We cant stop the fire till the winds die down. No amount of firefighters(short of bringing 10s of thousands in) can contain that fire. That wind is going 100 mph and moving the fire faster than it can be contained.
well the LA mayor cut 17.6 million from the LAFD...that sure didn't help.
The fire in pacific palisades grew from 2 acres to 200 acres in less than 20 minutes, due to 100 mph winds.
The LAFD budget is irrelevant. Unlimited funds wouldn’t have stopped it.
Nobody is saying more manpower would have stopped it, but certainly more manpower, water and equipment would minimize the damage...LA spent 1.3 billion on the homeless last year, far more than they spent on the fire dept...Look who runs the city...
This isn’t a solvable problem, any more than the southeastern hurricane problem is solvable. There are mitigations, with varying costs and benefits, but wildfires are a core part of the western climate.
This is solvable. Scientists have been warning us for years, but we keep taking steps backward by voting for bozos who are too greedy to address the problem. Drumph certainly isn’t going to help
The fire in pacific palisades grew from 2 acres to 200 acres in less than 20 minutes, due to 100 mph winds.
The LAFD budget is irrelevant. Unlimited funds wouldn’t have stopped it.
Nobody is saying more manpower would have stopped it, but certainly more manpower, water and equipment would minimize the damage...LA spent 1.3 billion on the homeless last year, far more than they spent on the fire dept...Look who runs the city...
They couldn’t fight it due to the wind. The whole town literally burned to the ground in less than a day. It spread faster than people could react. The only thing more manpower would do is speed up the cleanup.
I get it. You need to score political points. But it’s all Monday morning quarterbacking.
Controlled burns happen all the time you twit, stop believing everything that comes out of Trump's a$$. It hasn't rained in LA in the past 8 months and we are in he middle of Winter. Add 80 MPH winds and 1 spark will light any fuel available whether it's a bush, a palm tree or a blade of grass. Are you suggesting that everything flammable in LA be burned as a precaution? You sound as ridiculous as the forest raking people that idiotically think you can "rake" 30 million acres of federal forest land in CA. Even 30 million people could not "rake" 30 million acres.
How to stop an 80MPH wind driven fire in a place where it hasn't rained in 8 months is the same question as how to stop a hurricane or a tornado or an Earthquake. You cannot, it's a N-A-T-U-R-A-L disaster. Natural disasters are caused by environmental factors, not human factors. As much as you low IQ morons want this to be about human error and want to bash on California, you are only showing that Vivek and Elon were correct in believing you are too stupid for STEM employment. Maybe you and 29,999,999 of your buddies can come over and rake up these forests that you seem so concerned about. We can pay you $10/hour since you don't believe in a living minimum wage and you can spend the rest of your life taking care of it for us.
So tired of you f***ing morons and your low/no IQ idiocy!
Side Rant:
I LOVE Canada's proposal to take Washington, Oregon and California and that has more chance of becoming a thing than the US taking Canada. That is something we would 100% vote for and there is nothing Trump could do aboot it ehh?
Firebreaks might help 🤔 where they clear 10 metres of land of everything so the fire can't cross it. Like a road. But 100mph winds, maybe embers would be blown over, idk.
Fool's task. We can certainly mitigate to lessen the impact when they occur, but until we can stop dry Santa Ana offshore winds and end perpetual drought in an arid desert environment, you might as well try and stop hurricanes on the east coast or humidity in the south. Fires have always been part of the so cal environment and always will be.
Riiighhtt. I remember how Santa Monica was constantly burning down back in the day. And it’s not like climate change exacerbates drought and water shortages in CA. Solid points.