National: The Los Angeles Wildfires Rage On - nytimes.com

[Sidsix5555]

Local News stations are partly to blame for their sensationalistic coverage of fires, which are most of the time not even Close or Local to LA\Populated areas. Before the Station fire there was a fire being reported around the clock, this fire was no where near LA/Structures, sure enough 48hrs later, boom, Staion fire is set.

Local News station Love fires, its a huge rating$ story for them.

[robotdan]

i hope all of California gets roasted, nothing of value will be lost

[gymer15]

nice report from the jew pork slimes

[bhenderson45]

argggg im arnold swartzineger i will crush you with my bare hands, haha but on a serious note that fire is outta control damnnn

[eal1011]

arson is a serious crime and hope they catch them.

[TheSkeletonGuy]

Put all your pilots in compulsory service.

[truvelocity]

I'm right on the other side of the hill of that and have been recording it with my portable camera. It's so sad and our air quality is really bad. It is making me and everyone around us tired.

[studio7manga]

Golly, you mean a desert catches on fire easily? Whodathunkit.

This would be national news if it didn't happen every, single, year.

[dillywilly]

it's not a desert, it's a mountain with trees, shrubs, brushes..............o.O, you're being really insensitive

[studio7manga]

It's a desert, all of S. California is. At best it could be called shrubland, regardless it's been catching on fire every year for thousands if not millions of years now. It's like living in Oklahoma and being surprised there are tornado, or Florida with hurricanes.

[Ceroki225]

i have a sister that lives there that's a understatement of what it's like. well what ever think what you like i suppose lol

[studio7manga]

I used to live in S. California, it's a fucking desert. Get over yourself.

[Ceroki225]

lol why do you need to swear in your comments? well apparently you cant see anything in the video and like i said you can think what you want im not calling you wrong

[studio7manga]

The same reason people put spice in there food.

[botaknee]

It's a Mediterranean climate, like Southern Italy or Greece. It receives an average of 12-14 inches of rain a year. The local vegetation benefits from fires every 20-30 years. Most of these areas haven't burned for 100 years due to human fire suppression. Somehow the previous residents, the Tongva, were able to use fire to manage the vegetation in order to eliminate hiding places for Tongva eating animals like grizly bears and cougars.

[studio7manga]

The coast is, the interior isn't.

[willisadaptive]

What is the red power poured from the plane?

[unrealgogetr]

fire retardant....and no im not calling you retarded lol

[oldhacks]

when are we going to build a system to prevent this shit? jesus christ. every fucking year southern california catches on fire. meanwhile we're still using fire fighting techniques from the 40s!!

[hd9xc1k2]

I ask myself the same question. I think it's just very difficult. This fire starts in a national forest. It's a vast area of land with little human presence. Any spark can cause a big fire.

[oldhacks]

exactly. so how come we dont just pass a state initiative to install some kind of state of the art sprinkler system or Something. there's gotta be something we can do better then just flying over it and dumping water on it.

[Ceroki225]

not that bad of an idea but i think it would just cost to much if not that then it would just take a reallllllly long time to get together xD

[studio7manga]

The system is called stop living in the fucking desert.

[Ceroki225]

its not really a desert

[studio7manga]

Read a book.

[hyretech]

It pains me to say this to @oldhacks, but there's not a technological 'quick fix' for this.

It takes a long-term perspective to deal with problems like this. Prescribed burns when conditions aren't conducive to wildfires is one short-term solution.

The system we didn't plan on is what increases the risk of widespread destruction from these kind of fires. Fuel accumulates, building houses in drought-prone areas doesn't help.

You can fight nature, but you rarely win in the long term.

[oldhacks]

switzerland has delt with hurricanes for centuries. they figured out how to build a state of the art dam that Harnesses the energy! wtf? there has to be a sollution to these fucking fires. every god damn year half of california burns cuz of one dumb ass arsonist. we're just not applying ourselves