About an hour ago a 4th fire ignited. The Woodley Fire is in the Sepulveda Basin and immediately went to 75+ acres burned. The sky is black here. Hopefully the air water drops start soon. Northern California and Arizona are deploying firefighters to help us. God bless them!
Actor James Woods posted this on X today; “One of the major insurances companies canceled all the policies in our neighborhood about four months ago.” His home was destroyed.
Depending on the size and tightness and wind conditions, a firebrand (flaming ember) can travel up to 23 miles/37 kilometers, and ignite another fire incident.
@ It was a great neighborhood playhouse. The rehearsal space downstairs had a theatre library with all the production books going back 50-60 years at least of every play done there.
I live in LA. I’ve been getting warnings for the last week that the winds plus how dry it is had us at extreme risk for a bad fire event like this. It’s scary and terrible.
So far so good! Sunset strip....gone. The houses on the beach at Malibu...gone. Its wind! 80mph. It rattles the windows. Sometimes the wind knocks a power line down and that's all it needs to take off. I've lived here all my life and have NEVER seen a fire like this. Thanks for the thoughts and prayers.
I saw a video clip from Fox News of an interviewer trying to interview people that were fleeing the fire with their horses and everyone in the comments are lamming the interviewer like "leave them alone! They need to leave now and you're just slowing them down!" They are all furious with the news person at Fox. Just weird to be interviewing someone.
We were in Paradise, CA when the Camp Fire broke out and burned the town to the ground. My husband and I moved to Montana. Be safe and prayers for all affected.😢
@christinethomas9658 Thank you! I am surrounded by the 4 fires. My ex lives in Oroville. He lost his home in the Dixie Fire. Then again in the Paradise Fire. I hope to God PG&E has paid out to you by now. God bless!
@@mygreywolf Oh I am so sorry. Please be safe. Things can be replaced you cannot. PG&E have paid half our claim. They’re crying poor. They raised the rates and are using that to pay claims so basically people are paying themselves. Love and prayers to you and everyone affected by this horrible fire.
My son was driving last night from Ontario, CA to San Bernardino and his car nearly flipped over because some palm tree leaves fell on hus windshield and he got startled by it and soon panicked!🙀
The areas these fires are burning in are very wealthy areas, so most will be insured and fine. Many celebrities at this point have been evacuated and don't know if they will have a house when this is over. We do have fires generally every year, but this is a crazy one!!!
My son, a recently retired (23 years) Oregon Department of Forestry Rough Terrain Wildland Firefighter (Engine Boss/Crew Boss), had been deployed to California 21 of his 23 years and said his crew has been activated to deploy once again.
@douggaijin God bless your son and his crew! My cousin's son is a wildfire jumper. He's been deployed from New Mexico many times to here. Unfortunately, I have yet to meet him. At least my son has.
I grew up in SoCal and it's the dry brush mixed with the dry and warm Santa Ana winds which are at hurricane levels come in and the brush can ignite on its own, but there have also been many arsonists starting these fires because they love the weather conditions to help it burn. So very sad!!!
It happens every year. But the winds aren't usually this intense. The embers are sparking new fires everywhere and the extremely low humidity means everything is dried out. I think there are currently 4 or 5 fires burning out of control in LA county alone.
@@kabirconsidersYes, embers started a fire three miles north of the original point. Palm trees and eucalyptus trees are very flammable....one ember and it's over.
@@kabirconsiders Actually, no. The 4 fires are quite a distance from each other. The embers from Pacific Palisades did jump the PCH and set Malibu on fire. The Eaton Canyon Fire ignited in Altadena and jumped to Pasadena. All fires are under investigation.
@@alisummers7984 Do you even live here?! If so, where are you getting your false information? They currently have multiple agencies on the news talking about this.
Yes, winds can move fire extremely fast and spread embers for miles. I was evacuated this past August from the Alexander Mountain Fire in Colorado and also in 2020 for the massive Cameron Peak fire (burned for 112 days, over 208,000 acres burned). The Alexander Fire was small to start, and we were evacuated as a precaution. The wind picked up and in one day grew exponentially and quickly moved several miles. It took out 25 homes on our mountain, came within about 50 yards of my house, but thankfully the fire break line firefighters dug prevented the fire from going down further into the valley where me and my neighbors houses are. The Cameron Peak fire was many miles away from me and was going on for almost a month before we were evacuated here. High winds came in and in one or two days doubled the fire size. Much of that land had no structures on it, and actually needed to burn because there was so much beetle kill trees and dry tinder, but the smoke was so thick it blocked out the sun for a few days. Was the most surreal thing I've ever seen. I feel so much for these folks, it is extremely stressful watching the fire map and wondering if your house will still be there. I live in an area surrounded by national forest land and national park land so there are not nearly the amount of houses as are in this area of LA, which makes these fires a million times more scary. It is easier for fire to spread from structure to structure, makes it harder to fight the fire, and makes evacuations more dangerous. I had an entire day to evacuate both fires and it was not dangerous or scary. I cannot imagine having to so quickly evacuate with fire all around like these folks are having to do. Wildland firefighters here in Colorado, and all over the mountain west, are some of the best in the world. We can never thank them enough for all the extremely hard work they do in difficult and dangerous terrain and conditions. My heart goes out to everyone affected by these CA fires ❤ 😢
I'm in north carolina and watched local live coverage from LA and they said many cars that were abandoned are being bulldozed to the side so emergency vehicles can get through
I live in the famous San Fernando Valley, and thankfully the fires aren't out here! I feel terribe for those who do live out there.We had to deal with windstorms that temporarily cut power three times! Kabir....sometimes the air is so hot,cars actually melt! A puddle of liquid steel.
