@JDVanceNewsX ABSOLUTELY !!! That’ll just twist the Littles minds even more bc “Daddy’s” (ACTUAL MEN THAT ARE ACTUALLY the dad) CANNOT HAVE BABIES !!! 🤦🏻♀️🙄🤬WHAT THE ACTUAL F@€K … we have enough crazy a$$, entitled people running around. Don’t need this
California wildfires: The expected and understandable knee jerk reaction after during fires like the Palisades and Eaton, is to try to immediately find blame.
Folks must remember that this is still an emerging situation, firefighters are still responding, and homes are still burning. When you find someone on the ground with their leg cut off, you stop the bleeding first, then find the cause, then further address the issues that led to someone on the ground with a missing leg…
There are a few major long standing issues in California and important things to remember about wildfires like this.
First: I have personally been on numerous wildfires with Hotshot crews in Malibu and Santa Barbara during Christmas. These Santa Ana wind fueled “winter” fires are not unprecedented.
Second: What is unprecedented is the level of destruction these fires cause due to the long standing issues with fuel mitigation efforts statewide, and around communities. There and numerous homes that could have been saved if they removed the overgrown vegetation around their homes. Not all would have been saved, but a lot.
There are many roadblocks to this work getting done… lawsuits, weak community leadership, and a lack of will. This must change or these types of destructive fires will continue across southern California.
Third: California has a arson problem. We do not know yet if this is the case with these fires, but it’s a major issue. 2024 was the second highest arson arrests by Cal Fire, only behind 2022.
There are many factors here as I’ve reported on before, mental health issues, homelessness, people pushing political addenda’s, and individuals who just like lighting fires. The Park Fire this summer was an arson fire started by a criminal with a long record. That became the third largest fire in California’s history.
Fourth: Actually hold leaders accountable for the lack of action taken to reduce the hazardous fuel loading across your state. Prescribed fires were halted in the fall of 2024 due to lack of resources. This is a necessary tool to reduce the devastation these types of fires cause.
Finally, can we have a little compassion… people are dying in these fires and the internet is full of “fuck the rich”, “let it burn”, “fuck the homeless”, and pure filth.
This is an everyone problem. Real work needs to be done, actual labor. These fires are horrific, and will continue until these long ignored problems are addressed.