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On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 11:14:10 -0800, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
wrote:

>On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 17:49:41 +0000, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
>wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 07:47:36 -0800, john larkin <JL@gct.com> wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 13:01:30 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
>>>(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
>>>
>>>>Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>... Los Angles has a perfectly competent fire department, 
>>>>> which did all that was humanly possible. Sadly, they can't do anything
>>>>> about anthropogenic global warming
>>>>
>>>>Part of the problem was too many trees and other plants close together -
>>>>I don't notice anyone campaigning about that.
>>>>
>>>>Trees don't destroy CO2, they simply store it and release it later,
>>>>either as CO2 or as methane.
>>>
>>>Things that grow in California must get harvested or will burn. It's
>>>been that way for millenia; the natives warned the Spanish about that.
>>>When people put out small fires, as we have done for over a century
>>>now, we add to the fuel load for giant firestorms. Blame Smokey The
>>>Bear.
>>>
>>>Not only are unnaturally dense forests great fuel, houses are even
>>>better. That was obvious in the Oakland and Paradise and Lahaina
>>>fires; rows of houses set one another on fire and the trees survived.
>>>
>>>Pics show forests in California that are six times denser than they
>>>were naturally, a century ago.
>>>
>>>And why do people build insanely flammible houses, right next to other
>>>insanely flammible houses? Our cabin in the mountains won't burn,
>>>because it would be very hard to ignite, and because we keep the
>>>landscape free of stuff that would burn a lot.
>>>
>>>Let the insurance free market work.
>>
>>Quite. Be very intersting to see how Pacific Pallisades and its
>>neighbouring suburbs look in a few years' time from now. I suspect the
>>area will be far less verdant!
>>Here's another uncomfortable fact for our Democrat supporters to chew
>>on: seems the worst fire was started by an illegal immigrant from
>>Mexico with a blowlamp and the 'Kenneth' fire was - again - set by
>>another illegal alien. We're constantly told these people enrich our
>>culture, but that's hard to swallow when you take a look at all those
>>square miles of ruins and ashes.
>>
>>https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-14/kenneth-fire-person-of-interest-is-a-convicted-felon-and-entered-country-illegally-ice-says
>>
>>Explain *that* away, Bill.
>
>The problem isn't ignition sources. There will always be ignition
>sources. The problem is the insane flammibility of overgrown forests
>and dense flammible housing.
>
>Lots of the post-fire pics show rows of burned-out houses with green
>trees alongside. 
>
>It's crazy when one ember will set fire to a thousand houses. And
>fires jumping streets.
>
>Why do people have houses with flammible roofs and flammible sides and
>flammible attics and gutters full of leaves? Why have gutters at all?
>
>One answer is govenment incompetance, stupid building codes and
>subsidized fire insurance.


Houses set houses on fire:

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/aea8f5fed828e3195db8f5a4995f983d6a553ad6/0_6_4944_2967/master/4944.jpg?width=1300&dpr=2&s=none&crop=none