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To: carranza2 who wrote (25203)	1/21/2025 9:51:19 PM
From: jazzlover2	1 Recommendation Recommended By Goose94 Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26017

If millionaires didn't build communities there, the fires wouldn't even be news.

To: carranza2 who wrote (25203)	1/22/2025 2:46:21 PM
From: LoneClone	1 Recommendation Recommended By Wharf Rat Respond to of 26017

What about the record high temperatures and record low rainfall during the eight months before the LA fires started? I suppose you will contend those also have nothing to do with climate change. When you see these kind of extremes happening all over the world more and more often and to greater and greater extreme levels, that should tell you something. I really do not understand why it is so important for you guys to deny climate change that you are willing to ignore science and the facts.Such behaviour seems so bizarre to me, but I have never been a follower of any ideology . LC

To: carranza2 who wrote (25203)	1/22/2025 3:41:23 PM
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LAFD: "Design For Disaster" - The Story of the Bel Air Conflagration \| 1962 youtube.com

To: carranza2 who wrote (25203)	1/22/2025 3:48:54 PM
From: voop	5 Recommendations Recommended By Broken_Clock carranza2 longz miraje nicewatch Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 26017

"At very high temperatures, eucalypt species release a flammable gas that mixes with air to send fireballs exploding out in front of the fire. With eucalyptus, you see these ember attacks, with huge bursts of sparks shooting out of the forests, Bowman says. “It’s just an extraordinary idea for a plant.” Though it’s difficult to prove, Bowman suspects the trees evolved to be “uber flammable.” Sixty million years ago eucalyptus species hit on a way to recover from intense fire, he explains, using specialized structures hidden deep within their bark that allow rapid recovery through new branches, instead of re-sprouting from the roots like other trees. “They have this adaptive advantage of not having to rebuild their trunk. Whether their oil-rich foliage is also an adaptation, we don’t know.” If you aren’t familiar with the idea of a plant designed to burn in its life cycle, you can get fooled by its beauty and nice smell, Bowman says. “But on a really hot day, those things are going to burn like torches and shower our suburbs with sparks. And on an extremely hot day, they’re going to shoot out gas balls.” With tiny pinhead seeds that germinate only in disturbed soils, the trees really aren’t good invaders, Bowman says–with one exception. “Fire opens up the woody capsules that hold the seeds, which love growing on freshly burned soil. Give a hillside a really good torching and the eucalyptus will absolutely dominate. They’ll grow intensively in the first few years of life and outcompete everything.” Eucalyptus are not indigenous to California.They did not appear until the 1850's kqed.org