Los Angeles Fires: "Apocalyptic Destruction"

By Jeralyn, Section Disasters
Posted on Fri Jan 10, 2025 at 03:33:56 PM EST
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Los Angeles continues to burn. (WSJ, free link). I hope the insurance companies have enough money to pay all the homeowner and commercial claims. The damage is devastating:

Economic losses from the blazes have been estimated at tens of billions of dollars. Tens of thousands of people were displaced, roughly 33,000 acres were aflame and more than 200,000 were without power across the wider Los Angeles area. More than 360,000 people are under mandatory evacuation orders, said Robert Fenton, Jr., a regional administrator at the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

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President Joe Biden promised the feds would pick up a big part of the repair bills:

[Biden said Thursday] that the federal government will cover 100% of the disaster response for 180 days, up from the 75% it usually covers.

“I told the governor and local officials, spare no expense to do what they need to do and contain these fires,” said Biden. The funds will cover expenses such as debris removal, temporary shelters and first responder salaries, he said.

According to NBC News, more than 180,000 people have been ordered to evacuate and the fires have destroyed 46 square miles. The article includes haunting, blown up photos of some of the damage, which it calls "apocalyptic".

Why hasn't Donald Trump gone to Southern California to view the damage? Or sent Don Jr., who made a trip to Greenland last week. (Trump Jr. said it was a private day trip and he didn't meet with officials. The Danish prime minister says Greenland is not for sale.

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This of the Eaton fire (none / 0) (#1)
by CaptHowdy on Fri Jan 10, 2025 at 04:43:40 PM EST

is unbelievable

Agree, and here's one (none / 0) (#2)
by Jeralyn on Fri Jan 10, 2025 at 05:57:17 PM EST

by the same company of the Altadena fire.


That's the same one (none / 0) (#3)
by CaptHowdy on Fri Jan 10, 2025 at 06:05:51 PM EST

I think?


I might (none / 0) (#4)
by CaptHowdy on Fri Jan 10, 2025 at 06:06:16 PM EST

Have the name wrong


Correct (none / 0) (#6)
by BGinCA on Sat Jan 11, 2025 at 06:40:16 PM EST

The Eaton fire -named after the canyon in north Altadena leading int the Angeles National Forest.
I've been evacuated from my home in Pasadena. My house still stands but so many friends have lost theirs. Just devastating


: All so tragic. (5.00 / 3) (#7)
by KeysDan on Sat Jan 11, 2025 at 08:41:58 PM EST

Stay safe.

The video of them (none / 0) (#5)
by CaptHowdy on Fri Jan 10, 2025 at 06:09:14 PM EST

abandoning their vehicles and running and later the (mostly expensive) vehicles being dozed out of the road was about the most apocalyptic thing I've seen on TV.

: It's like watching Lahaina on steroids. (5.00 / 3) (#8)
by Donald from Hawaii on Tue Jan 14, 2025 at 06:53:19 AM EST

My brother and his wife are staying at my mother's house in the Hastings Ranch area of Pasadena because neighboring Sierra Madre - where they just moved to three weeks ago from Burbank - is under a mandatory evacuation order and the power is turned off. My aunt has been likewise displaced and is staying at my cousin's house in Silverlake. My former mother-in-law, 91 years old, lost her house in Altadena and is staying with a daughter in Long Beach.
And here we are out here, 2,400 miles away in Hilo, and I've never felt so powerless to do anything. I was going to fly over to L.A. but my mother said no, I'd just be another person in the house and neighborhood waiting for the all-clear signal.
Heartbreaking. Pasadena was my childhood hometown, a place I just took for granted as permanent and we came so close to losing it all. Most of neighboring Altadena is in ruins. Old St. Luke's Hospital where I was born was scorched and will likely have to be torn down. St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church and School, which I attended until 6th grade, barely survived; the firestorm stopped across the street. The Pasadena Jewish Temple on Altadena Drive, which celebrated its centennial anniversary last year, was burned down to the foundation.
It's really going to hurt when I return and see the destruction for myself, rather than on TV.
Aloha.