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Oh, I get that. At the very least, it would be a goodwill payback for the LAFD coming out to help after 9-11. Fwiw, I highly doubt the LAFD would turn them down, but they're more likely to need equipment with those bodies.

I'm not sure what the NYFD would be able to do once they were able to get out here. Other than that, I love how blatantly partisan the NYP is.

Congratulations, you took pictures of a fucking park. Now all you have to explain how pictures of a fucking park are relevant. You can start by telling all of us where those parks are located.

Jack Smith is a real hero.

I'm still not entirely convinced she hasn't had sex with her own son.

I think this thread has been a massive turd of success.

I live here. I already told you I've regularly go to Altadena and Pacific Palisades (sometimes on a weekly basis). I know what's on the hills behind both places.

That's the thing... this isn't technically the dry season. Naturally flicking cigarettes anywhere at any time is bad form, and the liklihood that anyone was standing out in a hurricane smoking a cigarette to begin with seems low, but... this isn't the time of year when we're supposed to have fire danger. In fact January and February are technically our wettest months, except when climate change triggers a strong La Nina. That's not so much an excuse as a stark reminder that we have to do things way differently to prepare for wild fires than we did even five years ago.

I do not see the non-existent trees in the foothill.

I'm sure your lawyers whored you out to their lawyer buddies. You look just pathetic enough to sell legal services.

Well, no, there aren’t. If you set foot in LA, you would know that none of the local ranges are forested. As far as sagebrush, it exists not just in the foothills, but also in open areas like river plains in the basin. Presumably you know that it’s flammable by design, but it doesn’t spread embers under normal circumstances. It’s no different than a grassfire, which is what we consider when weeds catch fire. This fire didn’t spread because some dry native plants and weeds caught fire. They do that all the time and our infrastructure can easily douse those fires quickly. This fire spread because the region itself is abnormally dry because of La Niña and the highly unusual placement of the low over the Gulf of California created extremely high winds. like I told you, not in anybody’s lifetime have we seen hurricane force winds at lower elevations and over wide expanses.

I made it specifically so could show his ass.

Where are the trees? Doesn’t it need trees for it to be “wooded”? Are we considering weeds to be trees now?

Those videos are so ridiculous they’re hilarious.

Santa Ana winds aren't "high" winds. they're dry off shore winds. A Santa Ana wind event triggers a "red flag" warning, which is distinguishable from a high wind warning. They are also higher in higher elevation down slope places, typically around mountain passes, not in the basin. But, I don't want AI to tell me wrong shit, I want you to look up historical records for wind speeds and tell me how often the Los Angeles basin experiences wind gusts as high as 80 MPH.

No, you look it up. You're telling me they're not uncommon. Prove to me they're no uncommon.

When was the last recorded high wind warning in the Los Angeles Basin?

I've lived here almost 50 years.

I think your physics might be a tad bit rusty, old man.

That's funny. I live here and I can't recall the last time we had a high wind warning in the basin.

That doesn't sound confident.

Really? So high winds are normal in Los Angeles?

Are you saying 80MPH gusts are nothing new?

Tell me more. As you can see, there's very clearly a ridge running through the center of those barren hills. Are you saying the wind carried those embers over a ridge to drop them on that neighborhood?

For reference?