• novacomets
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    Wasn’t someone arreated for arson in relation to the fire, in the same way tha last year in Canada a few people were arrested for arson across Canada? I know there were major forest fires across Canada and different news outlets said that people were arrested for starting the forest fires, even though people claimed climate change, people were arrested for the fires.

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      Lightning causes fires. Climate change creates conditions where the fires can get out of control. Same with arson.

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      Yeah, the right wing ass hat who set some fires in canada didn’t cause all of them, but climate change exacerbates them. So yeah climate change is responsible for the breadth of the fires, not all were purposely set, but some were (by a right wing extremist)

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        It is also the case that a lot of underbrush was not routinely removed… This is somewhat understandable when we are talking about forest fires in more remote parts of California.

        The big issue is that underbrush in various parts near Los Angeles suburbs and throughout the area had not been dealt with.

        The Getty Mansion and museum grounds were fully within the line of the fire that was coming, but they privately maintained their own grounds and insured that the underbrush that works as kindling for these fires was handled, and even have their own means of fighting fires that would start there… And they were completely fine even though many places all around them burnt down.