What a chaos! You documented it very well; thanks for that. What I do not understand, as someone from the Netherlands, is why wood is used as the primary building material, I mean for the poles, homes, and other structures. As we can all see, the only standing structures are the fireplaces, which are made of bricks. Over here in the Netherlands, bricks, concrete, and steel beams are the main materials for building homes and public places. Regarding the utilities, why not place them underground? Electricity, broadband internet, gas, and other utilities are all underground here. Especially in hazardous areas like the beautiful nature over there, it should be mandatory. Removing the brush, trees, and vegetation on a hillside only increases the risk of mudslides. Please think about this and spend your tax money wisely. That said, I wish you all the best and send my condolences to those affected.
We also get frequent earthquakes here, and brick houses would not stand a chance when the dreaded Big One arrives (or even a relatively minor jolt - look at what happens in European countries whenever a moderate earthquake strikes. Brick homes just crumble.) While it is possible to build fireproof and earthquake-proof structures using reinforced concrete, metal roofs, etc., the cost is very high. Very few could afford to build that way.
@@birgitwiley5540 I would rather live in a brick and concrete build fireproof and small appartement then a big cardboard home priced at $500.000 and up!
I take that back I think this is your number one video you've done. Love the dogs visiting the military and the police and firefighters and all that great work but this is actually phenomenal work right here. You really are showing the people the ins and outs. Nobody else is doing this kind of coverage right now. I'm glad to see that you're getting subscribers and your channel is building congratulations to you man. The best to you and your family.
Exactly,a little too late now to start showing the world they care!,i sincerely hope the powers that be see jail time for what could have been greatly avoided!
We live on the East Coast, but absolutely love Southern California. We’ve visited Southern California twice in the last 3 years for vacation, so we’ve grown to love the place. I’m happy to see Utility Companies already out rebuilding the necessary infrastructure to get Southern California back up and running again. We’re cheering for you guys all the way over here on the East Coast!!
I live in Los Angeles and you wouldn't like it here because right now it gets too hot during the daytime and it's near freezing at night, almost all the way down to 40°. There's too many outdoor cafes, too much nightlife, and too many outdoor activities to choose from. There's just no time to sit around and eat junk food and get fat and watch TV.
Google search it and you'll find mobile home parks are letting them stay for free. Make it simply bulldoze their property, park a mobile home on it add live in luxury, that's what Dolly Parton is doing.
There's a new normal for everyone. Be strong you guys. One of those homes on the ocean used to belong to my cousin. It still hurts to see this fire damage at the house he shared with his wife before ALS took her. And where his daughter was born... before the medical bills. Sad to see.
I can remember riding in the car with my family through this section of Pacific Coast Highway on our way home from Oxnard in Ventura county. this was in the early 60's. I was around 6 years old and today I'm 66 years old.
I work for the City of Los Angeles and they slow about everything glad to see them cleaning up that dry shyt along pch that should have been a priority long time ago I knew people personally that got burned out that I've met by just working there for years and hope they get the right kind of help...🇺🇸💯
Suis choqué de constater un état très riche comme la Californie être à ce point dans des situations compliquées dans certains domaines comme l'entretien des espaces verts le nettoyage préventif des abords, l'entretien, la vérification et la maintenance des bouches à incendie....waouh c'est dingue franchement...
@@DanThomas-n1e Doesn't matter, if the metal poles are exposed to fire the wires are going to melt anyway. Better to put up wooden poles that can be repaired quickly and efficiently, and spend the money elsewhere where it might actually matter.
@@joeylantis22 You are a genius. If the wired burn and drop THE ARE NOT ELECTRFIED AND CANNOT START A FIRE-DUHHH. The POLE are burning and LIVE WIRES are starting the fires in the 50 year over growth of scrub brush. Firefighters took 45 minutes to respond to the first pallisades fire, no water in the hydrants. Its intentional fires and if they wanted to stop it with concrete pole or buried lines they would
I hear ya but, CIty workers and those other agencies sign up for disaster work when they become employed. They mostly are there manditorily and following strict instructions on schedule, lunch break, relief time etc. Put simply, these folks are doing their jobs. Thats part of the deal. Newsom should have been funding them to do that work all year round to prevent the BS. Now the will pay the workers the OT they skimped out on the last few years.
