What REALLY Caused the LA Fires? | Weathered: Inside the LA Firestorm

PBS March 21, 2025

In California, climate change is fueling a phenomenon known as weather whiplash, where dry periods become drier and wet periods become wetter. This set the stage for the catastrophic LA fires in January 2025. Two years of heavy rainfall spurred rapid vegetation growth, only for eight months of extreme drought to transform that vegetation into a tinderbox. When high winds swept through, all it took was a spark for LA to ignite.

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Weathered: Inside the LA Firestorm
The 2025 LA Wildfires set a record as one of the most expensive and destructive in US history. As environmental shifts accelerate extreme fire conditions and communities expand into fire-prone landscapes, these devastating wildfires are becoming more common. But are they inevitable? Check out more from Weathered on @pbsterra!

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I was at my place in Maria del Rey the morning the palisades fire started. I was riding my bike down to Starbucks along the beach and I say a puff of white smoke that looked weird. By the time I left Starbucks you could see 60 foot walls of fire burning. It was shocking how quickly it developed

Pura vasura

😂😂😂 malarkey, you sheeple 😂❤

cry about it

We as a species are pyromaniacs. Most of our activities require some kind of heat. Whether it's professional, leisure or just to fulfill our basic needs, there is some kind of combustion involved. Even me writing this comment here requires burning some fuel…
And as demographics and our demands are on the rise, unable to accept that sustainability is the only way, we're heading towards disaster…

Can someone share this with 🍊💩 so he won't think raking the forest and releasing reservoir water is the answer? Oh wait, he wouldn't understand this anyway.

Chinese lasers that were installed on there satellites are beaming down in vulnerable areas and starting fires or people were paid to start them

What is underneath the Earth's crust

So, right-wingers are responsible for the fires, destruction, and loss of life, b/c it's their policies that lead to this. Their attempts to destroy the world we live lead to this.