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Governor Gavin Newsom "did not call out the National Guard until Friday" in response to the January 2025 Southern California wildfires, including the Palisades Fire, implying that the California National Guard was only activated several days after the fires began on January 7, 2025.
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The 2025 Los Angeles wildfires caused $48 billion in damage.
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The video linked in the post (“LA bird lady catches rocket whizzing by. Rocket parts recovered, investigators found launch site”) proves that the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles was started by people launching ‘rockets’ (arsonists using rocket‑like devices), i.e., that these rockets were the cause of the Palisades wildfi...
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The infographic labels “Texas Wildfires (2024)” as burning 1,100,000 acres, presented as a single wildfire event.
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CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale falsely claimed that there is no shortage of water in the Los Angeles area and that reservoirs are at or above historical levels at the time of the January 2025 Pacific Palisades wildfire, implying that water availability could not be a factor in firefighters’ low water pressure or empty hy...
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The community note in the screenshot states: "This is not a link to charity. It is a link to a Democrat fundraising platform. They take 3.95% of all transactions." This implies that the donation link Elizabeth Warren shared does not go to the listed charities at all, but instead goes to a Democratic fundraising platfor...
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All recent wildfires, including those in California, are caused by diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) hires and by women, implying that these groups are responsible for starting or mismanaging the fires.
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The post claims that "in many circles, they’re doubting whether insurance companies will even have enough money to pay for this catastrophe," suggesting that insurers may not be able to meet their obligations from the 2025 Los Angeles fires because they lack sufficient funds.
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The Los Angeles wildfires are at least partly caused by diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies in fire and police departments and other institutions, because focusing on diversity necessarily takes time and resources away from proper firefighter training, controlled burns, brush clearing, and rescue operations...
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The post asserts that so‑called “chemtrails” (secret, harmful chemical spraying from ordinary aircraft) are a real, ongoing practice that is simply being renamed in official and scientific contexts as “geoengineering, weather modification, atmospheric manipulation, etc.” It further implies that there is an established,...
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Logan Paul and KSI have donated over $6 million (a total of more than $6.25 million) in Prime Energy / Prime Hydration products to the Los Angeles Fire Department and California wildfire victims, consisting of more than 1.7 million bottles already distributed in Los Angeles County plus nearly 1 million additional bottl...
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The post claims that during the January 2025 Los Angeles County wildfires, “firefighters had no water to combat the blazes; there was no plan to evacuate civilians and deploy emergency services efficiently,” implying that firefighters literally lacked water supplies and that authorities had no evacuation or emergency‑s...
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Strong winds that are often the catalyst for large wildfires sometimes force traditional single‑propeller firefighting helicopters to be grounded because their single‑propeller systems are less stable in gusty conditions, whereas Archer’s multi‑propeller eVTOL aircraft are likely to be more stable and better equipped t...
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Masked men on scooters with blowtorches were definitively responsible for starting the Runyon Canyon/Sunset fire and other January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires, with video proof showing them entering Runyon Canyon Park and fires erupting minutes after they left.
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The photo of burned cars on Sunset Blvd during the January 9, 2025 Palisades Fire shows that the cars "were hit by a deadly radiation beam, instantly incinerating them, people and all," with engines and glass supposedly melted at around 2600°F, metal wheels melted into rivers, and nearby trees and surroundings left unb...
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The meme shown in the search results (a rainbow‑colored fire hydrant in front of a large wildfire with the caption "California Priorities") is presented online as a real photograph from a California wildfire, implying that California authorities actually painted a working fire hydrant in rainbow colors instead of maint...
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The post claims that the Golden Globes segment where the presenter joked that acceptance speeches were "on fire" and that God had received "zero mentions" directly caused or triggered the subsequent historic wildfires in Los Angeles, as an immediate act of divine punishment for mocking God ("God was like, fires, you're...
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The government makes money when your house burns down in a wildfire because it profits from the pending land sale and rebuild after the fire.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom publicly stated that the 2025 California wildfires were "mostly peaceful," calling them "peaceful infernos" that would "definitely not burn your house down or anything," and further said that people should not fight back if fire approaches their homes because that would be racist and th...
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In the Facebook-style conversation on the right side of the image, one user (Joe Steel) responds to a question about where California’s water had been diverted by stating that authorities “dumped it straight into the ocean,” implying that the water released under Trump’s order, or California’s stored water more general...
