Obviously, not much could be done differently when things were burning. But since then:
- Palisade fire was started by someone. Find them and shame the fuck out of them. 20+ folks died, that’s more than one CEO.
- They probably did something for social media. If so, grab Meta or ByteDance by the neck and make them pay. Instagram alone made $32 billion of revenue in 2024. They can drop a dozen billions to help rebuild, easy.
- Eaton fire was started by power lines. Create a mini-Marshall plan with the feds, I don’t care, and bury those lines once and for all jfc.
- New construction in Palisades has to be structural concrete/steel only. If you choose wood, you’re on your own and weird. Firefighters will be at your full expense.
- I’d go as far as mandatory green roofs with sprinklers. In the event of new wildfires, those wet areas would stop fire from spreading very efficiently. And green roofs are the best roofs.
- In Altadena, I’d go with a plan like this: either rebuild exactly the way it was with houses made out of concrete with wood paneling instead, or have a sort of Case Study with say, four house models designed for the area by local architects to choose from.
- Rebuild using all the tech available so that we can build efficiently and fast: 3D-printing using ArcGIS data, sustainable material, the whole 9.
- Pretty sure that would almost guarantee full reconstruction within a few years of this tragedy.
Instead one of the wealthiest place on earth is talking about not having enough building permits available to give to people to rebuild lmao
Which is how it makes me wonder “how tf did they send folks on the freaking moon when dad was a child, but we’re unable to control ourselves and manage some brush fires that we know are nasty since before we called this land California?”
Anyway, I’m team Nolympics ‘28. Los Angeles did it twice already, let’s stop there.