From the UK, I’ve been following this since it started and haven’t seen a map update for days. I would like to say thank you for this, reports are now few and often repeated info.🥰
@@randomvintagefilm273His conclusions included: speed of increase of fire risk & severity > improvement speed of fire fighting & prevention technology => planning & building wisely is the solution, which is a lesson looking already forgotten & ignored. 😢😮. Hence preparation was in reality not adequate. Nothing could have stopped the fires for the buildings in the wrong places.
@@randomvintagefilm273 January is not normally fire season. I was born in the Valley and lived on the west side for 2 decades. We got scared of fire in August, September, and esp October. November sometimes. But we normally had rain the week of Thanksgiving--every year it would rain right b4 Thanksgiving, and we'd drive up to the snow after being stuffed full of turkey by my mom. A tradition. Never had fires after that.
Wonderful video and I loved the breakdown of what happened. Towards the end you said the destruction happened because "conditions exceeded available technology". Sums it up without hype or politics. Thank you.
I lived there for 60yrs and we consistently got fires right up to our doorstep every 5-8yrs. The Fireman would set backfires from our property. It almost became a tradition for my parents to set up a rest reprieve for the First Responders. I can remember being 10yrs old and making sandwiches and bringing drinks to the exhausted fireman sprawled out on our lawn. Once word gets out they all show up in mass, my parents were very generous and grateful. They sold the house years ago, but it's still standing.
Wish society would listen to folks like you. 10 for 10 chance of fire destruction in these areas makes them a bad place to build, unless maybe they build a fortress.
@@Adelgunde48 People choose to live in these places and used to assume the risks mitigate them but as we have devolved that no longer happens unfortunately.
@MUUKOW3 exactly... times have changed in many ways... this catastrophe has shown it to everyone... for this reason, everyone should adapt to the new circumstances as best as possible, even if they are associated with enormous challenges...
As a fellow geographer and GIS person i luv your channel. Read Mike Davis"Ecology of Fear" in late 1990s his predictions for LA fires were and are bang on
I found you! I have been looking for days for exactly the kind of information I learned tonight listening to your video. Thank you very much. Very informative Thanks for the work you do
This channel is so unique in its presentation, with emphasis on practical and understandable education. You answer all the questions I am pondering! I find myself driving around daily and noticing all the houses with big fire fuel potential problems here in the coastal PNW. I’m glad I woke up to the facts of fire, as urban growth encroaches into the wild. Many thanks.
Pali High grad and former Westridge Road Brentwood resident here. Watching the fires from the east coast... thank you for your work and sharing it with us.
I get so tired of looking at "live streaming" that days old. I've wanted a real time summary of what's happening over the past two weeks. Thanks for breaking it down.
Thank you for this essential information. With the millions spent covering this fire, the fact that it has taken two weeks and you, sir, as a private citizen, to shape this tragedy for everyone is its own message. ❤
Looking at the history of the area fires really puts into focus that these areas are not where you'd want to have a home. I appreciated that you mentioned how the one neighborhood with little ingress and egress plus the terrain wasn't a safe place for a home. There's a trend of developments with limited ingress/egress and surrounded by high cement fencing. Seems like those could become traps in an emergency.
People want privacy and the security of gated or limited access neighborhoods. It can be safe to build in these areas if fire prevention is practiced with controlled burns and fire breaks.
Excellent production. Thank you. Not being from the area makes visualization difficult. Your graphics solved that for me. From what I've now gathered the hills acted like a blowtorch aimed right at the populated areas.
There's a bunch of other places that are vulnerable to a similar event. I hope the competent people are mapping that out and working on a game plan to deal with it.
@@williambarry8015 You would think that after a disaster of this size and the total loss for so many people that more would be done for prevention but the truth is people have already started to lose interest and little to nothing will be done for prevention in the near future.
Great breakdown of the fire road breaks that crews were able to reinforce. I used to love to mtb the fire breaks at the north of Topanga State park since I could ride from my shack of Canoga
local here who lives near paul revere. as i understood it. the big turn to mandy was that the day the santa anas ended. the winds turned from offshore to onshore, pushing the fire towards sullivan ridge, where all the fuel was. that was the same night as hollywood fire went off. so suddenly they couldnt do aircraft. they called helicopters off. they had to put hollywood and eaton on priority. the next morning, it jumped into sullivan canyon. thankfully, the santa anas came back, actually, which pushed the fire back towards the coast and away from encino and fuel. and they could fly. my theory, had hollywood not gone out and winds stayed heavy onshore another day, mandy could have gone. btw that same say, i said its gonna turn, and packed up 80% of my home and got it all out. it was blue skies in paul revere right up to onshore. then a day of smoke. then offshore and clear skies again.