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The video claims that NOAA’s official record of U.S. rainfall since 1900 shows a steady increase in rainfall, concluding that there is ‘more rain, not less,’ and implying that climate change is not contributing to drought or wildfire risk in the U.S.
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The video claims that the NAWAPA project would create "the largest reservoirs on the face of the Earth" by collecting about 20% of the runoff from major rivers in Alaska and the Yukon/Mackenzie basins, and that four of NAWAPA’s largest reservoirs in the Alaska Basin alone would store 1.5 billion acre‑feet of water, far...
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As of the morning of January 30, 2025 (the post’s date), the Los Angeles, Palisades, and Eaton fires were still “not contained.”
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The post claims that the only copy of A$AP Rocky’s highly anticipated album "Don’t Be Dumb" was destroyed in a Los Angeles wildfire, implying that there was a single master copy of the album and that it was lost in that fire.
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The post states as fact that police roadblocks and barricades in Lahaina during the 2023 Maui wildfire "trapped residents in a fiery deathtrap" and that "we now know" a police barricade stopped people from escaping, implying that this was a deliberate, centrally directed action overseen by John Pelletier that caused ma...
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The post claims that news headlines could accurately read: "California wildfires caused by climate change killed hundreds," implying that climate‑change‑caused California wildfires have killed hundreds of people (on the order of several hundred deaths) in a single or typical event.
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Donald Trump claimed that Gavin Newsom and his Los Angeles team had “contained exactly ZERO percent of the fire,” implying that, at the time of his statement, there was no containment at all of the Los Angeles wildfires.
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The post claims that the video shows "Latino/South American kids" in Los Angeles partying and celebrating while "LA burns" during the California wildfires, implying that the footage was filmed in Los Angeles during those wildfires and that the fire outside the window is part of the California wildfire disaster.
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The video claims that EPA ‘official data on heat spells’ show the early 20th century was hotter than today and that temperatures peaked in the 1930s, contradicting NASA’s global temperature record, which is described as ‘ridiculous.’
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The post claims that the Eaton and Palisades fires are now among California’s largest wildfires, and presents a bar chart titled “Structures Destroyed by Fire Name” implying that these fires rank within the state’s top 20 wildfires by size (largest fires).
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The post asserts that BJ Penn’s mother has been murdered by the government and replaced with a lookalike, and more broadly suggests that family members of BJ Penn may have been killed and replaced by impostors as part of a government operation in response to his political activity and criticism of the Lahaina wildfires...
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There is NO MONEY IN FEMA, implying that FEMA lacks funds to respond to disasters such as the 2025 California wildfires.
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Immediately after signing the supposed executive order, firefighters successfully herded active wildfires into "state-of-the-art Helicopter-carrying cases" and transported them, resulting in the destruction of specific San Francisco cultural heritage sites such as the "Full House" house and the city’s cable cars.
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The post (via the embedded tweet text) claims that during the Los Angeles wildfires, there was a rainbow‑painted "gay fire hydrant" outside a burning home that had no water in it, implying that such decorative or LGBTQ‑themed hydrants used in LA were nonfunctional and contributed to homes burning down.
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"These fires are easily avoidable, but nonsense regulations in California prevent action being taken, so year after year homes burn down and more people die." In context, this asserts that California wildfires that destroy homes and cause deaths are "easily avoidable" and that the primary or sole reason they are not av...
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The post implies that the actress who played Topanga on the TV show "Boy Meets World" appearing on WWE RAW in Los Angeles and making a hand gesture similar to the Māori fire goddess Mahuika is meaningfully connected to, or suggestive of involvement in, the Topanga Canyon wildfire that began the next day (i.e., that her...
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The post claims that jet fuel was used in the Los Angeles (LA) wildfires, implying that the fires were fueled or started by deliberate use of aviation fuel rather than by the documented natural and human-caused ignition sources (such as power lines, weather conditions, or typical accidental/intentional ignitions).
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The post claims that the Chinese app shown as #2 in the App Store ranking is called "Red Note." The screenshot shows the Chinese name "小红书" and its logo, and the post equates this with an app named "Red Note."
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The latest UN climate panel report (IPCC) finds that changes in weather conditions that promote wildfires will not be detectable above natural variability even by the end of the century.
