Los Angeles's 'largest fire in history' **Crickets from the POS POTUS

[Liberty Belle]

30. Important perspective on this fire:

It has burned around 5,900 acres. While that may be one of LA's biggest fires, it's small compared to many others in CA history.


Here is San Diego, the 2003 Cedar Fire burned 280,000 acres, burned over 2,500 structures, injured 112 people and killed 15. That was the worst fire in CA history. We also had the second worst, the 2007 firestorms, in which a half million people were evacuated.

By contrast, around 700 were evacuated last night and only 3 homes burned, last I heard. There is some rain today and firefighters expect to get this one under control in 3 or 4 days, hopefully without more devastating losses; it's mostly burning dry, brushy hills.

Gov. Brown has declared a state emergency and FEMA has granted the Governor's request for federal help to fight the fire.

While it would've been nice to hear some concern from the POS president, at this point, unless there are significantly higher losses, while the images are dramatic this is not a disaster anywhere close to the scale of what happened in Houston, or even other fires burning elsewhere in the West or even some in Northern California.

That's good, because of course California is solidly Democratic and could well fare far worse than a red state like Texas under the Trump administration.

But it's not a fair comparison between LA's La Tuna Fire and the hurricane/flood damage in Houston, which I'm hearing was the worst natural disaster in U.S. history and more costly to recover from than Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy combined.