Wednesday, January 8, 2025

"Unprecedented Fires" Scorch 3,000 Acres In Los Angeles Area, Forcing 49,000 To Evacuate

 

   All you need to know about the fires in California. Entirely man made and the result of incompetence. 

"Unprecedented Fires" Scorch 3,000 Acres In Los Angeles Area, Forcing 49,000 To Evacuate

LA Fire Summary:

  • Fast-moving, wind-driven fires are sweeping through the Los Angeles area, forcing mandatory evacuations for over 49,000 residents. The fires remain 0% contained.

  • The Palisades Fire (caused unknown) has burned nearly 15,000 acres, while the Eaton Fire has scorched 10,600 acres. 

  • AccuWeather Estimates $52 billion to $57 billion in preliminary damage and economic losses

  • Gov. Gavin Newsom deployed 1,400 firefighters & declared a state of emergency.

  • Nearly 300,000 residential and/or commercial customers are without power in the LA region.

  • NWS: Worst fire conditions (high winds) will peak Wednesday morning. 

  • Malibu residents warned about potential evacuation.

  • Fires ZERO PERCENT CONTAINED 

Evacuation Map (via NYT):

Fire Map (NASA VIIRS image overlaid LA via X user loosenedspirit): 

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Update (1915ET):

"The Palisades Fire, which has quintupled in size since this morning, has now prompted evacuations in the City of Santa Monica," meteorologist Matthew Cappucci wrote on X.

Evacuations are expanding.

Fire is zero contained. 

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Update (1830ET):

Just awful. 

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Update (1545ET):

Via Bloomberg Top Live Desk: 

"In California, nearly 500,000 people have turned to the state's insurer of last resort, the FAIR Plan, which has doubled in size over the past five years. The state is now exposed to nearly $458 billion in potential damage, Mark Gongloff writes for Bloomberg Opinion. The neighborhoods in the path of the Palisades and other fires burning this week have been among some of the hardest-hit by insurer defections in recent years."

Via Bloomberg's Brian Sullivan: 

"The Los Angeles region has a high risk of exposure to wildfires: More than 460,000 homes with a reconstruction value of $300 billion in LA and the Riverside region have a moderate to very high risk of exposure, according to CoreLogic, a property analytics firm.

"CoreLogic noted that not all the homes deemed at risk are directly exposed to the current fires."

Via AccuWeather:

Estimates $52 billion to $57 billion in preliminary damage and economic loss has occurred from the raging Los Angeles area wildfires.

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Update (1534ET):

President-elect Donald Trump on Truth Social: 

"The fires in Los Angeles may go down, in dollar amount, as the worst in the History of our Country. In many circles, they’re doubting whether insurance companies will even have enough money to pay for this catastrophe. Let this serve, and be emblematic, of the gross incompetence and mismanagement of the Biden/Newscum Duo. January 20th cannot come fast enough!"

Meanwhile... 

Clown. 

It is time for Californians to usher in an era of accountability after radical leftist politicians and officials have left the state in chaos.

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Update (1115ET):

LA County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone told reporters, "We have well over 5,000 acres that have burned and the fire is growing. We have no percentage of containment. We have an estimated 1,000 structures destroyed."

Trump was right...

There's nothing like waking up to a fire apocalypse that morning...

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Update (0700ET):

The Palisades, Eaton, and Hurst wildfires raging in Southern California show no signs of abating.

The Los Angeles County Fire Department reported on X that nearly 3,000 acres—roughly 4.5 square miles—are ablaze, and the fire is 0% contained as of early Wednesday morning.

According to PowerOutage.US, nearly 300,000 customers across the area are without power.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom wrote on X that 1,400 firefighters have been delayed in the area to "combat these unprecedented fires."

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