I live in the North San Fernando Valley in LA and I’ve been nervous that a fire will reach me. I’ve been evacuated before. The wind kept me up last night. It gets so strong and loud.
These fires aren't rare,they happen every year. Furthermore, they've been happening for thousands of years. Native American tribes told settlers about the fires when they arrived here in 1849. All summer long we don't get a drop of rain. So all the grasses dry up and turn a golden color. All it takes is some heavy winds to start a fire. More often than not, it's the electric companies power lines that spark the fires.
I don’t think CA clears the under brush. I don’t know that is fact but I have heard that over the years. Seems they have more than their fair share of devastating fires. Prayers for all!
Its insane how these fires just erupt in California. I pray for those effected. 🙏 My daughter's brother in law lives 1hr from affected area. We are praying that the fire doesn't get to him.
California has a yearly fire season. But they don't normally have the strong winds like now. That's how they spread so fast. Sometimes it's arson sometimes it's just nature.
Whether the homeowner's insurance covers everything depends on their insurance policy. The government is not responsible at all because it is a natural weather event that happens each year and everyone who lives there knows the dangers. The government could try to provide some sort of aid, but it is not required to do so. What makes this year's fires extra crazy is that there are 100 MPH winds instead of the normal winds. Fires hit California yearly just like hurricanes hit Florida or tornadoes hit the central US. Every area of the US has some weather craziness and each person must choose which crazy weather he or she wants to live through each year. Paradise has its dangers. Each person knows that when they move to the US.
I don’t know if this is the case, when the wind get howling if can cause the high tension electrical wires to spark causing the fire. It could be arson or someone discarding a cigarette butt out their car window. Embers from a fire can travel an amazing distance. We were 20 miles away from a NorCal fire and had glowing embers coming down our car not a lot but enough to spark a fire
Having grown up with these conditions, there are few folks that sleep soundly when the Santa Ana winds are blowing - It's hot, its dry, and its windy. Even if the threat of fire weren't there, it makes for a restless night. But everyone knows, it only takes one spark to unleash a virtually unstoppable fire... at least until the winds die down.
These fires can be started by arson, someone starting a fire while camping or whatever and then don't make sure the fire is completely out before leaving it, lightning strikes have been known to start them, unfortunately if someone ends up in a car accident and one or more cars catch on fire. California and Arizona, among other states I'm sure, have been so dry lately that the smallest thing could start a small fire that rapidly gets out of control. Arizona has had really bad air quality for the past few days partly due to the fires in California. I went outside this morning and it was so smoky that I couldn't see the mountains that we can normally see from our balcony.
People have or should have fire insurance and this past year the rates increased 60% or more in many areas of California because replacement costs have skyrocketed and many insurance companies wanted to leave California and drop any coverage (too much exposure for the company).
This has always been a problem although I do not understand the meteorological/geographical details. I was listening to an old radio show from the 1940s in which the couple was driving and dealing with a California wildfires. They are always bad but this is absolutely horrible! Praying for Cali!
it's good to see you actually interacting with people in the comments, even when it's just you using the "love" button. I've never actually seen you do this on your videos and it's one of the reasons I fell off watching so much. You would ask questions and ask people to answer but then not interact with the comments who responded in any way. I really think your channel would have grown much more by now if you had been doing this all along. So keep it up! 🥰
Infrequent rain. So, brush dries. Rains maybe 10 inches a year. AND, weather makes " Santa Ana Winds" hot, dry fast-moving winds from the east hit moist coast at 50-75 mph. This air mass, moist sea air and the "weather" goes crazy. Usually an electric power line breaks and sparks a fire...in the dry brush. Unstoppable fire results.
Fires do create tornadoes. I believe it was either the 80s or the 90s when Oakland, California had a raging fire that just wiped out entire neighborhoods down to the foundations within a very short period of time because the fire created tornadoes that just whipped through the houses like they were nothing. It was really sad to see neighborhoods that only consist of foundations and driveways because the houses themselves were gone.
My mother and I were just talking about fires a few minutes ago. I was telling her how everyone talks about how fun of fires, but they never mention the fires in other states. Other states have had wildfires throughout the years, but they really get a mention.
I’m literally waiting to see if I have to evacuate my house. The fire is only several miles away. I live in Burbank, they said it is contained here, but the fire is in Glendale so it’s very close to my home.
