Some of the most devastating wildfires in California’s history have destroyed huge areas of Los Angeles. More than 200,000 people have been forced to evacuate their homes. Over 10,000 buildings have been damaged or destroyed. Some economists think the massive damage could cost as much as $275 billion. Climate change is already getting the blame for the scale of the fires and the speed they spread. But maybe it isn’t climate change people should be pointing their fingers at, because a lot of things about this disaster just don’t add up.
Wildfires aren’t exactly unknown in California.
There are thousands of them every year, and the damage they cause is steadily increasing – some say because of climate change, others because there’s more property to damage and forests are being poorly managed.
Where Do Money Go
Over the last 25 years, there have been an average of 8,250 wildfires a year in the Golden State, burning an average of about 975,000 acres of land. It’s not hard to predict that California will have a lot of fires. So why did LA’s Democrat mayor Karen Bass slash almost $20 million from the firefighting budget?
The 2024-25 city budget shows that the Los Angeles Fire Department budget was cut by $17.6 million from the 2023-24 figure.
The city still spent over $800 million on firefighters, but that’s a reduction of over 2%.
Did Mayor Bass think there would be fewer fires this year? Actually, it’s hard to say what – if anything – Bass was thinking. Despite warnings about an increased fire risk days before the first blaze broke out, Bass decided to abandon the city and fly to Ghana for the inauguration of the African country’s new president (even though she promised during her election campaign she wouldn’t travel abroad during her term as mayor). When she returned, in a bizarre scene she refused to answer, or even acknowledge, any questions from journalists, just standing there staring blankly as they tried to get some answers.
As well as the cuts to the firefighting budget there are also questions about the state of the city’s fire hydrant network.
When the biggest of the fires broke out near the upmarket Pacific Palisades neighborhood on January 7 all three water tanks in the area were full – but firefighters found many hydrants were delivering little or no water.
Governor Gavin Newsom is now calling for an independent inquiry into why the hydrants weren’t working and why water from the Santa Ynez reservoir was “unavailable” for firefighting. Even if you don’t live in a dangerous zone like California, you should still take all the precautions you can to make sure you always have water just in case. One thing you can do is make water out of thin air, with this device you can build yourself.
One significant thing about the LA fires is that they’ve devastated some of the most expensive real estate in the US. They’re not just burning rural homes and trailer parks; celebrities and the ultra-rich are losing their homes. Socialite Paris Hilton’s beachfront Malibu home has been incinerated; so has actress Jamie Lee Curtis’s mansion in Pacific Palisades. James Woods, Eugene Levy, Yolanda Hadid, and Billy Crystal are other big names whose houses have burned down. It isn’t just the buildings that cost millions of dollars; so did the land they stood on.
Who Actually Gains from This
That land is going to be worth a lot less in the aftermath of the fire. Much of it isn’t upmarket neighborhoods anymore; it’s a blackened wasteland covered in charred rubble.
Not everyone is going to want to rebuild, so there’s going to be a lot of LA real estate on the market at, literally, fire sale prices. Even if your house may seem out of danger, here is how you can turn it into the safest place on Earth.
It probably won’t stay cheap for long though, so whoever buys it in the wake of the fires could make a huge profit.
Who’s likely to buy it? That’s hard to say. Some states are now bringing in laws to prevent China from buying up American land, but California isn’t one of them. The state government could even buy the land itself.
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The idea that people could profit from a disaster doesn’t sit well with everyone, but there’s an even worse possibility: What if these fires were no accident? In fact, we already know some of them were deliberate – several arsonists have been caught. There’s no evidence any of them were started by people who hoped to profit from them, but it’s possible.
Profit isn’t the only reason some people might be happy to see the fires.
Los Angeles is due to host the 2028 Summer Olympics, but there are local pressure groups who want the games relocated to another city.
Most of them are left-wing activists who think it’s wrong for LA to spend money on the Olympics when there are so many homeless people in the city.
