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

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California's governor offered assurances that the state could afford to keep fighting the Station Fire and other infernos despite the financial woes.

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  • 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.

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

  • nice report from the jew pork slimes

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

  • 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

  • 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.

  • arson is a serious crime and hope they catch them.

  • The same reason people put spice in there food.

  • The coast is, the interior isn't.

  • 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.

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