Thank you Kabir! The City of L.A. may have to evacuate. There is 0% containment on all fires. To answer your question. Gov. Newsom declared a State of Emergency yesterday over Pacific Palisades/Malibu Fire. FEMA originally said they would aid in that fire. It started yesterday morning. The Eaton Canyon and Hurst Fires started last night. The Woodley Fire this morning. We have to pray that everyone still has good fire insurance. Insurance companies have been pulling out of Cali because of the brush fires.
I live 50 miles from L.A., so I'm away from the fires, but I will say I have never experienced the winds like this before. They are so strong it's scary.
I live in Orange County California next to LA County we are about 50 miles from the fire. We don’t get enough rain & the wind is incredible. My coworker had to evacuate. Hopefully they will figure out how these fires started. We always get Santa Ana winds this time of year. The fires we’ve had here are getting worse & worse every year.
Most insurance companies stop writing fire polices years ago. Because they would never be able to pay the claims. It happens so often. Those that do the premiums are so high most cannot afford them. The Federal government FEMA will only back feed so much to help. The people that got hit from the Hurricanes are still waiting.
Originally from LA. My son still lives there. I've never seen it this bad. No measurable rain for 8 months. The wind can carry embers miles. Then new fires start.
The fires started like a day or two ago and the winds help spread it wide and fast on the meteorologist was saying, once in a decade, he was referring to the extremely high winds and not the fires. The high winds are not normal. They do not happen very often.
The high winds are really not helping the situation at all. I used to work for an insurance company and back in the 90s, there was a lot fires in Malibu that just wiped out house after house after house. Some people never rebuild. We in insured some of those houses that burned down. A few years before Covid, there was a fire, I can’t remember where but a town called Paradise was completely wiped out.
Winds got so high that they had to ground the planes last night. One quote was the fire was traveling 3 football fields per minute. Most likely fire was started by homeless but it will take a while to figure out. Problem with the original area was there is only one way in and out of the town so all traffic was flooding out on all 4 lanes and emergency vehicles could not get in.
We live in Santa Barbara CA, in a fire danger zone, no fires now, but we keep bags packed in our closet with a brief case and a strong box. Luckily no pets. we'll have to move my classic truck down the hill, and head to safety WHEN the day DOES come.
Whats happening is the burning embers get picked up by the wind and blown to the next house or tree or bush and the combination of het ember and wind is like hot coals and a bellows. The air causes the ember to come to flame like a blow torch and next thing you know something else goes up in flames and tge cycle repeats for as many embers as gets blown. Some of thise embers travel for miles before hitting something.
Where is Democrat LA Mayor Karen Bass, while the fires were raging. She is celebrating in Ghana with the new president there. You can’t make this stuff up. Why is she overseas, she is the mayor of LA, and should be here dealing with the fires, the homeless problem, the crime epidemic, the housing shortages, the financial problems…not galavanting in some foreign country.
We have a weather condition named the Santa Ana winds. (Originally the Santana winds, which means devil winds. But after time, people started referring to them as Santa Ana winds). When the Santa Ana winds start to kick up, crazy arsonists come out of the woodwork and start fires. I don't know if that's how these started, but I would not be surprised.
The Santa Ana winds were coming in between 90 and 100 miles an hour. You’re gonna have to convert so it was just taken these embers and flames and just passing it along to the next house in business and land, etc. The Santa Ana winds are no joke. They’re very dusty And very strong and it just fueled the fire.
Hi Kabir, every year there are wild fires around LA, and people keep building houses in the hills around the town. Some of them very expensive, and almost every year there are fires. You think they would learn.
If you look at media in the 80's and 90's California had a reputation for poor air quality, especially Los Angeles. We passed several air quality laws to help mitigate the smog including stopping most controlled burns. California plants have evolved to be extremely prone to burning, so by not doing the controlled burns we get these massive wildfires.
Even though the winds are up to 100MPH, in some of those areas due to the terrain, the wind speeds can go even higher. Embers at such wind speeds can carry for miles. Lived thru a fire when I was a kid and the fire started a few miles away but due to the wind and embers, we got it in our area. How do they start? Can be in a number of ways. Something hot put on dry grass such as a car breakdown and pulling off onto the side where there is dry crash, a spark from poorly maintained electrical equipment such as power lines in high wind. Someone not paying attention and trying to BBQ, an idiot flicking their cigarette on the ground, and worse of all, sick individuals that like to start fires. You can eve get it from static electricity build up and it then in the wind touches something else and produces a spark...I have seen a car fire on the side of the road then catch the grass and the way it went.
Someone started a fire in Calabasas close to the Palisades but they caught him but it was too late n still today on Saturday it’s still 0% contained. Also the explosion that people are hearing 80% are cars with the gas tank was up and it sounds like an explosion like the house, but you can hear the difference.
Nobody knows how the fire started. There was no rain for eight months and then the Santa Anna winds started. My little sister’s entire neighborhood was evacuated at 10:30am yesterday morning. Today they learned everything is gone. There are FOUR fires going at the same time, none are under control. I saw on the news that two thousand Army Reservists have been called out to help fight the fire. Firefighters from other states are already there. Oops, just learned there’s a fifth fire now, probably started from sparks.
