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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]
Once again, controlled burns have never stopped. Some funding was cut during the previous trump admin, but the burns have continued. Unfortunately this started as a small fire in a pac palisades back yard. You can’t do a controlled burn in a tightly packed suburban/semi-urban yard. That’s like saying they should do controlled burns around Bethesda row [/quote]
+1. 
Places like Palisades High--this building burned down. It's not in a rural area, it's not wilderness; it's a suburban, densely buult and populated area. The winds have been something like 80 miles per hour! That is the reason for the quick spread of the fires.[/quote]

I'm seeing the Palisades one started as a backyard fire. It's so nonsensical to see so much devastation over this + high winds. [/quote]
Well, it's a Santa Ana wind and they are dry and strong. People are warned to not have fires. That "red flag" warning has been in effect for a few days. In this kind of gale force wind, it spreads rapidly and takes on a life of its own. These winds create a fire risk every single year. The winds are not new and the disaster is not caused by politicians and it's debatable if climate change has increased fire risk. The lack of rain is an issue but these winds have always been a part of California. It's as nonsensical as a hurricane. There is only so much humans can do in a disaster. [/quote]

It's hardly "debatable" if climate change has increased the risk of wildfires in California!!

Ask a climate scientist if there's any "debate" about this. It's fact. Climate change has warmed the planet. CA is hotter, and that increase in temperature caused by climate change has increased the risk of wildfires. [/quote]

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