They rebuilt the homes in the path of the 2020 Almeda Fire here in Southern Oregon. But the mobile and manufactured home parks in that area were the most affordable housing in the area.
I can't imagine rebuilding in such a prominent fire hazard zone. I cant even build a house once, nevermind multiple. Thanks for this great topology map
Watching from Australia. Thank you for your comprehensive and understandable review of the fires, during and now (I subbed during your extraordinary coverage day by day). I watched a doco yesterday on YT from the LAFD about the Bel Air fire in 1961, narrated by the late great William Conrad (464 homes lost, no fatalities or major injuries). I followed the recorded emergency calls and fire personnel radio calls on Google Maps Street View of the addresses given. GMSV shows houses have been rebuilt with wood or similar cladding, vegetation up to or near homes, a couple with shingle rooves and mostly one street in and out so traffic in these family home areas will congest the roads. It also showed graphics explaining fire progression and what you have described here. Sadly, the exact same reasons for 1961 (and others before and later) are still current today - Santa Ana winds (50mph in 1961 not 80-100 as in 2025), homes not fire guarded (building and surrounds), homes built on steep or some on sheer cliff faces (in the "chimney" zone) and a water supply not geared for a mega industrial scale situation. So very sad for the many, many people affected. Again, thank you for your knowledge and the visuals to make it easy to understand.
It’s a good webpage, Zeke. I’m learning quite a bit. I wish there was less talk on social media about “we couldn’a”, but as they say, the rest is politics. Keep up the good work
Assuming your home was saved from the fire after being covered in retardant, what's the best way to clean up and what kinds of environmental concerns should people realistically have regarding the massive amount of retardant used to fight this fire?
Thank you! You are an excellent explainer. I wish the governor would consider to talk to you and those you people you've shared on your videos to advise about any rebuilding. Los Angeles is park poor--we don't have enough open space. It'd be wiser to limit the amount of building in the burnt places--only allow building in places where people can get out! (there were few roads in and out of the area and they are ALWAYS full of cars.) Also, of course, considering that these are places with regular fires. Making the same mistakes over and over again--so dumb.
Being a so cal native, I have been in the Palisades a lot. I would never want to live there because everything is a drive and I would never want to sit in traffic for a daily commute. A lot of places in the socal area are in terrible fire zones, but people keep building and people keep buying. LA has a housing issue, so these wealthy people are going to want to be outside of the city. Just wait for the rain, these hillsides are going to bury Santa Monica in mud.
Shull Rock detections from NASA EOSDIS mapping show up Jan 1st and blow up(gone out of control) on the 7th. So wind was the main factor. Smokey the Bear was not impressed :) Decades ago, we used to see those commercials on public broadcasting fairly regularly.
The larger environmental concern is the large number of houses and businesses that have burned and what is now large toxic dumps. All the burnt debris will have to be sorted and disposed of safely. My guess it will be loaded onto barges and shipped to countries with few environmental laws. Out of sight Out of mind.
Thx Zeke... Age old problem in California...the politics don't ever have a real solution. Build, burn, rebuild and so on. Great imagery today tells us many things not the least being...dude don't build here you're gonna get burned at some point.
People also discount the effect of the wildfires blowing through windows and burning very flammable home contents. I saw many tile roofed houses burning from the inside out in LA footage. In Spain they know that metal shutters on windows are important.
And how many Lithium ion batteries are in houses and sheds, and how many Teslas...those burning batteries would have contributed to the intensity of the fire in urban areas.
