Posted on 01/14/2025 2:42:30 PM PST by Rummyfan
Wildfires are inevitable. The apocalyptic devastation seen in Los Angeles isn't.
The Palisades Fire started recently in west Los Angeles. Driven by intense Santa Ana Winds, the fire quickly spread into the residential area of Pacific Palisades. That fire, along with others in L.A., forced more than 175,000 residents to flee. The fire destroyed more than 9,000 structures. Hundreds of thousands of residents lost power. At least 24 people have died.
Raw statistics can't describe the horror shown in video after video. One video showed nursing home patients being wheeled to safety. Another showed two men in a home surrounded by roaring flames. Reportedly, they evacuated safely. Stunning photos of the aftermath show that the inferno consumed whole neighborhoods.
Tragically, devastating wildfires in California have become a regular occurrence. There was the deadly Camp Fire in 2018. The massive August Complex fire in 2020 and Dixie Fire in 2021 each burned around 1 million acres.
One might think that California is especially vulnerable to wildfires because it has so many trees. But at around 33%, California is proportionally less forested than most states. In contrast, half of Florida is forested. Two-thirds of Georgia is forested. In Alabama, it's more than 70%.
Yet it's unusual to hear about a major wildfire in the Southeast. A 2023 Congressional Research Service report found "more wildfires occur in the East" but fires in the West "are larger and burn more acreage."
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Not like these they’re not.
The historically dry conditions in southern CA make for an unfair comparison to other forested lands.
They also damn the fools who raise plant and animal species above their own.
Search youtube ‘1961 Bel Air Conflagration’ and you will see how difficult it has always been fighting fires in that neck of the woods.
Add decades of gross incompetence by political hacks at every level, and this is what you get.
It’s a shame and a sin they are never held accountable...
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Go woke, go up in smoke.
It isn’t mostly trees burning in Southern California, it’s the dry chaparral brush that burns the most.
DEADLY DEI. DIE.
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