire by authorities, who say it started in Malibu Canyon at about 22:50 local time on Monday (06:50 GMT).
Firefighters are on the scene and a mandatory evacuation order is in place for a wide swathe of eastern Malibu. A shelter-in-place order applies to much of nearby Pepperdine University.
It is not yet clear what caused the blaze, which has been labelled a brush fire - meaning a type of blaze that affects lower-lying vegetation such as grasses.
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“which scientists have attributed to human-caused climate change.”
Always have to try and insert the liberal narrative.
Ecowackos won’t let the Kalifornia cities clean up the brush anymore. They want the cities destroyed.
When Kalifornia was California and Reagan Country, there was a Malibu Fire every 5-10 years.
Today it is only news when some $$rich$$ Hollyweird person loses a mansion.
Sounds better than some bums let their campfire get out of control.
“”Malibu itself is a small, upmarket city west of Los Angeles popular with wealthy celebrities.””
I guess using the word “upscale” isn’t politically correct anymore!
I thought CA had been getting lots of rain all year...
When it rains a lot in the spring the brush grows big. Then by the late summer/early fall it dries out. Then the Santa Anna winds start blowing from the east down hill to the Pacific.
All it takes is a match and all that brush all the way down to the water burns. All those multi million dollar homes are in the way.
This will never stop. It has been happening the exact same way for 10000 years. The houses have just gotten more expensive.
The only thing you can do is change the way they build the houses so that the materials do not ignite. There was one house left from a fire on one of those hillsides a few years back. EVERY other house went up in flames. Yet this one had superficial damage. It was the way the house was vented. It DID NOT have typical soffit vents. Where the heat could enter and spontaineously ignite the lumber/plywood/osb inside the cavity.
So, the question is why don’t the towns in these parts of California make that part of the building code? No different
than IF you want to rebuild a house on the Atlantic/Gulf Coast it has to be on pilings 13’ above the high tide mark.
It is very windy today and Malibu isn't very far from here so it could get quite interesting around here. Some rain would be good.
The soil is pretty rocky so it drains very fast and we don't do near enough to capture and store the water and it just goes out to the Pacific. I suspect that is going to start changing as it's a stupid obvious solution to increasing water resources.
“”It was the way the house was vented. It DID NOT have typical soffit vents. Where the heat could enter and spontaineously ignite the lumber/plywood/osb inside the cavity.””
Interesting. I remember the Santa Ana winds from our time in southern CA - they could be fierce..
“”IF you want to rebuild a house on the Atlantic/Gulf Coast it has to be on pilings 13’ above the high tide mark.””
I called a friend when that big storm moved through Atlanta and into NC two months ago - first the hurricane on the Gulf Coast and then the tornado on the Atlantic side. He had moved from southern CA to the east coast of FL to a place I’d never heard of - Indialantic. I asked how he fared and he said he was on the beach with no problems and in a safe hurricane built home!
Years ago when we lived in southern CA, we went to the Reagan Library/Museum. We traveled home to OC by way of Malibu - pretty rugged country that way AND certainly true all around the library/museum...very wild vegetation at that time. They’ve probably cleared more ground around the buildings in all that time as it looked pretty vulnerable from wildfires.
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