Thanks for saying what happened. It helps to know that they were not able to get to some places with trucks. This is a different story from everything else that I have seen. I'm glad that you also pointed out that the houses were built in a bad place. The city planner should know that and protect people from harm. The sad thing is that developers need land so they try to tell city planners why they should open the land. I live in Utah. They built in a flood zone. Yes it has been dry for over 40 years. All that it would take is a few good fall, winter and springs to flood the zone. I mean would you buy a house on a almost dead lake. If you have ten rivers in and only one out? The river out is always at capacity in the spring. I think that they know about the problem a think that they can control it. If we learn anything from this it should be that we have no control over the weather. We need to build with the weather in mind. If it's fire then build for that. Hurricane build for that. This is not the first time that I have heard about the city of LA burning. One thing that I don't hear about is the city of San Francisco burning down again. We have to learn from this fire. The first defense against fire is the structure. Why did so many windows fall out of homes? Did we allow this to happen because we were trying to save the planet? Did the vinyl not provide protection for the houses? Some homes are always lost in a fire this big. It's the amount of homes that should raise questions as to why. If we can answer that then next time maybe this could be a lot less dangerous. Thanks
Houses can be built to be ember proof with a rain catchment cistern or in ground natural pool that captures rain from the roof. Off-grid generators can run pumps to ensure the ability to keep a sprinkler system running to keep the Santa Ana wind driven ember storms at bay. Fires fighting pumps can be manned by the home owner or they can hire people to man them like Caruso, who used hired help to save his shopping center in the Pacific Palisades.
@falcosparverius1 let's be clear, the multi billionaire hired private fighter fighters and trucked in private tankers of water. How many could or even should hire private fire fighters and tankers?
That closeup of the Palisades neighborhood with a steep slope between the two streets featured many large palm trees, which act like torches if ignited by wildfire.
Would ROCKWOOL exterior insulation+ roof/wall sprinkler system resist the house to house fire spread? I.e. is there any reasonable building and sprinkler method that would work?
Love your maps & explanations of firefighting & fire progression. Some part of Malibu burns every year. The Pacific Palisades Village, the alphabet streets, most of Pacific Palisades have never burned. Neither has the town of Altadena. These fires are a catastrophe beyond your ability to troubleshoot. Climate change & arson are the new parameters
G'day, I dunno it it's your sending, or my receiving, but at about 0:07:04 the image reverted from 360 to 144 Pixells... I have no idea whyfore thus be such... Have a good one... Stay safe. ;-p Ciao !
what else we could also do is move the fresh water and waste water processing up to the santa anna winds origin area. this would cost money but how else do we prepare to acommodate the depletion of moisture caused by the increase of global temperature to 1.5 degrees and when we go to 3 degrees?
Thanks again for your wise analysis. I am shocked that after a century of fires burning in basically the same spots it has not become a lesson learned. I hope they rethink the density of the rebuilds and hopefully not plant palms at the base of the canyons and throughout the neighborhoods, as well as other highly flammable trees and vegetation. Also what about rooftop sprinklers that are turned on regularly during red flag warnings? And water bombing perimeters in problem spots? Always shutting down parks during red flag warning times. I am going to get my go bags ready when there are red flag warnings. So much mitigation, prevention and preparation need to be happening if we Earthlings are going to survive these extreme wind, fire and climate events. Have you sent the Governor a link to The Lookout because he needs the deets.
Just curious. I haven’t heard you mention the portion of the Summit neighborhood that did not burn. Was that mostly street orientation? Would fine fire proof ember trapping screen maybe unfurled from eves be of any use? Or in certain areas it could be raised or lowered to decrease the ember storms and give firefighters a better chance. Seems like it theoretically could work in certain places.
New ‘Builders Remedy’ in California removes building standards already. No care or concern where housing is built. Check it out. It applies to every residential area.
how much of a difference do you think it would have made if the reservoirs were full of water? there is a lot of talk about it and i was just curious. thanks!
reminds me of pictures i saw of heroshema and Tokyo fire bombed areas. My wife asked what started this. and i said looking at how much burned why ask what started it. drop a match in a tinder box and who cares where it started. I asked Tim Vasquez - the meterologis - if we were to build reservoirs at the Santa Anna head winds and evaporate the water into the air could it raise the relative humidity enough to mitigate the fires. from what he said i realized it would take too much water area. respectfully
Firefighting towers need to be made for people who build up in that type of terrain and you better put a water tower up for every 3 or 4 houses built so they can fight a fire
Thank you for remaining one of the few impartial resources to keep us informed with facts, not propaganda.
I look for experts like this man to get plain old scientific analysis and not media talking points.
From the UK, I’ve been following this since it started and haven’t seen a map update for days. I would like to say thank you for this, reports are now few and often repeated info.🥰
Thank you for making it possible to understand what is happening.