Yes that's what I prayed for years ago because the news media was not being truthful. So that new news stations would rise up and they have. We are the news source!
Thank you for a brilliant video. This is the best I have seen, and shows us a close up of the utter devastation. Your camera work is amazing. It was such a privilege to ride along with you.
Hey man. What a cool privilege that you’re getting to document such a big part of history. I’m glad you’re getting that opportunity. YOU DEFINITELY DESERVE IT SMC!
@holmesglenn True most people who didn't loose thier home might has well have because the can't go back untill clean up happends and that can be years..
Thank you very much, I was looking for information about what could have happened to the Gette Villa and I just saw on your film how you passed by it. Still standing. Thank you once more.
Imagine driving or cycling along this stunning coastline without these ugly properties in the way. This most outstanding area, and hopefully soon to be World Heritage-listed, must never be redeveloped.
Shame the power workers have to stand poles up while standing knee deep in piles of rubble that should have been removed before they started. One guy tripped and fell over on camera. Care factor zero by their money-grubbing bosses.😢
Why are US power poles, made of wood? Here in Europe almost all of our power poles are made of reinforced concrete, even rural areas have concrete power poles.
Not all US power poles are made of wood, but on the west coast wood poles are cheap and plentiful. Same reason houses on the west coast are made mostly of wood. Cheap and plentiful and they stand up to earthquakes reasonably well.
@@Horace1993 For sure, underground power cables would work, but I think it would be too expensive to move all the power lines underground. Also, wouldn't the repair work on them be a pain in the ass?
@@matriksky Even if maintaining such an underground power line seems complicated, it's actually not that complicated unless you have to replace the entire cable, which actually has to be done almost every 40 to 50 years. Of course, it can happen during construction work on a road that, for example, an excavator damages an underground cable, but in these cases the entire cable is not replaced straight away. These cables are usually divided into segments and connected to each other via cable connectors. In this case, the damaged cable segment is then simply replaced. Often an entire street doesn't even have to be torn up because these cable segments are simply pulled through the cable ducts/tubes underground. I think that's cheaper in the long run than a fragile high-voltage pylon made of wood, which can simply topple over due to devastating storms etc. and trigger a forest fire that burns an entire residential area to rubble.
Thank you, Fabian, for the video documentation of the recovery process. I think you have the very best coverage. By staying on one process long enough for us to see what is happening is your best effort and I appreciate it. Thanks again/
Seems like a missed opportunity to modernize the infrastructure and go underground or at least concrete poles. Especially somewhere that's so corrosive and scenic.
I would have thought taking out the vegatation from the hillside would be a bad move, because when it rains, all that will suddenly cover that highway with mud.
Yea we're dealing with very high level of incompetence here in LA ... actually most of California... they've wrecked the state, and continue to do so unfortunately.
Semi arid region was never meant to have millions of people living there with high density development. Houses on the hillsides of steep canyons, minimal rainfall, earth quake prone, ocean reclaiming the beaches. What could possibly go wrong?
@mikegrogor8632 looking on Google maps I found this area. Looks pretty strange especially the unburned blue trash cans and a blue tarp by the totally burnt car.
I'm not an arson investigator but I know how to use Google maps. Never having actually visited the area I found myself wondering what the buildings looked like before they were destroyed. If you look on Google Street view at the beach front properties before the fire you can follow the same route the camera man does and in a lot of cases even see vehicles parked in the same spots they are in now. I was surprised to see that nearly all of the buildings literally touched each other with the only spaces between them being the occasional public beach access, All it took was a virtual waterfall of embers blasting across the highway at any point up or down the road and once one building caught fire they all did like a fuse running down the beach. If a person had dropped a lit cigarette or had a grease fire on the stove that resulted in the home catching on fire AND for some reason the fire department was delayed or just never showed the result would have been the same. In this case the wind was blowing towards the ocean keeping the fire from coming back across to side of the road it originated from.
