This may sound stupid, or even silly, but considering
the 90+ miles per hour winds from West to East, could
hundreds or many more Coast Guard/Navy/Private etc.
be useful to align themselves just off along the coast and
pump massive jets of seawater upwards and let it be blown
towads the fires?

They say that with humidity being so low, like at 5%, it is causing
the fire to fuel at even higher levels.

Again, sorry if this sounds silly or stupid.

Where I live: if there is no water from the hydrants, there no water to homes. No water means the city supply has been purposely turned off.

Eaton fire destroys Jewish Temple and Center in Pasadena

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/eaton-fire-destroys-pasadena-jewish-temple-center-in-pasadena/3597335/

The word horrific is not strong enough. Hell is unleashed in fires like this.

On entirely different angle, Los Angeles (and nearby areas) is the site of the summer 2026 Olympics.

How in the heck is LA / CA /USA going to pay for all the reconstruction, lawsuits (owners of bulldozed cars at minimum) and pull off building an Olympic Village???

This set of events is set to bankrupt the city and county of LA, methinks.

I read Angelinos are calling for the mayor’s recall as she parties in Ghana on their dime.

Sad thing is, they’d vote for someone just like her.

Praying for Los Angeles.

I wonder if a cow may have kicked over a lithium ion battery powered lantern? It is always the government regulations that make things worse for the people.

For future reference/comparison of this current event… (those who ignore history… etc.)

UN-NATURAL FIRES — Expert Analysis by forensic Arborist Robert Brame
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Palisades Fire Spreads to Malibu as Homes Burn Unchecked Along PCH

video clip driving along Pacific Coast Highway shows that strip of oceanfront homes on ocean side of PCH has burned

maybe not all of the strip, but some

From tragedy often comes salvation. Maybe enough Californians will support common sense politicians to counter the massive election fraud and turn the state the Red that it actually is deep down.

The sad thing is these “Wildfires” aren’t wild at all and are the direct result of people intentionally setting them and utilities causing them.
Plus the fact that the state of California does nothing to clear Wild dried out brush and will do nothing to re supply water or even build a desalination plant next to an endless supply of water.
The state of California consumes the most federal aid then any other state because of their negligence and we all pay for it.

Lefty professor rejoices after discovering Trump ally James Woods’ home was likely destroyed in wildfires. She was destroyed in the replies.
https://notthebee.com/article/lefty-professor-rejoices-after-discovering-trump-ally-james-woods-home-was-likely-destroyed-in-wildfires-she-was-destroyed-in-the-replies

A crackpot films the fire engulfing his home from inside!

https://x.com/SiaKordestani/status/1876845562328146405

Janisse Quiñones
Chief Executive Officer and Chief Engineer – Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP)

NOTE HER BIO –
” …, including Vice President of Operations, responsible for the restoration and reconstruction projects of the transmission and distribution electrical systems in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria. ”

DID NOT PUERTO RICO ” Go BLACKOUT ” Not Long ago ? !
https://www.ladwp.com/who-we-are/executive-management/person/janisse-quinones

Hat Tip Citizen Free Press

“major insurers like State Farm, Allstate, Farmers, USAA, Travelers, Nationwide, and Chubb have limited their exposure or left the state market entirely”.

Now California is forcing the remaining insurance companies…..

Expanding coverage for Californians in wildfire-distressed areas
Major insurance companies must increase the writing of comprehensive policies in wildfire distressed areas equivalent to no less than 85% of their statewide market share, whereas there is no current legal requirement today for insurers to commit to providing any coverage in high-risk areas. Smaller and regional insurance companies must also increase their writing. 

https://www.insurance.ca.gov/0400-news/0100-press-releases/2024/release062-2024.cfm

I was a 17-year old crewman on an emergency 24-man Los Padres National Forest hand-crew fire crew stationed at San Marcos Pass, above Santa Barbara, back in late September, 1971. Most of us were UCSB students, making an extra buck to pay for college. We received a day or two of training on how to cut line, etc., and were put on standby.

We ended up being called up as the initial attack on the Romero Saddle Fire which broke out above Montecito on October 6, 1971. We were the closest to the fire.

After the first day on the fire, only a handful of us decided to stay. The Forest Service put us on the tail end of the Porterville Hot Shot crew, a prison crew. I stayed on the fire for several more days, staying at the fire camp they set up at the polo fields. I woke up one morning with my eyes swollen shut and face looking like Pugsly from the Addams Family. Poison oak smoke, bad combination. That was it for me on that fire.

