Los Angeles Fires: Residents Watch as Flames Close In

What it's like on the ground in Los Angeles as a Santa Ana windstorm sparks unprecedented wildfires across the city

> The apocalyptic sense of dread has only been heightened by reports of hydrants running dry and a critical shortage of firefighters, blamed by some on a $17 million budget cut for the Los Angeles Fire Department (the city meanwhile committed to $1 billion in raises and bonuses for the police department over four years). California prisoners continue to do dangerous work on fire crews for extremely low pay. Climate science deniers up to and including President-elect Donald Trump — who keeps vowing to withhold federal aid from the state during wildfires once he’s back in the White House — have baselessly claimed that the devastation is due to environmental safeguards. Equally infuriating: Alex Jones and Elon Musk pushing conspiracist gibberish on X, formerly Twitter, that chalks the fires up to a “Globalist Plot To Wage Economic Warfare.” #USPol #ClimateChange #acab #MAGA #elonmusk #alexjones #fascism #disinformation #oligarchy #corruption #lafires #losangeles #losangelesfire