A lot of insurance companies canceled the policies previousl to this. They are out of water to fight the fires because the governor didn’t refill the reservoirs. They also don’t have enough people and resources to fight the fire. As of now 7:45 am they are still in life saving mode. 5 fires are burning.
As a third generation California native, let me tell you, that these devastating fires are preventable, but that the California government does nothing to prevent them. They refuse to clear the underbrush, remove dead trees, and do basic forest management. Some of the LA areas, particularly Pacific Palisades, have run out of water (empty fire hydrants) because the California government/City of LA refused to fill the reservoirs or build new ones, billions of gallons of water are wasted every year, flowing out to sea. The California government passed laws a few years ago, to reign in insurance costs, but the plan backfired…insurance costs went up, and many insurers have fled the state. The particular areas hit by the fires, many residents were notified a few months ago, that their fire insurance coverage was being removed. Remember, these insurance companies are watching the mismanagement of the state by the Democrats, fleeing and dropping coverage to millions of Californians. Also…who and why are these fires starting…homeless people in many of these cases are lighting fires, while living in outdoors , in the dry brush canyons, and in the forested areas. California has not really do anything about this problem, despite spending BILLIONS. The California Bureaucracy/Government is at fault for many problems afflicting the people of this state which I love. Thank you for your well wishes and support in this hard time.
@ You are joking right, the fire started near Skull Rock, on the forested hillside, near North Piedra Morada Drive. Pacific Palisades is surrounded by hills, with dry brush. Common on.
The rest of the world looks at the USA and sees big houses, abundant food, job opportunities, entertainment, etc...but, we pay a heavy price for living in this country. Fires, hurricanes, tornados, blizzards, floods, earthquakes: you name it, we got it!! My personal opinion is that Americans appear "over the top" to the rest of the world, BUT we live in the extremes!! We have to be tough and resilient. We can't just give up and give in.
In many parts of California the Insurance Companies just dropped the insurance policies and people in fire zones in California no longer have insurance
Almost the entire "Fire Insurance" industry abandoned ship and refused to continue to cover mortgages in Northern California. So, the State of California has had to step up and provide that coverages for existing mortgages. Not good.
Go to the joe rogan experience episode with Trump, at the 1 hr mark he starts talking about this potentially happening, newsome wanted to protect some fish, so water that could have made it to southern california from northern states was blocked
One thing to remember is that when the fires are all out and the next heavy rain there will be huge mud slides.
Typical California. I spent my childhood in L.A.
Man, you're getting dangerously close to 100K...you deserve it!
It's the Hurricane 2 wind forces. Reaching up to 100mph.
100 mph=160.94kph
About an hour ago a 4th fire ignited. The Woodley Fire is in the Sepulveda Basin and immediately went to 75+ acres burned. The sky is black here. Hopefully the air water drops start soon. Northern California and Arizona are deploying firefighters to help us. God bless them!
As of 10:30am CST, there's a 5th fire out there. I'm trying to find out where, as I still have friends off of Foothill Blvd.
@TheMajorActual Oh no! Foothill is a long boulevard. I so hope your peeps are okay. Praying!
A lot of homeless camp in there, That's what usually starts fires in the basin.
@@mygreywolf Thanks. One of them made it to Georgia over New Years, finally....His older brother refuses to evacuate, so La Crescenta is a dice-roll.
Actor James Woods posted this on X today; “One of the major insurances companies canceled all the policies in our neighborhood about four months ago.” His home was destroyed.
Depending on the size and tightness and wind conditions, a firebrand (flaming ember) can travel up to 23 miles/37 kilometers, and ignite another fire incident.
Those winds (60-80 mph, and by today approaching 100mph) drive a fire like pouring gasoline on it!
SoCal here in K-town. Safe and with power, but anguished by those affected. Many prayers.
Where I performed two plays last year, Palisades Theatre is now gone.
I’m So Sorry To Hear That
@ It was a great neighborhood playhouse. The rehearsal space downstairs had a theatre library with all the production books going back 50-60 years at least of every play done there.
I live in LA. I’ve been getting warnings for the last week that the winds plus how dry it is had us at extreme risk for a bad fire event like this. It’s scary and terrible.
So far so good! Sunset strip....gone. The houses on the beach at Malibu...gone.
Its wind! 80mph. It rattles the windows. Sometimes the wind knocks a power line down and that's all it needs to take off. I've lived here all my life and have NEVER seen a fire like this.
Thanks for the thoughts and prayers.
I saw a video clip from Fox News of an interviewer trying to interview people that were fleeing the fire with their horses and everyone in the comments are lamming the interviewer like "leave them alone! They need to leave now and you're just slowing them down!" They are all furious with the news person at Fox. Just weird to be interviewing someone.
That’s ridiculous behaviour from that interviewer if they really did that, those people are running for their lives!
@kabirconsiders the can just keep going the don't have to talk to the reporter.
