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🗓️ 9 January 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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0:00.0 | I talked to a fireman once. This is one of the reasons that freaked me out. |
0:03.0 | And he was telling me, he goes, dude, one day, he goes, it's just going to be the right wind, |
0:07.0 | and fire's going to start in the right place, and it's going to burn through LA all the way to the ocean, |
0:12.0 | and it's not a fucking thing we can do about it. |
0:14.0 | I go, really? He goes, yeah, we're just, we just get lucky. |
0:18.0 | He goes, we get lucky with the wind. He goes, but if the wind hits the wrong way, it's just going to burn straight through L.A. |
0:23.6 | And there's not going to be a thing we could do about it. |
0:25.5 | Because these fires are so big, dude. |
0:27.7 | When they're talking about like thousands of acres that are burning simultaneously with like 40-mile-an-hour winds. |
0:34.4 | And the wind's just blowing embers through the air. |
0:36.8 | And those embers are landing on roofs |
0:38.4 | and those houses are going up and they're landing on bushes and those bushes are going up and everything's |
0:42.7 | dry. And once it happens, it happens in a way where it's so spread out that there's nothing |
0:48.2 | that can do. There's nothing they can do. Yeah, you just have to evacuate. Nothing. Nothing they can do. |
0:52.3 | As I'm sure most of you are aware, LA County is currently dealing with some of the worst wildfires we have ever seen in this country. |
1:00.0 | The Santa Ana wins, sometimes upwards of 100 miles an hour, low humidity and dry vegetation, |
1:05.7 | has resulted in this massive disaster. We've seen around 100,000 plus evacuations and five reported deaths, and |
1:13.0 | it's expected to get worse. |
1:14.6 | We're in bumper-to-bumper traffic right now as hundreds of people try to get out. You |
1:18.6 | can see flames here on both sides of the road with very little visibility. |
1:22.6 | Many abandoning their vehicles to flee on foot. |
1:25.6 | Policemen started telling everybody, get out of your car, leave your car if you want to live. |
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