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One SoCal Wildfire Started by Boy with Matches

There’s a sad piece of news on the one of the SoCal wildfires today. A boy playing with matches was responsible for the Agua Dulce area fire.
Officials blamed a wildfire that consumed more than 38,000 acres and destroyed 21 homes last week on a boy playing with matches, and said they would ask a prosecutor [...]

Friday Update on the California Wildfires with a Word from Senator Boxer

It’s been a long week here in sunny Southern California where the sky was glowing with flames rather than sunshine for days on end.  Evacuees are now returning to their neighbors and AP News reports that “many Southern Californians lucky enough to find their homes still standing could nevertheless face hardships for weeks to come, [...]

Making a Mockery of a Free Press

Thomas Jefferson had it right when he wrote:
“The most effectual engines for [pacifying a nation] are the public papers… [A despotic] government always [keeps] a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, [invent] and put into the papers whatever might serve the ministers. [...]

Whirlwind Visit to CA Wildfire Scene Causes Traffic Snafu and More on SoCal Fires

It wasn’t enough that many folks in Southern California were burned out of house and home or at the least evacuated thanks to inadequate response of aid to the area. Hell no, they residents of areas that got treated to the whirlwind visit from Bus today today also got to deal with this:
Rancho Bernardo residents [...]

OC Fires Update: Lies, Stupidity etc.

I’ve just posted a more comprehensive, updated, article about this topic, as I did here yesterday, at DailyKos. I hope you visit and support the diary so we can get some visibility.
The update is simply that the Hamilton Trail fire line held yesterday and throughout the night. Unexpected flareups in the fire to the north [...]

SoCal Winds Ease… Wildfires Update

We’re finally feeling some cooling temperatures here in L.A. tonight. The Santa Ana’s are slowing down and the firefighters are able to gain ground and start containing the fires. As Stuart reported below, the federal response has not been what was promised and once again the government has dropped the ball. BradBlog has more on [...]

California and Orange County Fires: Lies, Stupidity and Unnecessary Destruction

The story of the good coordination and efforts by federal authorities from the national media is a complete misrepresentation.
Use this article about Orange County as a microview of the entire California firefighting effort. Elsewhere in California the situation is much worse. We have nearly one million people evacuated. There have been over 1,660 homes burned [...]