From a distance, I see this on socials.
Holy cow. Just woke up to this view from mid-Wilshire looking downtown
— Lainna Fader (@lainna.bsky.social) January 8, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer. These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP. You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇 www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...
— News Eye (@newseye.bsky.social) January 9, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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L.A. news choppers are better able to survey the damage today vs. yesterday. KABC is flying over parts of the Palisades right now. Block after block is gone. abc7.com/watch/live/
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter.bsky.social) January 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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This Maxar Technologies sat image with SWIR shows what was on fire in Altadena, California this morning at 10:45 a.m. local time. Nearly everything.
— Paul P Murphy, CNN (@paulpmurphy.bsky.social) January 8, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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at the end of a 14hr flight into LAX, the pilot told us not to be alarmed if we smelled smoke, the plane wasn’t on fire, just the city
— maura quint (@mauraquint.bsky.social) January 8, 2025 at 10:31 AM
People outside of LA truly don’t understand how apocalyptic this is. It’s worse than it’s ever been. Entire residential neighborhoods are burning to the ground.
— Kumail Nanjiani (@kumail.bsky.social) January 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
With each disaster, it is important to say: This is happening because it makes some people rich, and those people are planning to escape on their own lifeboat without you. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/lifeboat-c...
— Hamilton Nolan (@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social) January 8, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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"villainy in action" is too accurate www.newsweek.com/california-i...
— Peter Butler (@peter-butler.bsky.social) January 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Some of the most valuable real estate on earth burned to ashes today, and billionaires still think they’re gonna be exempt from climate change.
— Lila Byock (@lbyock.bsky.social) January 9, 2025 at 12:35 AM
In the seven months since June 1, 2024, LA received a total 0.03” of rain. To put that in perspective — that’s about 1% of what the driest city in America gets per year (Yuma, AZ). Yet, network media ignored climate change in coverage of California wildfires. www.mesoscalenews.com/p/network-me...
— Rebekah Jones (@georebekah.bsky.social) January 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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“Will pay any amount.” Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.
— Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) January 8, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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if the blue check doesn't make this obvious, this guy is a Trump-y CEO who posts about how taxes should be eliminated.
— Joshua Erlich (@joshuaerlich.bsky.social) January 8, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I mean…
— Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) January 8, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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He also appears to own a Cybertruck and was celebrating “liberal tears” on Election Day, which should come as no surprise.
— Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) January 8, 2025 at 1:51 AM
After losing my third home in a tragic wildfire caused by the George Lincoln Rockwell Foundation Data Center for Industrial Spying, I am opening a seed round for my new firefighting startup, Dousr. It’s an app that trains poor people to run into burning buildings and rescue your valuables
— CHOAM Nomsky (@thielman.bsky.social) January 8, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Pasadena Humane has seen an influx of over 300 animals due to the fires. People lined up down the block to drop off beloved pets they could not take with them when they fled their homes. Some animals arrived with burns and injuries and are being treated. Donations and fosters are needed NOW.
— Puff the Magic Hater (@mskellymhayes.bsky.social) January 8, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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SoCal friends: Many animal shelters are overwhelmed from people dropping off beloved pets they can't take with them as they flee. Please consider donating and fostering. Pasadena Humane is one such org. Contact your local animal orgs to see if they need help. pasadenahumane.org/eaton-canyon...
— derek guy (@dieworkwear.bsky.social) January 8, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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from me: the lies spreading across social media about the horrifying L.A. fires (which are quite similar to the conspiracies that emerged in the wake of Hurricane Helene) reveal one grim truth about our future—this is just how every coming climate disaster will play out in our info environment
— Nitish Pahwa (@nitishpahwa.com) January 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Here is a Reddit post on the topic (tl;dr preview attached): www.reddit.com/r/self/comme...
— Kiki (@klkltlkl.bsky.social) January 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Pretty amazing that nonprofit Watch Duty -- which says it has 150 volunteers working around the clock to track wildfires -- has become the most trusted source of information on LA fires. Operated by retired/volunteer firefighters, dispatchers, and reporters. Real people. www.watchduty.org
— Shannon Osaka (@shannonosaka.bsky.social) January 9, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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I've built a news feed that is aggregating real-time updates from reporters and news organizations covering the Los Angeles wildfires, including the #PalisadesFire, the #EatonFire, the #HurstFire and the #WoodleyFire matthewkeys.net/social/bsky/... Tap "Pin to Home" to turn into a news feed.
— Matthew Keys (@matthewkeys.net) January 8, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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To add to this, Caruso was THE HEAD OF THE WATER BOARD and never said word 1 about storing more water in the Palisades in case of emergency, until the houses he bought for his kids were affected.
— David Dayen (@ddayen.bsky.social) January 9, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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These fires are a watershed moment, not just for residents of LA, but emblematic of a new era of complex, compound climate disaster. Conditions for a January firestorm in Los Angeles have never existed in all of known history, until they now do. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
— Eric Holthaus (@ericholthaus.com) January 9, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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How I have to go outside for the foreseeable future. All the smoke and ash has made the already not great air quality plummet. I'm scared to have my dog outside for longer than it takes her to do her business because I don't want her breathing it in either.
— first of all, bitch (@thejournalista.com) January 9, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Not lost on me that it's nonprofit tech, app.watchduty.org, showing up & actually working in the midst of the LA fires (donate to them!) Meanwhile platforms fail to surface key news, vital info is paywalled... As I've been saying, we need a new tech paradigm, yesterday!
— Meredith Whittaker (@meredithmeredith.bsky.social) January 9, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Just saw a no-longer relevant evacuation notice on instagram from five hours ago and remembered — that’s right, due to hyper-monetization every major social network no longer shows you life-saving breaking news as it happens. They turned it over to an algorithm that finally noticed “he likes fire.”
— Daniel Kibblesmith (@kibblesmith.com) January 10, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Fire perimeter map: Palisades Fire devastates LA County, jumps in size as winds batter Southern California Marissa Wenzke, Matthew Rodriguez, Dean Fioresi, Chelsea Hylton. CBS News. Updated on: January 10, 2025
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