Sunday, January 26, 2025

biden and trump getting along great

https://youtube.com/shorts/VuoRGBqZVSk?si=XkaXDbCp4jIUuO_i

30 second video

just for fun

this AI stuff is gonna be a intergalactic disaster

trump has the solution to the california fire problem

https://www.youtube.com/live/DgkKpeF_uxE?si=WPGj16IRBAGJCGIp&t=7777

just remove all the vegetation

he said that 7 years ago also - lol - me too

is that cop livestreaming that fire back to HQ?

https://x.com/aeroking66/status/1883695952529391842/photo/1

Re: trump is a national treasure

154 on tape - trump is told that 3400 of 18000 homes have been rebuilt
in paradise calif - fire was in 2018 while trump was in the white
house

158 on tape - 4 minutes later - trump is bragging that fema was great
under him - and - that paradise is doing great now - trump apparently
cant divide 3400 into 18000 - he has no clue what those numbers from 4
minutes ago were

note - the paradise fire started on national forest land iirc - so
thats under trumps command

note - the Paradise Fire was in 2018 when trump was in the white house
- so maybe fema was great under trump - but apparently they werent
THAT great - even if Paradise was not their primary responsibility;
apparently the fire was not afraid of trump's fema guys

note - if the paradise fire was in 2018 - and trump left office in
2021 - why werent all 18,000 homes rebuilt in 3 years? - trump said he
was a "great builder" - was that a LIE?

note - if Trump went to Paradise CA and saw the devastation first hand
- why didnt he speak up at least once in the last 7 years about it? -
in order to prevent the loss of 20,000 homes in Jan 2025? - maybe if
he had spent less time whining about the imaginary stolen votes -
Trump - can you name a single person who had their vote stolen?

note - 71% of Palisades voted for Harris over Trump - so Trump goes
there to spew BS and gloat over their pain - Trump actually had the
gall to proclaim that he was right 7 years ago about raking the
forests in California and diverting the water - you and 50 million
other people were right about it - but Trump actually had power to do
something about it - and he did nothing

note - bet you $10 that Trump has no clue that there were 2 major
fires in Los Angeles County - he probably thinks that the Eaton Fire
was the Eating Fire - when he heard mention of a black neighborhood,
his brain froze

flood watch in effect for palisades area

https://x.com/MayorOfLA/status/1883656863335723463

near malibu and santa monica

trumps $10B meme cryptocoin

https://youtu.be/mUVCIMcx1MQ?si=JEp1w59gC2nlAxiz - has no economic
value - 5 minute report

Anthony Scaramucci discusses Trump's cryptocurrency push - 8 minute
report - https://youtu.be/mM9jhmCBNqg?si=jTZ1BrxrbcPMqPrk

Cathie Wood on Trump, Memecoin, Crypto, AI, ARKW | Bloomberg ETF IQ -
23 minutes - https://youtu.be/SMgGQpVnyEY?si=vafgBGQZbC4PDN2N - 4 days
ago

zerg90 analysis of the socal fires

when ntsb does a crash analysis - they often come up with several
major 'causes' - lets keep that in mind

zerg90 analysis of the socal fires

Palisades Fire

call was dispatched around 1030 am iirc - maybe some teens caused the
fire - the fire grew rapidly in a brushy area near homes

approx 6 helos responded on the first alarm - each maybe had 800
gallons of water onboard - lafd helos came from an earlier brush fire
on North Queen St so they arrived before any ground units

unknow where the la county aircraft came from - maybe 1 helo from
malibu and 1 helo from pacoima and 1 helo from further out - maybe all
3 came from pacoima - we might have one of their response times on the
V1 tape

super scoopers came from van nuys - not sure if there was 2 of them or
4 of them - iirc at least 1 super scooper acknowledged the call via
radio - maybe that was on a lafd radio channel - but they arrived
after the initial helos it seems

the first ground unit from lafd had a 10 minute run over 3 miles all
uphill - up 1000 feet - apparently there were ZERO ground units
prepositioned in that upper neighborhood which is maybe called
Palisades Highlands

