Subj : Re: LA Fires
To   : Gamgee
From : Al
Date : Mon Jan 13 2025 07:13 am

>> This has nothing to do with illegal immigrants or LGBTQ folks.

> Not directly, no, and I didn't say it did.

I don't think talk of illegal immigrants or LGBTQ folks belongs in this conversation.

>> The LA fire dept is there to protect people. Fire and hurricane force
>> winds and dry conditions don't mix very well.

> True, of course.  What might have made a difference is that nobody did
> any (pre-fire) preventive work, such as the critical removal of dry
> "underbrush" which was prevalent there.

That underbrush is always going to be there. When you clear it it grows back.

If there was a way to know when and where a fire will happen in advance you can plan for it, but there is no way to know in advance.

> Another question is why there was no water in many/most of the hydrants.

There was water at most hydrants. Hydrants at some higher elevations like the Pacific Palisades ran dry because of the high usage by fire deptments.

I don't think the infrastructure is in place for that kind of demand.

> "Drought" is not the answer to that, by the way.  Mis-management of
> water resources (and again the pesky budget management issue) was the
> cause of that.

Pesky budget issues have been around since the beggining of time and when the last human turns out the lights those problems will remain. ;)

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