We were in Paradise, CA when the Camp Fire broke out and burned the town to the ground. My husband and I moved to Montana. Be safe and prayers for all affected.😢
@christinethomas9658 Thank you! I am surrounded by the 4 fires. My ex lives in Oroville. He lost his home in the Dixie Fire. Then again in the Paradise Fire. I hope to God PG&E has paid out to you by now. God bless!
@@mygreywolf Oh I am so sorry. Please be safe. Things can be replaced you cannot. PG&E have paid half our claim. They’re crying poor. They raised the rates and are using that to pay claims so basically people are paying themselves. Love and prayers to you and everyone affected by this horrible fire.
My son was driving last night from Ontario, CA to San Bernardino and his car nearly flipped over because some palm tree leaves fell on hus windshield and he got startled by it and soon panicked!🙀
The areas these fires are burning in are very wealthy areas, so most will be insured and fine. Many celebrities at this point have been evacuated and don't know if they will have a house when this is over. We do have fires generally every year, but this is a crazy one!!!
My son, a recently retired (23 years) Oregon Department of Forestry Rough Terrain Wildland Firefighter (Engine Boss/Crew Boss), had been deployed to California 21 of his 23 years and said his crew has been activated to deploy once again.
Thank him for his service.. Bless Granite Mountain Hotshots, 19.. Prescott Az.. I was there that day..
@douggaijin God bless your son and his crew! My cousin's son is a wildfire jumper. He's been deployed from New Mexico many times to here. Unfortunately, I have yet to meet him. At least my son has.
@ Never forget The Granite Mountain Heroes. 🇺🇸❤️🧑🚒
I grew up in SoCal and it's the dry brush mixed with the dry and warm Santa Ana winds which are at hurricane levels come in and the brush can ignite on its own, but there have also been many arsonists starting these fires because they love the weather conditions to help it burn. So very sad!!!
It happens every year. But the winds aren't usually this intense. The embers are sparking new fires everywhere and the extremely low humidity means everything is dried out.
I think there are currently 4 or 5 fires burning out of control in LA county alone.
I see, so the winds are making the fires way worse by starting new fires in other areas?
@@kabirconsidersYes, embers started a fire three miles north of the original point. Palm trees and eucalyptus trees are very flammable....one ember and it's over.
@@kabirconsiders Actually, no. The 4 fires are quite a distance from each other. The embers from Pacific Palisades did jump the PCH and set Malibu on fire. The Eaton Canyon Fire ignited in Altadena and jumped to Pasadena. All fires are under investigation.
@@alisummers7984 Do you even live here?! If so, where are you getting your false information? They currently have multiple agencies on the news talking about this.
@pat2562 So Palisades to Malibu or Altadena to Pasadena.
Native Californian here. My Family is in the middle of all this and evacuating. So scared for them!
🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 for your family and others safety
Yes, winds can move fire extremely fast and spread embers for miles. I was evacuated this past August from the Alexander Mountain Fire in Colorado and also in 2020 for the massive Cameron Peak fire (burned for 112 days, over 208,000 acres burned). The Alexander Fire was small to start, and we were evacuated as a precaution. The wind picked up and in one day grew exponentially and quickly moved several miles. It took out 25 homes on our mountain, came within about 50 yards of my house, but thankfully the fire break line firefighters dug prevented the fire from going down further into the valley where me and my neighbors houses are. The Cameron Peak fire was many miles away from me and was going on for almost a month before we were evacuated here. High winds came in and in one or two days doubled the fire size. Much of that land had no structures on it, and actually needed to burn because there was so much beetle kill trees and dry tinder, but the smoke was so thick it blocked out the sun for a few days. Was the most surreal thing I've ever seen. I feel so much for these folks, it is extremely stressful watching the fire map and wondering if your house will still be there. I live in an area surrounded by national forest land and national park land so there are not nearly the amount of houses as are in this area of LA, which makes these fires a million times more scary. It is easier for fire to spread from structure to structure, makes it harder to fight the fire, and makes evacuations more dangerous. I had an entire day to evacuate both fires and it was not dangerous or scary. I cannot imagine having to so quickly evacuate with fire all around like these folks are having to do. Wildland firefighters here in Colorado, and all over the mountain west, are some of the best in the world. We can never thank them enough for all the extremely hard work they do in difficult and dangerous terrain and conditions. My heart goes out to everyone affected by these CA fires ❤ 😢
I'm in north carolina and watched local live coverage from LA and they said many cars that were abandoned are being bulldozed to the side so emergency vehicles can get through
They didn’t leave their keys
@Idalianightfire didn't think so.they showed actual local footage of the city moving the cars with the bulldozer
I live in the famous San Fernando Valley, and thankfully the fires aren't out here! I feel terribe for those who do live out there.We had to deal with windstorms that temporarily cut power three times! Kabir....sometimes the air is so hot,cars actually melt! A puddle of liquid steel.
Seeing a melted car would be one of the most surreal things I’ve ever seen
@kabirconsiders Oh,yeah,it would.Agreed there!