Now fires are still burning close to several Olympic venues – Pasadena’s Rose Bowl, which will host soccer events, is being used as a base by firefighters. None of the venues has been damaged yet, but campaigners say the cost of rebuilding homes means the games need to be relocated.
What’s Next?
The value of the land that’s been burned is far from the only suspicious thing about these fires. If you look at lists of previous California wildfires you’ll notice that almost all of them happen in a “fire season” between August and November, with occasional outliers in July or December. January? No. In fact, there doesn’t seem to ever have been a major wildfire in January before – but this January there have been 30. That’s going to leave a lot of people wondering what’s really going on.
The California fires are unusual, and the water supply problems that hindered firefighters are worrying.
Some are already pointing to the deadly fires that ravaged Maui, Hawaii, in August 2023, when there were also rumors of water shortages caused by state policies.
In one case the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources refused to release water after the fires had started, only authorizing the release once the fire had spread out of control.
Another possible link is that the Maui fires threatened to drive native Hawaiians out of burned areas because they lived in paid-off homes they’d inherited and couldn’t afford to rebuild to code. That led to a lot of land going on the market – just like it probably will in LA. Maybe the most significant comparison is the fact Hawaii officials had been warned of a rising fire risk, just like LA’s, but ignored the warnings, left firefighters starved of cash, and allowed dead vegetation to build up in vulnerable areas.
Final Thoughts
Since the Maui fires there have been plenty of reports, inquiries, and lawsuits, California is already gearing up to go through the same process. But is anyone going to look at why two wealthy states have now suffered similar disasters – and turned out to be similarly unprepared to deal with them? Politicians work for us. They’re supposed to use the authority we lend them to protect our interests. In both Maui and Los Angeles, it looks like they haven’t done that. Fire is an old enemy, and it shouldn’t have taken anyone by surprise, so why was the response so disorganized in both cases? Do you think something is going on beyond simple incompetence?
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Hey Lisa Blake.Today is the end for you and all of your
Woke asshole friends!!!
You can scream and cry all you want and even shit your
pants but the wonderful fact is that the enemies of our
country and way of life are fucked beyond repair.
Go find a high bridge or a tall building.The world will be
a better place without you.
And you criminal loving conservatives are about to Find out #FAFO about your idiotic, criminal and dementia ridden leader and how he doesn’t give a shit about you.
And most likely, you can’t even define “Woke”. Its just another thing the right beefs up but yet has no clue about.
#FDJT. I hope he dies.
Lisa Byek..
Zzzzzzzz
Haha dementia, wow talk about calling the kettle black, you are a special kind of moron huh. Woke is thinking you regulate or browbeat people out of the norm. I’m pretty sure Rosenbaum and Huber found out real quick. What are the odds of killing 2 random people at a leftist riot and burying a pedo and wife beater haha.
Lisa, you do know your IP Address got doxed, don’t you?
Actually it’s really all about history, water rights and greed. Look into the history of the adamson house in malibu. The Rindge Family received it in hereditary rights from an 1802 land grant from Spain. The ORIGINAL house was destroyed by fire in the late 1920’s and the current house was rebuilt in 1929. Their pottery business burnt down in 1931. Hard to call this “global warming or even climate change” at the start of our industrialization. But you woke steers will do it, because you know better than anyone else. Fires and California go hand in hand with time. When Newsom shut off water to the valley and south CA he is trying to drive out the “family farmers” so the corporations can buy up their DRY LAND and then the water will start to flow again when the corps all own it. The family farm NEEDS to DIE BEFORE THEY can have control over OUR FOOD! In the process burning Mailbu, Pacific Palisades still works for them and their CLIMATE CHANGE AGENDA! good luck everybody Hitler is COMING and it ain’t TRUMP, it’s the GLOBALISTS!