Glad someone here understand this! The video still doesn't explain for me about this fire!
Excellent reporting, and I REALLY APPRECIATE your no nonsense, non political assessment of the situation. ❤️🔥
Unfortunately a lot more his analysis is wrong! He mocked the people who said we weren't prepared WE WERE NOT PREPARED OBVIOUSLY!!!
Thank you
@@randomvintagefilm273His conclusions included: speed of increase of fire risk & severity > improvement speed of fire fighting & prevention technology => planning & building wisely is the solution, which is a lesson looking already forgotten & ignored. 😢😮. Hence preparation was in reality not adequate. Nothing could have stopped the fires for the buildings in the wrong places.
@@randomvintagefilm273 January is not normally fire season. I was born in the Valley and lived on the west side for 2 decades. We got scared of fire in August, September, and esp October. November sometimes. But we normally had rain the week of Thanksgiving--every year it would rain right b4 Thanksgiving, and we'd drive up to the snow after being stuffed full of turkey by my mom. A tradition. Never had fires after that.
Wonderful video and I loved the breakdown of what happened. Towards the end you said the destruction happened because "conditions exceeded available technology". Sums it up without hype or politics. Thank you.
Thank you for all that you do.
Just found you, fascinating topic, fire mapping so cool!👍☀️
I learned so much today and appreciate your educational information rather than sensation & political bs. THANK YOU!
Thanks for the updates man. Doing more then any news agency currently. Well done
Love this channel -- most intelligent and reliable educational channel -- Thank you
I lived there for 60yrs and we consistently got fires right up to our doorstep every 5-8yrs. The Fireman would set backfires from our property. It almost became a tradition for my parents to set up a rest reprieve for the First Responders. I can remember being 10yrs old and making sandwiches and bringing drinks to the exhausted fireman sprawled out on our lawn. Once word gets out they all show up in mass, my parents were very generous and grateful. They sold the house years ago, but it's still standing.
Wish society would listen to folks like you. 10 for 10 chance of fire destruction in these areas makes them a bad place to build, unless maybe they build a fortress.
@@catbertz That's true... as terrible as the disaster there was, I hope the construction style will change in the future to protect the population...
@@Adelgunde48 People choose to live in these places and used to assume the risks mitigate them but as we have devolved that no longer happens unfortunately.
@MUUKOW3 exactly... times have changed in many ways... this catastrophe has shown it to everyone... for this reason, everyone should adapt to the new circumstances as best as possible, even if they are associated with enormous challenges...
As a fellow geographer and GIS person i luv your channel. Read Mike Davis"Ecology of Fear" in late 1990s his predictions for LA fires were and are bang on
I found you! I have been looking for days for exactly the kind of information I learned tonight listening to your video. Thank you very much. Very informative Thanks for the work you do
This channel is so unique in its presentation, with emphasis on practical and understandable education. You answer all the questions I am pondering! I find myself driving around daily and noticing all the houses with big fire fuel potential problems here in the coastal PNW. I’m glad I woke up to the facts of fire, as urban growth encroaches into the wild. Many thanks.
Amazingly instructive, Thankyou.
As an Australian I’m always interested in detailed information about wild fire spread.
Really appreciate your perspective and insights! Thanks so much your experience come explanation and integrity.
Thanks for all your videos 🙂
Pali High grad and former Westridge Road Brentwood resident here. Watching the fires from the east coast... thank you for your work and sharing it with us.
Thank you so much for your in depth coverage of the fires in LA. You are my main source of information. Appreciate you and this channel.👍
I get so tired of looking at "live streaming" that days old. I've wanted a real time summary of what's happening over the past two weeks. Thanks for breaking it down.
this is the best analysis of the LA fires i have come across! Thank you from Roseville!
The scale of the firefighting involved is unbelievable. Simply impossible in Brazil.
Thank you for this essential information.
With the millions spent covering this fire, the fact that it has taken two weeks and you, sir, as a private citizen, to shape this tragedy for everyone is its own message. ❤
Zeke - I’m impressed with your on the fly map manipulations. Not an easy thing to do live!
Thank you for the updates, in 23 you covered nothern California and some of the southern Oregon fires, thanks.
