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1. Fullgoldcrown says:

   January 26, 2025 - 9:57 am at 9:57 am

   Yesterday, the LA Times ran an accidentally revealing story headlined, “Edison says homeless encampment found near area where Eaton fire started; critics doubt it sparked fire.” By ‘doubting critics,’ the Times meant the attorneys who are suing the electrical utility alleging faulty equipment. Everyone else thinks it was probably the homeless encampment.

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   The Eaton Canyon fire started in a rural area near a giant SoCal Edison transmission tower. Lawyers who’ve already sued SoCal alleged witnesses saw “sparking” near the SoCal tower, right before the fires began. Photos and video from several residents confirmed that the first flames of the fire burned just below the tower.

   But SoCal investigators have, coincidentally, discovered a homeless camp only ‘300 yards below the tower.’ Near where the fire started. They also found discarded bottles and scrap metal below the tower itself. Meaning, the homeless were hanging out around the tower itself.

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   First of all, either way, arcing tower or homeless firebugs, it’s not climate change. So. And second, given the ambiguous evidence between the two possibilities, I find it much more likely that the snap cold weather caused legions of chilly, drug-addled homeless people to start building campfires just outside of town, and some of their fires predictably got out of control.

   But nobody wants to talk about that part of the problem. Still, the homeless couldn’t have created all this mayhem by themselves. They had a lot of help.

   Here’s the recipe for burning down a major city. Mix two tons of poor forest management with a thousand missing gallons of certifiably insane water management, liberally fold legions of legally protected homeless folks, stir in a handpicked bunch of DEI hires, then chill the batter with ten cubes of unexpected cold weather — and a new fear is unlocked for California.

   The fires will keep happening until they fix those problems. Californians, you know they will never, ever admit these fires are a byproduct of letting vast leagues of drug addicts build up in your cities. The only people this helps are the grifters running the NGOs.

   But the good news is that, even though the paper didn’t come right out and say it, the LA Times is easing up to the problem, helped of course by SoCal, who doesn’t want to take the fall.