Who To Blame for California’s Out of Control Fires

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Situation in California, devastating, heartbreaking. We’ve got clients, friends that live in the area. But that’s not gonna stop me. Again, I’ve had conversations with these people. They know. They know.

I want to talk about the California fires and personal responsibility. I’m going to twist a little bit into my own experience. When I was living in New York on Long Island, lived in a pretty, that was forest area, right? near the water, a lot of trees. Now we really don’t have to worry about

forest fires. You don’t have to worry about forest fires. Everything’s pretty wet all the time. But, okay, you get big winds and trees come down and, you know, it happens. People get killed with trees falling on them. And when I moved into my first house there, I had two houses there. One of the first, maybe the first month

I was there, there was a storm and I woke up the next morning and a massive tree was across my driveway. Across my driveway and I said, yeah, if my kids, my kids were underneath this, they would have been killed. Anybody, again, thoughts start going through your head and.

Again, you’ve got a lot of rules on Long Island, New York as well when it comes to cutting trees down. And I went through, I went through, I grabbed a guy and Arborist and any tree that had the slightest bit of disease on it at all, it’s coming down. Coming down. and I know some of the neighbors not happy the tree huggers out there. Why are you cutting those trees down?

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that’s terrible. No, it’s not. They’re diseased. They’re supposed to come down. Second house, same thing, moving into a house, you know, had to redo the yard there, trees all over near the house that was just redone that we were moving into. Anything, any tree that was close to being near my house had a storm, it could knock down, come down, my house was coming down. you’re already allowed out. You gotta get the county to approve.

Bullshit send me the fine. I do send me the fine. I don’t give crap. They’re coming down. and the three hunters come. no, that’s terrible. You’re doing this. know, no Again, remember a project I had for social studies class back I don’t know. Maybe I was in fourth grade fourth or fifth. I don’t remember we had to do models

of how the Iroquois Indians would set up their camps with these long houses that they would have. And the Indians, again, were, you know, will be politically correct here or what is believed. All their one with nature and I love nature. Yeah, they did. But they weren’t stupid either. When they were setting up their log cabins and their settlement areas, they clear cut the entire area. They knew. They understood.

that you have to protect yourself. Now again, brush fire, not a problem usually, know, in areas where, again, you you put the leaves into the woods, you clear some of the brush away, but it’s wet all the time. Wildfires will happen on a rare occurrence. This is something that we have discussed in the past here on the program, talking about California and the fires.

was actually watching the news today. had CNBC. They had their climate reporter out there. What the flip is a climate reporter? You think this has to do with climate? You think that fires in California are somehow a 21st century event? Are you kidding me?

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Now, I went through this here years ago on the program when there was a California wildfire. And again, they wanted to blame it on climate change. Those giant, beautiful sequoia trees that you can see in Yosemite, they do not germinate.

They will not grow unless there is a fire. It’s fascinating. It really is. nature, again, nature, nature and got amazing things. Those trees are not going to grow unless the area is clear. So the seeds won’t even, they won’t start doing anything unless there is a fire. Temperatures need to be well, I forget, 100 and something degrees. I can’t remember exactly what it is. In order for those seeds

to allow one of those trees to grow because hi, got a planet, it’s not gonna be enough room, not gonna be enough light for that massive tree to grow unless it’s cleared out.

It happened. Remember the last massive fire was in 2019 in California. And we talked about it here on the program as awful as this is. But where do you see, where do you see the flowers that are going to grow? Where do you see what it’s going to look like after the devastation? And again, the problem is not the fire. The fires are natural. The fires are going to happen. And then we’ll talk about some of the unnatural ways that they occur a little bit.

So the people live in these areas now.

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They live there. This is where the damage is. And again, you know, without a doubt, would human beings contribute to fires? Yeah, dry out there. So moron decides to throw a cigarette out a window or decides a homeless encampment. This again, they’re finding these things happening all the time. They’re not putting their fires out. That could lead to a massive blaze and other things as well.

failed infrastructure when it comes to electricity, a myriad of other things. But one of the things you have to understand, like I understood with my houses in New York, is you have to manage the property that you have. You have to manage forests. You have to clear out brush. Talking to people in California, you know, you got to get a permit in California just to clear your own land of underbrush?

Yeah, the tree hugger. No, it’s gonna be some lizard or it’s gonna be some frog underneath there and you’re gonna disturb it and you can’t do that.

Okay. Again, you invite these fires, you invite these blazes because you’re not cleaning the forest forest. I’m going to go back. These are Donald Trump tweets. Donald Trump, you know, this is going back to 2019. The governor of California has done a terrible job. Gavin Newsom, a forest management.

I told him from the first day we met that he must clean his forest floors regardless of what his bosses, the environmentalists demand of him, must also do burns and cut fire stoppers. Controlled burns have to do them. Have to. Every year as the fires rage in California burns, it’s the same thing. And then he comes to the federal government for more money. No more. Get your act together, Governor. You don’t see close to the level of burn in other states.

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but our teams are working well together in putting these massive and many fires out. Great firefighters also open up ridiculously closed water lanes coming down from the north. Don’t pour it out into the Pacific Ocean. Should be done immediately. California desperately needs water and you can have it now. Yeah.