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The post claims that there were LA wildfires in 2025 and that Elon Musk (referred to as "Emporer Musk") offered the victims of these LA wildfires a free month of internet service that would actually cost $395 for the first month and then $125 per month afterward.
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The video title and description assert that recent wildfires (including those that hit California) are "nuclear wildfires" caused by deliberate "weather warfare" (i.e., intentional, coordinated human attacks using weather modification to create toxic fog, historic freezes, and catastrophic wildfires).
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The post claims that in December 2024, during that season's wildfires in California, 99‑year‑old actor Dick Van Dyke was found crawling to his car while trying to evacuate the Palisades Fire, and that three neighbors had to carry him to safety from that Palisades Fire evacuation "last December."
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"The money we send to Ukraine—they can’t find $100 billion of it. They’re only missing $100 billion, John. That’s a lot of fucking money." – claiming that about $100 billion in U.S. aid to Ukraine is unaccounted for or "missing."
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In the 2023 (20th year) section, the post states under "Top News": "Trump indicted/eventually convicted of multiple felonies."
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Meghan Markle visited Pasadena during the California wildfires in 2025 and engaged in so‑called "grief grifting" related to that wildfire disaster.
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The post claims that the deputy mayor of Los Angeles, Brian Williams, merely "allegedly" made a bomb threat to City Hall and that he "has not been arrested or charged with a crime" and only remains on administrative leave, implying that as of the time of discussion there are no charges or legal consequences beyond the ...
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The Pentagon was built specifically to store U.S. gold; the post states that the reason they built the Pentagon was to store the gold, implying that U.S. gold reserves are stored there.
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Donald Trump promises that, if he is re‑elected again by 2028, he will end California wildfires, implying that California wildfires can be completely stopped or eliminated by his election or policies.
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California wildfires were caused or started by a so‑called "Jewish space laser" (i.e., a space‑based energy weapon controlled by Jewish people or organizations).
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The Los Angeles Pacific Palisades wildfires were deliberately planned and highly organized rather than being caused by natural or accidental ignition sources and weather conditions.
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Seventy‑five percent of California residents say that crime is their number one concern.
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The post quotes Donald Trump saying that opening California water infrastructure so that “once empty ‘halfpipes’ are now brimming with beautiful, clean water, and heading to farmers throughout the State, and to Los Angeles” would have prevented the 2025 California wildfires: “Too bad they refused to do this during my F...
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People from BlackRock are going door to door in Los Angeles’ Pacific Palisades neighborhood after the fires, offering to buy burned homes for cash as part of a secret, highly organized effort to take everyone’s homes.
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The post’s title, “Hero saves bunny from wildfire,” asserts that a person rescued a bunny from an active wildfire in the video shown.
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The post asserts that the Los Angeles wildfire it describes has burned about 62 square miles and that this area is larger than Paris.
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The post asserts that during the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting, there were multiple shooters and that eyewitnesses reported "multiple shooters, strange men in tactical gear," implying that the official conclusion of a single shooter is false and part of a cover‑up led or facilitated by John Pelletier.
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The post from Elizabeth Warren states that people can "split a donation between the Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation and United Way of Greater Los Angeles" and that "100% of your donation will go directly to these organizations," even though the donation link she shares goes through the ActBlue platform, which ch...
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"Fat Black Lesbian DEI hire LAFD Assistant Chief Kristine Larson explicitly says it’s your fault if you need to be saved from a fire by a firefighter who is unable to do so because of physical limitations that don’t apply to firefighters who are not physically limited in the same manner, but that seeing someone who loo...
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The post relays a statement that "our reservoirs were emptied by our governor because tribal leaders wanted to save fish," suggesting that California’s governor deliberately drained reservoirs at the request of tribal leaders to protect fish, thereby worsening water shortages during the wildfire response.
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Governor Gavin Newsom has had California’s dams deliberately emptied "for no good reason," which is why fire hydrants in the Los Angeles Pacific Palisades fires were empty and could not supply water to fight the fires.
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The post asserts that "whenever somebody mocks God, something like this has happened"—i.e., that there is a consistent historical pattern in which public acts of mocking God are reliably followed by disasters such as major wildfires, showing a direct cause‑and‑effect relationship between mockery of God and specific cat...
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The post title claims that Jhené Aiko is “Kanye West father’s girlfriend,” implying she is romantically involved with Kanye West’s father and is therefore his father’s girlfriend who lost her home in the California wildfires.
