L.A. County Fire Chief: Estimated 1,000 Structures Destroyed in Palisades Fire

Breitbart ^ | 01/08/2025 | Katherine Hamilton

[ChicagoConservative27]

An estimated 1,000 structures have been destroyed in the Santa Ana wind-fueled wild fire ravaging the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, L.A. County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone said during a news conference Wednesday morning.

Many of the structures that have been lost to the flames were homes, KTLA reported.

The Palisades fire was first reported on Tuesday in the 1100 block of North Piedra Morada Drive. By that evening, the fire had expanded to more than 2,900 acres.

[ChicagoConservative27]

Is there anyway this could have been prevented or at least contained?

[DIRTYSECRET]

You mean like Lahina, Maui?

[ChicagoConservative27]

Guess I am dead wrong lol

[DIRTYSECRET]

Then there’s the other Paradise(Calif).

[Enterprise]

A home in Palisades is 2 million dollars, and they go up from there. So, just multiplying 1,000 by 2 million gives a basic estimate of the damage just in that area.

[PIF]

Is there anyway this could have been prevented or at least contained?
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Put water in the reservoirs, take out forest under brush, mayor in residence - not in Africa, use Nat Guard, etc.

[CivilWarBrewing]

If 1/10th of 1% of the ILLEGAL ALIENS (including Islamic TERRORISTS and Chinese SABOTEURS) are ARSONISTS, Californian are SCREWED.

[janetjanet998]

Likely Many more

Then there’s the other fire with many 100’’s more

Live thread- would a mod please put in breaking news
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4288656/posts?q=1&;page=1

[CivilWarBrewing]

And get ALL of the 5 ft. tall, 160lb carpet munching fembots OUT of the fire department and command centers.

Sick of all these DEI talking heads with their sign language tag teams on the TV.

WHERE ARE THE TOM HOMANS IN OUR FIRE DEPARTMENTS, like the GOOD OL' DAYS?

[nitzy]

Is there anyway this could have been prevented or at least contained?

I think if those fire departments focused a little more on Diversity, they could have done a better job. I know that Diversity was a main focus of theirs but it appears that it was not quite enough to keep the people safe.

Hopefully they will double down on their Diversity and have a better outcome next time.

[ChicagoConservative27]

HA

[Texas Eagle]

Luckily, those SoCal vagillionaires imposed a “Fire Tax” on us Northern Californians a few years ago to help those poor Hollywood types recover. Meanwhile, they let our fires burn out of control.

[Third Person]

not a big enough story, apparently

easy to see early last night this was going to be a terrible and protracted event

a long way to go still

[datricker]

I don’t know it’s been crazy windy and it’s as dry as a bone. We haven’t had real rain since April may? Cali is so corrupt at many levels all the grift probably has come at the expense of resources that’d help prevent and fight fires. But with conditions as they are things are going to burn regardless what you do

[CivilWarBrewing]

I think the answer lies in HOLDING MORE PRESS CONFERENCES! /s

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Time to dump the corrupto-Democrats in California. They are bent on get rich quick plans. High Rises for homeless—all paid for by tax payers—Trains that will not be built, to get some families richer still. Time to clean house —if that is even possible. We will have Harris installed as Governor so that Newsum can Run for President (Soro’s backing with Billions). California can burn if it will make real estate families richer still. When the state defaults—they can just blame Trump.

[Third Person]

a deep infestation

[rottweiller_inc]

I’ll bet FEMA takes care of them fine while the hurricane victims freeze in tents. Watch and see.

[grey_whiskers]

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Only 1,000? That's very good news.

The Oakland, California firestorm of 1991 was a large suburban wildland–urban interface conflagration that occurred on the hillsides of northern Oakland, California, and southeastern Berkeley over the weekend of October 19–20, 1991, before being brought under full control on October 23.

The official name of this incident by Cal Fire is the Tunnel Fire, but commonly referred to as the Oakland Hills Firestorm or the East Bay Hills Fire. [the Oakland Hills fire was notable for the proximity to a major city similar to the on-going fire in LA]

The fire killed 25 people and injured 150 others. The 1,520 acres (2.4 square miles) destroyed included 2,843 single-family dwellings and 437 apartment and condominium units. The economic loss from the fire was estimated at $1.5 billion ($3 billion in 2023 dollars).

Then there was the even larger California Camp Fire in 2018.

The 2018 Camp Fire in Northern California's Butte County was the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California's history. The fire began on the morning of November 8, 2018, when part of a poorly maintained Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) transmission line in the Feather River Canyon failed during strong winds. Those winds rapidly drove the Camp Fire through the communities of Concow, Magalia, Butte Creek Canyon, and Paradise, largely destroying them. The fire burned for another two weeks, and was contained on November 25, after burning 153,336 acres (that's 240 square miles!). The Camp Fire caused 85 fatalities, displaced more than 50,000 people, and destroyed more than 18,000 structures, causing an estimated $17 billion in damage. It was the most expensive natural disaster (by insured losses) of 2018, and is a notable case of a utility-caused wildfire.

PG&E filed for bankruptcy in January 2019, citing expected wildfire liabilities of $30 billion.

There's probably $40 BILLION of losses in those three fires alone. Imagine if that had been spent on fire suppression and fire prevention rather than paying for losses.