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I was all for the fire when it was taking the homes of people that have never lost everything, and had regularly taken everything from others(palisades), but there's poor people that barely have living situations having that taken from them, and people that genuinely earned everything they have(Mel Gibson, hate him or love him he started poor), it's unfortunate to see people losing everything they had picked out to make themselves at home. Even tho it's actually pretty cool to say "relieved of my physical belongings", and irresponsible to say an animal dewormed definitively cured cancer when it truly could have created a genuine placebo effect and their body curied cancer. Bodies cure cancer all the time. It wouldn't be a stretch to assume a placebo effect stirred a persons own immune system to cure a nasty bout if it wasn't already weakened by radiation treatment. Not out of the realm of possibility, but unfortunately not very reproducible... But I digress, the people that are working, and or earned already everything they have is a definitive tragedy. I understand not caring about the Hollywood 1%, but the poor, once it reaches their door step it's everybody's problem. Cuz if they let it happen to them, they will let it happen to you, an me.
Even when it was taking homes of rich people, it was also filling the L.A. basin and the San Fernando Valley with choking smoke. I lived there over a decade ago and there were far less intense fires, but still big ones, and you could not be outside for more than a few minutes without feeling your lungs burning... and that doesn't go into people with respiratory problems.
These fires kill people who are nowhere near close enough to feel the heat or even be blinded by the smoke.
I lived in Van Nuys during the Sepulveda fire, a fire which was really minor, and it snowed ashes for days. I can't imagine what's it's like there right now. Escape from LA vibes for sure.
I seem to have lost almost all of my L.A. fire photos, but I took this one from Mulholland Drive when the other side of The Valley was on fire:
And then, by evening on my side of The Valley...
And that was relatively minor because it was completely out within about 48 hours.