I don’t know how to openly comment to this article. So I’ll do it this way. I’m just a poor Smuck that makes less than 30K pr yr . But to me, this LOOKS like simple corporate economics. High value land “unavailable” (owner’s wont sell). Corporate options, 1. Coerce the owner’s to sell, using taxes or regulations. 2. Make the land worthless to the current owners, (they can’t rebuild to new regulations due to cost) by lowering the property values for the entire area. IE. FORCING THEM OUT. 3. Condemn and seize said property with the state and the laws help. Thereby converting ALL the land into extremely high value VACANT real-estate. Remove a $30 K house (by WHATEVER MEANS necessary) in order to build and sell a $30 mil. house. Buy low. Sell high. No matter WHAT IT TAKES. My personal opinion is that these events are NOT NATURAL OCURING, but CORPRATE CAUSED EVENTS. With no way for anyone to prove it of course. Just the oldtroll spouting off again.
I believe there is a easier way for ….corporate….to purchase land….all though the Port of Seattle did one hell of a job grabing land for the King Co. international Airport…..Bastards
Correction…..Sea-Tac Air Port…..
My old high school was turn into a F.B.I. training center….I believe….
Hop off the jet…and disappear into the bushes….lots of un used green belt…..used to be neighborhoods.
Studies of natural and man made disasters over the years have shown what you are saying is often true, the rich vultures buying up devastated areas and moving the poor and middle class out. It is called disaster capitalism if anyone wants to read about it.
I agree but it is Not corporate economics. It’s government policy created and implemented by Marxist globalists who run California
The reason there are wildfires in late January is because the rain hasn’t come this year. It is the driest “wet season” in recorded history. Trying to turn this into a conspiracy theory is irresponsible. Who writes this nonsense?
No doubt, the extended dry period was a factor, but it wasn’t the only thing mentioned by the author in their exploration of your so-called “conspiracies”.
The FACTS that there were issues with empty reservoirs and non-functioning hydrants (even with full reservoirs), and other “policies” that accelerated the spread of the wildfires, SHOULD make us wonder if there was something sinister in at least some of these fires.
The right wing-nuts need to blame someone for this. But then again, the hurricane that devastated Floridia and North Carolina are the faut of the Republican Governors. But are they asking them to resign, no. Those idiots think Climate change is a hoax, that’s how dumb and uninformed they are.
Ahhh, Lisa: how are you doing on this glorious day, when we finally have a real President back in the White House? Oh yeah: looks like you’re spewing venom and junk science, as per usual
First off, North Carolina has a DEMOCRAT governor. Might want to know that before you start puking up your talking points.
Secondly, it is PLAIN FACT that neither the Democrat Governor of California, nor the Democrat Mayor of Los Angeles did anything worth a spit to be ready for these fires.
–> They didn’t do controlled burns, which the indigenous tribes had been doing for centuries in that part of this continent. Smart folks of every skin color have picked up on that. Apparently, you and yours missed that day at school
–> They let entire reservoirs that held MILLION of gallons of water go bone dry. Only an imbecile would think you put out raging fires without any water
–> The National Weather Service — hardly a hotbed of MAGA conspirators — warned the LA mayor about the increased danger of wild fires. But she up and took off to Africa anyway.
–> To Ghana, which is a decent sort of place, and I’ve worked with some nice guys who were from there. But her first last and only concern should be for the people of LA. Plus, she promised during her campaign that she wouldn’t be jetting around on the taxpayers dime, yet off she went, and on a fed gov plane at that. No waiting in line for the TSA grope for her!
–> The LAFD had its budget cut. No, not the DEI garbage part of their budget: that was left alone
Those are the FACTS, and they are not in dispute. It was your side that turned a big problem into a catastrophe, both by the stupid things they did, and the wise, common sense things they failed to do. Blathering on about how “uniformed” other people are only demonstrates what a cheap little bigot you are.
Trump will fix you too!
Well …Lisa….Maybe A.I. can will be able to explain the true reason why people are leaning to the right and staying there.So the left will be able to understand what’s best for mother Earth and her children and humanity in general .I’ve heard that once the right and the left cross the line of violence against each other….we’ll never be able to go back….So the left needs to chill for 4 years…then make your case for going left….the right will leave you alone….we still have a constitution…lucky …..Peace…try some herbs.
You leftist have ob Do but sniffers lost.
A majority of America rejected you and your world view.
Grow up or get out, loser.
