By Jo Nova
Something awful is going down today in California. Pray tonight for the people of the Pacific Palisades, LA. The infamous Santa Ana wind phenomenon is running at 80 to 100 mph. 30,000 people have been ordered to evacuate, so far, and there are two deaths and 1,000 buildings destroyed. It’s winter, but there is no water in the fire hydrants, hardly any firefighting planes, and “it’s like a third world Armageddon”. The fire department can’t do a thing…
Two other fires have broken out around Los Angeles in other areas.
🚨🇺🇸 “OMG OMG”
“That’s a million dollar house – more – OMG”
This is Malibu – one of the wealthiest affluent places on the entire planet, now it’s being burnt to ashes.
Have you ever seen anything like this ever before? pic.twitter.com/XxgzzZ524E
— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) January 8, 2025
Then there are videos like this one, or a raging inferno surrounding the house, with a thousand comments below, wondering if they survived, and asking “why are they filming”? The men sounded far too calm, saying “I’ve turned off the gas”. “Oh Shit”. The scene is so surreal I wonder if this is AI generated, but it may be people raised in Californian education, living through a moment they could not parse.
Holy crap. One of the most terrifying things I have ever seen. Pray.
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 8, 2025
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One comment below by Kelly Jo says “they got them out”. (We hope so.)
In this video, they’re leaving the house, but the trees outside (the trunks!?) are already on fire.
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Horrific decision. pic.twitter.com/ibGg258fpa
— Burning Bunny (@Fedsurrection20) January 8, 2025
Just in: Daybreak on Sunset Boulevard
#Newscum is already blaming Trump!
(What else is new?)
Sunset Blvd. & San Vicente.
Heartbreaking 💔 pic.twitter.com/THKJ3amsO9— Aduchka / Ada Bar-Ziv (@ada_ziv) January 8, 2025
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Incompetence plus fuel = disaster
“There’s no water coming out of the fire hydrants.
You don’t see the fire fighters there, because there is nothing they can do — it looks like we’re in a third world country here.
What was your brush mitigation program. The brush up in these hills … probably have been handled, mitigated, pruned, removed for probably thirty or forty years. It was a disaster waiting to happen.”
— Rick Caruso, Real Estate Developer.
Los Angeles refused to fill the water reservoirs and now there’s no water in the fire hydrants to fight the fires.
People are fleeing for their lives while watching their homes & businesses burn to the ground.
This is incompetence at the highest level.pic.twitter.com/boN1BHI34D
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 8, 2025
There’s been no mention yet, but Australian gum trees arrived in Los Angeles in the 1870s and spread like weeds, with help from “over 100 companies” setting up Blue Gum plantations in a boom around 1900. There are historic pictures of Eucalyptus trees on the hillside of the Pacific Palisades. Did the fire loving trees make the fire worse, or were they just the icing on a gargantuan multilayered cake of incompetence?
One video has the sound of “popping” and we wonder about all the EV’s or home batteries that surely line the wealthy streets of the Pacific Palisades and Malibu. We hope everyone’s EV was fully charged before the evacuation. Imagine being told to leave your home immediately and you only needed an hour to charge? If a thousand cars are bumper to bumper it might only take a few to run out of charge and lock up to really screw the traffic flow.
Donald Trump says “Newscum” made it dry to save a worthless fish called a smelt, by giving it less water (it didn’t work!) but didn’t care about the people…
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1877036020081803468
It’s winter, but we know they’ll blame “climate change”.
Thinking of you Scott of the Pacific, who can see the fire from his apartment miles away.