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California’s eco-bureaucrats halted a wildfire prevention project near the Pacific Palisades to protect an endangered shrub. It’s just the latest clash between fire safety and conservation in California that is coming under scrutiny following the devastating outbreak of the Palisades Fire — the most devastating blaze in Los Angeles history, which has consumed the very same area. In 2019, the LA Department of Water and Power (LADWP) began replacing nearly 100-year-old power line poles cutting through Topanga State Park, when the project was halted within days by conservationists outraged that federally endangered Braunton’s milkvetch plants had been trampled during the...

Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that an independent commission should investigate the local and state response to the wildfires in Southern California. Schiff said, “The governor’s called for an independent review of why we didn’t have enough water in places like the Palisades, there were also water pressure issues in Altadena. I support that independent review. I think we should go further and, frankly, do an independent commission review of all of this. What went right in our response? What went wrong in it.”

Celebrities who have lost their homes in the firesEastEnders actress Patsy Palmer says her home has "miraculously" escaped the flames, after her husband and children were evacuated. The soap star, 52, who is in London, said her Malibu home had been surrounded by fires twice recently. But many others have not been so lucky: The list of celebrities who lost their houses in the worst fire in Los Angeles history reads like a Hollywood who's who. Reality star Paris Hilton said she watched her Malibu home "burn to the ground on live TV". She has launched an emergency fund to...

California fire prevention took a hit the year before the fires, but the Newsom administration claims it boosted overall funding since assuming office in 2019 ... A review of last year's California state budget shows California Gov. Gavin Newsom cut funding for wildfire and forest resilience by more than $100 million. The budget, signed in June and covering the 2024-25 fiscal year, eliminated $101 million from seven "wildfire and forest resilience" programs ... The California fires, responsible for destroying more than 10,000 buildings in the Los Angeles area, are still not contained.

Los Angeles and surrounding wildfire-hit regions are shielded by a new one-year moratorium on insurance non-renewals, according to California’s insurance commissioner, Ricardo Lara, who announced the year-long freeze on Jan. 9.“I am using my moratorium powers to prevent insurance companies from canceling or non-renewing policies in wildfire-impacted areas, so people don’t face the added stress of finding new insurance during this horrific event,” Lara said in a statement.The one-year moratorium on policy non-renewals and cancellations protects residents in and near the ZIP codes affected by the Palisades and Eaton fires in Los Angeles County, regardless of whether the properties sustained...

“It was a total systems collapse from the idea of not spending money on irrigation, storage, water, fire prevention and forest management, a viable insurance industry, a DEI hierarchy, you put it all together and it's something like a DEI Green New Deal hydrogen bomb." "Gavin Newsom was fiddling, he's almost Nero Newsom. And this has been something that is just unimaginable."

The moment any kind of natural disaster happens, Democrats immediately begin screaming about climate change. Of all the boogiemen the left has in their closet of scary monsters, "climate change" is arguably their most successful as it's allowed the left to use it as a way to frighten people into voting for them, and allowed them to manipulated billions and billions of dollars to their liking. With the California wildfires raging around LA, you can bet the Democrats immediately pointed to climate change as the culprit. Is it? Did the fires start because of the prophesied coming of mother nature's...

“Unprecedented” is an insult to the intelligence of every newly homeless, property-tax-paying citizen.The brush was dry, the drought was high, Santa Ana winds made sparks fly, and Los Angeles officials lied about why residents have been killed and thousands of homes have been destroyed.This fire is different, they insist, and for this lie alone, Los Angeles voters should do what it takes to remove incompetent leaders when they are done sweeping up the ashes.“[T]his is an absolutely unprecedented event,” Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said in a press conference on Wednesday. “It has been many, many years since we’ve faced...

Shazam! star Zachary Levi said California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and other Democrat leaders must be held accountable for the catastrophic fires in Los Angeles County, adding that he believes Newsom is “criminally negligent” for the mismanagement of the unfolding devastation. Zachary Levi spoke to Fox News host Jesse Watters on Wednesday about the raging fires in L.A. County. “This is just incredible mismanagement, incredibly poor leadership. I would go so far as to say that it’s criminally negligent,” Levi said. “Gavin Newsom has been either the governor for five years or lieutenant governor prior to that for eight, nine...

