California is Burning

[Cindy Claveau]

Satellite image shows the Eaton wildfire has set nearly every building in western Altadena on fire.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

They got the Sunset Fire, that started last night in the Hollywood hills, got bottled up quickly. Sadly, the Palisades and Eaton Fires still rage on nearly uncontrolled.

California wildfires live updates: 179,000 under evacuation orders; L.A. County sheriff says some areas look ‘like a bomb was dropped’

The Palisades fire has destroyed more than 1,000 structures and is the most destructive ever in Los Angeles.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[Cindy Claveau]

Santa Monica Pier.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

The Hurst Fire in the San Fernando Valley, one of the new fires in this hellacape, has burned 1.3 square miles. I have no word on containment. And now there's a new fire that has erupted in the West Hills area.

Weather forecasts call for a return of the Santa Ana winds starting tomorrow.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

The City of Pasadena is apparently urging residents not to consume the city water or even attempt to treat it, as the city's water has been deemed unsafe.

 

[Essence Lumin]

They sent out an evacuation warning to all of Los Angeles county. That was a "mistake". Oops.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

Just a reminder for anyone dealing with MAGAdiots barking 'CA didn't clean their forest floors like trump told them too! the fires are their own fault!'

Tell'm to STFU because nearly half of the forested land in CA is owned by the FEDERAL government, and TFG didn't do a damned thing about 'raking the forest floors' while he was in office and blaming us for our wildfires.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Just a reminder for anyone dealing with MAGAdiots barking 'CA didn't clean their forest floors like trump told them too! the fires are their own fault!'

Tell'm to STFU because nearly half of the forested land in CA is owned by the FEDERAL government, and TFG didn't do a damned thing about 'raking the forest floors' while he was in office and blaming us for our wildfires.

Not to mention, none of the fires currently burning in LA County are in forests!

 

[Free]

Not to mention, none of the fires currently burning in LA County are in forests!

Can't you all...keep the streets raked?

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Here's a quick rundown on the currently active fires in LA:

Wildfires burning in SoCal: Numbers at a glance

Fires ignited in Pacific Palisades, Sylmar, Altadena and Hollywood Hills, forcing thousands to evacuate amid a life-threatening and destructive windstorm slamming Southern California.

abc7.com

The Kenneth Fire that started today in the West Hills area of the San Fernando Valley may have been deliberately set. My local ABC affiliate reported that someone had been detained for questioning regarding the fire that has charred nearly a thousand acres.

California Wildfires: 10 dead; New CA wildfire ignites to 960 acres in West Hills area

The Palisades Fire is larger than all of Manhattan and more than five times bigger than Downtown Los Angeles.

abc30.com

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

There's a lot to digest here.

As wildfires rage in Los Angeles, Trump doesn't offer much sympathy. He's casting blame.

As the cataclysmic wildfires rage across Los Angeles, President-elect Donald Trump isn't offering much sympathy.

apnews.com

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Thanks for the help, amateur drone flier guy.

 

[Beebo Brink]

This should be a NYT gift article:
Opinion | As a Climate Scientist, I Knew It Was Time to Leave Los Angeles - The New York Times

I am utterly devastated by the Los Angeles wildfires, shaking with rage and grief. The Altadena community near Pasadena, where the Eaton fire has damaged or destroyed at least 5,000 structures, was my home for 14 years.

I moved my family away two years ago because, as California’s climate kept growing drier, hotter and more fiery, I feared that our neighborhood would burn. But even I didn’t think fires of this scale and severity would raze it and other large areas of the city this soon. And yet images of Altadena this week show a hellscape, like a landscape out of Octavia Butler’s uncannily prescient climate novel “Parable of the Sower.”

I read Parable of the Sower within the last year, and it's grim.

 

[Noodles]

Yeah, its annoying because there are people like, "Calofornia has had wildfires since the BC era, its not Climate Change."

Yes, but its also... Getting worse, because Climate Change. This fire right now, is the middle pf fucking Winter. And its rapidly spreading because of the extra crazy wind caused by more extreme weather from Climate Change.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

Yes, but its also... Getting worse, because Climate Change. This fire right now, is the middle pf fucking Winter. And its rapidly spreading because of the extra crazy wind caused by more extreme weather from Climate Change.

Climate change getting "worse" actually means the weather events are less predictable and more on the extreme ends of a curve, as you indicate. The R's are just desperately seeking ways to turn the Climate Change debate around, like how Trump thinks it's related to raking forest floors.

Stupid is stupid.

 

[Isabeau]

Mel Gibson says home burned down in LA wildfires

The Oscar-winning film star criticises California Governor Gavin Newsom over the wildfires raging in LA.

www.bbc.com

Gibson said he felt "ill at ease" during his visit to Austin, Texas, to appear as a guest on The Joe Rogan Experience, because he knew his neighbourhood was "on fire".

[snip]

In the podcast with Rogan, Gibson criticised the California governor, saying Newsom claimed he was "going to take care of the forests" but "didn't do anything".

 

[Casey Pelous]

Anyone who gives a crap what Mel Gibson has to say about anything has run completely out of useful stuff to give a crap about.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Aerial photos show the scope of destruction from the Pacific Palisades wildfire

Street after street, there is little but dark ash and ruin where a wealthy seaside enclave favored by celebrities once stood.

apnews.com

 

[Casey Pelous]

Aerial photos show the scope of destruction from the Pacific Palisades wildfire

Street after street, there is little but dark ash and ruin where a wealthy seaside enclave favored by celebrities once stood.

apnews.com

Good lord.

I know it is a ridiculously privileged neighborhood, but they're still people and that is utter devastation.

As any Southern Californian knows, with the trees and ground cover gone, landslides are the next inevitable step (with some hard rain).

 

[Innula Zenovka]

sam (@decarboxy.chat)

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