FIRE is COMMON to CA. HURRICANES are COMMON to FL and NC. you don’t know history NOR FACTS. Climate change is REAL it changes every day! USING IT to describe something that has occurred for MANY MILLENNIA, which OUR history has only RECORDED and STUDIED for about 100 years is CHILDISH, UNINFORMED, NOT VERY SMART, and UNREASONABLE. All of these describe your text and posts to a T.
Forest need to be MANAGED by mitigation efforts, but the climatologist and sierra club types have hindered doing so….this is a fact that they haven’t been doing prescribed and managed BURNS. Then the governor has shut off water to the VALLEY (mostly family owned farms) and south CA. yeah he’s calling it a “save the smelt” effort…. but it’s really a good old fashioned LAND GRAB. If you can’t GROW any longer you’ll LEAVE. just look up the OKIE’s on the web from the dust bowl era! Open your mind just a little BEFORE you SPEAK!
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shrieks the hate filled lunatic
What’s the matter, Lisa? Are you overdue back at Frankenstein’s lab to get your neck bolts tightened?
Its not a “conspiracy” that
A) No one in LA or California thought to do simple controlled burns. Ya know, like the indigenous folks were doing for centuries
B) They had empty reservoirs that should have been filled. Is it a “conspiracy” to point out how much easier it is to fight wildfires with hoses and water?
C) The National Weather Service literally warned the dingbat “mayor” of LA that there was a heightened risk of wildfires this winter. Are you actually saying that they’re all q followers wearing tinfoil hats?
Face facts: both the Governor and the LA mayor royally fucked up. The blame for this disaster is squarely on them. You and yours trying to shout “squirrel!” only makes you look like partisan hacks
Sammy, the government of Ghana was outed by the Wall Street Journal (while the fires were still destroying houses) as stealing from the cocoa farmers so brazenly that the farmers are switching to other crops. Maybe Mayor Bass was over there to see how she could pull the same scam in Los Angeles given how gullible the voters have been.
Dry tinder and wind do not cause fires. Fires have to be SET. Can’t stop the wind but dry tinder can be removed or diminished. NOT done. Availability of water and lack of means to disburse it is man made cause. The people voted for money to do these things but it was spent on woke programs.
Arsonists should be executed. Anyone who would start a fire for a thrill, that kills dozens of people and causes billions of dollars of damage, is mentally deranged, with no comprehension of consequences. They should be executed as punishment for the damage they caused, as well as to deter copycat arsonists.
forest fires are something terrifying, I don’t know why I had to experience one last year, together with my neighbors we pulled water lines and cleaned all the combustible material that we could remove, as for the pyromaniacs, maybe if they had to plant and take care of part of it of the native flora, they would think about it next time and with respect to politicians, I recommend David Crockett’s speech “Not yours to give” and let’s take the example and principles of Horatio Bunce, maybe this country will come back to be the country that our founding fathers dreamed of
Not with republicans and criminals in charge.
No, the criminals left the White House today! I don’t normally reply to comments here! Just let them role off my back…but between your vituperative approach and your wish to see our new President dead, I just had to say something! I respect your right to your opinions. I spent over 15 years prepared to give my life to protect that right. However, as much as I disliked Obiden and his controllers, I never would wish them dead…jailed, but not dead!
Certainly not as long as trash and filth like you waste oxygen.
THE L STANDS FOR LOONEY
I was thinking loser or liar but looney works.
There are reports that BlackRock is going ‘door to door’ and offering to buy the charred remains of people’s homes. This could be the deep state’s attempt to set up controlled ‘smart cities’.
I have to admit…..Lisa is the poster child for the DNC
Yes, she is VERY full of bitterness and bigotry. Looks like she Od’d on hate pills today…… gee, I wonder why?
How about addressing the geoengineering and weather modification that goes on, and what impact it may have had on the fires? Watch the documentary: The Dimming on Geoengineeringwatch.org.
