Of Course: It Was Arson

Hotair ^ | 01/10/2025 | David Strom

[SeekAndFind]

At least one of the wildfires currently consuming everything in its path in L.A. County was set by an arsonist, and don't be surprised to find out that arson and/or electrical wires are responsible for all the fires that are out of control.

Politicians are pointing fingers in every direction except themselves, with (of course) global warming being the ultimate cause. If only America became a poor, socialist country with too little and too unreliable energy, we would achieve a utopia.

The reality, though, is simpler: mentally ill homeless people, poor land management, misplaced budget priorities, and insane DEI-obsessed policies made this disaster inevitable.

🚨HOLY SMOKES.

Los Angeles Police have arrested an individual for suspected arson after 800 acres has been burned in the West Hills.

The canyon is now officially a crime scene.

They need to be charged with terrorism and prosecuted to the fullest extent. pic.twitter.com/8YEWH3yrhT— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) January 10, 2025

California has been prone to wildfires as long as there has been a California. Los Angeles is in a desert, and the Santa Ana winds can turn a campfire or a lightning strike into a conflagration. Brush accumulates, and if it isn't managed properly, there is no firebreak to prevent the near-unlimited spread of the fire to all surrounding areas. 

The Los Angeles Fire Department has confirmed that the Kenneth Fire, which is currently burning in Woodland Hills, is under investigation for potential arson. A suspect has been detained in connection with the incident. Area is being treated as a crime scene.

Illegal alien? 🤔👇🏻 https://t.co/mVHyeyIBxN pic.twitter.com/TPjQWlLWv0— ~☆~LindaEvans🇺🇸 🌎 (@Deja_Vu_4Me) January 10, 2025

But preparing for and fighting fires isn't sexy. There are gay men's choirs to fund, DEI trainings to hold, lesbians to hire. and posturing about saving Gaia to do. Cleaning up the streets, dealing with the homeless, water management, and all the nuts and bolts of protecting a region are not sexy. 

For people not from LA, we are facing an epidemic of immeasurable proportions of homeless people setting fires daily. It’s happened on my street four times in the past few months.

The police arrest the arsonists, but because of progressive DAs, they are released and reoffend. https://t.co/1vLbg4TfIa— Shelley G (@ShelleyGldschmt) January 10, 2025

And, of course, you have to consider social justice. There are so many world-historic issues to deal with, and running a city gets in the way of changing the world for the better. 

Politicians and media are quick to blame California's wildfires on climate change.

But the main cause is politicians failing to allow effective forest maintenance!

Years ago,I made this video (it was quickly censored by Facebook) with @Shellenberger about it: pic.twitter.com/9lZm4s9cTJ— John Stossel (@JohnStossel) January 9, 2025

This is how liberals think. Their aspirations are global, while 99% of the problems that people need to be solved are local. When your house is being burned down, your neighborhood going up in smoke, or somebody is pooping on the sidewalk you don't care about the sexuality of the public servant. 

LA Mayor slammed for cutting $17.6 million from the fire department budget while spending money on a TRANS CAFE, Gay Choir and Transgender Heritage Month programs.

• $100,000 spent on the Civil + Human Rights and Equity Department for a “Midnight Stroll Transgender Cafe,”

•… pic.twitter.com/npn8RLq810— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) January 10, 2025

But leftists do. 

Democrats in Sacramento CUT wildfire prevention by 80% at the same time LA Mayor Karen Bass slashed her fire department budget—even when her own Fire Chief warned those cuts would limit their ability to fight a fire like this. This is inexcusable and we need to kick every Democrat out of office to fix California. pic.twitter.com/hyYnWOlJh5— Bill Essayli (@billessayli) January 10, 2025

This was summed up, as Beege wrote, by the attitude of the Assistant Fire Chief of Los Angeles when she blithely said that a man needing to be carried out of a burning home by a lesbian firefighter who is too weak was "in the wrong place."

LAFD Assistant Chief Kristine Larson:

"Am I able to carry your husband out of a fire? He got himself in the wrong place." pic.twitter.com/BofTVr6dWP— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 9, 2025

It's not their job to actually save lives or put out dangerous fires; their job is to ensure that the right proportion of each intersectional category is represented in the ranks of the Fire Department. 

Called it. Here's @MayorOfLA claiming that the $17.5 million she cut from the budget " really did not impact what we've been going through over the last few days." pic.twitter.com/lhRs3WUbZR— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) January 9, 2025

Politicians like Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom don't see themselves as careful managers whose job it is to improve the lives of others. They are ideologically and politically ambitious people focused on climbing the ladder, spreading the wealth around to their friends, and attacking global issues they believe are more important than the petty concerns of citizens. 

The LA Fire Chief disagrees. Last December she said her department was "facing unprecedented operational challenges due to... budgetary reductions" that had "affected the Department's ability to maintain core operations" including "fire prevention..." and "the Department's capacity to prepare for... large-scale emergencies, including wildfires..."

Couldn't be any clearer.

pic.twitter.com/4geiKVwb1k— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) January 9, 2025

Climate change. Social justice. Net Zero. Imposing socialism. Transnationalism. 

If it takes breaking some eggs to make their omelet, so be it. 

