https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2025/1/7/eaton-fire

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/01/07/california-secures-federal-assistance-to-support-response-to-eaton-fire-in-los-angeles-county/

Maui’s post-wildfire housing crisis offers a warning for Los Angeles by [[Jack Ross]], [[Capital and Main]]

Edison wants to raise rates to pay for wildfires linked to its equipment - Los Angeles Times by [[Melody Petersen]]

Holy shit!

How much of the average bill is paying for covering past fire payouts?

Eaton Fire is Fully Contained

for - adjacency - progress trap - mafia - intentional fires - Italy - complexity - CNN - How the Mafia is weaponizing wildfires - 2025,Jan 27

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/17/trump-climate-change-la-fires

for - globally interconnected climate system - frigid dry Arctic air from Canada - Santa Ana winds - SOURCE - Youtube - climate crisis - 2025 Los Angeles fires - The Catastrophic Climate Driven Conflagaration in Los Angeles - Paul Beckwith - 2025, Jan 10

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for - physics - Santa Ana winds - venturi effect through canyons increases wind speed - SOURCE - Youtube - climate crisis - 2025 Los Angeles fires - The Catastrophic Climate Driven Conflagaration in Los Angeles - Paul Beckwith - 2025, Jan 10

for - stats - 2025 Los Angeles fires - 5x increase in summer burned area - SOURCE - Youtube - climate crisis - 2025 Los Angeles fires - The Catastrophic Climate Driven Conflagaration in Los Angeles - Paul Beckwith - 2025, Jan 10

for - climate crisis - forest fires - home protection - outside rooftop sprinkler systems - SOURCE - Youtube - climate crisis - 2025 Los Angeles fires - The Catastrophic Climate Driven Conflagaration in Los Angeles - Paul Beckwith - 2025, Jan 10

// - COMMENT - Paul brings up a very good point. There is an existing low cost innovation that was pioneered and successfully deployed in Canada that could have prevented the destruction of many of the buildings that were destroyed, namely - rooftop sprinkler systems - There are many rooftop sprinker systems available now. They should actually be mandated into law to have one in high risk fire areas. - https://search.brave.com/search?q=canada+forest+fire+prevention+rooftop+sprinkler+system&source=desktop&summary=1&conversation=375a9992d731deff34143a

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// - comment - Paul provides a climate analysis of the overarching climate conditions that enabled the 2025 Los Angeles fires - The Santa Ana winds are a natural occurrence in this area but the climate change induced abnormalities have brought about alternating cycles of heavy rain and drought conditions - The preceding heavy rain period resulted in enormous growth of vegetation - The last two months of extreme drought conditions dried up all this additional growth creating enormous amounts of fuel for a fire - It was interesting to learn that cold air from the arctic plays a critical role in the Santa Ana winds, but Paul did not provide an explanation - This is one example of how the earth system is so interconnected

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Eric Holthaus sieht die Feuer in Los Angeles als Symbole einer neuen Ära komplexer Klimakatastrophen. Nie zuvor haben Bedingungen wie jetzt in Kalifornien geherrscht. So gab es in Kalifornien nach dem ersten tropischen Sturm der Geschichte die bisher längste Trockenphase. Zum jetzt ausgebrochenen Sturm trugen vermutlich auch Veränderungen des Jet Streams bei https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/09/los-angeles-wildfires-climate-disasters

Kapitel zu Compound Events im Climate Assessment der Biden-Administration 2023: https://nca2023.globalchange.gov/chapter/focus-on-1/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peshtigo_fire

• for: forest fire - health impacts
• comment
  • health impacts include
    • changes in gene expressions vital for immune system functionality
    • women giving birth with blackened, diseased placentas
    • children born
      • smaller
      • pre-term
      • sicker
      • developing croup
      • laryngitis
      • bronchitis

• for: Canadian forest fires, stats - Canadian forest fires
• stats: 2017
  • pyrocumulonimbus cloud rose 13 km into the stratosphere, a world record
  • 12,000 square kilometers burned
• stats: 2023
  • to the date of this article (Sept 1, 2023), 100,000 square kilometers burned

Was this originally hers? I've used a variation of it for decades myself....

• for: climate communication, polycrisis communication, Canadian fires, Canadian wildfires, Canadian forest fires

• quote

  • Across the region,
    • roads buckled,
    • car windows cracked and
    • power cables melted.
  • The emerald fringes of conifers browned overnight,
    • as if singed by flame.
  • Entire cherry orchards were destroyed, the fruit stewed on the trees.
  • More than 650,000 farm animals died of heat stress.
  • Hundreds of thousands of honeybees perished,
    • their organs exploding outside their bodies.
  • Billions of shoreline creatures,
    • especially shellfish,
  • simply baked to death,
    • strewing beaches with empty shells and a fetid stench that lingered for weeks.
  • Birds and insects went unnervingly silent.
  • All the while the skies were hazy but clear, the air preternaturally still, not a cloud in sight.
  • The air pressure was so high they’d all dissipated.

