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On Sun, 19 Jan 2025 19:37:10 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

>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, 

Maybe because we have thousands of times more sensors than we had in
previous millenia.

But an increase of a maybe a hundred milliKelvins does not explain the
LA fires. 


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

It takes really stupidity to let a house to be burned up by a grass
fire.