By Jo Nova
Excerpt: Incompetence plus fuel = disaster
“There’s no water coming out of the fire hydrants.
You don’t see the fire fighters there, because there is nothing they can do — it looks like we’re in a third world country here.
What was your brush mitigation program. The brush up in these hills … probably have been handled, mitigated, pruned, removed for probably thirty or forty years. It was a disaster waiting to happen.”
— Rick Caruso, Real Estate Developer.
There’s been no mention yet, but Australian gum trees arrived in Los Angeles in the 1870s and spread like weeds, with help from “over 100 companies” setting up Blue Gum plantations in a boom around 1900. There are historic pictures of Eucalyptus trees on the hillside of the Pacific Palisades. Did the fire loving trees make the fire worse, or were they just the icing on a gargantuan multilayered cake of incompetence?
One video has the sound of “popping” and we wonder about all the EV’s or home batteries that surely line the wealthy streets of the Pacific Palisades and Malibu. We hope everyone’s EV was fully charged before the evacuation. Imagine being told to leave your home immediately and you only needed an hour to charge? If a thousand cars are bumper to bumper it might only take a few to run out of charge and lock up to really screw the traffic flow.
Donald Trump says “Newscum” made it dry to save a worthless fish called a smelt, by giving it less water (it didn’t work!) but didn’t care about the people…
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1877036020081803468
It’s winter, but we know they’ll blame “climate change”.
Thinking of you Scott of the Pacific, who can see the fire from his apartment miles away.