Those 60 engines sent yesterday to the Cali fires are not on the fire lines...yet.https://t.co/FmQ9jYQc8C
They've been ordered to submit to a DOT inspection in Sacramento that's scheduled for 4:30 pm today.
If they clear the inspection, they'll THEN be able to drive 400 miles to Pacific Palisades. Talk about "looking a gift horse in the mouth." Then, on the way home, they get inspected again, and if they get red tagged, it's "fix it before you can return." Does liberal stupidity know no bounds? (I'm still waiting for a return call from @OSFM to explain this nonsense)— Lars Ultra MAGA Larson (@LarsLarsonShow) January 9, 2025

[Ann Archy]

MULTIPLE ARSONISTS???

[SeekAndFind]

Just one discovered so far.

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting. BUMP! A criminal and their enablers can do a lot of damage to the civilization.

[dragnet2]

There are some good points here.

But that entire region has hills covered with brush every year. From the Santa Monica mountains to Alpine in San Diego zone. Thousands...millions of acres in steep terrain etc... Brush grows like weeds!

If they plan on keeping all the brush back from the population center of S.CA region, they can expect their taxes to triple to pay for all this.

Or bring in vast herds of goats and sheep and Newsom can be the master goat boss. Director of Goats.

[CivilWarBrewing]

RELEASE HIS NAME!

Let me guess: MOHAMMAD? Is he part of a TEAM of Muzzie arsonists?

Somewhere Biden is smiling, knowing his OPEN BORDER INVASION would result in ANOTHER ATTACK on U.S. cities.

[sopo]

Already happened a month ago, Bidwell mansion arsoinst

https://www.sfgate.com/northcoast/article/bidwell-mansion-arson-investigation-20020579.php

[rdcbn1]

$100,000 spent on the Civil + Human Rights and Equity Department for a “Midnight Stroll Transgender Cafe,”

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Or, as it used to be called in the good old days -Queens out late night cruising parks, subways, public rest rooms and dark school yards for NSA fun with twinks, trannys, fruits and fairies.

Queers used to get arrested by the vice squad for this kind of stuff - now it's government subsidized and they roust YOU and throw you in jail if you disapprove. .

[Blurb2350]

The fellow arrested on suspicion of starting the Kenneth Fire was said by witnesses to’ve been babbling in Spanish and English.

[XRdsRev]

The story cited by Lars ultra MAGA does not mention anything about fire trucks being subject to CALDOT inspections. Sounds like a BS headline a blogger made up to get page hits. Has this been confirmed by anybody who has proof ????

[Bikkuri]

I remember reading, a few years ago, that one of the plants (can’t remember if it was brush or cactus) would self combust when the weather got too hot.

[Rowdyone]

Sources of ignition are not the issue. There are high winds and multiple sources of ignition every year. The issue is preparation for the inevitable. Preparation this year was insufficient if not criminal. That’s the issue.

[Glad2bnuts]

My Niece in LA proper, reported that multiple people were seen grabbing tree limbs, and even Xmas trees that were in peoples ytrash pile from the holiday, and lighting them on fire and adding to the conflagration. She says it was “likely street people.”

She has video, but the last time I talked to her was Wednesday. Her power is out, and she made it home, but no amenities like water, internet, power, or cell phone towers.

[ridesthemiles]

THE guy was caught by residents who SAW him with a propane tank & weed burner wand.

HE told cops “HE needed that equipment to light his legal MJ cigarettes because could NOT afford a lighter !!!

HE HAD 5 cell phones on him.

He had 2 passports-—countries not revealed.

He had A “UNITED NATIONS PREPAID DEBIT CARD” -—WHATEVER THAT IS—COULD HAVE USED IT TO BUY A LIGHTER?????

COPS LET HIM Go—SAID THEY COULDN’T PROVE HE WAS COMMITTING ARSON. SAID THEY ARE STILL ‘INVESTIGATING”.

SO WHERE IS HE NOW???

WHO KNOWS???

LOCALS ARE FURIOUS.

[Cobra64]

I didn’t read this, but looking. At the various fires, it appears arson. Also, reading the Day After, I predicted Islam cells all over the country committing terrorist acts, among them, burning down our forests. Wait for the snipers on highway overpasses and fentanyl in our reservoirs.

[ridesthemiles]

SEE MY POST #14

[doc maverick]

“MULTIPLE ARSONISTS???”
YES.
Biden needs to put the military on our borders NOW and shut them down.
ICE needs to start rounding up aliens NOW.
These fires makes the democrats look like sh*t.
It gives the incoming republican administration a mess to clean up.
Foreigners are the fire bugs whether it’s gangsters, terrorists or the CCP operatives. Take your pick.
Who’s ever doing it isn’t trying to help either party.
They are trying to destroy America economically.

[airborne]

The media will try to cover up any names, if those names are people of color or illegals.

It’s got to be an impossible task, wouldn’t you agree?

[ridesthemiles]

RENO & LAS VEGAS HAVE SENT THOSE TRUCKS. SACRAMENTO IS ABOUT 500 miles NORTH OF LAS VEGAS-—WHICH is A LOT of time & FUEL COSTS PLUS PER DIEM FOR the firefighters with the trucks.

CALIF POLITICIANS HAVE THE MARKET CORNERED ON UNGRATEFUL

[ridesthemiles]

SOOO-—FIRE TRUCKS FROM OUT OF CALIF HAVE TO GO TO SACRAMENTO TO BE INSPECTED THERE & THEN GET REINSPECTED AGAIN BEFORE THEY CAN RETURN TO THEIR HOME BASE???

STRAIGHT OUT OF ATLAS SHRUGGED....

I WOULD tell NEWSCUM—FORGET IT