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My hometown of Los Angeles is experiencing wildfires that have torched a surface area greater than Boston or San Francisco. Students at UCLA, my alma mater, were warned to prepare for an evacuation order that thankfully didn't come. Friends lost homes, others don't know if their houses are still standing, or they're contemplating moving back to what feels like a blast zone.
At least 12,000 structures have been destroyed. The death toll stands at 25. Given the scale of the disaster, that is remarkably low and a testament to the good work of frontline responders and the broader community. The L.A. fires will likely go down as the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history. The question now? What happens after the fire? The first rule of fires is simple.
Everyone works together to put out the fire, as fire is apolitical, unemotional, and does not discriminate. But just as electric cars go from zero to 60, faster than cars with combustion engines, digitized information accelerates from zero to blame much faster than analog media. Immediately, the left claimed it was climate change and blamed Republicans. Maybe.
Or perhaps you're tempting fate when you build hundreds of thousands of tinderboxes in a desert where high and low pressure systems collide to create tidal waves of hot air, i.e. the Santa Ana winds. First Lady-elect Elon Musk blamed DEI.
The shitposter-in-chief, Donald Trump, blamed California Governor Gavin Newsom for failing to sign the Water Restoration Declaration, providing much-needed water to emergency services. The problem? A. That declaration does not exist. In local news, the billionaire real estate developer who lost in LA's most recent mayoral election blamed the city for fire hydrant failures in Pacific Palisades.
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