@paulschane5865 I'm pretty sure California has some strict fire regulations about that. I was looking at Google maps also. This is a really bad situation. People must be in total shock.
Also the winds were blowing at 50 - 60 MPH over the hill blowing embers across PCH towards the ocean, at times the flames looked like a giant blow torch. All it took were a few embers to land on a roof of an one of those ocean front mansions and the whole block would go up in flames. Many of the homeowners on the east side of PCH lower on the hill got "lucky" that the embers were blown over their homes and possibly that there wasn't much dry brush for the flames to feed on and go down the hill.
California gets most of its rain in the winter so the sage weed is green and takes in a lot of the rain that falls. In the summer it dries out increasing the chance for fires. Clearing the brush would have saved these people's homes and lives
Yea this looks normal. Please!! In my 47 years as a firefighter and 10 of those years as a Arson Investigator this fire like so many in the past just do not add up. Period
Great documentation of the restoration effort of Malibu.... it's going to take years to rebuild most likely. It's also surreal and sad seeing this iconic stretch of the PCH gone since I visited it a few months ago and glad I took a lot of pictures of how it used to be. Now it's gone along with the entire Palasides and looks almost like a warzone complete with military checkpoints.
@SantaMonicaCloseup I really appreciate these videos. You have great access and I don't want LA and the first responders to be forgotten. Former Angelino, loved LA since childhood. So heartbroken still. Making homes with poured in place concrete or precast is insane at a master build level.
@WakieUppieYall No rich people own that ocean front property, and rich people donate to politicians. They also pay a shitload of taxes, and California already has a 68 billion dollar budget deficit.
This is sadly an example of capitalism and greed. You see it all over the country, drove to North Carolina shore and couldn’t see the ocean because whole shoreline blocked by houses. Just can’t relate but that’s the culture.
@brutusl2786 It's a highway? You should be watching the road not staring at the ocean. Besides if it wasn't for capitalism , this video wouldn't exist, you wouldn't be able to get on the internet with your computer, tablet, or smartphone and bitch about capitalism. You don't like capitalism when it blocks your view, but you like the conveniences it provides.
The guy falling at 36:00 lol. Yes, I watched the whole thing while eating lunch. Mankind is amazingly resilient. These guys know exactly what they are doing and were ready to go. We can get through anything with modern engineering and preparedness.
Power poles.... Most european countries have underground power and telephone cables. That's why snow, ice and fire don't interrupt the whole infrastructure. And that's why storms don't tear down power lines and cause bush fires. Maybe it's time to modernize.
We're in the process, we have probably 300x as much power power supply than any European country. The other problem is our power layout often trespasses property lines and other utilities that can't be moved
@@13eckerlosmuerte So 300 times more definitely not. For example, in Germany and many other countries in Europe, more electricity flows through the cables. The only thing that differs is the way (the system behind it) how the electricity is transported and ultimately arrives at the respective house (end consumer). In Europe, electricity is transmitted from power plants with a voltage of up to 380 kV to substations on the edge of a metropolitan area or smaller towns via high-voltage lines (usually above ground and large and tall steel poles). There the electrical voltage is then converted to a lower electrical voltage, the medium voltage (usually to around 20kV) and then passed on in urban areas via underground lines. From there it usually goes to one of the countless transformers/distribution stations that are connected to several houses in an area and the voltage from 20kV is converted to the electrical voltage of 230V or 400V. From this transformer it goes into distribution boxes (usually in the basement of the respective house) in the various houses, apartments, etc. Electricity comes out of the socket with a voltage of 230V 50hz. In the case of fiber optic cables for telephony and internet or TV cables, there is a similar system (distribution system) in Europe, but these cables are often laid underground throughout. In the USA it is often the case that every single house has a power transformer and there is no distribution system. In addition, these underground power lines in Europe are often owned by the city, country or town and not by companies. These power lines are also shared by several electricity providers so that there are no problems with unwanted overlaps. In Europe, some cities also have overhead lines over streets, but in most cases there are also lines for trams or buses that are powered by electricity via overhead lines and these lines often have poles made of steel or are made of concrete. In addition, these are also separated from municipal household supply lines and have their own power supply infrastructure.
