My sincere heartfelt sympathy for all those who lost everything in this inferno.
But this was a recipe for loss, no less then the complete loss experienced in Maui. In the case of Maui, the catastrophe was present, exposed and yet those in charge did absolutely nothing before the disaster.
In the LA fire:
1 You have the extreme drought
2 the underbrush was left to grow to dangerous conditions. Because of Cally’s fictitious climate mandates, no fires for fire control were in used in past years, allowing for combustion buildup. instead of a manageable fire, they were faced with a 100’ bonfire with embers leaping 1000s of feet across canyons. Californians have the examples of fires in N. Cally, the ones they can’t put out because of the under burden and their stupid management policies. Everyone knew this would happen and yet they did nothing.
3 The Mayor raided the fire budget, instead of preparing for the reality of a fire, they focused on social projects. Rather then build the catch basins to collect rain, not building the recharge wells that they promised to do the limit drought, Cally spent all it’s money on useless projects. The Governer, Mayor are responsible for this disaster.
LA fire sounded alarm on budget cuts impacting wildfire response: memo | Fox News
4 Not enough water for the fire department. policy failure
5 and the most obvious. Santa Anna Winds are a historic event, I have marveled at the winds every time I drive from Vegas to LA, all of the trees are stunted to one side and yet these dummies can’t come up with a fail proof plan to handle fire???
6 they enacted a special session to not fix the fire problem…but to prepare for Pres. Trump.
kinda encapsulates the failure of Cally in a nutshell.