Brainwashed liberal idiots with reckless, dangerous ideas made this tragedy 100 times more dangerous & deadly. Look what you did to yourselves.

VIDEOKaren Bass froze up as if in a catatonic state when a REAL reporter started asking her questions about her utter failure to take measures to prevent or at least control the disastrous outbreak of wildfires in the Los Angeles area. Her catatonic state seemed rather familiar and if you had ever watched the "Andromeda Strain" you would remember why. It was very similar to the scientist in that film who froze up due to flashing red lights. In the case of Karen Bass, those red lights on her eyeglasses are reflections of the massive fires she could not control...

Rick Caruso, a billionaire developer who unsuccessfully ran against Karen Bass for mayor in 2022, said stifled water supply as the Pacific Palisades fire reduces mulit-million-dollar real estate to ashes represents "absolute mismanagement by the city." "There's no water in the Palisades. There's no water coming out of the fire hydrants. This is an absolute mismanagement by the city. Not the firefighters' fault, but the city's," Caruso, a former mayoral candidate, told Fox11 Los Angeles.

Epic Adam Carolla rant from a hotel after the LA wildfires forced to evacuate from his home, where he predicts Hollywood leftists will be so frustrated by the rebuild effort that they will not vote Democrat: "You guys all voted for Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles. You all voted for Gavin Newsom, and now you xxxxxxx get what you get. now that your house is on fire. So here's what's going to happen. All these people who are deep blue Democrats are now going to have to pull a permit to rebuild, and they're going to get the...

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass drew the ire of California wildfires victims Friday after suggesting during a meeting with President Trump that residents will be allowed to start rebuilding “right away” – when they haven’t even been allowed to see the devastation up close yet. “No, that will not be the case,” Bass responded, when told by the president that he’s heard it will be 18 months before Pacific Palisades residents that lost their homes can start rebuilding. Bass, 71, claimed that fire-affected homeowners “really shouldn’t have to go through much of a process” once city and county officials clear...

President Donald Trump on Friday said he wants California to implement voter ID laws before he would approve federal funds to help it recover from massive wildfires there and said he might eliminate the federal emergency response agency."I want to see two things in Los Angeles: Voter ID so that the people have a chance to vote. And I want to see the water be released and come down into Los Angeles and throughout the state. Those are the two things. After that, I will be the greatest president that California ever has ever seen," Trump said during a visit...

After a tour of areas damaged by the California wildfires, the president sparred with local leaders and blamed them for a wide variety of issues affecting the disaster response. President Trump repeated falsehoods about California’s firefighting efforts on Friday and blamed Democratic officials for a wide variety of issues affecting the response to wildfires as he toured areas of Los Angeles damaged by the disaster.In a meeting with state leaders in Pacific Palisades, a community that was heavily damaged by fire, Mr. Trump opened his remarks in a local firehouse with praise of the firefighters he met during the tour....

Please, Don, may I have some more? President Trump was greeted warmly by Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom as the commander in chief exited Air Force One upon arrival in Los Angeles Friday — making nice after Trump blasted his management of the crisis. Trump, 78, and Newsom, 57, talked briefly and animatedly after the president descended the steps of his jet — with the governor alternately pointing, making a fist and giving a thumbs up. The awkward greeting, in which both men patted each other on the shoulder, ended with Newsom, who had not been officially invited, giving first...

The first job of the government is to keep people safe. Failing that, its job is to show that someone is in charge when crisis erupts. On 9/11, there was nothing then–Mayor Rudy Giuliani could do to keep the World Trade Center from falling. Yet he became, in that long-ago era, the most popular person in America by staying on the scene and leading at his city’s moment of greatest danger. That brings us to the fires in Los Angeles—the most devastating in the history of the city, with a reported 27,000 acres burned and the fires mostly uncontained. There,...

He'll save the inedible bait fish, the weed that no one's ever heard of, elevate meritless executives, and kill the gas car. Those are the highest environmental aspirations of Gavin Newsom, the alleged visionary governor of California, whose distorted priorities have combined to create the conditions for LA Inferno 2025. As the smoke begins to clear, the cruel environy is dawning. Even now, the homeless LA gliteratti, who soon may be allowed to sift through the ashes of their homes in hopes of finding the gold coins that looters haven't dug up yet, wonder how they could have been so...