Dominican Consul Affected by Fires in LA

[keepcoming]

A guy actually filmed the start of a fire, no lightening, no electrical wires in area, but a flare up in the mountainside then flames etc. Absolutely arson.

No one knows that...there have been stories going around but nothing confirmed. They are also saying that there were reports of electrical surges in the grid. Again no one knows at this point, it is just speculation and guessing. Does anyone know of any Dominican families, person, etc, that have been affected by this?

 

[chico bill]

A guy actually filmed the start of a fire, no lightening, no electrical wires in area, but a flare up in the mountainside then flames etc. Absolutely arson.

There is a report out now that says looting 'cartels' (likely just your typical lowlife scum) are starting some of these fires.
They have seen roaming gangs on scooters casing homes in fire evacuated areas followed by vans & pickups to haul off stolen items and look ile people evacuating.
There were reports of "up to a hundred scooters" entering one area and several arrests.
They are sending in the National guard to patrol evacuated homes.
For this crime I would say 20 years and if illegal - send them out in 24 hours.

20 people arrested for looting homes of those evacuated in LA fires: Sheriff

Sheriff Robert Luna says 20 people have now been arrested for allegedly looting in the various fire areas in the county.

www.foxla.com

 

[chico bill]

FYI this was big news in 1984 - destroyed Errol Flynn estate

A fast-moving brush fire broke out on the old... - UPI Archives

A fast-moving brush fire broke out on the old Errol Flynn estate and burned nearly 200 acres of tinder dry brush in the Hollywood Hills Monday afternoon,...

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[keepcoming]

people are already blaming global warming.

Lots of over overgrown shrubs, grassy areas, etc. Plus, the roads up into to those areas are very narrow curvy roads. The winds were higher than anticipated. There were warnings days prior, and alerts sent out that this was a possibility. Of course no one could imagine it being of this magnitude. It is shifting toward the East they say so hopefully (probably will though) we will not get any smoke where we are.

 

[malko]

There are pics and videos of a single house still standing, in charred neighborhoods.

Me thinks construction and materials have a lot to do with the spreading of the fires---- along with the crazy winds spreading embers.

At least here in the DR, no chance of that happening. Stalin-era full concrete and rebar art style. No pussy match-stick flimsy walls for me 😆.

 

[chico bill]

Lots of over overgrown shrubs, grassy areas, etc. Plus, the roads up into to those areas are very narrow curvy roads. The winds were higher than anticipated. There were warnings days prior, and alerts sent out that this was a possibility. Of course no one could imagine it being of this magnitude. It is shifting toward the East they say so hopefully (probably will though) we will not get any smoke where we are.

Actually not so true of Pacific Palisades. Pretty wide streets, (they used to build wide streets in CA) not all that curvy, but fairly densely populated older wood frame homes with landscaped yards. Not many (if any) empty lots. There were some more modern or remodeled homes with tile roofs but they didn't survive much better.
There is a brushy hillside in the adjacent canyon from PP and also up from the highway below and I am sure huge cinders were airborne for long distances in the high winds and set roofs on fire then just the heat can combust siding or crack open stucco walls

 

[keepcoming]

Actually not so true of Pacific Palisades. Pretty wide streets, (they used to build wide streets in CA) not all that curvy, but fairly densely populated older wood frame homes with landscaped yards. Not many (if any) empty lots. There were some more modern or remodeled homes with tile roofs but they didn't survive much better.
There is a brushy hillside in the adjacent canyon from PP and also up from the highway below and I am sure huge cinders were airborne for long distances in the high winds and set roofs on fire then just the heat can combust siding or crack open stucco walls

What I am referring to are the roads going up into the hills, Palisades Hills, etc... IMO a lot of that brush, ground covering is playing a big role. People use it as a privacy measure, but this area (ours included) is very dry, there has been very little to no rain.

 

[RDKNIGHT]

Oh please - biggest farce ever. I grew u in CA - Fires and Santa Winds come every autumn & winter and there are probably 20 strong periods of wind in S. Cal a year. Brush fires destroying homes go back to when they built the very first homes in the Hollywood hills.

