Bill Maher: We need a better policy for putting out a city on fire than waiting for rain.

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Was the transcript complete? Couldn't listen, at the vets with a sick dog So, I would venture to guess that EVEN IF the hydrants had sufficient water pressure, and EVEN IF all of the firefighting equipment was operable and EVEN IF that one reservoir was filled, it wouldn't have made much difference. Maybe 10pct of those homes could have been saved. Maybe not Have you ever seen a fully committed firefighting effort against an even modest blaze, like a 10-unit apt complex? I have. It's like spitting into an inferno. In most cases, all they're trying to do is keep nearby buildings from catching on fire. But if the wind is blowing embers a half mile or more, that's a different thing altogether, and that kind of firefighting doesn't work. So, if everything had been done right... If the owners of the tree filled canyon sides has thinned the trees and brush and if houses had well watered defensible perimeters, and if firefighting had been all up to snuff ... maybe the fire zone could have been reduced by some percent. POSSIBLY ELIMINATED COMPLETELY. If half of the houses were fire*resistant, that would have allowed firefighters to concentrate on the remaining half and maybe THOSE could have been saved. But seriously? You need a 0.5- 1-mile defensible perimeter to keep these wind driven fires from spreading. I think people don't comprehend the SCALE of some disasters. They think that something could be, or should have been, done. And when the scale of disaster exceeds human effort, they lay blame. But IMHO the best was to mitigate these disasters is mitigation ahead of time. Hurricane-proof, fire- proof, earthquake- proof. Storm cellars. In BIG events, response is always going to fall short ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA

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"California is not a desert" ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA

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LA fires extinguish Gavin Newsom’s presidential dream https://unherd.com/newsroom/la-fires-have-extinguished-gavin-newsoms-p residential-dream/ No shit. Who are you going to run in 4 years? You can't run Kamala or Gavin now. Hochel? Jeffries? Governor Pritzker? You're fucked. -------------------------------------------------- "I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

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