I live in the North San Fernando Valley in LA and I’ve been nervous that a fire will reach me. I’ve been evacuated before. The wind kept me up last night. It gets so strong and loud.
These fires aren't rare,they happen every year. Furthermore, they've been happening for thousands of years. Native American tribes told settlers about the fires when they arrived here in 1849. All summer long we don't get a drop of rain. So all the grasses dry up and turn a golden color. All it takes is some heavy winds to start a fire. More often than not, it's the electric companies power lines that spark the fires.
I don’t think CA clears the under brush. I don’t know that is fact but I have heard that over the years. Seems they have more than their fair share of devastating fires. Prayers for all!
Its insane how these fires just erupt in California. I pray for those effected. 🙏 My daughter's brother in law lives 1hr from affected area. We are praying that the fire doesn't get to him.
We can smell the fires here in northern California, 600 miles north of LA.
We can smell it here in San Diego also.
California has a yearly fire season. But they don't normally have the strong winds like now. That's how they spread so fast. Sometimes it's arson sometimes it's just nature.
Whether the homeowner's insurance covers everything depends on their insurance policy. The government is not responsible at all because it is a natural weather event that happens each year and everyone who lives there knows the dangers. The government could try to provide some sort of aid, but it is not required to do so.
What makes this year's fires extra crazy is that there are 100 MPH winds instead of the normal winds. Fires hit California yearly just like hurricanes hit Florida or tornadoes hit the central US. Every area of the US has some weather craziness and each person must choose which crazy weather he or she wants to live through each year. Paradise has its dangers. Each person knows that when they move to the US.
I read recently that some insurance companies have canceled fire insurance coverage four months ago.
I was evacuated every year sense 2017.
I don’t know if this is the case, when the wind get howling if can cause the high tension electrical wires to spark causing the fire. It could be arson or someone discarding a cigarette butt out their car window. Embers from a fire can travel an amazing distance. We were 20 miles away from a NorCal fire and had glowing embers coming down our car not a lot but enough to spark a fire
Having grown up with these conditions, there are few folks that sleep soundly when the Santa Ana winds are blowing -
It's hot, its dry, and its windy.
Even if the threat of fire weren't there, it makes for a restless night.
But everyone knows, it only takes one spark to unleash a virtually unstoppable fire... at least until the winds die down.
These fires can be started by arson, someone starting a fire while camping or whatever and then don't make sure the fire is completely out before leaving it, lightning strikes have been known to start them, unfortunately if someone ends up in a car accident and one or more cars catch on fire. California and Arizona, among other states I'm sure, have been so dry lately that the smallest thing could start a small fire that rapidly gets out of control. Arizona has had really bad air quality for the past few days partly due to the fires in California. I went outside this morning and it was so smoky that I couldn't see the mountains that we can normally see from our balcony.
Oregon here. We've had fires start from trucks dragging chains and throwing sparks. Also, tractors in fields setting hay fields on fire.
Utah here. We’ve had fires started by lightning and sparks from trains passing through also.
People have or should have fire insurance and this past year the rates increased 60% or more in many areas of California because replacement costs have skyrocketed and many insurance companies wanted to leave California and drop any coverage (too much exposure for the company).
My sister's family got evacuated this morning. While I'm sitting here surrounded by ice.
You need private insurance, yet many insurance companies pulled out of California, so you're forced to go through the State at much higher rates.
This has always been a problem although I do not understand the meteorological/geographical details. I was listening to an old radio show from the 1940s in which the couple was driving and dealing with a California wildfires. They are always bad but this is absolutely horrible! Praying for Cali!
Last night we had 20-25 mph winds with 30 mph gusts. So yeah, the wind did the spreading, literally fanning the flames.
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Infrequent rain. So, brush dries. Rains maybe 10 inches a year. AND, weather makes " Santa Ana Winds" hot, dry fast-moving winds from the east hit moist coast at 50-75 mph. This air mass, moist sea air and the "weather" goes crazy. Usually an electric power line breaks and sparks a fire...in the dry brush. Unstoppable fire results.
It happens every year. We get them here in Colorado every year also. Hopefully things calm down soon for the people in California.
Fires do create tornadoes. I believe it was either the 80s or the 90s when Oakland, California had a raging fire that just wiped out entire neighborhoods down to the foundations within a very short period of time because the fire created tornadoes that just whipped through the houses like they were nothing. It was really sad to see neighborhoods that only consist of foundations and driveways because the houses themselves were gone.
Can you imagine 100mph winds in those huge fires? Like a super-flamethrower of mass proportions.
My mother and I were just talking about fires a few minutes ago.
I was telling her how everyone talks about how fun of fires, but they never mention the fires in other states.
Other states have had wildfires throughout the years, but they really get a mention.
I’m literally waiting to see if I have to evacuate my house. The fire is only several miles away. I live in Burbank, they said it is contained here, but the fire is in Glendale so it’s very close to my home.
