re: Major wildfire in Los Angeles (and Pasadena)

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Florida has more forest area and hardly has any wildfires. It’s because they maintain their forests and have controlled burns annually.

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Probably more has to do with the humidity and proximity to two major water basins.

Being reported that the Bert is now spreading as well

One of my clients was in Pacific Palisades. Had to evacuate to Hawthorne to try to get charter out of there.... there is a TFR over all of LA down to Long Beach.

Is this going to be the worst fire disaster in history?

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This isn’t true. I live in the Santa Cruz Mountains and Cal Fire is constantly doing controlled burns. The issue is that it no longer rains in Southern California. The narrative that the California is mismanaging everything is just not true in this case.

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Yeah, the mismanagement line has become a talking point and is being used as a political weapon to beat opponents with. In the past, it was much more an issue. Now, a lot of effort and funding goes into the prescribed burning.

To your point about lack of rain/drought being a major issue currently. It isn't really. There is no significant drought right now in SoCal. It is dry, abnormally dry in places, but it is more seasonally dry than the droughts of recent years. A major contributor to this is what finally broke the long drought in the area......a wet Fall into Winter and an average to above average Spring. That greened everything up and lead to significant new growth. When the normal dry season rolled around, all of the new green vegetation naturally dried out and became a massive amount of new fuel.

That's both the blessing and the curse when an extended drought like the area faced finally breaks, and this has been an ongoing concern this fire season.

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Is this going to be the worst fire disaster in history?

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Please God, I hope not. This is literally hell on Earth for those people. God hep them.

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I have a client that lives in Pacific Palisades. I hope they are ok. Beautiful area

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One of my favorite neighborhoods in the L.A. area along with Santa Monica.

No one should wish L.A. burns just because it's Cali. That would be like them wishing we'd get a direct Cat 5 hit every year.

Hoping and praying for the best but doesn't look promising tonight. The video of the dozer pushing and crushing late model, expensive abandoned cars off the road to clear it was surreal.

I bet Biden gives financial support for this while people in North Carolina have been waiting forever.