The fire reversed direction and 4 heroic Caterpillar operators will killed on a ridge at night. The fire ended up consuming 15,000+ acres.

Detective novelist Ross MacDonald described the Santa Ana winds near Santa Barbara in several of his novels. Raymond Chandler did likewise for the Los Angeles Santa Ana winds. Most famous is Chandler’s short story Red Wind, published in January, 1938, which opens with this paragraph:

There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands’ necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge.

“Hi, firefighter here, almost all of California’s wildfires are started by schizophrenic homeless firebugs. The reason California has so many fires is because we have so many schizophrenic homeless people. The brush is not spontaneously combusting in the heat. Hope this helps!”

https://x.com/Slumdog_Classic/status/1876858532990976012

After decades of refusing to invest in desalination technology, I’m probably not the only one wondering just how the cost of this devastation stacks up against the cost of desal.

I wasn’t able to re-post it here, but President Trump has just posted a scathing rebuke of gavin newscum’s role in refusing readily available water sources to Californians in need.

That bastard has a lot of blood on his nasty hands.

Well now, this is interesting.

LA Mayor Karen Bass is traveling in Ghana.

The Deputy Mayor in Los Angeles is Brian Williams, who was placed on administrative leave after an FBI raid on his home in connection with an alleged bomb threat against City Hall. Williams, who serves as the Deputy Mayor for Public Safety, has maintained his innocence and is represented by attorney Dmitry Gorin. Mayor Karen Bass’s office confirmed that Williams was suspended following the investigation into the bomb threat made in September 2024.

THERE IS NO DESIGNATED ACTING MAYOR. Los Angeles County, California, is the most populous county in the United States, with an estimated population of 9,663,345 as of 2023. The county seat, Los Angeles, is the second most populous city in the United States, with an estimated population of 3,820,914 as of 2023. (AND THERE IS NO ONE IN CHARGE)

Meet Mayor Karen – Karen Ruth Bass (/ˈbæs/; born October 3, 1953) is an American politician, social worker and former physician assistant who has served as the 43rd mayor of Los Angeles since 2022.[1] A member of the Democratic Party, Bass previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2011 to 2022 and in the California State Assembly from 2004 to 2010, serving as speaker during her final Assembly term.

And with a DEI Mayor ‘running’ LA you know there is more to the story.

A check of Los Angeles’ budget shows Democrat LA Mayor Karen Bass cut about $20 million from LA’s budget for fire services in this current fiscal year and she had demanded even higher cuts. This as massive wildfires devastate Los Angeles with at least 80K evacuating, and local reports show the LA fire department is running out of water. Mayor Bass had proposed about $23 million in cuts to the LA fire department. Mayor Bass was on a trip with a Biden delegation to Ghana overseas as local LA residents hammer her saying she should resign. $13 million of the cuts to the LA fire department were for operating supplies plus larger cuts to salaries.

https://x.com/LizMacDonaldFOX/status/1876998038838747154

Let this also sink in that Newscum sent fire fighting equipment to Ukraine

The fires in Los Angeles may go down, in dollar amount, as the worst in the History of our Country. In many circles, they’re doubting whether insurance companies will even have enough money to pay for this catastrophe. Let this serve, and be emblematic, of the gross incompetence and mismanagement of the Biden/Newscum Duo. January 20th cannot come fast enough!
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113794520227234567

Perhaps the insurance companies will be able to sue the State of California and LA for criminal negligence.

California can’t keep making the rest of America and the insurance companies libel for their gross incompetence and mismanagement.

Reminds me of the famous Bel Air fires in 1961 when I was 13 years old. Some things never change!

The Bel Air Fire was a disaster that began as a brush fire on November 6, 1961, in the Bel Air community of Los Angeles. The fire destroyed 484 homes and burned 6,090 acres. At least 200 firemen were injured, with mostly eye injuries due to the smoke and flying embers.The fire was fueled by strong Santa Ana winds.

There were multiple celebrities affected by the fire. Actors Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward, Burt Lancaster, Joan Fontaine, and Zsa Zsa Gabor, comedian Joe E. Brown, Nobel laureate chemist Willard Libby, composers Lukas Foss and Conrad Salinger, and writer Aldous Huxley all lost homes in the fire. Others that fought flames before they evacuated were former Vice President Richard Nixon, actor Robert Taylor, film producer Keith Daniels and orchestra leader Billy Vaughn.
The fire’s precise cause was not determined, but it was believed to be accidental.