no it does not make sense ... the brush on side of highway up the cutting seems either barren or unburned ... the houses would have fire suppression .. pumps .. backup generators ... it does not make snse ... so many videos h fires seem to be of house foires not forest fies absurd to say malibu strip burned up like wood and ricepaper houses in a ww2 tokyo firestorm
@@bonniebates185 Everyone wants a house by the beach, but LA is heavily divided by rock formations. A lot of those beaches are very narrow, leaving little room. In Malibu you can walk from the start of a little beach to the end in a couple minutes. Malibu is not Santa Monica - there is very little land to build by the ocean.
Thank you for showing that the Will Rogers State Beach parking lot, the trees, and the structure next to it still stand. I used to go there a lot and was wondering about it!!
While Malibu and Maui had similar fires, in CA there’s more property damage, HI more loss of life. Cali seems to be healthily working towards normalcy and recovery with transparency. Hawaii, sadly is clouded in mystery, has no transparency, and seems that efforts to recover are being suppressed and narrowly directed for the benefit of the few. Prayers for Lahaina and LA
Finally, the opportunity came to have the power lines underground, an important fire safety measure. But no... Los Angeles remains a disaster with no plan
8:35. "Star Waggons". Built to accomodate film and television performers and their staff while off the set. It was founded and owned by Lyle Waggoner, best remembered for is appearances on the Carol Burnett Show.
Wooden electric poles need less maintenance , particularly if they are next to the ocean..There are also concrete electric poles but they are much more expensive.
@@dmitripogosian5084 Well, they are replacing the many with a steel or an iron clad pole. They have been doing this routinely throughout CA for a few years in fire prone areas.
Great video, thank you! But truthfully, sitting here watching the firemen and women doing the weed abatement alongside P.C.H. brings the saying "a day late and a dollar short" to mind.
I agree with some other comments that the houses that were suspended over the beach should not be rebuilt. They would only be threatened again by rising tides and the inevitable future fires. Great video Fabian.
I disagree, but rest assured everyone who lost their house will have a struggle to rebuild... the government will make it nearly impossible to rebuild... but they'll make it easy to build their marshall plan ( Newsome quote) to rebuild LA 2.0 their BS 15 min smart city tech ghetto brought to you by the WEF and agenda 2030.
Unless you owned one of those multimillion dollar plots which are more valuable than the cost of rebuilding a house. I wonder if you owned one if you would be prepared to walk away from it as a loss and be happy for the public to access your land to get to the beach and to have picnics on it.
Thanks for these, a question. Are you purposely not filming certain areas? I noticed you didnt turn your head right at all at Gladstones or even Topanga. I noticed you even edited out when you crossed Sunset northbound.
You are giving such great info on the clean up. The news just gives us useless info and useless opinions. Where are you nbc, abc, cbs & ktla. Thank You for what you are doing.
What their doing as far as brush removal is great. But they need a chipping machine to grind up all the undergrowth instead of trying to pack it down in dump trucks! Makes more sense with a chipper. 😊
That brush clearing at the beginning of the video is the California Incline. It is a sloping road in Santa Monica, California that connects to Pacific Coast Highway (PCH). Not really a wildfire threat risk area, done for easy news-clips. BTW slope in this area has been slowly eroding for years.
Power underground is a bad idea, especially if it is next to old water infrastructure that is prone to leaking. Water split with electricity = hydrogen and oxygen = explosion under ground, not good if you happen to be driving over that section of the road.
@@falcosparverius1. Most of our power is underground in Minnesota. Only the older areas are above ground…and those neighborhoods are unsightly because of it.
@@john8451 It's most costly than overhead lines, but Europe for generations has still managed to do a lot of undergrounding. Imagine coastal areas of Italy, France or Spain with power poles all over the landscape.
I just started watching the video and noticed all the trees behind theses guys. Yikes! Here in New Jersey, I noticed a lot of trees in central and south Jersey along the Garden State Parkway have been cut. Is this to prevent forest fires from spreading ?
