MAGA Twitter brain likes to think that people are blaming this solely on climate change. It's not the case, but ignore it at your peril. And nobody is blaming it on Trump, despite your wishes.
Rational minds understand that there's 101 root causes. Everything in this pic and 95 more. We have contributions from everywhere, lad. A little this, a little that.
Disasters are an inherently chaotic mess that nobody can fully practice or prepare for, yet everyone becomes an expert on in hindsight. Social media is giving voice to narratives that are straight up false and/or disproportionate with reality. This Tug is a shining example.
Shit, there's video of firemen hooked up to max pressure hydrants in the Palisades where the water is jetting out of the hoses and blowing backwards in their face. Useless in 100 mph winds. Water drops were useless for the same reason, if they could even get aircraft in the air. I'm hearing more water pressure in the upper Palisades neighborhoods would have helped. Laughable, mon. It was a 100mph tinderbox with packed homes without buffers. Even the neighborhoods with max pressure were leveled. It wouldn't have mattered.
The Eaton fire hasn't got a peep here. Why?
The So. Cal fire response is one of the best in the world and it proved meaningless in these situations. Mother Nature is a fucking beast and humans are often no match, believe it or not.
Raking the forest, controlled chapparal burns, sound fire-proofing, "forest management", etc all sound great in theory until you actually understand the scale of what you're proposing, who often puts the kibosh on such things, and who hasn't done shit to fireproof their property out of ignorance. Hint: many of those people just had their houses burned to a crisp. Individual responsibility is underrated. Every man for himself until shit happens, then its the governments fault, right? FOH with that shit. Both sides of the mouthisms.
Of course there's some governmental and administrative things that woulda coulda shoulda helped a bit more, maybe, but sometimes you have to accept that shit happens in disasters, this was a brakeless train, and learn from it. Wildfire risk is increasing substantially for a variety of reasons, especially from how and where people are building their homes, without buffers. This is a hugely needed wakeup call for everyone from individuals to the highest powers. Bout time people get with the times.
Donate, support, and start giving some respect to what HAS been prevented, rather than what hasn't. You'd be amazed if that's what you chose to pay attention to. It's a metric fuck load.
Lose the politics and ignorant blame game. It's disgusting. Adjust your frame of thinking, learn, educate, and be better, please and thank you.