The Hughes Fire in Castaic, which broke out Wednesday, has put more than 50,000 people under evacuation orders and warnings in the northern Los Angeles County community, authorities say. It has burned 10,176 acres in L.A. and Ventura counties and was 14% contained as of Thursday morning.
Fires across the L.A. area have killed at least 28 people, destroyed more than 15,000 structures and charred some 63 square miles. The Palisades and Eaton wildfires continue to burn today.
"Critical fire conditions" and red-flag warnings for Santa Ana winds are in effect for Los Angeles and neighboring Ventura counties, according to forecasters. Some rain is forecast for the weekend, which is raising concern about possible mudslides and flooding due to burn scars.
In San Diego County, south of Los Angeles, firefighters have battled several smaller blazes that broke out this week.
Somewhere along the line when all is said and done and the fires are contained, any number of civic leaders need to have their feet held to the fire - no pun intended - on how and why these regularly-occuring, natural incidents are not planned and prepared for. It makes no sense for them to piss away so many billions of tax dollars on bullshit like gay pride flags, trains to nowhere and tranny bathrooms when lives could be saved with good, sensible logistics planning and forestry management...
Saving lives, homes, and property by preparing so that things DON'T happen is hard to quantify and use for fund raising. It is easier to point at pride flags, crosswalks, all-gender cans, and useless trains than to point at a fire or flood or draught or brown/blackout that never happened. Pols are just lazy on so many levels.
ReplyDeleteAfter the Castaic dam was built 50+ years ago, I took the civil service exam to be a dam operator and was 4th on the list. Never even got called for an interview. Can't believe so many buildings are out there now because there was nothing in 1973.
ReplyDeleteI am beginning to believe that the vast majority of these fires are arson. Lord knows California is over run with lunatics and crazies and not all of them are serving in various political offices.
ReplyDeleteRun enough people out of certain areas and it's going to result in fewer Congresscritters for Commie-fornia.
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Newsome: "we're doing an awesome job, there won't be fires here for the next ten years. "
ReplyDeleteAnd the sheep? "Thank you!"
At this rate, there won't be anything left to burn for the next ten years.
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