# January 2025 Southern California Wildfires

**URL:** <https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/january-2025-southern-california-wildfires/5743>\
**Category:** The Happening World\
**Tags:** los-angeles, wildfire, pacific-palisades, altadena, governmental-incompetence\
**Created:** [9 January 2025 23:36 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/january-2025-southern-california-wildfires/5743 "2025-01-09T23:36:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![jabowery](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/jabowery/32/5478_2.png) [@jabowery](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/jabowery)\
**Post date:** [13 January 2025 02:35 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/january-2025-southern-california-wildfires/5743/41 "2025-01-13T02:35:12Z")

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> [@Citizen\_bitcoin](#):
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> [Fire victims compete to find new homes as real estate market rages in Pacific Palisades, Altadena](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-11/their-houses-burned-down-now-they-are-fighting-for-the-few-homes-left-on-the-market)

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**Author:** ![Citizen\_bitcoin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/citizen_bitcoin/32/19488_2.png) [@Citizen\_bitcoin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Citizen_bitcoin)\
**Post date:** [13 January 2025 05:41 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/january-2025-southern-california-wildfires/5743/42 "2025-01-13T05:41:41Z")

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Tuesday could be dicey

 ![GhIAyKYaIAA-Y21](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/uploads/default/original/3X/f/2/f23070c3f4afb9d91286918d292423e36b8db1f9.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/ctlaw/32/42_2.png) [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)\
**Post date:** [13 January 2025 10:58 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/january-2025-southern-california-wildfires/5743/43 "2025-01-13T10:58:52Z")

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[![](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/uploads/default/original/3X/2/2/22e36d3a3e9fb6e91fe399606f9c7802ab06b701.jpeg "Can Seawater Fight Fires in SoCal | Why No Water | Fireboats | Damage From Seawater") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1N2BwcAT-s)

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**Author:** ![Citizen\_bitcoin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/citizen_bitcoin/32/19488_2.png) [@Citizen\_bitcoin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Citizen_bitcoin)\
**Post date:** [14 January 2025 00:37 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/january-2025-southern-california-wildfires/5743/44 "2025-01-14T00:37:01Z")

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> <https://x.com/pointdumechabad/status/1878537759486366193>

add:

> <https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1878548886962212964>

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**Author:** ![CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/ctlaw/32/42_2.png) [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)\
**Post date:** [14 January 2025 01:52 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/january-2025-southern-california-wildfires/5743/45 "2025-01-14T01:52:13Z")

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> **[Are Australian eucalypts to blame for California’s wildfires? - Australian...](https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/science-environment/2017/12/are-australian-eucalypts-to-blame-for-californias-wildfires/)**
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> It's been suggested that the introduction of Australian eucalyptus trees may be to blame for the rapid spread of the Southern California wildfires. But experts say the claims just don't stack up.

[https://www.kqed.org/news/11644927/eucalyptus-how-californias-most-hated-tree-took-root-2](https://www.kqed.org/news/11644927/eucalyptus-how-californias-most-hated-tree-took-root-2)

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**Author:** ![CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/ctlaw/32/42_2.png) [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)\
**Post date:** [14 January 2025 20:16 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/january-2025-southern-california-wildfires/5743/46 "2025-01-14T20:16:30Z")

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> **[LAFD Chief Debuts Arrival of First Electric Fire Engine | Los Angeles Fire...](https://lafd.org/news/lafd-chief-debuts-arrival-first-electric-fire-engine)**
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> City of Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley was joined by community and industry leaders at the LAFD Museum in Hollywood on May 14, 2022, to proudly announce the arrival of the Los Angeles Fire Department's first electric fire engine, the...

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**Author:** ![CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/ctlaw/32/42_2.png) [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)\
**Post date:** [15 January 2025 02:05 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/january-2025-southern-california-wildfires/5743/47 "2025-01-15T02:05:58Z")

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> **[How California eco-bureaucrats halted a Pacific Palisades fire safety project...](https://nypost.com/2025/01/14/us-news/california-bureaucrats-halted-pacific-palisades-fire-safety-project-to-save-endangered-shrub/)**
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> The good news for the milkvetch plant is that they usually need wildfire to sprout — meaning dormant seeds now have a massive new habitat for a new crop of the rare shrub.

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**Author:** ![CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/ctlaw/32/42_2.png) [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)\
**Post date:** [15 January 2025 03:06 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/january-2025-southern-california-wildfires/5743/48 "2025-01-15T03:06:19Z")

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> **[LA Governor Gavin Newsom fidgets and shimmies as he discusses fires](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14285801/governor-gavin-newsom-fidgets-shimmy-los-angeles-fires.html)**
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> Newsom has faced calls to resign over his handling of the crisis, which has left at least 25 dead, destroyed more than 40,000 acres of land and razed an estimated 12,300 structures.

