smiradenius

That's not a map. It's a cropped photo and it's too blurry and pixelated to show where any trees or brush might be.

So, you don't know how embers and fly ashes work.

https://nypost.com/2025/01/09/us-news/bass-newsom-ignored-past-warnings-about-la-wildfires/ It'll grow back, if left unattended.

They're all burned up.

Try disproving it, then. Show me where and how the fires had actually started in the burbs.

Again... the fires started in poorly manged, overgrown wooded areas and were carried to the suburbs by embers and fly ashes.

The fires started in overgrown, poorly managed wooded areas and were carried by embers and fly ashes to the suburbs.

Bullshit.

There is no climate part.

Where does climate change fit into a lack of preparation or prevention in these fires?

It was in the woods and after the fires started, the resulting embers and fly ashes ignited the suburbs.

The one connected to an empty reservoir?

He'll show up for photo op.

No, we're talking about why the kindling hadn't been cleared, why tens of millions of dollars for ttraining, staffing and equipment for fire fighting have been cut off the budget and why the reservoirs were empty. The winds were just simply doing what they had always done.

Because he's an absentee.

Well, they didn't and the state wasn't prepared for that.

Now, let's talk about prevention. Why wasn't the kindling cleared out? Why were the reservoirs drained? Why were tens of millions of dollars for training, staffing and equipment for fire fighting cut off the budget?

Doesn't matter where they came from. They're not new at all and none of our cabon emissions have changed them one way or the other.

Gavin Newsom?

The Santa Ana winds are nothing new. It's not climate change. They have been a prevailing pattern for thousands of years. The fires could have been prevented by clearing out the underbrush (the stuff that kindled the fires)

Climate change had nothing to do with any of it. It's about cutting millions dollars off the fire department, the non functional hydrants and not having had the underbrush cleared out.

The California wild fires are the direct result of government incompetence and corruption.

That would be her business.

He was never afraid of anybody at all. As long as he could hide behind his desk and prattle about how much authority he had, he felt invincible. I enjoyed busting his bubble.

On a similar note, during that short lived stint on 12pm to 8pm shift, one day the department manager found himself short handed and wanted me to work a 12 hour shift. But, he didn't have the courage to tell me that himself. Two hours into my shift, he sent my favorite supervisor to give me the bad news. I punched out at 4pm and left the manager stranded without a trash hauler for eight hours. There wasn't a dawned thing he could have done about it.