Jacob Soboroff

Again, not absolving anybody for that.

But the firefighters essentially said that this confluence of events, the amount of water they had to flow.

And this was said by firefighters on the ground, actually in a live stream to Elon Musk, who was there almost unbelievably kind of pressing forward on all of these conspiracy theories at the time.

They debunked them in real time.

Well, we were just, we were flowing just an amount of amount of water that the system couldn't overbearing just because of how much water these firefighters were utilizing.

Okay.

All right.

They just said there wasn't enough pressure, so much water needed to flow that it wasn't possible to extinguish all of these flames, given the winds they were facing and the ferocity of the, of the firestorm.

And that's not to say that the firefighters didn't appreciate it.

But, you know, the idea that a conspiracy theory, whether it was President Trump saying that there was water that could flow from the Pacific Northwest or.

Not true.

Down to Southern California that would have extinguished the fires.

At one point, I think he said, we don't need reservoirs, paraphrasing here, in order to hold water.

None of it made any sense, frankly.

And all it did was make things harder on the ground for the people that were trying to fight the flames in real time and hindered the efforts to recover.

It's the politics of blame and misinformation and disinformation that has emerged as almost a constant to every natural disaster now.

And until...

Republicans stop pretending like this isn't happening and Democrats stop pretending like this is a future threat.

And we all see this for what's happening right now.

We're not going to see eye to eye on all of this.