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**Author:** ![Citizen\_bitcoin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/citizen_bitcoin/32/19488_2.png) [@Citizen\_bitcoin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Citizen_bitcoin)\
**Post date:** [15 January 2025 11:23 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/january-2025-southern-california-wildfires/5743/49 "2025-01-15T11:23:51Z")

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> **[LA's Getty Center's art safeguarded as Palisades fire rages](https://www.yahoo.com/news/las-getty-centers-art-safeguarded-204018478.html)**
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> The J. Paul Getty Museum's priceless collection of artwork, which includes paintings by Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Monet and Degas, once again found itself in the path of destruction as the Palisades fire spread. As fire officials issued evacuation orders...

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**Author:** ![Citizen\_bitcoin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/citizen_bitcoin/32/19488_2.png) [@Citizen\_bitcoin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Citizen_bitcoin)\
**Post date:** [16 January 2025 00:41 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/january-2025-southern-california-wildfires/5743/50 "2025-01-16T00:41:19Z")

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> **[State Farm to offer renewals to policyholders affected by L.A. County fires](https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-01-15/state-farm-palisades-fire-non-renewals-la-fires-eaton-insurance-cancellations-altadena)**
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> State Farm, California's largest home insurer, said Wednesday that it will offer renewals to all L.A. County residential policyholders affected by the fires.

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**Author:** ![CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/ctlaw/32/42_2.png) [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)\
**Post date:** [16 January 2025 12:18 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/january-2025-southern-california-wildfires/5743/51 "2025-01-16T12:18:02Z")

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> **[Armed homeowners patrolling burnt-out LA neighborhoods in defiance of local...](https://nypost.com/2025/01/15/us-news/armed-homeowners-patrolling-burnt-out-la-neighborhoods-in-defiance-of-local-officials/)**
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> Armed residents of wildfire ravaged communities in Los Angeles county have reportedly taken to guarding their homes in defiance of government-mandated evacuation orders. A contingent of homeowners …

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**Author:** ![magus](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@magus](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/magus)\
**Post date:** [16 January 2025 13:37 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/january-2025-southern-california-wildfires/5743/52 "2025-01-16T13:37:49Z")

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> **[Exclusive | Hunter Biden artworks worth ‘millions of dollars’ destroyed in LA...](https://nypost.com/2025/01/15/us-news/hunter-biden-artworks-destroyed-in-los-angeles-fires-source/)**
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> Nearly 200 paintings by Hunter Biden lost to LA wildfires, a source says.

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**Author:** ![Citizen\_bitcoin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/citizen_bitcoin/32/19488_2.png) [@Citizen\_bitcoin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Citizen_bitcoin)\
**Post date:** [17 January 2025 04:56 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/january-2025-southern-california-wildfires/5743/53 "2025-01-17T04:56:04Z")

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> **[Shriver: Tennis trophies stolen after fleeing fires](https://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/43444855/car-containing-trophies-stolen-evacuating-fires)**
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> Hall of Fame tennis player Pam Shriver said that her car containing major trophies was stolen from a Marina del Rey hotel where she had fled to escape the Pacific Palisades fire.

Marina del Rey DoubleTree

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**Author:** ![jabowery](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/jabowery/32/5478_2.png) [@jabowery](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/jabowery)\
**Post date:** [17 January 2025 20:54 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/january-2025-southern-california-wildfires/5743/54 "2025-01-17T20:54:57Z")

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This story makes sense of a dream from several nights ago:

Some skinny woman was going on and on about something. Not sure what but she sure was dominating whatever the situation was (several people were around). Then at some point she started yelling “EVACUATE EVACUATE EVACUATE…” at which point “her” clothes dropped away to reveal a male that had apparently been subjected to puberty blockers."