la county ground units had runs of 5 to maybe 20 miles - so they were
much slower to respond than lafd ground units

lafd requested 40 extra engines in the first 10 minutes of the fire -
so mobilization speed was not a real issue - but already it was too
late apparently

the game at this point is to kill the fire - by any means possible -
there were many active hydrants around the homes - it was a modern
neighborhood with wide immaculate streets and immaculate homes - no
graffiti - no trash - definitely upper class - see google street views

efficient firefighting would require the IC to know where the flames
were located - which way the wind was blowing - the lay of the land -
the type of fuel and dryness

first arriving aircraft would try to drop water on the head of the
fire or at the most exposed residences - those decisions would be made
by the first arriving pilots or by the heloc (who was in Fire 4 / a
LAFD helo)

the super scoopers would try to drop while avoiding the helos and the
ground units - that would be coordinated by helco and/or by the first
arriving pilots - they do that all the time - it is rehearsed and SOP

coordination between aircraft and ground units can be hard - there is
just 1 a/g freq for lafd (154.83) and 1 a/g freq for la co fd (154.40)
- but if there is no one to talk to one the ground - then the channels
are useless essentially - and this happened at this fire

in fact Fire 4 can be heard calling on V1 looking for ground units -
he finally got thru to some BC who was still enroute to the scene

each fire pumper / engine has 500 gallons of water on board - hydrants
can supply 1k gpm to maybe 5k gpm - a ladder pipe can flow 1k gpm -
have not heard of any ladder pipes being used - the back yards can not
be seen from the street on Piedra Morada (St)

so how do you put out a fire if you cant see exactly where it is
located? how do you know which street to take to reach the fire? can
the helos send you some lats and longs? maybe - does the fire truck
have a GPS to enter the lats and longs from the helo? good question

when the smoke is billowing and the neighbors are screaming - its a
little late to be dealing with lats/longs/tom toms / gps etc

we never heard any helo giving any lats/longs - Fire 4 first mentioned
that the fire had already crossed Palisades Drive iirc - so that was
maybe a1/4 mile run or 1/2 mile run in the first 15 minutes of the
fire - ish

itw as avery dynamic high stress situation - their voices reflected
that - they knew what they were up against

too late to worry about reservoirs and smelt and fuel management and
emergency generators for water pumps at that point

note - possible los angeles water comes in via aqueduct from north to
reservoirs in Pacoima - then is sent to reservoirs and water tanks
throughout the city of Los Angeles

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EATON FIRE

not sure where the fire started exactly - looked like it was under
high tension lines - maybe on the banks of a river / stream - maybe in
a Canyon - the fire started at night - the FD was very busy in the
area with wire down calls etc - not sure what the initial response was
- not sure where the initial units were sent - not sure if hand crews
and bulldozers were the initial attack units - not sure if there was
good coord between LA co FD and Pasadena FD and ANF

note - LA Co FD protects Altadena - Pasadena FD protects Pasadena -
ANF protects Angeles National Forest - NASA JPL FD might have been
nearby also - in other words - the initial dispatch maybe got units
from ANF + Pasadena FD + LA County FD + JPL FD - it was probably a
mutual threat zone and there were probably written mutual aid
agreements and SOPs in effect for all of the FDs - typically they have
full boundary drops in LA County - maybe not in every location - but
in many of them

if the fire was under high tension lines - maybe the FD could not get
close to the fire at all - and maybe it had spread to too large of an
area by the time the first responding units got into position

obviously something very bad happened because this 1 fire that started
as a small area (maybe 100 feet by 100 feet was first spotted)
managed to take out 6,000 homes

maybe when they got around to asking for 100 engines, they were told
that most of the units were at the Palisades Fire - so they would have
to wait for units to arrive from Sacramento or Las vegas - which is
wild - maybe Tijuana FD should have sent some engines

questions - what sparked the fire? was the power off? why was there
fuel under the electric tower? why was there fuel in the area? had any
retardant been applied to the area before the red flag? isnt there a
new retardant that can be applied once per year?

we will stop now - shalom