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The post claims that the 2025 fires in Los Angeles "may go down, in dollar amount, as the worst in the History of our Country," implying they are likely to be the most costly fires ever in U.S. history.
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The post claims that climate change did not cause the California wildfires near Los Angeles in 2025 and that “the main cause is politicians failing to allow effective forest maintenance,” implying that climate change is not a significant or real driver of these fires and that it is merely a political “boogeyman” used b...
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The author claims that the Pacific Palisades wildfire’s destruction can be attributed to homeless people, asserting that because the Los Angeles Fire Department reported that 54% of fires in 2023 were started by homeless individuals, this means the Pacific Palisades fire and its level of destruction were caused by the ...
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Hollywood didn’t do anything to help Western North Carolina after the wildfires there; with the exception of Dolly Parton, no one in Hollywood mentioned WNC, donated to WNC, or helped WNC in any meaningful way.
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The post claims that the Los Angeles wildfires (including the Kenneth Fire and the other major 2025 LA-area fires) were "weaponized" by left‑wing activists as being due to climate change, but that "now the police are treating it as arson after they caught the suspect," implying that the fires were not related to climat...
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Every time humanity makes a species go extinct in the wild, the last place that species lived in the wild always catches fire afterward.
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The post suggests that the 2025 California wildfires in Los Angeles and surrounding areas are "somehow someway linked" to Donald Trump and the "MAGA circus," implying that Trump may have had someone intentionally start the fires (e.g., a suspect with a blowtorch) as part of a plan to gain power over the LAPD, the Natio...
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During the 2025 Los Angeles / Palisades wildfires, insurance companies are canceling fire insurance policies "right now" while people’s houses are burning, and the Palisades fires "won’t be covered by insurance companies" at all.
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As of January 9, 2025, at least 24 people had died in the Los Angeles fires and more than 4,400 buildings were damaged or destroyed specifically in the Pacific Palisades and Eastern Malibu areas.
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The post states that, according to Southern California fire officials, "Los Angeles area wildfires are now moving at 2–3 FOOTBALL FIELDS per minute."
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In responding to the 2025 Los Angeles wildfire, the number‑one priority of city or state officials is "diversity" ("diversity, diversity, diversity") rather than public safety, fire suppression, or protection of life and property.
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The post’s title and on‑screen text assert that California Governor Gavin Newsom "fakes a failed Joe Biden call to try and dodge a wildfire victim's questions," i.e., that he was not actually attempting to contact President Joe Biden and instead staged a fake phone call purely to avoid speaking with the wildfire victim...
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The post claims that the Palisades Fire "incinerated 23,448 acres and 7,854 structures" and that the Eaton Fire "engulfed 14,021 acres and 10,491 structures." It further claims that, including the Hughes, Border 2, Kenneth, and Hurst fires, "just these six conflagrations killed 29, annihilated 18,345 structures, and re...
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The Palisades wildfires in California were intentionally set ("no accident") as part of a coordinated effort by powerful people connected to the Getty Villa and Getty Museum, using the fires to hide evidence and cover up crimes related to alleged underground tunnels and trafficking networks beneath the Getty properties...
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During the California wildfires, specifically in January 2025 alone, fires destroyed more than 16,000 structures and killed 29 people, bringing damage over $275 billion, making it the most expensive disaster in U.S. history.
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The post asserts that the 2025 Palisades / Los Angeles wildfires were a direct act of God sent in immediate response to presenters at the Golden Globe Awards mocking God ("God was like, fires, you're mocking me? Bet. And then you saw what happened. Historical wildfires hit L.A."). It presents this as a factual causal e...
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The post claims that donating money (e.g., via GoFundMe) to the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team is needed so that the Dodgers and "the people of LA (Shohei Ohtani, etc.)" can buy crucial goods and services such as pitching in order to rebuild after the 2025 California wildfires, implying that the Dodgers or Shohei Oh...
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The January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires, including the Palisades and Sunset/Runyon Canyon fires, were the result of a coordinated arson campaign by migrants or "transients" who, angered by the new U.S. president’s immigration policies, intentionally set Los Angeles on fire using portable blowtorches. The post presents t...
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The post by Alex Jones states that the Los Angeles wildfires are "DESTROYED BY DESIGN" and that the "Los Angeles Fires Are Part Of A Larger Globalist Plot To Wage Economic Warfare & Deindustrialize The United States Before Triggering Total Collapse." Elon Musk’s reply of "True" explicitly endorses this claim that the L...