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**Author:** ![CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/ctlaw/32/42_2.png) [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)\
**Post date:** [17 January 2025 21:44 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/january-2025-southern-california-wildfires/5743/55 "2025-01-17T21:44:27Z")

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[![](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/uploads/default/original/3X/b/c/bcb00f6a330470de840caf1aec275cad94a335b5.jpeg "Lessons From Two Surviving LA Fire Homes") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZe-TlYxm9g)

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**Author:** ![Citizen\_bitcoin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/citizen_bitcoin/32/19488_2.png) [@Citizen\_bitcoin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Citizen_bitcoin)\
**Post date:** [18 January 2025 05:04 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/january-2025-southern-california-wildfires/5743/56 "2025-01-18T05:04:40Z")

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The builder in the previous video recommends this video

[![](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/uploads/default/original/3X/f/1/f149933df162d31b963dd771d004234672c9dde1.jpeg "Your Home Can Survive a Wildfire") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL_syp1ZScM)

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How L.A. Bureaucracy Made It Harder to Clear Flammable Brush  
[https://archive.is/GVK6J#selection-2165.0-2169.103](https://archive.is/GVK6J#selection-2165.0-2169.103)

> <https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1880742300596437238>

I believe this is a reference to the Bel Air fire in 1961

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**Author:** ![Citizen\_bitcoin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/citizen_bitcoin/32/19488_2.png) [@Citizen\_bitcoin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Citizen_bitcoin)\
**Post date:** [20 January 2025 05:59 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/january-2025-southern-california-wildfires/5743/57 "2025-01-20T05:59:48Z")

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> **[Who Should Pay to Fix ‘El Lay’?](https://americanrefugees.substack.com/p/who-should-pay-to-fix-el-lay?source=queue)**
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> If you’re like me, you spent the better part of last week—too much, actually—watching the dog and pony show that was the Senate confirmation hearings.

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> **[NYT: L.A. Firefighters Took 20 Minutes to Respond to Palisades Fire](https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/01/19/nyt-l-a-firefighters-took-20-minutes-to-respond-to-palisades-fire/)**
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> Firefighters took 20 minutes to respond to the Palisades Fire, according to the New York Times, confirming Breitbart News reporting.

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**Author:** ![jabowery](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/jabowery/32/5478_2.png) [@jabowery](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/jabowery)\
**Post date:** [24 January 2025 14:42 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/january-2025-southern-california-wildfires/5743/59 "2025-01-24T14:42:16Z")

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![image](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/uploads/default/original/3X/4/a/4a11fffbc0de61c23cd1e4a85a67aec55d68f0cc.jpeg)

This would not be happening under a Militia.Money regime.

As it stands, there is a good chance these arsonists are young men. Property owners have been duped by a combination of appeasing commie public officials and being seduced by Maoists posing as “libertarians” who would call Militia.Money communism rather than the next best thing to anarcho-capitalism that it is.

Nothing will happen to _sustainably_ reverse this until the top 10% property owners are deprogrammed of their mental chains.

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**Author:** ![Citizen\_bitcoin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/citizen_bitcoin/32/19488_2.png) [@Citizen\_bitcoin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Citizen_bitcoin)\
**Post date:** [25 January 2025 00:15 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/january-2025-southern-california-wildfires/5743/60 "2025-01-25T00:15:02Z")

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Trump is in Pacific Palisades (4:14 PST)

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It’s hilarious watching CA politicians sucking up to Trump at the Palisades town hall (watching on replay)

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> **[L.A. Caves to Trump, Local Residents: Pacific Palisades to Reopen Immediately](https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/01/26/l-a-caves-to-trump-local-residents-pacific-palisades-to-reopen-immediately/)**
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> After Trump told Bass that a week is "actually a long time" to wait, L.A. backed down and will allow residents to visit their homes Monday.

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**Author:** ![Citizen\_bitcoin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/citizen_bitcoin/32/19488_2.png) [@Citizen\_bitcoin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Citizen_bitcoin)\
**Post date:** [28 January 2025 01:26 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/january-2025-southern-california-wildfires/5743/61 "2025-01-28T01:26:53Z")

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> **[California AG files first charges over alleged post-fire rent gouging](https://laist.com/news/housing-homelessness/attorney-general-charges-rent-gouging)**
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> Attorney General Rob Bonta said he would go after alleged rent gougers, and this week his office filed its first case. The agent strongly denies breaking the law.

California AG Rob Bonta is more concerned with rent gouging than looting

> **[New LA rent gouging study](https://laist.com/brief/news/housing-homelessness/los-angeles-price-gouging-fires-housing-rent-brigade-spreadsheet-zillow-study)**
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> Volunteer rent gouging sleuths analyze listings

Volunteer “Rent Brigade”

> **[The Rent Brigade — About](https://www.rentbrigade.org/about)**
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> About the Rent Brigade

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A personal anecdote, rental market in Los Angeles is officially out of control. My current tenant asked for a 12 month extension or longer. I told her I plan to sell my townhouse in 6 months or less. She replied: we would like 15 month extension and will pay 6 months in advance. Current lease expires Feb 28, then month to month.

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