fire, LA, The Unfightable Fire

By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-11 15:26:13 | Updated at 2025-01-11 17:57:44 2 hours ago

fire, LA, The Unfightable Fire
The Atlantic ^ | Jan. 10, 2025 | Zoë Schlange

Posted on 01/11/2025 7:19:18 AM PST by libstripper

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In an ember storm, every opening in a house is a portal to hell. A vent without a screen, a crack in the siding, a missing roof tile—each is an opportunity for a spark to smolder. A gutter full of dry leaves is a cradle for an inferno. Think of a rosebush against a bedroom window: fire food. The roses burn first, melting the vinyl seal around the window. The glass pane falls. A shoal of embers enter the house like a school of glowing fish. Then the house is lost.

As the Palisades Fire, just 8 percent contained this morning, and the Eaton Fire, still uncontained, devour Los Angeles neighborhoods, one thing is clear: Urban fire in the U.S. is coming back. For generations, American cities would burn in era-defining conflagrations: the Great Chicago Fire in 1871, the San Francisco fires of 1906. Then came fire-prevention building codes, which made large city burns a memory of a more naive time. Generations of western firefighters turned, instead, toward wildland burns, the big forest devastations. An urban conflagration was the worst-case scenario, the one they hoped they’d never see. And for a long time, they mostly didn’t.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: excuse; fire; la; liberalism

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The left, fearing the consequences of this gigantic screw up, begins a counterattack with this piece of absolute drivel from the Atlantic.

1 posted on 01/11/2025 7:19:18 AM PST by libstripper

To: libstripper

I feel for those who lost their homes. But it pisses me off that Biden says we’re going to pay the entire 150 billion dollars towards this. Makes musk have to make even more cuts elsewhere.

2 posted on 01/11/2025 7:22:55 AM PST by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )

To: libstripper

Ah, yes, the old “spreading the blame” trick…

3 posted on 01/11/2025 7:23:47 AM PST by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, it is near the end of the day.)

To: libstripper

Man

Lesbian-made disaster.

4 posted on 01/11/2025 7:25:47 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)

To: libstripper

New York Times is out today with a “scientist say” article blaming “Climate Change” for the lack of water in Los Angeles hydrants.

5 posted on 01/11/2025 7:26:07 AM PST by TigerClaws

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