Los Angeles fires: What social media shows me today

From a distance, I see this on socials.

Holy cow. Just woke up to this view from mid-Wilshire looking downtown

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— Lainna Fader (@lainna.bsky.social) January 8, 2025 at 10:23 AM

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.

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— Paul P Murphy, CNN (@paulpmurphy.bsky.social) January 8, 2025 at 8:36 PM

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

In 1998 brilliant Mike Davis wrote ‘The Case for Letting Malibu Burn’. 30 years later the wealthiest aren’t necessarily any safer from climate disaster, they’re just richer. I predict more events like the King & Queen of Spain getting shit thrown at them in Valencia. longreads.com/2018/12/04/t...

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— Aaron Stewart-Ahn (@badideas.bsky.social) January 7, 2025 at 11:45 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...

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— Hamilton Nolan (@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social) January 8, 2025 at 11:33 AM

"villainy in action" is too accurate www.newsweek.com/california-i...

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— Peter Butler (@peter-butler.bsky.social) January 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM

"last year LA City Council approved the mayor's budget to cut $23 million from the LA Fire Dept, as well as cuts to many other departments, so they could give the LAPD a $138 million increase"

Can't speak to this source, but the article says it was a $23,000,000 cut to FD and a $138,000,000 increase to the PD. patch.com/california/l...

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— anonymoustroll.bsky.social (@anonymoustroll.bsky.social) January 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM

As we witness these heartbreaking scenes from the fires in LA, an important reminder that incarcerated people make up over 30% of California’s forest firefighters.

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— Dr. Lucky Tran (@luckytran.com) January 8, 2025 at 1:41 AM

“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.

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— Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) January 8, 2025 at 1:16 AM

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…

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— Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) January 8, 2025 at 2:03 AM

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.

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— Puff the Magic Hater (@mskellymhayes.bsky.social) January 8, 2025 at 10:03 PM

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

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— Nitish Pahwa (@nitishpahwa.com) January 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM

I know, I’m a Fire Commissioner & I’ve been doing my best to tamp down some of the worst, but honestly, it’s impossible. James Woods, famous Maga gadfly,whose house burned down, is blaming Gavin Newsom for not keeping the resevoirs full. So ridiculous.

— Rick Giolito (@aldoinla.bsky.social) January 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM