Fire/EMS/ERs/disasters, etc.

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An acre is a decent measure for a residential or commercial property, or some farmers' fields, but why do they report fires in acres? They're saying the Palisades fire is 17,000 acres. I have no idea how big that is. Oh yeah, Alexa says it's about 26 square miles or some variation of 3 miles wide and 8 miles long, or 5 miles square. Makes a lot more vivid understanding of the huge range of this. And that's just one of the fires.

Palisades and Eaton fires together are about the size of the city of San Francisco.

The fire map folks are lapsing.
Eaton Fire reports "Containment 0%", but has not added acres since yesterday morning, 10,600 acres.
Palisades Fire also reports "Containment 0%", but has not added acres since yesterday evening, 17,234 acres.
Sunset Fire (Hollywood Hills) also reports "Containment 0%", 60 acres, but its map has lost the mandatory evacuation and evacuation warning coloration.

It's all worse that we can tell from the CAL FIRE website at the moment.

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It's not just homes in the hills, downtown Palisades on Sunset Boulevard was torched.

Before and after Sat photos of both the Palisades Fire at the PCH and Altadena (Eaton Fire):
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/09/nx-s1-52 ... ite-images

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Think of it as one Dupont State Forest or one and a half Dupont State Forests.

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Think of it as one Dupont State Forest or one and a half Dupont State Forests.

Yep, 1 for the Eaton Fire, 1 1/2 for the Palisades Fire.

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Palisades Fire now 19,059 Acres

Eaton Fire now 13,690 Acres, bigger than Dupont

Sunset Fire is 100% Contained at 43 Acres

New, north of Palisades, San Fernando Valley edge:
Kenneth Fire, 791 acres, Containment 0%
https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2025/ ... 621495f650

Another one further NE that I don't see the name of.

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https://x.com/AP/status/1877539530359672913

Holy crap.


Multi-million dollar mansions in Malibu have vanished entirely, seemingly swept into the Pacific ocean by the force of the Palisades Fire

No word on Charlie Harper's place.

Malibu fire damage: Photos capture destruction and firefighters' heroic efforts

I have a brother in L.A.
Hurricane Helene
L.A. fires
I've suggested to my Atlanta SiL that in 3 months she take an extended vacation or send my Atlanta brother on one.

Kenneth Fire is 35% Contained, 1,000 Acres, threatens some dense population

No posted changes to the other fires yet.

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Jeff Bridges among celebrities to lose homes in wildfires

Aw.

Merged lists:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/celebrity-ho ... 00814.html
Homeless celebs (some own multiple homes)
actor Milo Ventimiglia
Paris Hilton (video )
Billy and Janice Crystal
actors Adam Brody Leighton Meester
James Woods, but he's being a RepuQ asshole about it
Jurassic World actress Daniella Pineda
Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag
Mandy Moore
TV host Ricki Lake
Sir Anthony Hopkins
John Goodman
Anna Faris
Cary Elwes
actor Miles Teller and his wife, Keleigh Sperry
Actor Cameron Mathison
songwriter Diane Warren
Maria Shriver?

Near miss
Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson
Jamie Lee Curtis

Undetermined
Mark Hamill
Eugene Levy
Ben Affleck
Alabama Barker, Kourtney Kardashian's stepdaughter

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And Mel Gibson.

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And Mel Gibson.

He's also being a partisan ass about it. Big surprise

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And Mel Gibson.

He's also being a partisan ass about it. Big surprise

Karma.

He was out of town when his house burned down.

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And Mel Gibson.

He's also being a partisan ass about it. Big surprise

Karma.

He was out of town when his house burned down.

https://x.com/drg1985/status/1877700991878918406

"junior science exam"? Rogan would fail an elementary school science exam.

Triple karma.
Gibson was already a homophobic, antisemitic, racist ass;
AGW denial;
Hanging out with Joe Rogan.

It's almost like it's coordinated - RepuQs casting about for dubious and dumb reasons to blame Dems when the significant contribution of AGW, which RWers love, is undeniable.

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It's almost like it's coordinated - RepuQs casting about for dubious and dumb reasons to blame Dems when the significant contribution of AGW, which RWers love, is undeniable.

If only they were that smart.

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Don't forget, for them, nothing is "undeniable."

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https://conservativepoliticalforum.com/ ... #msg516659

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https://conservativepoliticalforum.com/ ... #msg516659

Gullible morons, as usual.

With the amount of distraction from this news over the last couple days, got to wonder what is being hidden.

Everything, from child trafficking to Biteme sending Ukraine billions more.

Umm, the Ukraine $$$ are being covered. Duh.

Solar is obsessed with pedophilia, as always. SoupySales' nanny is a creep.

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Move over, Hellene (another AGW-related event ). TV news: "One of the most destructive natural disasters in US history."

Pol on TV: The destroyed Altadena neighborboods - Eaton Fire 14,117 Acres 15% Contained, 6 dead - are largely African American due to redlining. Their homes were their generational wealth. Now, their insurance, if they have any, is.

Strong winds return tonight, red flag warnings through Wednesday, new evacuations, tony Brentwood threatened. Crap.
Palisades Fire 22,660 Acres 11% Contained, 5 dead

The architecturally significant houses destroyed in L.A.'s fires

The Andrew McNally House

The 1887 Andrew McNally House, built in Altadena for the co-founder of the Rand McNally publishing company, lies in rubble from the Eaton fire.

Zane Grey Estate, Altadena
The (jazz singer Anne) Keeler House
Janes Village: cluster of historic English cottages
Gregory Ain's Park Planned homes: 28 Midcentury Modern homes
Bridges House


Will Rogers’ home: central to the Will Rogers State Historic Park

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Maps and images reveal scale of LA wildfire devastation



Malibu icon Randy “Craw” Miod among victims of Palisades Fire

How does someone burn up in a beach house?

Oh nooo!

... The Bunny Museum in Altadena once housed 46,072 rabbit-related objects, according to its website.



... The museum was destroyed by the Eaton fire.

The horror, the horror. Nightmares tonight.

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Santa Ana winds are common. Wildfires have been common for years. Never before have the fires reached densely populated areas, and never before have winds of that speed and magnitude combined with bone-dry vegetation and single-digit humidity. Usual fire-fighting practices were hampered by unusual conditions. Too much wind to fly helicopters, and water/retardant wouldn't even fall vertically because of the wind. Hydrants intended to handle a one or two-house fire were being tapped for entire neighborhoods. I'm sure there will be fingers pointing all around, but really, there could not reasonably be any different preparation for this event because there were too many unknown variables.

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Definition of "act of god."

There's no infrastructure in the world that is set up for something like this. Are they going to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to upgrade the infrastructure for next time whenever that is?