Thank you Zeke Lander for your valuable insights. Final conclusion: plan wisely for fire risk. 😮 ❤
Extremely informative video, thank you. The history of fires and mitigating effect of recent fires very interesting.
worked riviera & brentwood c.c. in 70's, caddied on pga tour 2 years. l get num watching these vids. Thanks mister.
Thanks again for factual information and education. You’re a gem! 💎
Looking at the history of the area fires really puts into focus that these areas are not where you'd want to have a home. I appreciated that you mentioned how the one neighborhood with little ingress and egress plus the terrain wasn't a safe place for a home. There's a trend of developments with limited ingress/egress and surrounded by high cement fencing. Seems like those could become traps in an emergency.
People want privacy and the security of gated or limited access neighborhoods. It can be safe to build in these areas if fire prevention is practiced with controlled burns and fire breaks.
I know ! Many of these new neighborhoods are just a maze of narrow streets with one entry and exit . No thank you and the houses so close together.
Excellent production. Thank you. Not being from the area makes visualization difficult. Your graphics solved that for me.
From what I've now gathered the hills acted like a blowtorch aimed right at the populated areas.
There's a bunch of other places that are vulnerable to a similar event.
I hope the competent people are mapping that out and working on a game plan to deal with it.
@@williambarry8015 You would think that after a disaster of this size and the total loss for so many people that more would be done for prevention but the truth is people have already started to lose interest and little to nothing will be done for prevention in the near future.
Great breakdown of the fire road breaks that crews were able to reinforce. I used to love to mtb the fire breaks at the north of Topanga State park since I could ride from my shack of Canoga
local here who lives near paul revere. as i understood it. the big turn to mandy was that the day the santa anas ended. the winds turned from offshore to onshore, pushing the fire towards sullivan ridge, where all the fuel was. that was the same night as hollywood fire went off. so suddenly they couldnt do aircraft. they called helicopters off. they had to put hollywood and eaton on priority. the next morning, it jumped into sullivan canyon. thankfully, the santa anas came back, actually, which pushed the fire back towards the coast and away from encino and fuel. and they could fly. my theory, had hollywood not gone out and winds stayed heavy onshore another day, mandy could have gone.
btw that same say, i said its gonna turn, and packed up 80% of my home and got it all out. it was blue skies in paul revere right up to onshore. then a day of smoke. then offshore and clear skies again.
Great presentation Zeke, as always....ML & gratitude!💯🎯🎉
Thank you for the detailed commentary and straight talk about the limits of technology and the inherent dangers of these areas.
They rebuilt the homes in the path of the 2020 Almeda Fire here in Southern Oregon. But the mobile and manufactured home parks in that area were the most affordable housing in the area.
Great job cutting through the hysteria and misinformation.
Thanks
I can't imagine rebuilding in such a prominent fire hazard zone. I cant even build a house once, nevermind multiple. Thanks for this great topology map
Watching from Australia. Thank you for your comprehensive and understandable review of the fires, during and now (I subbed during your extraordinary coverage day by day). I watched a doco yesterday on YT from the LAFD about the Bel Air fire in 1961, narrated by the late great William Conrad (464 homes lost, no fatalities or major injuries). I followed the recorded emergency calls and fire personnel radio calls on Google Maps Street View of the addresses given. GMSV shows houses have been rebuilt with wood or similar cladding, vegetation up to or near homes, a couple with shingle rooves and mostly one street in and out so traffic in these family home areas will congest the roads. It also showed graphics explaining fire progression and what you have described here. Sadly, the exact same reasons for 1961 (and others before and later) are still current today - Santa Ana winds (50mph in 1961 not 80-100 as in 2025), homes not fire guarded (building and surrounds), homes built on steep or some on sheer cliff faces (in the "chimney" zone) and a water supply not geared for a mega industrial scale situation. So very sad for the many, many people affected. Again, thank you for your knowledge and the visuals to make it easy to understand.
Could you investigate the timing of the ignition on Eaton Altadena, Palisades fire and Hurst Sylmar fire?
This was very informative, thanks for this.
It’s a good webpage, Zeke. I’m learning quite a bit.
I wish there was less talk on social media about “we couldn’a”, but as they say, the rest is politics.
Keep up the good work
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and understanding!
Assuming your home was saved from the fire after being covered in retardant, what's the best way to clean up and what kinds of environmental concerns should people realistically have regarding the massive amount of retardant used to fight this fire?
Your are amazing. Thank you for your work, showing us such detailed information.