I’m afraid my I.Q.might drop if i watch that documentary Is that like Earth redesigning and weather control ? Sounds very Si-Fi to me….might check it out if i get really bored….Thanks PS i understand what dimming means…Lowering one’s I.Q……and this organization is on the look out for this what ever it is ? Can you enlighten us ? You brought it up …..Sorry…. but Lisa put my head in a very weird space….☮
Plus….i keep getting this pop up ad while I’m typing for a chat doctor….. it is very insulting…….i think it’s for Lisa…..☮
Yeahhhhh………NO!
I agree. I live in Shasta County, Northern California – we lost over one million acres in the Dixie Fire and another 430,000 acres in Park Fire. During the Carr fire we experienced “fire-nados” which actually burned boats sitting out in the middle of Whiskeytown Lake. Our forests (and homes) are covered with aluminum oxide, sprayed daily across our skies. The State of Tennessee has banned this spraying and other states are following suit. Like so many other “conspiracy theories” which in fact have been proven to be true, this one begs you to just keep an open mind.
T.D.S. on parade…..prepper’s……mount up……and release the Kraken!!!!!
Oh dearest Lisa Blake: you should know by now that Tide Pods might LOOK tasty, but you shouldn’t swallow them. Nor should you attempt to cram them where your big empty skull has already been jammed up
Most of fire mitigation talk is correct, but as our Fire Chief says, Trying to fight a fire in 30+ mph winds is like pissing into the wind.
Problem with CA fire is they expect the water to be there, read that hydrants, we expect we will have to find and use water. If they have had gas powered water pumps and short (pool size) suction hoses they could have filled engines from the pools, but they did not. For lack of a $500 water pump some houses may have been saved.
So how do I know, I am an elected fire commissioner at the end of my second 6 year term, with 8 years as an EMT for the FD before that.
What’s interesting will be when the celebs try to pull a rebuilding permit with the California Coastal Authority. This group does not like the idea of private property on the coast. I imagine that there is going to a lot of celebs being red pilled when they run into a;; the red tape and roasblocks when they try to rebuild their palaces.
Today is the Beginning of the restoration true American values
Hope for change and prosecution of the crime family criminals and thier associates
Now is the time for change
Time to release falsely accused people in DC jail
and go after the true criminals
Rebuild , Reset , Stop the foriegner s who are destroying our country
And Most of All new beginning to worship freely GOD , Jesus Christ, The father , son , holy spirit
NOW : Truth reason for fire s
To Start 15 min City Agenda and destroy the wealth of those involved
Thru Lasers and Fire Starter s from the UN , with Visa from the UN , with Credit Cards with lots of un money from the ukraining money laundering banks use to fund Evil UN agenda , Loot , Steal , Take from middle Class Thru taxes, and other theft idealogies
That is Right : Paint your Roof Tops and bldges Blue , for some reason the laser s cannot fire on these
Look up Laser s , Frequencies, Light spectrums
The Look up Hawaii fire s , LA Fires , North Carolina Desasters
See if this does not Proove point
Acts of God dont operate the way these events did , they are not selective and they dont Target .
Evil Men Do
And in other news Superman and Green Lantern are finalists in the superhero BS throwing challenge. Story at 11
Well, the price of lumber is going to go up again along with everything else. The common man shall be screwed again. It’s gonna get worse now that Trump, Musk, Zuckerburg and the rest of the olegarks are back and what can be done about it? Nada thing. Hope you Trumpistas are happy now because it won’t last long. Mark my words
Mark my words……gee whiz, The last time i heard those 3 words….Trump was being impeach for the first time By a California congressman pencil neck..Sorry i forgot his name….but don’t worry …he got pardon by the Biden God…. totally fabricated by lord Hillary…..now if the democrats could have just focused on their job….things would be just fine…..But noooooooo !!!!!! They totally had to lose their mind…..It’s even got a name T.D.S. …..Tell me …Why does he need to be pardon ???????????????????????
Adam Shiff or something like that……
Things will get much better for you after you remove that 20 pound wart sitting on your shoulders.
☆ Cool Blake ….. you’re cool . ☆ Resist on ~ Earth Sister !! ☆
SUBVERT THE DOMINANT PARADIGM !!
