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A very similar area burned in a major wildfire in 1961, one that the Los Angeles fire department would look back on decades later as one of the worst in the city's history.
Here is a historical account of that fire: lafire.com/famous_fires/1
Decades from now I expect we'll be looking back on this fire, too, as an outlier in a region that experiences lots of wildfires. I expand on that case in The Atlantic today:
And last fall I wrote about how unprepared many Californians were for wildfires, despite their frequency and the certainty that more were ahead:
Makes sense. I want to blame dysfunctional leadership because there's so much visible evidence of it, but sometimes planning for outliers is just challenging.
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The Palisades hills hadn’t burned since the late ‘70’s. Recently spent considerable time on an alphabet sts roof working on a house I designed (still standing) and looking across 1000’s of homes the potential for disaster was clear.
In 60 years they didn’t think to fill fire hydrants or perhaps clear brush? How can the Getty Villa contain countless irreplaceable pieces of art and the hills contain such beautiful modernist homes with absolutely no plan or preparation for fire. The hills are filled with brush!
Fuel load is a major factor in the severity and extent of wildfires. Unlike drought or Santa Ana winds, it is one of the factors that can be managed.
I am not familiar with the steps that have or have not been taken to address this factor.
I’ve e noticed some of these homes burning have a lot of trees/brush in their yard. That surprises me given the increase in fires lately
At what point is just rebuilding over and over not responsible behavior??
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This is true but there is valid criticism to make where the city leadership failed here. Their evacuation plan in the Palisades failed in 10 minutes and they had to bulldoze cars to access the neighborhood after telling people to abandon them in the middle of the street.
Santa Ana winds, very dry weather, homes in hills...not very complicated.
It's part of reality and basic probability that "outliers" are to be expected. Not being prepared for them is dyfsunctional leadership.
P.s., it's amazing how poor the reasoning is here (by a writer who seems to pride himself on clear thinking.). "Devastating events occur only once in 60 years, so, therefore, leaders couldn't possible have a plan in place"? Really, that's the argument?
"Climate change is happening on the whole." Yeah, thanks. The climate always changes, but there is no evidence supporting the implied disaster those who coined the propaganda phrase posit, so what is the point of your aside other than to be cuntily mealy-mouthed, as usual?
Shitlib, poisonous liberals, literally dumped Californias water into the pacific to protect a fish no one cares about.
You are noting wind that grounded 1/2 the resources.
Blaming progressives sounds dumb.
Even more perspective: On Yom Kippur Jews say a prayer that asks who will live and who will die in the coming year. The prayer then gets into some detail and 'who by fire?' is literally first in a list of many. Fires, plagues, floods, all of it. They have been with us forever
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When California had the drought a decade ago I asked during a Mother Jones editorial meeting where the water had gone and everyone laughed at me and said “everyone knows where it went” and I said “I don’t know where the water went but I know that it didn’t disappear so it went
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Every kid in the US learns of the Great Chicago Fire (2,112 acres) in school and how modern building codes & fire depts have made this impossible, yet both the 2023 Lahaina & the current Palisades Fire crossed 17,000 acres - 8x the size!
I marked up a map of Chicago to compare.