Thank you so much I really appreciate your effort Zeke
Thank you! You are an excellent explainer. I wish the governor would consider to talk to you and those you people you've shared on your videos to advise about any rebuilding. Los Angeles is park poor--we don't have enough open space. It'd be wiser to limit the amount of building in the burnt places--only allow building in places where people can get out! (there were few roads in and out of the area and they are ALWAYS full of cars.) Also, of course, considering that these are places with regular fires. Making the same mistakes over and over again--so dumb.
Being a so cal native, I have been in the Palisades a lot. I would never want to live there because everything is a drive and I would never want to sit in traffic for a daily commute. A lot of places in the socal area are in terrible fire zones, but people keep building and people keep buying. LA has a housing issue, so these wealthy people are going to want to be outside of the city. Just wait for the rain, these hillsides are going to bury Santa Monica in mud.
Toxic mudslides.
@@tomparker9966That is a good band name!
Shull Rock detections from NASA EOSDIS mapping show up Jan 1st and blow up(gone out of control) on the 7th. So wind was the main factor. Smokey the Bear was not impressed :) Decades ago, we used to see those commercials on public broadcasting fairly regularly.
"Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires"
The larger environmental concern is the large number of houses and businesses that have burned and what is now large
toxic dumps. All the burnt debris will have to be sorted and disposed of safely. My guess it will be loaded onto barges and shipped to countries with few environmental laws. Out of sight Out of mind.
@@tomparker9966You should see the places they break down the retired cruise ships.
Thanks again for all you report and teach us.
Thx Zeke...
Age old problem in California...the politics don't ever have a real solution. Build, burn, rebuild and so on.
Great imagery today tells us many things not the least being...dude don't build here you're gonna get burned at some point.
People also discount the effect of the wildfires blowing through windows and burning very flammable home contents. I saw many tile roofed houses burning from the inside out in LA footage. In Spain they know that metal shutters on windows are important.
And how many Lithium ion batteries are in houses and sheds, and how many Teslas...those burning batteries would have contributed to the intensity of the fire in urban areas.
Thank you.
Great stuff. Thanks
Thanks for saying what happened. It helps to know that they were not able to get to some places with trucks. This is a different story from everything else that I have seen.
I'm glad that you also pointed out that the houses were built in a bad place. The city planner should know that and protect people from harm. The sad thing is that developers need land so they try to tell city planners why they should open the land.
I live in Utah. They built in a flood zone. Yes it has been dry for over 40 years. All that it would take is a few good fall, winter and springs to flood the zone. I mean would you buy a house on a almost dead lake. If you have ten rivers in and only one out? The river out is always at capacity in the spring. I think that they know about the problem a think that they can control it.
If we learn anything from this it should be that we have no control over the weather. We need to build with the weather in mind. If it's fire then build for that. Hurricane build for that.
This is not the first time that I have heard about the city of LA burning. One thing that I don't hear about is the city of San Francisco burning down again. We have to learn from this fire. The first defense against fire is the structure. Why did so many windows fall out of homes?
Did we allow this to happen because we were trying to save the planet? Did the vinyl not provide protection for the houses? Some homes are always lost in a fire this big. It's the amount of homes that should raise questions as to why. If we can answer that then next time maybe this could be a lot less dangerous.
Thanks
Houses can be built to be ember proof with a rain catchment cistern or in ground natural pool that captures rain from the roof. Off-grid generators can run pumps to ensure the ability to keep a sprinkler system running to keep the Santa Ana wind driven ember storms at bay. Fires fighting pumps can be manned by the home owner or they can hire people to man them like Caruso, who used hired help to save his shopping center in the Pacific Palisades.
@falcosparverius1 let's be clear, the multi billionaire hired private fighter fighters and trucked in private tankers of water. How many could or even should hire private fire fighters and tankers?
Great info! Thank you!
I Love LA! I am wishing for good luck for you!!
That closeup of the Palisades neighborhood with a steep slope between the two streets featured many large palm trees, which act like torches if ignited by wildfire.
Good job for showing this information
This analysis is exactly why insurance companies have cancelled or stop home insurance. If the risk is 100% over 10 years it’s uninsurable.
We never learn from our past. We keep making the same mistakes over and over with these communities.
Without the roads marked it is nearly useless to most of us! Why not leave them marked for clarity!
