Authorities warn of extensive damage as LA fires rages

 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.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/altadena-left-devastated-by-deadly-eaton-fire-everything-is-gone/

https://internewscast.com/entertainment/firefighters-are-not-using-handbags-to-fight-wildfires-in-los-angeles-as-shown-in-a-video/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/09/california-wildfires-destruction-los-angeles

https://deadline.com/2025/01/hacks-altadena-mansion-destroyed-la-fires-hollywood-locations-1236252254/

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/

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The Los Angeles County wildfires, so far

 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/los-angeles-area-wildfires-60-minutes-transcript/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/los-angeles-wildfire-evacuees-price-gouging-predatory-businesses-landlords/?intcid=CNR-01-0623

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/death-toll-from-eaton-and-palisades-fires-climbs-to-24-officials-say/

https://www.cnn.com/weather/live-news/los-angeles-wildfires-palisades-eaton-california-01-12-25/index.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/us/los-angeles-calfire-firefighters.html

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City on Fire (1979 film)

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

https://www.nfpa.org/education-and-research/research/nfpa-research/fire-statistical-reports/catastrophic-multiple-death-fires/deadliest-fires-or-explosions-in-the-world

While most of LA isn't on fire, some key parts of the county are.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/los-angeles-mapped-kenneth-fire-palisades-eaton-altadena-b2677045.html

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.nbclosangeles.com/news/california-wildfires/la-county-wildfires-structures-destroyed-damage/3600667/

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.cnn.com/weather/live-news/los-angeles-wildfires-palisades-eaton-california-01-09-25-hnk/index.html

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/hollywood-hills-burn-la-engulfed-by-the-big-one-2025-01-09/

https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents

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Palisades Fire torches 1,000 structures, most destructive in Los Angeles history

 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.gov.ca.gov/2025/01/08/more-than-7500-firefighting-emergency-personnel-deployed-to-fight-unprecedented-los-angeles-fires/

https://www.parks.ca.gov/NewsRelease/1346

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A California Podcaster Shares Video of 'Arsonists' in Downtown Los Angeles as Wildfires Rage

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. 

https://internewscast.com/entertainment/henry-winklers-claim-of-arson-in-fires-questioned-by-l-a-fire-department/ 

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

Thousands flee as wildfires burn out of control and destroy homes across the Los Angeles area

Multiple massive wildfires are tearing across the Los Angeles area with devastating force

 https://www.kvoa.com/news/thousands-flee-as-wildfires-burn-out-of-control-and-destroy-homes-across-the-los-angeles/article_3d4523f3-408b-57b9-ae99-f60bb054859e.html

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Reason why firefighters aren't using ocean water to put out LA wildfires despite being on coastline

 https://www.unilad.com/news/us-news/why-firefighters-arent-using-ocean-water-los-angeles-fires-257185-20250109

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Did Joe Rogan Predict these Historic Los Angeles Wildfires?

 https://www.latintimes.com/joe-rogan-predicted-historic-los-angeles-wildfires-resurfaced-clip-its-gonna-burn-through-la-571683

The strain on the Greater L.A. Area will be felt for quite a while.

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Los+Angeles+fires

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Los Angeles disaster preparedness?

 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://www.thebigredguide.com/insights/lafd-exemplifies-drones-firefighting-co-3388-ga-co-5241-ga-co-5261-ga.1561714827.html

https://fire.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Ready-set-go_04292021-High-Quality-B.pdf

https://planning.lacity.gov/odocument/c2e048eb-817c-4e9d-a550-57e33444621a/Safety_Element_CityofLosAngeles_SeptDraft.pdf

https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/specialpublications/nist.sp.1191.pdf  1191

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Smart LA 2028: Technology for a better Los Angeles?

 https://www.itskrs.its.dot.gov/node/212391

All this surveillance and coordination technology can help any city to be more efficient.

https://ita.lacity.gov/sites/g/files/wph1626/files/2021-05/SmartLA2028%20-%20Smart%20City%20Strategy.pdf

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

Staggering image of 100 essential fire trucks idling in a parking lot waiting for repair while Los Angeles apocalyptic fires ravage city

 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14282009/fire-trucks-Los-Angeles-fires.html

https://www.firehouse.com/operations-training/wildland/news/55260699/fire-experts-discuss-inconvenient-truths-about-ca-wildfires

Why California is Running Out of Water https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJVtLbg98Yk

Newsom eases building restrictions as theories grow of how fires were ignited

 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://fortune.com/2025/01/12/gavin-newsom-marshall-plan-suspension-environmental-laws-rebuild-la-wildfires/

https://www.businessinsider.com/gavin-newsom-reimagining-los-angeles-post-wildfire-marshall-plan-rebuild-2025-1

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

LA fire department begged for $100M to fix old trucks and replace 16 axed positions just two months before wildfires took hold

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14283369/LA-fire-department-begged-100M-fix-old-trucks-replace-16-axed-positions-just-two-months-wildfires-took-hold.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14286121/los-angeles-fire-union-chief-department-freddy-escobar.html

https://www.firehouse.com/california-fire-storm/news/55260713/lawsuits-accuse-power-company-for-sparking-deadly-ca-wildfire

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14282009/fire-trucks-Los-Angeles-fires.html

https://www.firehouse.com/operations-training/wildland/video/55260738/wildfire-erupts-in-ventura-county-ca-riverbed

Fire hydrants ran dry as Pacific Palisades burned. L.A. city officials blame ‘tremendous demand’

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-08/lack-of-water-from-hydrants-in-palisades-fire-is-hampering-firefighters-caruso-says

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://www.seniorvoicealaska.com/story/2024/01/01/columns/woody-islands-lucrative-alaska-export-ice/3494.html

https://californiawaterblog.com/2019/04/01/climate-warming-brings-new-water-supplies-to-californias-delta/

https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/fresh-water-as-shipping-commodity/67227

 Iceberg Cometh : Drought: Towing a chunk of glacier ...

Los Angeles Times

https://www.latimes.com › archives › la-xpm-1990-06-...

Jun 6, 1990 — Ventura city officials have decided to study the possibility of hauling icebergs from the polar caps and planting them off the county's shores.

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Los Angeles insurance giant makes chilling prediction after devastating fires

 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

Pacific Palisades reservoir was offline and empty when firestorm started

 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.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-10/as-flames-raged-in-palisades-a-key-reservoir-nearby-was-offline

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

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Maps show how dry Southern California is

 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/southern-california-maps-dry-drought-la-wildfires-fire-risk/?intcid=CNR-01-0623

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Los+Angeles+fires  

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Why did fire hydrants go ‘dry’ for crews fighting the Palisades Fire?

 https://ktla.com/news/local-news/why-did-fire-hydrants-go-dry-for-crews-fighting-the-palisades-fire

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Fires in California decimate Los Angeles area, leave apocalyptic scenes

 https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/california-windstorm-fuels-pacific-palisades-wildfire-as-residents-flee-live-updates/

https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents

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