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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 02:31:47 -0000 (UTC)
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On Jan 9, 2025 at 8:37:31 PM PST, "suzeeq" <suzeeq@imbris.com> wrote:

> On 1/9/2025 7:23 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>  suzeeq <suzeeq@imbris.com> wrote:
>>>  On 1/9/2025 11:35 AM, danny burstein wrote:
>>>>  In <rm80oj1c9filnvhokppl5afldcba1el0op@4ax.com> EGK <memyself@null.net>
>>>> writes:
>>>> 
>>>>>  On Thu, 9 Jan 2025 18:58:16 -0000 (UTC), danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com>
>>>>>  wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>>>  In <pu50ojla2af5rhitqg8db2labidg34qbio@4ax.com> EGK <memyself@null.net>
>>>>>> writes:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  [snip]
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>  Newsom claimed there was plenty of water but reports are water mains to
>>>>>>>  fight the fires ran dry.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  If you try really, really, hard, maybe you could figure out how
>>>>>>  opening 250 hydrants near the reserviour might cause some problems
>>>>>>  for the ones farther downstream.
>>>> 
>>>>>  So again, they were totally unprepared for this.
>>>> 
>>>>  damn, you're dumb
>>>> 
>>>  Yeah, who can prepare for 80 mph wind in SoCalm in conjunction with
>>>  fire. Never happened before.
>>  
>>  It literally has happened before. The Palisades burned in a very similar
>>  katabatic wind event in the 1960s.
>>  
>>  And there are Native American oral histories describing this sort of thing
>>  going back almost a thousand years.
> 
> No doubt, but there were several million less people then.

And yet strangely, we had *more* fire stations (in the 50s and 60s) than we do
now, when L.A. had half the population than it does now.

Again, the result of decades of moronic decisions by 'progressive' leftist
politicians to prioritize funding their socialist utopia ideas over basic
public safety.