Look up the 1961 Bel Aire Fires destroyed ~500 homes and that was before Al Gore was spreading his money-stealing hoax.
It's worse now only because more structures and CA stopped doing brush control and controlled burns and they stopped sending N. Cal water South and have begun tearing down dams

The fires are the result of mismanagement in CA. Lived there most of my life and to see its demise is slickening.
But hopefully this tragedy will people wake up, to throw out the DEI hires and put competent & experienced people into office and agencies and right the ship.

Your next Beer is on me Bill

 

[chico bill]

What I am referring to are the roads going up into the hills, Palisades Hills, etc... IMO a lot of that brush, ground covering is playing a big role. People use it as a privacy measure, but this area (ours included) is very dry, there has been very little to no rain.

Not much rain this summer or fall for sure but there was plenty there earlier in 2024.
S. Cal is well known for being sunny and dry and that's why it became so popular.
"It never rains in Southern California"

The problem is there's little storage, little excess water being shipped from Northern California. Over the past few years California has removed 80 dams. Some are smaller but they are great for helicopter buckets for brush fires.

This and other catastrophic events were predicted by engineers.
The mud slides will follow in the spring. Note with the older brush controlled burns whole hillsides weren't left nude. They created large fire breaks and the rest of the brush was left which stabilized hillsides. The nut jobs in California protested that firebreaks and removing fallen trees was damaging 'forest floors'.
Plenty of people were shouting from the rooftops warning what was going to happen but Newsom catered to the environmental Nazis

 

[JD Jones]

Oh please - biggest farce ever. I grew u in CA - Fires and Santa Winds come every autumn & winter and there are probably 20 strong periods of wind in S. Cal a year. Brush fires destroying homes go back to when they built the very first homes in the Hollywood hills.

Look up the 1961 Bel Aire Fires destroyed ~500 homes and that was before Al Gore was spreading his money-stealing hoax.
It's worse now only because more structures and CA stopped doing brush control and controlled burns and they stopped sending N. Cal water South and have begun tearing down dams

The fires are the result of mismanagement in CA. Lived there most of my life and to see its demise is slickening.
But hopefully this tragedy will people wake up, to throw out the DEI hires and put competent & experienced people into office and agencies and right the ship.

"It's worse now only because more structures and CA stopped doing brush control and controlled burns and they stopped sending N. Cal water South and have begun tearing down dams"

^100% This^

 

[Big]

Climate change!, Manhattan and Miami will be under water.

 

[CristoRey]

This has been heavily in the news. What I have found extremely concerning is that they have repeated many times that while the fires are actually consuming countless family homes, the fires are admittedly completely out of control. And this in a really wealthy, 1st world country, that is kind of playing a really important role in the economy of the whole world. I understand hurricanes, earth quakes and such, I mean, aside from you not being there when it happens, you cannot do anything with them, but forest fire does not happen instantly. It might get uncontrollable at a certain stage, but you should fight it before that happens.

I spent a lot of time in California when I was younger. What they've done to that state is appalling. I had no idea they had a Dominican Consulate in the state and I definitely had no idea they had enough Dominicans living there to need those services.

 

[NALs]

I spent a lot of time in California when I was younger. What they've done to that state is appalling. I had no idea they had a Dominican Consulate in the state and I definitely had no idea they had enough Dominicans living there to need those services.

According to Alfonso Rodríguez in the video shown at first, there are 25,000 Dominicans living in the Los Angeles area, but they are scattered. Not LA equivalent of Washington Heights. The Dominican Consulate in LA actually service all Dominicans living in the entire western US including Alaska and Hawaii. The Dominican population in the Western US is relatively not big compared how many live east of the Mississippi River.

On another hand, Alfonso said that he and his family was evacuated from their house to a hotel ”near the Dominican Consulate.” Then had to leave to another hotel next door and that the only reason the Dominican Consulate isn’t seen from his bedroom is because it faces the other way. But the hill where the house they are staying in LA is visible from their room.

Everything points that he’s staying in this hotel in Glendale. One of those windows are of his room. I don’t know if the Dominican government is paying for the hotel stays too, though it should even if he’s from a well-to-do background. He is a Consul for the DR government.