Not all preppers dress right ….. or dig the Nefarious Screwbball.
Avoid the reeking herd
Shun the polluted flock
Live like that stoic bird
The Eagle of the Rock !!
Lisa…..watch out for this voter !!!!!
Go suck an egg you pathetic little loser.
Do you remember what Steve Hawkins said a bout our planet.
He said less then a hundred years from now.
That this Planet would no longer sustain life on it.
That it will destroy its self.
Climate change,
This is taking affect by what the planets are doing out in space.
and there rotation that has an effect on all of them and the earth.
We are not untouchable .
The planet’s are going to do as they will and there is nothing mankind can do a bout it.
Just watch the sky. and the clods , And this has all be gain to happen after the loner e clips .
You can not stop the weather from doing what it dose,
Even if you plant stuff in the sky.
some say they have and that they have messed with the weather so much.
That they have no control over what it is doing now.
Some say that we are coming out of a seven hundred thousand year ice age.
and that the plant earth is getting warmer every year.
Why do you think why Elon Musk is doing what he is doing,
How much longer do we have on this earth before she all burns up.
And with all man kind with it.
For some they will get off this plant before this happen.
I would maybe my self give it maybe 50 years or less.
Hawken I feel was telling us the truth. .
You may find out he is right..
No need to be greedy.
Your not taking it with you.
This earth is already cooking .
Now its in full swing.
You just have not been taking notice .
Its changing and its not man kind doing it.
And man kind can not do any thing to stop it.
And when it goes.
Any one that does not get off this plant .
Will be going with it.
Like the sinking of the Titanic.
Consume shrooms often little girl?
How much more can we take from this plant.
Till it no longer as any thing to give.
So do your part, jump off an interstate overpass at rush hour. Otherwise shut up and stop whining child.
Like life.
It all has a ending point.
Its just a matter of when.
Larry….don’t worry…you’ll come down in about 12 hours……
There is nothing new about California wild fires a terrorist wet dream.
Good therapy for the inmates on the fire line…..
Larry Hi….I would like to say….If human’s can live on the Moon…they most certainly can live on Earth….no matters what happens…..All though power hungry Democrat elite scientists could create deadly viruses with a real vaccine known to only a few…like Fauci . Oh well The Biden God just pardon him… CNN and MSNBC Will bury that story….they want the vax too. Get it……? I hope I am wrong….Gates might have a different plan…I’ve heard stories….That he thinks the world is over populated….Hmmmmmm. that kind of sucks…..maybe we can go to Mars….lots of good land….if there’s other life forms ….they could at least land and say hi…..if they are so smart……and welcome us into the neighborhood……Peace
We are all so puny and insignificant in the grand scheme of things . We think we’re “All That” , but we ain’t. We are just protoplasm on amoeba on gnats on fleas on rats asses. Ma Earth has been around fer a long time and She’ll be be around alot longer after we are gone . It’s called near term human extinction. We are creating our own demise. She’s gonna shake us off like a bad case of fleas ….. and then go right on partying and being beautiful.
We think we’re all that . Meh.
SUBVERT THE DOMINANT PARADIGM !!
Earth First !!! No Compromise in the Defense of Mother Earth !! ! 💜🌎💪🏾💪🏾
Iron is strong ~ Concrete is heavy ~ but the Grass will prevail !!
The definition of the word….subvert……is very interesting….i think thats why I am currently prepping….learn something new every day…..Thanks… Peace !!!!!!
Speaking of grass , you should put down the bong before gazing in to your magic crystal ball
WOW…..It’s amazing what a little sleep does for my brain….i understand why I’m not a author now.. Yaaaaa….., A.I. will do all my writing…..and take my keys away…dreams of wandering around in the back yard chasing rabbits….soon to come…..talking to myself….Practicing yoga in my jimson weed patch….In knew i never came down that day…..long ,long time ago…..I’d love to change the world…ten years after…a space in time….
I’m not sure but i think we can stop praying for rain now !!!!!!!!