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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To be clear, I don't think that the Eaton fire impacted those who lived in a danger zone.  I mean, some of this is due to climate change - the water last season contributed to high growth that caught fire with high winds that spread this fire.  It's not about living in a high risk area per se that got those houses burned down.  It's the climate affecting the risk there so I agree, there's not a lot they could have done to prevent the tragedy other than moving which I get is just not on someone's radar when everything is fine.

However, I do think living in the Palisades was a disaster in waiting and I do think everyone there HAD to have had a clue what they would have been in for one day.  Those parts are completely ripe for wildfires.

https://www.nbcnews.com/weather/wildfires/california-fires-foreseeable-worst-case-scenario-rcna186887

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Many of the modest homes in the flats of Altadena are 70+ years old, built of stucco and wood in the post WW2 period. They have flat roofs, old wooden garages, old landscape, and will light up easily. This is much of Southern California - the homes are built after WW2 and are not fire proof. The recipe is ripe for urban wildfires where fire jumps from structure to structure, which is exactly what happened in Altadena. It's more akin to the Great Chicago fire than a forested wild fire. [/quote]

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