Would ROCKWOOL exterior insulation+ roof/wall sprinkler system resist the house to house fire spread? I.e. is there any reasonable building and sprinkler method that would work?
Really hard to follow the narrative. The pointer jumping all over and no clear explanation of the shaded areas.
Excellent.
Excellent sir. Thank you.
Love your maps & explanations of firefighting & fire progression. Some part of Malibu burns every year. The Pacific Palisades Village, the alphabet streets, most of Pacific Palisades have never burned. Neither has the town of Altadena. These fires are a catastrophe beyond your ability to troubleshoot. Climate change & arson are the new parameters
thank you.
How did the areas within the burned area escape the fire?
Why not build into the mountain. The houses are so ridiculously expensive that that should be feasible.
G'day,
I dunno it it's your sending, or my receiving, but at about 0:07:04 the image reverted from 360 to 144 Pixells...
I have no idea whyfore thus be such...
Have a good one...
Stay safe.
;-p
Ciao !
what else we could also do is move the fresh water and waste water processing up to the santa anna winds origin area. this would cost money but how else do we prepare to acommodate the depletion of moisture caused by the increase of global temperature to 1.5 degrees and when we go to 3 degrees?
Thanks again for your wise analysis. I am shocked that after a century of fires burning in basically the same spots it has not become a lesson learned. I hope they rethink the density of the rebuilds and hopefully not plant palms at the base of the canyons and throughout the neighborhoods, as well as other highly flammable trees and vegetation. Also what about rooftop sprinklers that are turned on regularly during red flag warnings? And water bombing perimeters in problem spots? Always shutting down parks during red flag warning times. I am going to get my go bags ready when there are red flag warnings. So much mitigation, prevention and preparation need to be happening if we Earthlings are going to survive these extreme wind, fire and climate events. Have you sent the Governor a link to The Lookout because he needs the deets.
Just curious. I haven’t heard you mention the portion of the Summit neighborhood that did not burn. Was that mostly street orientation? Would fine fire proof ember trapping screen maybe unfurled from eves be of any use? Or in certain areas it could be raised or lowered to decrease the ember storms and give firefighters a better chance. Seems like it theoretically could work in certain places.
We talked about the Summit neighborhood in the 'Inside the Socal Firestorms' video, recorded on Thursday, right at the end.
I was hoping to find you.
New ‘Builders Remedy’ in California removes building standards already. No care or concern where housing is built. Check it out. It applies to every residential area.
I support you 100%. You will get backlash for telling the truth but has to be done
how much of a difference do you think it would have made if the reservoirs were full of water?
there is a lot of talk about it and i was just curious.
thanks!
Subscribed! ❤
reminds me of pictures i saw of heroshema and Tokyo fire bombed areas. My wife asked what started this. and i said looking at how much burned why ask what started it. drop a match in a tinder box and who cares where it started. I asked Tim Vasquez - the meterologis - if we were to build reservoirs at the Santa Anna head winds and evaporate the water into the air could it raise the relative humidity enough to mitigate the fires. from what he said i realized it would take too much water area. respectfully
What is your current elevation multiplier set at in Google Earth?
How do I get maxar fire image on Google earth pro
The fires destroyed neighborhoods including water infrastructure. Water was running down the streets where the fire had so quickly run through.
Great vid. Can you please post a link to that mapping page. I can't find it on the Cal Fire site.
Someone from Patrick Boyle’s video sent me 👍
When the Palasades fire blew out at the top of the NE corner were the winds coming onshore?
@@Fireweed108 a little bit. They came out of the NW for about half a day, but a lot of the smoke still headed offshore.
Darn - sound is coming & going.
Straw bale properly built would survive. My In-laws house survived the Lobo fire in 2017 and the winds were 60/70 gusts
Thank you
Firefighting towers need to be made for people who build up in that type of terrain and you better put a water tower up for every 3 or 4 houses built so they can fight a fire
Why ere there no thermal hot spots in MODIS or VIIRS
@@hikerJohn the hotspots are too small to see at the resolution those satellites capture.
Sure rebuild but with fire hardened building codes or in 10 years or will get torched again!
Take care of yourself. ❤
So how to catch a car on fire, how did the driveways catch on fire?????
Thermal runway fire
Hmmmm, looks like the cost of fire insurance will and should be the number one indicator of fire risk of a new build.