L.A. officials warn of fire danger as a dozen wildfires burn in California

More than 13,500 firefighters were working Monday to contain a dozen large California wildfires that have destroyed hundreds of homes and forced thousands of people to flee to safety. Officials in Los Angeles were warning of fire danger after another SoCal heatwave was expected this week. Kimberly Cheng reports for the KTLA 5 News at 12 on Aug. 23, 2021.

[steveinla]

VOTE for Larry Elder for governor of California September 14, 2021!!!

[insanity]

And what is our notorious Do Nothing Gov doing about fires???? He and his cronies just put those discussions IN

[lilygrahamcakes]

Can we please be warned of the Democrat that was caught and admitted to lighting the prior Fires !!??!?

[armadilllo]

really really odd if you go look at the fire map the fires stop at the Canadian border, these are arson.

[oscarfish]

What's crazy is that California hasn't found a way to OWN instead of leasing these planes.

[americanpaisareturns]

With all the fires we have every year you’d think our city would have bought some of these already instead of always “Renting” them.

[aldoogie]

Imagine us struggling to get more helicopters, while we spent trillions on military assets in Afghanistan.

[wqu]

Why not a 747 Supertanker with 20, 000 gallons ??? 2k is nothing...

[Milosz_Ostrow]

This report doesn't square with the fact that annual area burned has steadily declined from the early 1900s, according to federal statistics. While bad, the wildfires in California in the last few years are not "record" in size or severity.

[hemaccabe]

You know, doing forestry management is a lot cheaper than helicopters and jets.

[hemaccabe]

State could buy a few gangs of goats, cheaper than the cheapest vehicle on that line, manage all their forests, than make a profit selling a few goats for meat each year.

[nickloven]

Nice, now I can't go outside here in Nevada without getting lung cancer because of this failed state!

[thomasmerrill]

They should throw Garcetti & Newsom out of that helo

[IsDefinitelyHuman]

Yay, death, chaos, mayhem.
Get the cameras, we got newsworthy stuff to make money on today.
I mean, fires are bad...

[TheOriginalAndysGarage]

One of the most expensive places to live and it's all nothing but fires and droughts

[darrollcubit]

Sounds like judgement to me God is not happy

[servantgeorge]

Great... this is how we do it: we put it out before it burns people out of their homes...

[randydowning]

But is anybody watching the way they evicted those druggies from venice beach recently? They're camped out in the dry bushes, several miles from the beach. That'll be the next fire shocker! They need to monitor that!

[kolbpilot]

This country has serious problems but this is not a serious country.

[fredal]

Yawn "from the rest of the country", it is California.