How the LA Wildfires Started ️‍🔥

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[Tony-xylj]

Picturing a major blizzard as a fire storm is absolutely nightmarish

[prettyprincess]

As someone from Pennsylvania, imagining our winter weather being fire instead actually made my heart skip. Prayers to everyone in California affected❤

[lisal]

I hope that more explanations like this get released by ALL media sources.

[janellevans]

From Nebraska. We had 100 mph winds. Some people got insurance reimbursed some not. It depended on where the winds were straight wind or cyconic. It changed in 1 to 2 blocks. No fire. I've also been in blizzards. Including ground blizzards with no additional snow. My heart goes out to those experiencing 💔 these fires.
Please don't disbelieve because you are not experiencing these disasters.

[carlosenriquez]

when Mr. Tyson says, " Oh."
That was amazing it was sincere, it was honest, it marked gracefully the moment of comprehension. I lived in California many years ago these fires are horrendous.

[tylergodefroy]

now imagine that millions of hot embers riding on a 100 mph wind, there is no fire break that can stop that

[IanFord-ecne]

My sister's house in Pacific Palisades actually survived, by a few feet. My heart goes out to everyone there.

[IZZY-]

Wow... my heartfelt condolences for all that's lost. It's a grieving process to lose your house and everything inside. 😢

[s.gibbons]

I am so sorry for the loss, I have lived in tornado Alley almost all my life and have cleaned after 4 in my life and have lost some casesand have lost friends I have know all my life ( I am 64 now). It does it better with time but you never forget the feeling of no control. Do you think I would suggest is make sure to tell the people that you love that you love them everyday anyone can be gone in a moment.

[greggoreo]

Excellent compassion with a blizzard of Snow! That imaginative parallel is a brilliant concept for the brain to hold two separate THOUGHTS and see the swirling similarity of icy snow flakes juxtaposed to fiery embers. A startling, and poetic, image to me. Thank you. Respectfully Yours Gregg Oreo Long Beach CA États Unis

[silverthorngoodtree]

It has a sound, unique to a firestorm. Not a sound you want to hear getting louder, louder it gets, it means it is coming towards you. Kind of similar to a tornado, but different. Yes been in both. :(

[billt]

Knew a kid who's grandmother "survived" the Dresden fire bombing in WWII (imagine round the clock bombing for 72 hours.) The fires superheated the air in the center of the city, which rose, drawing in air from outside, generating winds in excess of 100 mph TOWARD the fire. People were tornadoed into the flames.

[alexandernorgard]

I remember summer of 2020 in Denver... The wildfires to the North and West (Canada and California especially, over 1000 miles away) were so intense that it was literally raining ash, visible morning thru night, all over the city, for several weeks. I cannot fathom what they must have looked like up close.

[DeltaElites]

The Palisades fire was a residence and the Eaton Canyon fire was downed electrical lines. It was the winds that made them impossible to control. The point is, the source doesn't matter in these conditions as everyone is trying to place blame. Without the winds they would have been easily put out by regular means. It could have been an idiot with a lit cigarette tossed out the window that hits dry grass and a whole town could be burning in a few hours.

[Olivet_RyanLindhardt]

Great observations, you guys are so intelligent!! Wow, so amazed at your expertise.

[Pokebilities]

According to the ongoing investigation, some began with fireworks around new years, but the big ones seemed to have been because power wasn't shut off to some high risk areas when the wind picked up and the powerlines light the brush flying around

[joshstiltner]

It’s complicated. They grow exponentially. If you don’t stop them immediately there’s little you can do.

[rurome]

Not so much the underbrush... the blazing tree limbs send embers everywhere in 100mph winds... they land in trees, on houses, and elsewhere... making it extremely difficult to control.

[jpsnCoSprings]

The first day of the Black Forest fire here in Co. Springs, fire started in SW corner of Black forest. Winds that day was 45mph sustained. The fire moved 10 miles east in one day. when something like that is happening, all you can do get out of the way or else you WILL die.

[MRG_EDITZ_]

They used the “🔥” emoji in the title 😭🙏 Ik it’s supposed to represent the fire but no one uses it like that anymore