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PG&E has been causing wildfires since 1994 and the most recent one being November 2018’s Camp Fire, and they are most likely the cause of the current 2025 California wildfire mentioned in the post.
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Insurance companies "made it very clear" that a serious fire was likely specifically because of a "complete lack of preparedness by the state and city governments," a "perpetual lack of water," and that California "didn't do any" forest‑clearing or other risk‑reduction measures, implying that insurers’ warnings uniquel...
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The post claims that the destruction from the 2025 Palisades Fire in Pacific Palisades is "so obvious" evidence of a Directed Energy Weapon (DEW), asserting that the uniformity of the incineration, the presence of white dust instead of black carbon, the alleged disappearance of metal appliances, sinks, and wood stoves,...
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The embedded tweet in the post states: "Found a solution to fires in California. It’s called water," accompanied by arrows pointing from the Pacific Ocean toward California on a map, implying that simply using ocean water (or water in general) is an easy, sufficient solution to stop or prevent California wildfires.
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A forensic arborist has determined that nearly all wildfires in California since the 2018 Paradise (Camp) Fire have been caused by direct energy weapons (DEWs), and that in his review of 38 different wildfires only three were due to natural causes.
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"Los Angeles deliberately set out to exclude white men from becoming firefighters, and now they don’t have enough firefighters to prevent their city from burning to the ground." This asserts that the City of Los Angeles (or LAFD) intentionally created policies to exclude white men from firefighter jobs and that this de...
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The article linked in the post asserts that California’s 2025 Los Angeles–area wildfires show that “not having the most qualified people in positions of authority and public safety” due to DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) hiring and leadership practices in California fire agencies has had deadly consequences, imp...
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Some of the undocumented immigrants ("illegal aliens") that California politicians are supposedly "sheltering" from arrest and deportation were caught committing arson in connection with the 2025 California wildfires, including the Palisades Fire.
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The post claims that "Santa Ana winds have not changed as the planet has warmed" and presents this as a factual basis for dismissing climate change as a factor in the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires.
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AccuWeather estimates the total damage and economic loss from the Los Angeles wildfires at $135–$150 billion, with potential for upward revision, and states that this loss could equate to nearly 4% of California's annual GDP.
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The 2025 California wildfires were deliberately set by Donald Trump and his "disaster capitalist" associates in order to create destruction, have insurers pull coverage, deny federal aid, and then allow his rich allies to buy up burned properties for "pennies on the dollar" as part of a coordinated disaster capitalism ...
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Water was running out during the LA fires because it was being withheld to save a small fish species (referred to as ‘smelt fish’).
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Democrats (referred to as a "death cult" and "Democrat friends") deliberately started the 2025 California wildfires so that FEMA could push a political agenda, and these Democrats will eventually be jailed for starting the fires.
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The post implies that Dave Chappelle himself was "replaced by a clone" because he criticized the establishment ("before he was replaced by a clone"), and that this is part of a broader pattern where powerful people who speak out are secretly killed or replaced by lookalikes or clones by "the powers that be" or the gove...
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All settlements received between 2020 and 2026 from a federal-disaster-declared wildfire are exempt from federal income tax under tax bill H.R. 5863, which the poster says was passed last year.
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As of 14:30 local time on Friday, January 10, 2025, the Eaton Fire in the hills above Altadena in northern Los Angeles County had burned at least 13,690 acres (5,540 ha) and around 4,000 structures had been damaged or lost.
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Gavin Newsom is to blame for the January 2025 wildfires in Los Angeles because he refused to sign a specific “water restoration declaration” that Trump says would have allowed “millions of gallons of water” from excess rain and snowmelt in Northern California to flow daily into many parts of California, including the a...
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President Trump claimed that by ordering the release of 1.6 billion gallons of water from dams in Tulare County (and 5.2 billion gallons over three days), he had effectively provided water that could be used to fight the Los Angeles County wildfires, asserting that if officials had listened to him six years earlier and...
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The post asserts that Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles, California has been deliberately "Mauied by the elites" so that they can clear the area and build an "AI Technocracy Tyranny smart city," implying an intentional, coordinated arson or engineered disaster by powerful elites to depopulate and redevelop the area as a...