Thank you Kabir! The City of L.A. may have to evacuate. There is 0% containment on all fires. To answer your question. Gov. Newsom declared a State of Emergency yesterday over Pacific Palisades/Malibu Fire. FEMA originally said they would aid in that fire. It started yesterday morning. The Eaton Canyon and Hurst Fires started last night. The Woodley Fire this morning. We have to pray that everyone still has good fire insurance. Insurance companies have been pulling out of Cali because of the brush fires.
I'm a trucker and been out there a ton of times. Those Santa Ana winds ain't no joke. Kinda like a hurricane without rain
I'm here in LA. The air quality is so bad. Luckily I can stay inside today but yeah it's bad.
I live 50 miles from L.A., so I'm away from the fires, but I will say I have never experienced the winds like this before. They are so strong it's scary.
I live in Orange County California next to LA County we are about 50 miles from the fire. We don’t get enough rain & the wind is incredible. My coworker had to evacuate. Hopefully they will figure out how these fires started. We always get Santa Ana winds this time of year. The fires we’ve had here are getting worse & worse every year.
The Eaton fire is fairly close to me. My boys’ school is closed today due to them.
Most insurance companies stop writing fire polices years ago. Because they would never be able to pay the claims. It happens so often. Those that do the premiums are so high most cannot afford them. The Federal government FEMA will only back feed so much to help. The people that got hit from the Hurricanes are still waiting.
I live in San Diego and have many friends in LA, they all checked in safe today!
Originally from LA. My son still lives there. I've never seen it this bad. No measurable rain for 8 months. The wind can carry embers miles. Then new fires start.
The fires started like a day or two ago and the winds help spread it wide and fast on the meteorologist was saying, once in a decade, he was referring to the extremely high winds and not the fires. The high winds are not normal. They do not happen very often.
My daughter just told me that Paris Hilton just lost her home. I think after James Wood and Steve Guttenberg were also affected as well.
4:05 when I was younger they would pilot us through a fire zone with flames on both sides of the road
I’m here today. Someone posted on Facebook that Universal Studios was affected by the fires and a few minutes ago. Hollywood bowl also was affected.
Yea I work at Universal and they are closed today and tomorrow
The high winds are really not helping the situation at all.
I used to work for an insurance company and back in the 90s, there was a lot fires in Malibu that just wiped out house after house after house. Some people never rebuild. We in insured some of those houses that burned down.
A few years before Covid, there was a fire, I can’t remember where but a town called Paradise was completely wiped out.
Winds got so high that they had to ground the planes last night. One quote was the fire was traveling 3 football fields per minute. Most likely fire was started by homeless but it will take a while to figure out. Problem with the original area was there is only one way in and out of the town so all traffic was flooding out on all 4 lanes and emergency vehicles could not get in.
The fires are right on the ocean! Very unusual. Santa Ana winds go from east to west. Extremely strong at times.
We live in Santa Barbara CA, in a fire danger zone, no fires now, but we keep bags packed in our closet with a brief case and a strong box. Luckily no pets. we'll have to move my classic truck down the hill, and head to safety WHEN the day DOES come.
It’s the 100 mph Santa Ana winds that make it spread so fast and far.. It’s devastating
California needs Jesus.
Whats happening is the burning embers get picked up by the wind and blown to the next house or tree or bush and the combination of het ember and wind is like hot coals and a bellows. The air causes the ember to come to flame like a blow torch and next thing you know something else goes up in flames and tge cycle repeats for as many embers as gets blown. Some of thise embers travel for miles before hitting something.
Where is Democrat LA Mayor Karen Bass, while the fires were raging. She is celebrating in Ghana with the new president there. You can’t make this stuff up. Why is she overseas, she is the mayor of LA, and should be here dealing with the fires, the homeless problem, the crime epidemic, the housing shortages, the financial problems…not galavanting in some foreign country.
The key factor in these fires is the wind. Winds of 80-100 mph will carry sparks and flames a long way.
A map shows they are now fighting 5 different fires now.
We have a weather condition named the Santa Ana winds. (Originally the Santana winds, which means devil winds. But after time, people started referring to them as Santa Ana winds).
When the Santa Ana winds start to kick up, crazy arsonists come out of the woodwork and start fires. I don't know if that's how these started, but I would not be surprised.
The Santa Ana winds were coming in between 90 and 100 miles an hour. You’re gonna have to convert so it was just taken these embers and flames and just passing it along to the next house in business and land, etc. The Santa Ana winds are no joke. They’re very dusty And very strong and it just fueled the fire.
Watching that is like the worst parts of the Bible coming to life. Sending prayers that everyone gets to safety
Hi Kabir, every year there are wild fires around LA, and people keep building houses in the hills around the town. Some of them very expensive, and almost every year there are fires. You think they would learn.
The fires started like a day or two ago and the winds help spread it wide and fast
If you look at media in the 80's and 90's California had a reputation for poor air quality, especially Los Angeles. We passed several air quality laws to help mitigate the smog including stopping most controlled burns. California plants have evolved to be extremely prone to burning, so by not doing the controlled burns we get these massive wildfires.
Update- We have a 7th fire. The Sunset Fire is in the Hollywood Hills.
