California wild fires
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Why aren't you happy with your life? Why create a facade? Nobody will respect a bottle sorter so you need to lie?
He lies every time he says he's smart. He won't listen to his superiors. He brags about mocking people who he erroneously perceives to be stupider than he is. He needs a total makeover which is probably impossible after all his yapping!
California Fires Live Updates: New Blaze Threatens Reagan Library
Dangerous Santa Ana winds were predicted to whip Southern California as a new wildfire broke out near the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/30/us/getty-fire-california-kincade.html
Dangerous Santa Ana winds were predicted to whip Southern California as a new wildfire broke out near the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/30/us/getty-fire-california-kincade.html
He's beyond feeling sorry for Pete. He was obviously born an asshole and is doing his damnedest to exacerbate the condition!
Tree branch blown into power lines likely cause of L.A. wildfire
Reuters
Published:
October 29, 2019
Updated:
October 29, 2019 8:24 PM EDT
LOS ANGELES — A broken tree branch blown into power lines by high winds likely sparked the wildfire that has driven thousands of residents from their homes around the famed Getty Center museum in Los Angeles, the city fire department said on Tuesday.
The findings, based on evidence from the site where flames erupted early Monday, came as fire managers and utility operators braced for another onslaught of fierce, dry desert winds expected to begin howling across much of California on Tuesday night.
Electricity remained cut off to at least half a million homes and businesses in northern and central California as a precaution against the kind of wind-related fire starts now suspected as having caused the Getty blaze.
Firefighters in Los Angeles and those battling a much larger conflagration in northern California wine country took advantage of lighter winds across the state on Tuesday to make headway before hazardous winds reemerged.
Fire officials worried that high winds, forecast to gust to 70 miles (113 km) per hour or more, would lift embers from smoldering hot spots and carry them into unburned vegetation, re-igniting and spreading flames anew.
Los Angeles Fire Chief Ralph Terrazas said extremely high winds could even force the grounding of water-dropping helicopters, a vital component of the firefighting arsenal.
A day after flames erupted near the Getty Center and quickly spread over scrub-covered slopes around some of most expensive homes on the city’s west side, an army of some 1,100 firefighters had confined that blaze to about 650 acres (263 hectares).
As of daybreak crews had managed to carve solid containment lines around just 5% of the fire’s perimeter. Officials said their top priority was expanding those fire breaks substantially before extreme winds return to the region.
A satellite image taken by NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) shows a heavy smoke coming out from the wildfires that hit California, U.S., October 27, 2019 in this image obtained from social media on October 28, 2019. NOAA / NOAA via REUTERS
In northern California, where firefighters struggled for a fifth day against a 75,000-acre blaze in Sonoma County’s wine-growing region, high-wind forecasts prompted Pacific Gas and Electric Co to institute a new wave of prescribed blackouts for nearly 600,000 homes and business.
That includes about 400,000 customers already blacked out in a “public safety power shut-off” that PG&E instituted three days earlier, the company said in a statement. Tuesday’s power cuts marked the third series of mass blackouts implemented this month by PG&E, the state’s largest investor-owned utility, in response to “red flag” warnings of extreme fire hazards.
Wildfire kills at least 1, destroys homes near Los Angeles
Power cut to millions as California faces heightened wildfire risks
TV shows shut down as latest California wildfires turn deadly
Utilities serving Southern California’s more highly urbanized areas have imposed smaller-scale outages.
Announcing preliminary findings by its arson investigators into the origins of the Getty fire, the Los Angeles Fire Department said the blaze was likely caused by a tree branch that snapped off in high winds and landed on adjacent power lines, produced sparks and “arcing” that ignited nearby brush.
The lines, which are operated by the city’s Department of Water and Power, remained intact, the statement said.
PG&E, which filed for bankruptcy in January citing $30 billion in potential liability from a series of deadly fires sparked by its equipment in 2017 and 2018, also has been implicated in the latest Sonoma County blaze, dubbed the Kincade fire.
