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On 1/19/2025 5:18 PM, Cursitor Doom wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Jan 2025 16:36:08 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 1/19/2025 4:49 AM, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
>>> Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>> The proposition that radiant heat generated by one burning would set off
>>>> an adjacent house is pretty dumb. Fire codes are written to make sure
>>>> that houses aren't vulnerable in that way.
>>>
>>> In that case, what spread the fire?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Embers can fly up to 20 km depending on fuel and weather conditions, and
>> during high winds fire breaks are useless.
>>
>> Observe embers from this doorbell cam:
>> <https://www.instagram.com/abc7marccr/reel/DEny6FGSX1f/>
> 
> I don't doubt embers could have spread the original fires. What's
> puzzling is how the hell could they have got massive and out of
> control in the first place.


2024 was globally the hottest year on record, and Los Angeles 
experienced its warmest summer ever, following a decade of record heat. 
It's mitigated somewhat when the winter rains show up this year they 
didn't show up.

The hills above Altadena/Pasadena have had lots of burns controlled and 
otherwise in recent years but after a certain percentage of the larger 
trees are gone (from climate change or logging/development or otherwise) 
they controlled burns don't do shit except let even more flammable 
invasive species in. The hills up there were covered in foxtail:

<https://californiaagnet.com/2021/04/20/the-many-faces-of-foxtails/>

the stuff burns like newsprint