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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These homes start at $2.5M and go up rapidly from there. I bet most of these folks were self-insured.

This represents a huge, extremely wealthy chunk of the Los Angeles county tax base. Lots of families with young kids. It's as if a wild fire completely destroyed CCMD and adjacent neighborhoods in upper NW DC.

This disaster will upend Los Angeles's budget - lots of costs to clean up but also lots of these people will move away. It will only be partially rebuilt, likely with multi-family housing. The entire area will be rebuilt much differently.[/quote]

Californian here. I think it’s entirely possible that the state turns deep red politically. There is already a lot of anger at the left simmering under the surface. [/quote]
Indeed, the waste of resources is jaw dropping.[/quote]

With the budget surplus they could have been burying power lines, but I guess there were more important priorities to squander the money.[/quote]

What state buries high transmission lines? These fires aren't caused by residential lines, they're cause by long distance lines [/quote]

Untrimmed trees are a source of fires. It's on the power company to maintain the trees. Trees falling on power lines are a huge problem.[/quote]

This is about the dried out brush on the forest floor that catches fire easily, and needs to be better managed.  This is not about the power company, it's about California's failed government.  [/quote]

It's probably both. Multiple fires burning, we will have to say if they can pinpoint the cause of each. They usually do, just takes time. 85% of fires are caused by humans. [/quote]

Fires have been a problem in California for thousands of years. Even the native Americans used to do controlled burns![/quote]
Too bad Democrats don’t feel like doing controlled burns, or even clearing any of the fallen dead trees. [/quote]

Can you just stop. You and other posters keep trying to turn a natural disaster into a political debate.  I’m willing to bet the the number of democrats and republicans that would like their homes to not burn down from a wild fire are very very close. [/quote]

Why do you think Karen Bass CUT 17.6 MILLION from their fire fighting fund?
Democrats are beyond stupid.[/quote]

MAYBE you should look into stuff more and not just throw out stuff with no context. Yes, the budget was reduced by that much. The entire budget is around 820 million. So this represents a small fraction of that (original budget was 837M) and did not cut into the budget for fire fighter hiring. But sure keep ranting.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/public-safety-and-emergencies/fire-and-rescue/fact-check-did-los-angeles-cut-fire-department-funding-by-17-6m/ar-AA1xbqiq?ocid=BingNewsSerp[/quote]
Let me guess, your home isn’t burning.[/quote]

No, not my home but a place I love dearly. But if you can prove that the $17 m would have stopped the fire go ahead.

This realy isn't any one person of parties fault. I am not sure why we just have to blame people. [/quote]

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