this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2025
136 points (100.0% liked)

News

29203 readers
3487 users here now

Welcome to the News community!

Rules:

1. Be civil

Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.

2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.

Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.

3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.

Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.

4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.

Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.

5. Only recent news is allowed.

Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.

6. All posts must be news articles.

No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.

7. No duplicate posts.

If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.

8. Misinformation is prohibited.

Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.

9. No link shorteners.

The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.

10. Don't copy entire article in your post body

For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
rjc@lemmy.world
Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world
Tenthrow@lemmy.world
JonsJava@lemmy.world
gedaliyah@lemmy.world
little_cow@lemmy.world
jeffw@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
WrenFeathers@lemmy.world
136
LA fires burn area twice the size of Manhattan – worst the city has seen in recent history (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 3 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world
7 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Summary

Wildfires in Los Angeles have burned twice the size of Manhattan, marking the worst wildfire event in the city's history.

Beginning January 7, the fires have killed 11 people, destroyed over 10,000 structures, and displaced 150,000 residents.

Major blazes include the Palisades fire (21,317 acres, 8% contained) and Eaton fire (14,000 acres, 3% contained).

Estimated losses range from $52-$57 billion, raising concerns about insurance costs.

Experts link increasing wildfire intensity to the climate crisis.

top 7 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

Meanwhile the state will do nothing to help any of the displaced, letting them sit in camps and temporary shelters until the shelters close due to lack of funding/public interest and the camps get broken up by police. Then they just go from being "displaced" to "homeless" and it becomes their fault this happened. On the bright side, after they are arrested for being homeless, they can be enslaved as firefighters for the next wildfire to come.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

There were a lot of things I didn't like about living in L.A., but I can't deny that a lot of the areas that have burned were beautiful. I'm glad I am not there to see them gone.

[–] ef9357 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

But they’re going to rebuild anyway KNOWING this will happen again in a year or ten.

[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Money in it.

The climate industrial complex?

[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I wonder if the people who were illegally blocking access to Carbon beach lost their homes.

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Where I live, in Europe, essentially all buildings are brick and mortar, or some variation thereof. Furnishings will burn, but fire is unlikely to run amok.

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 6 points 3 months ago

We don't really have any serious earthquakes in Europe though. I believe the building codes in LA make it expensive and difficult to build with brick due to the dangers of brick buildings collapsing during earthquakes.

I'll be interesting how they desgin the city going forward though, surely they'll need to have some kind of fire-breaking defences in between suburbs.