Trump blames Biden and California Gov. Gavin Newsom for deadly wildfires

Read today they still don't know what caused the flame to spark, but they believe it started near the Skull Rock trail in Temescal Canyon. This is what the trail looks like:



To get a perspective on how close this is to town, here's a view from the canyon. I'm not 100% sure, but I believe that's the Palisades neighborhood below that burned, and Malibu is blocked by the tree on the right. The pier in the center of photo is Santa Monica.

 

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This is cool

 

I think you are right, Az. A beautiful area, it was.

Came across this photo in the LA Times earlier today. Spoke to me of the capricious nature of fire.

 

You said the state doesn’t do controlled burns. They do.

Now you link something about the feds. Not the state?

The feds took a temporary pause on their activities in Oct 2024. But yes the Feds also do controlled burns. They actually claimed a record in 2024 in CA even with the October pause. The pause was also not some new permanent policy, sounds like it’s more resource/budget related. This doesn’t necessarily even have anything to do with these fires either. The article is concerning the forests in northern CA. Federally managed lands. So when one of those fires breaks out in a national forest, it might come back to that.

I doubt either the state or the feds are fully on top of this, actually all the evidence is they are both woefully behind and probably need more resources even with all their PR about forest management and breaking records. So I’m not even arguing that. I’m just pointing out that they do in fact utilize prescribed burns. Both the state and the feds.

 

Questions:
How many Democrats in high positions secretly wanted Malibu to burn?

Did these people consciously or unconsciously take actions that increased the likelihood that Malibu would burn? Robert Barnes, who lived in Malibu for over a decade has talked about it. A friend of his wrote a chapter in a book called Malibu Burns (or Burn, Malibu Burn was the title of that chapter in that book. I'll clarify this when I find out). Barnes says that in 3-5 years it will be interesting to see who bought up burned out Malibu property. The Malibu house Barnes lived in was owned by a Mormon who designed it in such away that it could be protected by foam. Initially Barnes heard the house was burned down but turns out it survived in good shape.

Can government officials be prosecuted and jailed for criminal negligence?

 

I get the feeling that Trump literally thinks that because Canada is above the US on a map, that it is uphill from the US, and water naturally flows down downhill from it..