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The Ben Shapiro Show

Ep. 2113 - Why Is California ON FIRE?!

The Ben Shapiro Show

The Daily Wire

News, News Commentary

4.4152.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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0:00.0

Well, folks, wildfires are breaking out all around Los Angeles area. It's all horrifying. We're bringing

0:05.5

you all the news updates and a breakdown of exactly what happened in California that led to the

0:10.6

magnitude of this particular wildfire. Why this is a lot of mismanagement in California, as per

0:15.8

our usual arrangement. First a reminder, you can start this year with 25% off a new Daily Wire plus

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annual membership. There's going to be a lot going on this year, 25% off a new DailyWire Plus annual membership.

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There's going to be a lot going on this year, the way that we're able to bring you the news, the way we're able to bring you all of our commentary and all of our other good stuff. All of that is only available. DailyWire.com slash subscribe to get 25% off that new annual membership right now. All right. So, according to the Wall Street Journal, portions of the heavily populated Hollywood neighborhood in Los Angeles were ordered to evacuate Wednesday evening as a new fire

0:41.7

broke out in the hills above the center of the city, which is currently battling numerous

0:45.4

deadly blazes. If you look at a map of the L.A. area, effectively, these wildfires now surround

0:50.9

nearly the entirety of Metro Los Angeles. They range from the Pacific Palisades, which is on the coast, in California, all the way inland, past Pasadena.

0:59.7

At least five people have died.

1:01.2

Tens of thousands were forced to evacuate as six wildfires simultaneously hit, the most populated county in America.

1:07.2

At least 2,000 structures have been damaged or destroyed.

1:10.2

125,000 people have lost power.

1:12.4

The region's firefighting resources have been stretched to their limits.

1:15.9

And the authorities appear to have no containment in hand.

1:19.5

At this point, the winds are simply too high.

1:22.5

According to the Wall Street Journal, those devastating fires have been driven by high-intensity winds, the Santa Ana

1:29.1

winds that blow from the deserts of Interior, California, and Nevada out to the Pacific.

1:33.3

Those Santa Ana winds are feared by Californians because they are fast-moving, dry, and extremely

1:36.6

warm, which means that they can push embers from one fire into an entirely different area.

1:41.5

They can also blow four days. The gusts were reaching 100 miles an hour

1:45.3

in the San Gabriel Mountains at 8 a.m. as of Wednesday morning, according to the National Weather Service.

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