Wild Fires In LA

[Mike Ault]

I wouldn't fistfight this sheep girl...and yes, she is a girl

I certainly wouldn't fistfight her, she would be in contention to win a spot as my "camping girl companion" though.

 

[Sadie]

I just saw that scammers are applying for FEMA aid in other people's name. So when the real person tries to apply, they are told that someone has already applied in their name. Thats terrible.

 

[Sandra Koutsopoulos]

There are criminals everywhere. It seems like, throughout the country, our sense of morality and concern for our fellow man is in shreds.

 

[Charles West]

This is a real nightmare. People are moving out of fireprone or wasted areas in droves-the surrounding area's real estate markets are on fire with new listings popping up everywhere.

 

[Elliott]

WSJ 1/16/25:

"As the fires ravaging Pacific Palisades expanded and started moving toward his home in the Malibu Hills last week, Brent Woodworth connected two 100-foot hoses to his personal fire hydrant and put one on each side of the driveway.

When firefighters showed up, they used those hoses to save his home and the two next door, he says. The next day, when the hydrant’s water pressure dropped, he used a pump to take water from the swimming pool across the street so firefighters could continue hosing down the houses and fighting off embers.

All three houses survived intact, in a neighborhood where approximately 80% of the homes burned, says Woodworth, chairman of the Los Angeles Emergency Preparedness Foundation. The hydrant and pool pumped “definitely helped,” he says.
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Tensions have flared in Los Angeles over crews of private firefighters spotted battling blazes for well-heeled clients or, in more cases, protecting properties with specific coverage on behalf of insurance companies."

 

[togatour]

I just saw that scammers are applying for FEMA aid in other people's name. So when the real person tries to apply, they are told that someone has already applied in their name. Thats terrible.

Then FEMA must verify the identity of the true owner and fully service them period, whether or not FEMA was scammed should not delay benefits in any way for any amount of time. I hope that is policy and if not, the next administration should address on day 1.

 

[Sadie]

Then FEMA must verify the identity of the true owner and fully service them period, whether or not FEMA was scammed should not delay benefits in any way for any amount of time. I hope that is policy and if not, the next administration should address on day 1.

I don't know how they will resolve this if everything a person has has burned, including their IDs.

 

[Sandra Koutsopoulos]

When I was a kid growing up on a farm in Iowa in the 1950s, a neighbor 5 miles away had a fire that took their house. I remember how traumatized the kids were, they had no clothing, no toys, nothing familiar, no kitchen nor place to sleep in peace, and they were just out there trying to find a place to shelter and have a meal. After that, the kids only had hand-me-downs for a long time, which made them feel inferior and 'other'. Luckily, the dad still had his business, but they had lost every material thing in that fire. In those days, many neighbors and others who had heard of their fire pitched in to help.

But what do you do when thousands of 'neighbors' have also been burnt out, with no businesses left to work at, no paycheck, no car to try to find work anywhere, and peoples' whole lives and identities, photos and lifetime of memories and ID's are melted in their computers? Even passwords to get access to 'the cloud' likely burnt to ash for most ppl. The devastation is immense, multiplied thousands of times.

 

[Charles West]

I just heard an estimate of overall impact of these CA wildfires, somewhere on the order of $200 to $250 billion. We are screwed.

 

[J Grant]

Trump has not visited to see the damage.
Maybe he is thinking of trading LA for Greenland.