The utility acknowledged last week the Kincade fire broke out near a damaged PG&E transmission tower at about the time a live high-voltage line carried by that tower malfunctioned.
http://torontosun.com/news/world/tree-branch-blown-into-power-lines-likely-cause-of-l-a-wildfire
Reuters
Published:
October 29, 2019
Updated:
October 29, 2019 8:24 PM EDT
LOS ANGELES — A broken tree branch blown into power lines by high winds likely sparked the wildfire that has driven thousands of residents from their homes around the famed Getty Center museum in Los Angeles, the city fire department said on Tuesday.
The findings, based on evidence from the site where flames erupted early Monday, came as fire managers and utility operators braced for another onslaught of fierce, dry desert winds expected to begin howling across much of California on Tuesday night.
Electricity remained cut off to at least half a million homes and businesses in northern and central California as a precaution against the kind of wind-related fire starts now suspected as having caused the Getty blaze.
Firefighters in Los Angeles and those battling a much larger conflagration in northern California wine country took advantage of lighter winds across the state on Tuesday to make headway before hazardous winds reemerged.
Fire officials worried that high winds, forecast to gust to 70 miles (113 km) per hour or more, would lift embers from smoldering hot spots and carry them into unburned vegetation, re-igniting and spreading flames anew.
Los Angeles Fire Chief Ralph Terrazas said extremely high winds could even force the grounding of water-dropping helicopters, a vital component of the firefighting arsenal.
A day after flames erupted near the Getty Center and quickly spread over scrub-covered slopes around some of most expensive homes on the city’s west side, an army of some 1,100 firefighters had confined that blaze to about 650 acres (263 hectares).
As of daybreak crews had managed to carve solid containment lines around just 5% of the fire’s perimeter. Officials said their top priority was expanding those fire breaks substantially before extreme winds return to the region.
A satellite image taken by NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) shows a heavy smoke coming out from the wildfires that hit California, U.S., October 27, 2019 in this image obtained from social media on October 28, 2019. NOAA / NOAA via REUTERS
In northern California, where firefighters struggled for a fifth day against a 75,000-acre blaze in Sonoma County’s wine-growing region, high-wind forecasts prompted Pacific Gas and Electric Co to institute a new wave of prescribed blackouts for nearly 600,000 homes and business.
That includes about 400,000 customers already blacked out in a “public safety power shut-off” that PG&E instituted three days earlier, the company said in a statement. Tuesday’s power cuts marked the third series of mass blackouts implemented this month by PG&E, the state’s largest investor-owned utility, in response to “red flag” warnings of extreme fire hazards.
Wildfire kills at least 1, destroys homes near Los Angeles
Power cut to millions as California faces heightened wildfire risks
TV shows shut down as latest California wildfires turn deadly
Utilities serving Southern California’s more highly urbanized areas have imposed smaller-scale outages.
Announcing preliminary findings by its arson investigators into the origins of the Getty fire, the Los Angeles Fire Department said the blaze was likely caused by a tree branch that snapped off in high winds and landed on adjacent power lines, produced sparks and “arcing” that ignited nearby brush.
The lines, which are operated by the city’s Department of Water and Power, remained intact, the statement said.
PG&E, which filed for bankruptcy in January citing $30 billion in potential liability from a series of deadly fires sparked by its equipment in 2017 and 2018, also has been implicated in the latest Sonoma County blaze, dubbed the Kincade fire.
The utility acknowledged last week the Kincade fire broke out near a damaged PG&E transmission tower at about the time a live high-voltage line carried by that tower malfunctioned.
Oh the media whores FIX is in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LIE-beral loving news media have a DEPLORABLE HABIT of neglecting to mention....................................
just how often wild fires are started by such STUPID CAUSES as careless smoking.............................
