Vancouver is more expensive than LA at this point. The only benefit is tax breaks.

The wind actually looks quite manageable with gusts under 10 MPH for the whole week.

https://www.windfinder.com/forecast/los_angeles_california_usa

It doesn’t help but this is something fire crews can work around.

The prestige titles DID make money. Heck Tenet made box office during the covid closure. Barbie, Batman, Dune 1&2 All successes.

It’s making a high volume of ‘content’ at cut rate pay except for the execs and top billed actor that are the problem.

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The studios have been pushing lower quality work. A big part of the problem is that the market is rejecting it on mass. The low cost content is destroying the ability to generate revenue.

Those far flung shoots are staffed with lots of LA talent , enough that they can’t start if a schedule won’t let them travel.

Disney was activity moving much of its business to Florida when Desants picked a fued. Many in SoCal sold homes and bought Florida ones. There were lawsuits when the jobs were kept in SoCal.

One of the few things inmates can do that land them a job with respect when the leave prison. I was a bit surprised to hear that after finishing their time they can be hired as firefighters

I heard that they may have tried goats

That seems like it was from a few days ago.

It’d fire tornadoes https://www.foxla.com/video/1575099

I spent the day clearing fallen leaves and twigs that were blown in by the winds.

By the end of the afternoon there was a lot of wind with some strong gusts

Sucks. Lives the reality that Trump very specifically targets this place to rebuild and it goes under. Also believes the fake reality that somehow the democrats are worse.

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Thanks for the perspective.

Any home you see with a chimney is very old for the affected burn areas. The area did not use to be a fire risk, but in the 70’s the air quality in the la basin was a concern so wood burning fire places were not allowed in new construction.

So any standing chimney would be 50 years old at the newest.

Although many went though forced retrofits, such as the elimination of wood shakes roofing and wooden shingle siding the homes still only conform to the building codes and material of a 1/2 century ago.

Since this is the topic of the day can you elaborate?

I’ve only study structure fire resistance as a home owner in a fire prone area. City run local group disaster prep as well as small out building construction ( garages and sheds , not residential structures or commercial ones)

controlled burns weren’t possible for the last year because of severe drought.

Most homes in la are built with ibc compliance. There are sticklers about it especially with new construction. They still allow class V buildings but ordnances usually require a non-combustion coating, such as harde cement board or stucco . I am not sure if all places require type V building to be class A in my experience that has been the case

Much of the homes burned like Alta Dena and the palisades were on the urban/wild interface. So basically back yards were forests bordering to the Santa Monica mountains.

What are the most effective fuel mitigation efforts that can be done in cases like LA where a literal forest runs though the center of the city?

What about on a more local level ?

Is it literally thousands of people raking the forests?

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That is not true for the Palisades region and Malibu. Most of the homes there would have been newer and they had significant losses.

This is one of those situations where negatives can’t be proved. You are arguing since even code made homes have the possibility of still burning codes don’t make a difference. The loss of property has been great, but some of those homes were battered by wind driven ashes for quite a time before igniting. The loss of life while tragic is low given the extent of the fires.

As you noted there are no regulations in LA city proper about landscaping . That is likely to change in the future.

Glad to hear from an expert on the situation , as someone who is in fire management there is a lot you can explain.

There are so much about this . What general resources that would have been needed to prevent the scale of the fires? If properly resourced how would the response have been significantly different? Of course each fire fighter counts, but what would the scale need to have been to change this event? What should people be focusing on when we demand better?

For example I heard the the first hours and days of the fires air assets could not be deployed because of the 60-80 mile hour winds. that was cited as a significant factor in the initial spread. though the source was just on the news so no idea how creditable

Are there types of air craft designed to fight fires in tropical storm like conditions?

Are fire like this seen coming by the city FD?

How are resources allocated when multiple fires rage?

In your opinion what cities are doing a good job with fire/disaster planning? What cities globally face similar challenges as Los Angles? Are there lessons than can be learned from those places?

California has done quite a bit on this. Local ordinances and state laws, and federal pressure. It’s not getting the help needed.