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Reservoirs.

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Human beings, again people, there’s nothing wrong if you are going to have a settlement somewhere to manage it properly. They have continued to let all the snow run off, go right into the ocean where they could be building reservoirs. I’m gonna go to Donald Trump again, okay? This is from, this is four months ago. Four months ago he’s campaigning in LA County.

He spoke about the need for California to send more water downstate. You have so much water, you could revert water up into the hills where you have all the dead forests. The land would be damp and you’d stop many of these horrible fires. Again, you liberals out there, it’s like you have some sort of death wish.

Did you know right now that the fire hydrants… the fire hydrants are out of water?

The county didn’t refill the reservoirs. Oh yeah. Yeah, they didn’t do it. Fire hydrants running dry. Dry, it’s a massive failure. Take a look at the people running the fire department in Los Angeles. You can see videos online. If you don’t believe me, go see this for yourself.

They’re putting out all sorts of videos, what they’re concerned about. The fire chief is the biggest concern is making sure that she has more women on the fire department and more LGBTQ.

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I’m not making this up. That that was the biggest concern that the the new L.A. chief of the fire department had. You know, take my word for it. You’re getting again, multi, multi, multi million dollar homes in Malibu being destroyed. I want to talk a little bit about personal.

responsibility.

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Again, when I was in there, I didn’t care. Didn’t care about what the county was, I was going to do whatever the hell I was going to do with my property. They weren’t going to tell me that I couldn’t cut down these trees. What are you going to do? Put me in jail? At some point in time, people, you have to take responsibility. And again, know this is again, is kind of a bitter, jagged little pill to swallow when this is going on.

right now. But we all make choices. We all make choices. Make choices of where we decide to live, where we decide to invest. And at some point time, we have to take responsibility for those choices. Again, finger is going to come out and blame Gavin Newsom, you’re going to blame this, you’re to blame that. You know, you know the terrain.

You know where you live. You know how susceptible it is to fires. It’s funny, I listened to Joe Rogan’s podcast, this is about a week or two ago. He used to live out there and he said, you know, the last time he’s like, I can’t live out here. Then he talked about it. He said, at some point in time, the fire is gonna rip through. They don’t manage it properly. I gotta get out of here. And he moved to Austin, Texas. I know it’s tough to do.

got a home, you live in Malibu, you have money, it’s great, it’s your scene, whatever it may be. But it was a risk. I know people say, well, Chris, live in Southwest Florida, what about the hurricanes? You just got whacked, yeah. There are a fact of life here. And I explained this here at the time. No, I’m not living on the water.

I want to deal with the headache an area here in Tampa Davis Davis. I’m beautiful great Not far from where I live can ride my bike over there, but every single time big storm I don’t want to deal with the water I don’t want to have to deal with you know worried that my stuff on my garage is gonna flood whatever it may be I don’t want to deal with it the headache Okay with that being said You know things can happen storms can happen natural disasters

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Can happen. And again, you’re to fingers all over the place. You’re going to get the climate wackos out there. I don’t know. Maybe the people in California, maybe the maid will make them feel better about their house burning down that they can blame it on climate change. It’s not climate change. It’s a myriad of things. The people you vote for, the fact that you didn’t build proper reservoirs to deal with

the problem. didn’t control your force, all of those things. But even with that being said, who knows? Still might have been a devastating fire.

But again, at some point in time, people, you’re going to have to start making better choices when it comes to leadership.

comes to people running show that there was the mayor right now. mean, this is they’ve been talking about this. They’ve been predicting these wins and the possibility for some time. The mayor of Los Angeles is on some sort of, you know, she she trip to Africa for some reason. You kidding me?

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Anyway, you know, again, personal responsibility and choices. And choices. again, you know, whenever, rather than look to always fix blame, okay, always look, again, in the mirror and say to myself, you know, I knew this was gonna happen. I knew this was gonna be an issue. I knew the leadership was bad. I knew we should have done a better job with the reservoirs. I knew we should have done a better job.

And managing the force and again, like I said, I’m not saying that it wouldn’t have happened. But you would have been in a much, much better place. I’m not saying where I live right now, there might be some massive devastating hurricane that would do damage to my house. But, know, again, I made sure that I’m living in a spot where I can mitigate that where I am. I know where I am above sea level to deal with the flooding. All things that we have to take.

into consideration. Again, you’re going to see the fingers point out, you can see them going after insurance companies sooner rather than later. It’s going to happen.

It’s gonna happen. But again, if you’re an insurance company and you have rules in a state that say, you can only raise policies by a certain amount. You can’t do it. You have to check with the government. And if you want to raise the insurance rates on these million dollar homes, or any home, you have to check with us first. You can only raise it by a certain amount. And you as an insurance company say, hmm.

They’re not managing this properly. They are not doing what they need to do when it comes to reservoirs. Not doing the proper forest management. You know what? We’re out.

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We’re out. We cannot, we’re not gonna be able to make good when the fires come.

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All of this, all of this. And again, you know, again, it’s awful. Awful. And again, I feel bad for everybody out there, what happened. But again, you know, we can either decide as a country and a society to use this as a bit of a wake-up call, or we can do the same thing over and over again and expect a different result, which is the definition of stupidity, lunacy, whatever you

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