My Thoughts Are With The LA Area As of right now
Even though the winds are up to 100MPH, in some of those areas due to the terrain, the wind speeds can go even higher. Embers at such wind speeds can carry for miles. Lived thru a fire when I was a kid and the fire started a few miles away but due to the wind and embers, we got it in our area. How do they start? Can be in a number of ways. Something hot put on dry grass such as a car breakdown and pulling off onto the side where there is dry crash, a spark from poorly maintained electrical equipment such as power lines in high wind. Someone not paying attention and trying to BBQ, an idiot flicking their cigarette on the ground, and worse of all, sick individuals that like to start fires. You can eve get it from static electricity build up and it then in the wind touches something else and produces a spark...I have seen a car fire on the side of the road then catch the grass and the way it went.
It's nuts it wiped out whole neighborhoods practically overnight. Surprised the death toll isn't higher.
Fires in California, snow in the South. Gonna be a long week.
Someone started a fire in Calabasas close to the Palisades but they caught him but it was too late n still today on Saturday it’s still 0% contained. Also the explosion that people are hearing 80% are cars with the gas tank was up and it sounds like an explosion like the house, but you can hear the difference.
Nobody knows how the fire started. There was no rain for eight months and then the Santa Anna winds started. My little sister’s entire neighborhood was evacuated at 10:30am yesterday morning. Today they learned everything is gone. There are FOUR fires going at the same time, none are under control. I saw on the news that two thousand Army Reservists have been called out to help fight the fire. Firefighters from other states are already there. Oops, just learned there’s a fifth fire now, probably started from sparks.
I was reading that the UK has wildfires every year.
Additionally, I'm about 50 miles away, and there are ashes all over my car.
Most homeowners have insurance for fire and yes its a firestorm!!!
I'm watching the local news rn amd it's now at 155K are now ordered to evacuate
All it takes is an unattended fire pit. Wind blows an ember into something else. Off it goes.
A lot of insurance companies canceled the policies previousl to this.
They are out of water to fight the fires because the governor didn’t refill the reservoirs. They also don’t have enough people and resources to fight the fire. As of now 7:45 am they are still in life saving mode. 5 fires are burning.
A high school was burned down yesterday
I live in LA County but currently on vacation in Thailand. I hope everything is fine with my house and family 😢
Of course it’s not safe. But what choice do they have??
As a third generation California native, let me tell you, that these devastating fires are preventable, but that the California government does nothing to prevent them.
They refuse to clear the underbrush, remove dead trees, and do basic forest management.
Some of the LA areas, particularly Pacific Palisades, have run out of water (empty fire hydrants) because the California government/City of LA refused to fill the reservoirs or build new ones, billions of gallons of water are wasted every year, flowing out to sea.
The California government passed laws a few years ago, to reign in insurance costs, but the plan backfired…insurance costs went up, and many insurers have fled the state. The particular areas hit by the fires, many residents were notified a few months ago, that their fire insurance coverage was being removed.
Remember, these insurance companies are watching the mismanagement of the state by the Democrats, fleeing and dropping coverage to millions of Californians.
Also…who and why are these fires starting…homeless people in many of these cases are lighting fires, while living in outdoors , in the dry brush canyons, and in the forested areas. California has not really do anything about this problem, despite spending BILLIONS. The California Bureaucracy/Government is at fault for many problems afflicting the people of this state which I love.
Thank you for your well wishes and support in this hard time.
Yeah, where is the forest in palisades? Where is the underbrush? Come on genius, where?
@ You are joking right, the fire started near Skull Rock, on the forested hillside, near North Piedra Morada Drive.
Pacific Palisades is surrounded by hills, with dry brush. Common on.
Fire jumps, I wittnnes on the family farm. BLESS CALIFORNIA AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOST EVERYTHING.
Insurance should help, but hearing a bunch of people that their insurance cancelled.
I heard for some reason the insurance companies just dropped the fire insurance 🤬
The rest of the world looks at the USA and sees big houses, abundant food, job opportunities, entertainment, etc...but, we pay a heavy price for living in this country. Fires, hurricanes, tornados, blizzards, floods, earthquakes: you name it, we got it!! My personal opinion is that Americans appear "over the top" to the rest of the world, BUT we live in the extremes!! We have to be tough and resilient. We can't just give up and give in.
You have to have fire insurance. Your normal insurance won't cover.
Im in San Diego area and am so hoping it doesn’t happen here! Miss management of the cities, counties, and the state! 😡
In many parts of California the Insurance Companies just dropped the insurance policies and people in fire zones in California no longer have insurance
Almost the entire "Fire Insurance" industry abandoned ship and
refused to continue to cover mortgages in Northern California. So, the State of California has had to step up
and provide that coverages for existing mortgages. Not good.
California is burning while much of the rest of America is dealing with a lot of snow and ice.
Go to the joe rogan experience episode with Trump, at the 1 hr mark he starts talking about this potentially happening, newsome wanted to protect some fish, so water that could have made it to southern california from northern states was blocked