BADLY MAINTAINED electrical equipment......................
and by DELIBERATE ARSON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here is yet another article poking holes in the LIE-beral “climate emergency” hysteria!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
With some comments of my own in brackets):
NSW Fire and Rescue crews light controlled back burns on November 21, 2019 in St Albans, Australia. Most of NSW remains under severe or very high fire danger warnings as more than 50 fires continue to burn across the state. Six people have died and 577 homes have been lost since the start of the NSW bushfire season, with more than 420 homes destroyed in the past fortnight alone.
A volunteer firefighter in Australia has been charged after allegedly setting multiple blazes, some of which he helped put out afterwards, as the country continues to battle one of its worst bushfire seasons on record.
(So.........its “CLIMATE CHANGE” that is compelling unemployed volunteer fire fighters to set blazes that CREATE WORK FOR THEM??????????????????????)
Almost 130 bush and grass fires are burning around the state of New South Wales, and experts fear the crisis could get worse when summer begins next month. Queensland has also been impacted, with hundreds of firefighters deployed across both states.
(Yes we KNOW it is always HOT AND DRY at certain times of the year down under - and that has nothing to do with climate change!! And having ever more people moving into those desperately dry areas - so the damage from a typical fire grows ever higher then in previous years - IS BEING DELIBERATELY MISS- REPRESENTED by LIE-berals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, NSW police Detective Inspector Scott Nelson said the 19-year-old man -- a volunteer for the Rural Fire Service -- had been charged with seven counts of deliberately setting fires over a six-week period.
(Uh huh - and being fire bug IS NOT CAUSED BY CLIMATE CHANGE!!!! And in other news -we should recall that one of the biggest ever California fires - in 2017 was caused by CARELESS CAMPERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(WE need also recall that California electrical company PG&E WAS DRIVEN INTO BANKRUPTCY after being SUED because of the wild fires its BADLY MAINTAINED electrical equipment sparked over several windy seasons!!!!!!!!!!)
(WE need also to recall that the 2019 California dry season was notable for BLACK OUTS - as PG&E - now risen from bankrupt status under new operators - SHUT OFF POWER to millions of people in California - IN A FAILED EFFORT to prevent their decrepit equipment from sparking YET MORE FIRES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
He was arrested on Tuesday night after allegedly lighting a blaze in the Bega Valley area, in the state's southeast, that afternoon.
"As part of his duties as an (Rural Fire Service) volunteer he later attended that fire with other members and that fire was extinguished," Nelson said.
The man has been released on bail.
"We have zero tolerance for this type of behavior," Nelson said. "We all know the devastation these fires are causing."
In a statement, the NSW Rural Fire Service said it has "immediately stood down a volunteer member who has been charged over an alleged arson incident on the south coast."
(Uh huh- and the lure of govt money will continue to haunt the minds of people driven to poverty, rage and frustration by LIE-beral tax regimes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
"Over the past few weeks, we've seen firefighters going above and beyond in difficult and dangerous conditions," said the service's commissioner, Shane Fitzsimmons. "Our members will be rightly angry that the alleged actions of one individual can tarnish the reputation and hard work of so many.
"This type of alleged behavior is the ultimate betrayal of our own members, and of the broader community. The community has the right to be disappointed but we should not let it detract from the incredible work that firefighters have done in protecting and saving so many homes during unprecedented conditions."
The fires have also devastated koala populations in affected areas. This week vets were forced to euthanize a koala named Lewis, who had become a symbol of the destruction after a video of him being rescued went viral online.
(The HARD REALITY is that most people ARE MORE AFRAID of the LIE-beral tax climate than the climate of the natural world!! Climate change looks much less threatening than the economic disasters than LIE-beral deficit financing and shameless vote buying madness that are ravaging our economies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(There have been other volunteer fire people arrested FOR MAKING WORK by setting fires!! Read the old book “Burning Down the House” to get a glimpse into the mind of some of these arsonists!! DESPERATE TIMES make for desperate actions and LIE-beral fiscal madness and selfish bigotry are making people CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)