As a result of the Bel Air Fire, Los Angeles initiated a series of laws and fire safety policies. These included the banning of wood shingle roofs in new construction and one of the most stringent brush clearance policies in the US.

The Los Angeles City Fire Department produced a documentary, “Design For Disaster”, about the wildfire, narrated by William Conrad. It called the densely packed homes nestled on hillsides covered in dry brush “a serious problem in fire protection, even under the best of conditions.”

It’s laughable when California leadership is brought up, because it’s lacking at every level of their pathetic state and local governments. The so called governor, the los angeles mayor, the los angeles fire chief and the clown in charge of water and power for los angeles, are all incompetent and absolutely unqualified for the positions they occupy. Not one of them is a leader. DEI selectees, never will be.

I’m going to be the butthole here and ask the question: Will FEMA show up in full force? We have citizens in Appalachia that are treated worse than illegal aliens after the biggest flood in the last 200 years or more. FEMA has been a criminal organization towards these people.

And democrat LA mayor Karen Bass is in Africa at City of LA expense visiting her roots.

Across America for hundreds of years, Native American tribes used controlled burning to manage land, trees, crops and game. European Americans resisted….

“Native American History: Native Americans Used Fire to Protect and Cultivate Land

Native Americans Used Fire to Protect and Cultivate Land

Indigenous people routinely burned land to drive prey, clear underbrush and provide pastures.

By: Dave Roos

When naturalists like John Muir first entered the Yosemite Valley of California in the 19th century, they marveled at the beauty of what they believed to be a pristine wilderness untouched by human hands. The truth is that the rich diversity and stunning landscapes of places like Yosemite and other natural environments in the United States were intentionally cultivated by Native Americans for thousands of years. And their greatest tool was fire.

“Fire was a constant companion, a kind of universal catalyst and technology,” says Stephen Pyne, an emeritus professor at Arizona State University, author and fire historian.

Yosemite itself was routinely burned to clear underbrush, open pasture lands, provide nutrient-rich forage for deer, and to support the growth of woodland food crops to feed and sustain what was once a large and thriving Indigenous population.

Native American Cultures

“If you look at the early photographs of Yosemite and you see the great big majestic stands of oaks, you would be led to believe that those are natural,” says Frank Kanawha Lake, a research ecologist with the USDA Forest Service, wildland firefighter and Karuk descendent. 

“But those trees are a legacy of Indigenous acorn management. Those are tribal orchards that were managed for thousands of years for acorn production and for the geophytes or ‘Indian potatoes’ that grow beneath them.”

Seasonal Wildfires vs. Cultural Burning

The hugely destructive seasonal wildfires that consume millions of acres of forest across the Western United States every year are mostly triggered when lightning strikes a stand of trees that’s dangerously dry from late-summer heat or drought.

While those types of natural fires have always existed, Indigenous people have also practiced what’s known as “cultural burning,” the intentional lighting of smaller, controlled fires to provide a desired cultural service, such as promoting the health of vegetation and animals that provide food, clothing, ceremonial items and more.

“[Cultural burning] links back to the tribal philosophy of fire as medicine,” says Lake. “When you prescribe it, you’re getting the right dose to maintain the abundance of productivity of all ecosystem services to support the ecology in your culture.”

Examples of Native American cultural burning can be found across the American landscape. In the Appalachian forests of the Eastern United States, the dominance of oak and chestnut trees was the product of targeted burning that resulted in vigorous re-sprouting of the desired nut crops. The iconic tall grass prairies of the Midwest were also likely cleared and maintained by Indigenous burning as pastureland for herd animals.

Multiple Different Uses of Indigenous Fire

Anthropologists have identified at least 70 different uses of fire among Indigenous and Aboriginal peoples, including clearing travel routes, long-distance signaling, reducing pest populations like rodents and insects, and hunting.

It’s well-established that native peoples used fire to both drive and attract game herds. For example, some tribes would open up patches of grassland inside forested landscapes that drew herds of deer and elk to the protein-rich new growth every spring. In the fall, they’d burn the grass to drive animals back into the woods where the tribe overwintered. And in the spring, they’d light fires in the woods to push the animals back into the prairie.

