https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14285771/los-angeles-insurance-giant-prediction-fires.html
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/californias-insurance-crisis-just-got-whole-lot-worse
https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/la-county-inferno-expected-top-250-billion-losses
The Shocking Corruption Behind LA's Water Supply https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muB6sOH_QW8
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14282009/fire-trucks-Los-Angeles-fires.html
Why California is Running Out of Water https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJVtLbg98Yk
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/12/newsom-marshall-plan-wildfire-theories
Building it all back better?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/business/dealbook/rebuilding-los-angeles-olympics-2028.html
How and when and for who?
https://globalagents.ca/evergreen/los-angeles-2-0-fact-sheet-california
Water Wasted | What happened to all the water from California's historic winter? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5fJJUJMitY
City_on_Fire is about an out of control oil refinery conflagration that's not necessarily set in the Greater Houston Area or in L.A. County. It's set in a generic North American metropolis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_on_Fire_(1979_film)#Plot
https://www.morrowsheppard.com/blog/worst-refinery-explosions-in-us-history
While most of LA isn't on fire, some key parts of the county are.
https://www.california.com/the-4-coolest-national-forests-in-socal
https://wildfiretaskforce.org/southern-california-regional-profile
LA and Los_Angeles_County is a much larger area than Greater Houston. Some parts of Los_Angeles_County still have a wilderness feel and some parts still have heavily wooded sections or even forest_areas.
https://learncalifornia.org/southern-california-forests/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-fire-maps-palisades-eaton-hurst-2025
https://www.latimes.com/california/live/pacific-palisades-fire-updates-los-angeles
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/los-angeles-wildfires-water-scarcity
https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Los+Angeles+fires
https://www.yahoo.com/news/pacific-palisades-reservoir-offline-empty-163924460.html
Of course no one thought that it would be a good idea to make sure that all possible reservoirs, pools and water tanks are full during a heightened time of fire risk.
Apparently, there was a nothing will go wrong attitude, but if it does, this is what ends up happening.
Also apparently, there was no need to put up temporary safety barriers in N.O. while the permanent ones were being repaired.
New Orleans had top-of-the-line barriers to prevent car attacks — but didn't use them on New Year's Day https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-orleans-barriers-prevent-car-attacks-didnt-use-new-years-rcna186012
"Retractable bollards designed to protect New Orleans' French Quarter from vehicle attacks were inactive due to a replacement project at the time of the New Year's Day attack, which saw 15 people killed in an ISIS-inspired motorist rampage." https://www.newsweek.com/new-orleans-vehicle-attack-barriers-replacement-2008442
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/03/us/bourbon-street-barricades-new-orleans/index.html
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Los+Angeles+fires
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/09/nx-s1-5253785/los-angeles-pasadena-california-fires
People will use almost anything they can to try to put out a fire.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-08/southern-california-wildfires-by-the-numbers
While a bucket or a bag of water, or a garden hose can work on extinguishing a very small fire, only professionally grade firefighting equipment is best against any major fire.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/09/california-wildfires-destruction-los-angeles
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/los-angeles-wildfire-victim-dead-b2676480.html
https://www.thedailybeast.com/an-actors-guide-how-not-to-pack-your-wildfire-go-bag/
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Los+Angeles+fires
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Greater+LA+Area
The strain on the Greater L.A. Area will be felt for quite a while.
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Los+Angeles+fires
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Greater+LA+Area
https://www.latintimes.com/california-podcaster-shares-video-arsonists-downtown-los-angeles-wildfires-rage-571676 Published Jan 09 2025, 1:19 PM EST
Unfortunately, some people get excited by the sight of an out of control fire and want to start some of their own.
Of course several fires can start naturally, but sometimes there are people that want to start some of their own fires.
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Los+Angeles+fires
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Greater+LA+Area
https://ktla.com/news/california/wildfires/palisades-fire-wednesday-live-updates/
The Greater Los+Angeles Area should have been much better prepared by now.
https://www.parks.ca.gov/NewsRelease/1346
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Los+Angeles+fires
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Greater+LA+Area
https://lafd.org/disaster-preparedness
The Greater L.A. Area really should already have had a series of above and underground water tanks and reservoirs, just in case another big fire broke out.
https://readyforwildfire.org/prepare-for-wildfire , https://www.parks.ca.gov/NewsRelease/1346
https://bof.fire.ca.gov/media/4z1o4fhb/rpc-2-b-ii-city-of-los-angeles-draft-safety-element.pdf
https://fire.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Ready-set-go_04292021-High-Quality-B.pdf
https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/specialpublications/nist.sp.1191.pdf 1191
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Los+Angeles+fires
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Greater+LA+Area
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/why-did-fire-hydrants-go-dry-for-crews-fighting-the-palisades-fire
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Los+Angeles+fires
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Greater+LA+Area
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Los+Angeles+fires
https://www.itskrs.its.dot.gov/node/212391
All this surveillance and coordination technology can help any city to be more efficient.
However, if ever totally run by AI and not humans, a totalitarian situation could emerge producing inhumane results.
https://www.geoweeknews.com/news/la28-2028-olympics-autodesk-technology-bim-retrofitting
https://dot.la/smart-la-2028-2659008086.html No matter how much high-technology can be applied, if there aren't enough emergency water tanks to fight fires, its pointless!
Technology is a series of tools, but such tools should never be used to turn L.A. or the world into a series of Black+Mirror episodes.
https://ita.lacity.gov/smartla2028 , https://la28.org/en.html
https://statetechmagazine.com/article/2021/07/how-los-angeles-plans-become-smarter-city-2028-olympics People might say that its too expensive to have a series of above and underground water reseevours to fight fires with. Now look at what has happened to the unprepared Greater LA Area.
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Los+Angeles
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Greater+LA+Area
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Black+Mirror
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Alphaville
https://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2015/10/14/shipping-water-alaska-california/73934396 Almost a full decade later and California is still waiting for some of that abundant Alaskan freshwater.
https://www.livescience.com/43176-drought-pipeline-water-projects-arid-west.html
https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/fresh-water-as-shipping-commodity/67227
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Los+Angeles+fires
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=L.A.
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Greater+LA+Area