• author: Anne Shibata Casselman

• date: Aug, 2023

• source:

  • https://macleans.ca/society/environment/canada-in-the-year-2060/

• comment

  • this description is so visceral that it should be made into a short movie,
  • a new communication format more powerful than mainstream media presently uses is to record the actual substantial and visceral impacts with video and show to the public

• for: Canada's future, climate future - Canada, climate communication, polycrisis communication
• quote
  • What follows is a portrait of Canada in a world warmed by two degrees. This is not what our country will look like if the world fails to reduce emissions—this is our future even if we do.
• author: Anne Shibata Casselman
• date: Aug, 2023
• source
  • https://macleans.ca/society/environment/canada-in-the-year-2060/

• for: Canadian forest fires, tipping point, forest fire graph, graph - forest fires - Canada,
• comment
  • graph that shows the unprecedented forest fires turning forests from carbon sink to carbon source

In Kanada sind insgesamt 1000 Waldbrände aktiv, von denen 624 nicht unter Kontrolle stehen. Bisher sind 12,3 Millionen Hektar abgebrannt – das ist mehr als die Fläche Österreichs oder Portugals. In Neu-Schottland kam es in den letzten Tagen außerdem zu extremen Regenfällen. https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/climat/feux-hors-de-controle-12-millions-dhectares-detruits-mort-dun-pompier-le-point-sur-les-incendies-au-canada-20230730_JPZA6I4VAZAU5DFLDDPYCK4TEM/

Bei den Waldbränden im Mittelmeerraum bedroht nicht nur das Feuer selbst die dort lebenden Tiere. Viele verhungern in den auf einen Brand folgenden Wochen. Für die Artenvielfalt sind die Brände bisher nicht so gefährlich wie Pestizide und andere Umweltfaktoren, die in den letzten 30 Jahren zum Rückgang der Insekten um 75% und der Vögel um zwei Drittel geführt haben. Wiederholte Brände schaden vor allem dem Boden. https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/biodiversite/incendies-en-mediterranee-prise-au-piege-des-flammes-la-faune-locale-suffoque-20230728_GPVMDAUVA5C2PNNKCNDDEJGTBQ/

In the documentary California Typewriter (Gravitas Pictures, 2016) musician John Mayer mentions that he's never lost a typed version of his notes, while digital versions of his work essentially remain out of sight and thus out of mind or else they risk digital erasure by means of either data loss, formatting changes, or other damage.

Mayer also mentions that he loves typewriters for their ability to easily get out stream of consciousness thinking which is a mode of creativity he prefers for writing lyrics.

In Portugal hat zum zweiten Mal in wenigen Jahren ein Waldbrand den Naturpark von Sintra-Cascais in der Nähe von Lissabon getroffen. Die häufigen Waldbrände bedrohen die Biodiversität und gefährden endemische Arten.,https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/biodiversite/forets-incendiees-au-portugal-le-probleme-cest-la-repetition-et-le-laps-de-temps-entre-deux-feux-20230730_E3V3WVUZSVCALNCENQBJYEY7HM/

Die Waldbrände in Alberta haben die Öl- und Gasproduktion aus Ölsanden unterbrochen und den Ölpreis nach oben getrieben. Waldbrände, die durch die globale Erhitzung zunehmen, werden voraussichtlich immer mehr auch zu einem Risikon für die Produktion fossiler Brennstoffe. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/17/climate/canada-wildfires-fracking-oil-gas.html

Vor dem Hintergrund der aktuellen Waldbrand-Katastrophe in Alberta bespricht der Guardien John Vaillants Buch Fire Weather. Es behandelt den großen Brand von FortMcMurray 2016 und stellt dar, wie sich Intensität und Qualität von Waldbränden durch die globale Erhitzung verändern. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/10/fire-weather-john-valliant-new-book-alberta-wildfire

In Kanada haben Waldbrände schon 375.000 ha Land verwüstet. https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000146209226/braende-im-westen-kanadas-breiten-sich-aus

Stettler, Lucia. “Geheime Gästekartei überlebt Hotelbrand – und birgt Zündstoff.” Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF), April 8, 2021, sec. Kultur. https://www.srf.ch/kultur/gesellschaft-religion/brisanter-fund-geheime-gaestekartei-ueberlebt-hotelbrand-und-birgt-zuendstoff.

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>ManuelRodriguez331</span> in Advantages of Analog note taking : Zettelkasten (<time class='dt-published'>02/07/2023 08:33:25</time>)</cite></small>

At the Grandhotel Waldhaus in Vulpera, Switzerland concierges and receptionists maintained a business-focused zettelkasten of cards. In addition to the typical business function these cards served denoting names, addresses, and rooms, the staff also made annotations commenting on the guests and their proclivities.

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Another example of someone saying that if their house were to catch fire, they'd save their commonplace book (first or foremost).

https://agincourtiowa.com/2015/06/02/yawman-erbe/

"In the event of a fire, the black-bound excerpts are to be saved first," the poet Jean Paul instructed his wife before setting out on a journey in 1812.

link to: https://hyp.is/BLL9TvZ9EeuSIrsiWKCB9w/ryanholiday.net/the-notecard-system-the-key-for-remembering-organizing-and-using-everything-you-read/

His collection is incredibly important to him. He states this in a way that's highly reminiscent of Jean Paul.

"In the event of a fire, the black-bound excerpts are to be saved first." —instructions from Jean Paul to his wife before setting off on a trip in 1812 #

Another example of saving one's commonplace in case of a fire!

link to: - https://hypothes.is/a/BLL9TvZ9EeuSIrsiWKCB9w - https://hypothes.is/a/zHUghMiaEeuKKvcrc5ux5w

As a strong indicator of how important his commonplace book is, Ryan Holiday not only indicates that it's the tool he can't live without but he says it "is the first thing I'm taking out of my house in a fire."

Link to: - https://hypothes.is/a/KCnrXMdHEeyxz3sZy3Uo5g

Cross reference with his fears of robbery as well: - https://hypothes.is/a/BLL9TvZ9EeuSIrsiWKCB9w

If it's neither moral nor legal for one to shout "fire" in a crowded theater, why is it somehow both legal and moral for a service like Facebook to allow their service to scream "fire, fire, fire" within a crowded society?

This is a particularly good sign!

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