The tribes of the northern Great Plains were some of the few to light very large fires rather than smaller, contained burns. These prairie fires—miles-long conflagrations that raged across dry grasslands—were an effective way to drive large herds of buffalo in a desired direction. Other tribes used fire to herd grasshoppers, a tasty delicacy.

Food was not the only incentive to employ fire. For some Western tribes, a consistent crop of plant materials was essential for making woven baskets. By burning patches of land, they could ensure the regrowth of the type of straight, slender shoots that made the strongest and most artistic baskets. Others used fire to cultivate specific tree species that provided roosts for woodpeckers, whose feathers were prized for ceremonial regalia.

European Arrival Brings Disease and Outlawing of Fire

A wildfire, caused by a lightning strikes, spreads on August 19, 2020 in San Mateo, California.

One of the reasons why John Muir and other naturalists would have believed that the grandeur of Western America was shaped entirely by natural forces is that they had no idea how many Native Americans had once lived there. When the Spanish established missions and settlements in “Alta California” in the 18th century, they brought smallpox with them, which decimated an estimated 70 to 90 percent of the Indigenous population.

“A lot of what we think of as wilderness was a temporary artifact of the depopulation of the native people—It was a major crash,” says Pyne. “Explorers and early travelers didn’t believe that such small groups of Native Americans could make significant changes in the landscape. Well, there were a lot more of them in earlier times.”

European colonists brought with them an attitude that fire was a destructive force with no beneficial applications. Lake points out that one of the first official proclamations by a Spanish bureaucrat in California in 1793 was to outlaw “Indian burning,” which was viewed as a threat to the Spanish cattle herds and pastures.

“With attention to the widespread damage which results to the public from burning of the fields, customary up to now among both the Christian and Gentile Indians in this country, whose childishness has been unduly tolerated,” wrote Don José Joaquín de Arrillaga, “I see myself required to have the foresight to prohibit for the future…, if it be necessary, of the rigors of the law all kinds of burnings, not only in the vicinity of the towns, but even at the most remote distances … [t]o uproot this very harmful practice of setting fire to pastureland.”

Successive waves of colonists brought the same dismissive attitude toward the benefits of controlled burns, even though European farmers and herdsmen had practiced it for centuries.

“Europe’s elites treated their own farmers and pastoralists and their knowledge of fire with the same disdain,” says Pyne. “Europe had thousands of years of agriculture and they used fire very widely, but it was a mark of ‘primitivism.’ To be modern and rational, you had to find an alternative to fire.

How a Camping Trip Created our National Parks

The ‘Paiute Forestry’ Debate

Not everyone agreed that outlawing cultural and other controlled burns was best for America’s forests. Throughout the late-19th and early 20th century, millions of acres were destroyed by a series of deadly wildfires, many caused by sparks thrown from the new transcontinental railroad.

The trouble with fire suppression laws is that they create a buildup of “fuel” in the forests, fallen trees and drought-ridden undergrowth that feed and spread a wildfire. In the early 20th century, some forestry scientists were calling for a return to the Indigenous practices of “light-burning” to keep fuel supplies low.

Opponents of light-burning dubbed it “Paiute forestry,” meant as an insulting reference to the Paiute Indians of Nevada and California.

“The question was, ‘Do we burn like the heathen Indians or do we protect our forests and timber interests?’” says Lake.

The answer came in 1910 with one of the largest wildfires in American history. Known as the “Big Blowup” or simply the “Great Fires of 1910,” this multi-state conflagration consumed more than 3 million acres and leveled entire towns. Lake says that on one tragic day, 78 firefighters were killed by the blaze.

Rather than renewing calls for a traditional approach to forest management that incorporated cultural burning, a traumatized U.S. Forest Service doubled down on fire suppression. In response, Congress passed the Weeks Act of 1911 authorizing the government’s purchase of millions of acres of land in which all fires would be outlawed….”

We taxpayers will shell out a ton of Federal money to restore these pricey houses to the wealthy.

Where will people sleep/ stay for the next 4,5 months? This is criminal. Govt workers out there make 6 figures with 6 figure pensions to boot. This needs to end

Literally immolated by leftist policies, which includes rigged elections. You cannot spell catastrophe without CA.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/biden-announces-500-million-ukraine-as-california-burns/

FTA “On Wednesday, Joe Biden, the alleged president, announced another $500 million in military aid for Ukraine as Los Angeles burns to the ground. Joe Biden sent Ukraine a $1.25 billion weapons package late last month while he was on a taxpayer-funded vacation in sunny St. Croix until New Year’s. Biden is sending Ukraine as much money and military aid as possible in his last few weeks in office.