The hill seen from the hotel. Many houses on it’s sides.

He said that (at that moment) the hill his house is on and the area of the Dominican Consulate hasn’t burn, but the air is filled with fire fumes that makes being outside unpleasant.

These are random images from the neighborhood. The only reason to show this is because most likely the Dominican government is paying his rent and everybody knows where the money that uses the government comes from. Those overstay fees? ITBIS paid by expats in the DR?

Now, he comes from a wealthy family, can’t expect the Dominican government to put him in a trailer park, but it isn’t Beverly Hills either.

 

[chico bill]

Climate change!, Manhattan and Miami will be under water.

Yes when the Piltdown man returns from the City of Atlantis

 

[chico bill]

I spent a lot of time in California when I was younger. What they've done to that state is appalling. I had no idea they had a Dominican Consulate in the state and I definitely had no idea they had enough Dominicans living there to need those services.

That's the consolate that processed my intial residency application

 

[Big]

The media is already making up new weather terms. "Super heated power storm" , " fire rain" , The culprit reportedly is too much fossil fuels being used.

 

[NALs]

There are pics and videos of a single house still standing, in charred neighborhoods.

Me thinks construction and materials have a lot to do with the spreading of the fires---- along with the crazy winds spreading embers.

At least here in the DR, no chance of that happening. Stalin-era full concrete and rebar art style. No pussy match-stick flimsy walls for me 😆.

In the US wood is widespread in home construction pretty much everywhere.

In Florida houses tend to have a first floor with outer walls in cinder block, but roof is wood. If the house has more than one floor, first floor has cinder block outer walls and the rest is wood. Main reasons is price and wood is better at keeping the warmth inside a house. Important given how cold it gets in many areas.

Now Florida is a “newish” state compared to those further up the east coast. In Connecticut, which was one of the original 13 colonies of Britain and then the original USA, there are house made entirely of wood that were built as far back as the 1600’s and 1700’s, from the beginning of English colonization in North America, and they are still standing and completely sound. Some are house-museums, but others are still inhabited. Just because a house is made of wood doesn’t mean in any minute it will fall apart!

 

[josh2203]

In Connecticut, which was one of the original 13 colonies of Britain and then the original USA, there are house made entirely of wood that were built as far back as the 1600’s and 1700’s, from the beginning of English colonization in North America, and they are still standing and completely sound. Some are house-museums, but others are still inhabited. Just because a house is made of wood doesn’t mean in any minute it will fall apart!

While I agree that obviously wood as a building material burns a bit better than cement, a lot can be done prior to the fire ever reaching any wood constructions. Wooden houses are the norm where we're at the moment, currently in fact living in a house that above the foundation is completely out of wood (aside from the firewall for the fireplace), and this house is close to being 100 years old. As I know the history of the house, I know that aside from a bit of paint for the outside wall, nothing has been done aside from renewing electricity and plumbing over the years. One benefit of wooden construction is that it "lives". If anything happens in the ground, a house built from concrete develops cracks while a wooden construction simply adjusts to the new state. Obviously with limits, but still.

Near us, there are also museum-like buildings, also made completely out of wood (above the foundation), that are indeed hundreds of years old, with minimal maintenance required. Once it's properly built, it lasts.

 

[chico bill]

LA & California brought this on themselves with their concentration on DEI and Wokeism abandoning sane municipal management by promoting freaks - in that there is no doubt.
While I'm not the most religious person it's like it says in the Bible in Hosea 8:7

"For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind... "

 

[chico bill]

There are reports now some firefighters privately say that the Palisades fire began in a homeless encampment but Mayor Bass's office has put out the word not to promote this theory (of course it destroys the Global Warming narrative.)
But citizens did make one arrest of a homeless man who apparently started one of the smaller fires (960 acres). He's being held on an outstanding felony warrant, but not arson.

Homeless encampments account for 54% of fires LAFD responds to: reports

As the homeless crisis in Los Angeles continues to surge, the city is facing a growing number of fires at encampments, according to reports Wednesday.

www.foxnews.com

What Started L.A.'s Firestorm? Hint: It's Not 'Climate Change.'

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