Since the onset of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Congress has approved nearly $175 billion in aid and military assistance for Ukraine. Meanwhile, more than 70,000 residents in Los Angeles have evacuated after wildfires erupted. More than 1,000 homes burned to the ground….But don’t worry 🤣🤣🤣 because Joe Biden said he has been briefed on the fires.”

This is the result of America Last policies by the Democrats/Uniparty!!! President Trump’s 47th Presidency is too late for them! Hopefully it’s not too late for the rest of us We The MAGA People!!! Godspeed President Trump!!!

President Trump has been telling Newsom to clean up his forests since 2019.

But you won’t ever see the fake media showing his tweet from 2019.

Here comes the Bernie Show!

Bernie Sanders Blames Raging California Wildfires on Climate Change
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/01/08/bernie-sanders-blames-raging-california-wildfires-on-climate-change/

La Mayor, “Karen” Bass (D) is trying to beat NOLA’s Mayor, LaToya “The Destroyer” Cantrell (D, and native of LA, CA) for most foreign travels,… to Paris, etc. to “Promote her City”, while sipping the Champaign and downing the pricey hors d’oeuvres. Tough job, eh?

Just wait until Mayor Bass (former CA Congresscritter (D) ) returns from her ‘timely’ jaunt to Uganda, Africa only to find her city burned out,…. and blame Trump and every body else for her own negligent wanton neglect of her public duties and selfish behavior.

Why ‘no water pressure/water’ for the firemen to fight the fires, eh, Karen? Hey, LA,… Recall, anyone???

Wanna bet, Karen doesn’t know the Native CA Indians called the LA Basin, “The Valley of Smoke”, due to those annual Santa Ana wind driven fires??? As her recent LA mayoral election opponent said last night,… “If it’s Predictable, it’s Preventable!”

LA Home Owners and Bourbon Street Revelers beware,…. selfish, negligent Dem Mayors are a threat to your safety and life. Best vote like your lives depend on it it,.. cuz now it does.

(Condolences to James Woods on the loss of his LA home to the LA fire. Jimmy,… as Jed Clampett’s kinfolk told him,… “Move away from there!”)

Isn’t it great that low-income housing can now be incorporated into the rebuild of these exclusive areas? Amazing. /s

Just saw that they are now evacuating parts of Santa Monica in anticipation of the fire spreading south into the city. North of Wilshire, west of 10th.

Joel Pollack from Brietbart just filmed a couple of short videos from Sunset and PCH, near where he lives. Showed video of Gladstones restaurant at the beach on fire, and went to see his Palisades neighborhood, just a little inland from the coast and said almost every home and the neighborhood schools all burned down.

Been in So. Calif. 67 yrs & we’ve always had fires & Santa Ana winds. But it has gotten worse due to increased building/density factors & a slowly devolving deterioration in brush & under growth management, more homeless encampment fires & devolving sick f’s who get off on starting fires. It’s no longer the great state I remember & grew up in. Tragic for so many & beyond sad.

Slowly (sort of), then all at once? Buckle up.

History of Santa Ana Winds…

The Santa Ana winds and the accompanying raging wildfires have been a part of the ecosystem of the Los Angeles Basin for over 5,000 years, dating back to the earliest habitation of the region by the Tongva and Tataviam peoples.[22]

The Santa Ana winds have been recognized and reported in English-language records as a weather phenomenon in Southern California since at least the mid-nineteenth century.[1]

During the Mexican–American War, Commodore Robert Stockton reported that a “strange, dust-laden windstorm” arrived in the night while his troops were marching south through California in January 1847.[5] Various episodes of hot, dry winds have been described over this history as dust storms, hurricane-force winds, and violent north-easters, damaging houses and destroying fruit orchards. Newspaper archives have many photographs of regional damage dating back to the beginnings of news reporting in Los Angeles. When the Los Angeles Basin was primarily an agricultural region, the winds were feared particularly by farmers for their potential to destroy crops.[1]

Omgosh, this rag is actually trying to say idiots Newsom and Biden are the heroes here.
PT, not so much…

https://www.latimes.com/california/live/pacific-palisades-fire-updates-los-angeles#p=a-tale-of-two-presidents-how-l-a-fires-show-the-difference-between-biden-and-trump