Ironic. All those houses burned to the ground with an endless supply of water in their front yard. Maybe each house (along the beach) could have a super soaker sprinkler system on the roof and perimeter .I've read about landscape breaks around houses. It will be interesting to see what evolves when they start to rebuild.
It will be built back the same as before. That's what evolves. Malibu has had seven devastating fires since 1930. Nothing has been done any different there...Some of those homes have been rebuilt three or four times.
@@Plutogalaxy I forget, they'd have to do studies of the 'environmental impact to the endangered Pacific spotted sand fleas before they could look ahead by routing power poles to structures that don't exist.
@@Plutogalaxy If the cost of such work were amortized, it could be done. If the cost of a highway were dependent on fees from people who live right next to a freeway, those homeowners would have annual expenses of $5 million. Same idea applies to how schools, libraries & other public work projects are funded.
@@gcrauwels941 I got some of those in my shorts one time ,screw them ! BTW everything runs along PCH they have to fix them or Malibu will not have enough power I too hope that the wires get buried.
It would be nice if Newsom would think ahead and put forth the case to Trump and FEMA to underground some of the trunk lines. Instead of paying in 20-30 years to replace the overhead lines again.
We take so much for granted, thank you to all the workers trying to get people back in their communities. It won't be what it was but it may be better ❤❤💐 59:17 is eerie, where did that staircase lead to?
I love your footage. It’s incredible, but so sad to see. Amazing response, my question is, how are you able to get in past the barricades into the restricted zone?
I must say, props to those lineman. At the average rate of what looks like a pole in the ground every 30-45 minutes, I imagine about 20 - 25 poles a day for 1 crew. I imagine there are more crews from around the country, but who knows.
Thanks for taking the time to post the long video It was interesting to see the rows of houses that remained between the burned down ones It was a true gamble Furthermore, looking over everybody's shoulder without contributing, you reminded me of my mother in law 🤣
Millionaires have millions of USD for houses, but no water pumps, even though the houses are by the sea. The US has the weapons for the criminal regime in Ukraine and elsewhere in the world, but it does not have the water distribution and power lines in the country in LA, where every year there is not only a threat, but a recurrence of fires. America is a strange country.
Guess a lot of miljonairs will rebuild with some safety measures against fire. Kinda ironic to see Trump go all in on fossil energy to lower inflation and on the other hand we see this. You can put the economy 1st. But I guess mother nature has the final verdict.
watching this video Hurts! I drive by all these places Often, can't imagine what the residents feel. in a way this videos are getting me ready for when I see it in person. 😔
They have the road shut down to traffic, they have the time and safety for the future should be top of mind, so why are they not digging to bury the electricity RIGHT NOW? Doesn’t make sense to do the same thing again when they have time right now to get it done right and safe. Bury the electric lines cali! This is one of the things that the congress talks about that would be easy for cali to do right now to stop future fires and should tie this simple idea to the aid money. We will give you aid money if you start to do things differently and more safely and sanely like burying the lines. I saw the claim photos and a lot of those homes along the coast there were hit by downed lines. Now we don’t know if they caught on fire first and burned the poles or if the poles burned down the homes. So why not take that one variation out of the equation right now and bury the lines so that the poles are not starting the fires in the future. Anyway, it is enraging to see california doing the same exact thing as in the past and not doing better by simply starting right now by burying those lines before rebuilding. They have the time to do so, so do it right, start out right and start out more safe than before and bury the lines. It does not take a brain surgeon to realize the common sense in this. But maybe the politicians down there have no common sense or want to see this happen again so just keep the lines in the air still.
It is so cool seeing work already started to bring back electricity. Thank you for this for uploading this video. Rebuilding California like it should be. Thank you so much for this video. This is the kind of video I like seeing. I feel so sad for those who lost their homes. But rebuilding is what needs to be done. I look forward to seeing everything back to normal. No more fires.
@@CjbrkBrooksI did not know that, I mean I guess I did but it didnt occour to me. Thank you for answering a question question that has been bugging me for a couple of days now.
Yes. They are coming and it won’t be pretty. The rainy season (4 weeks) is late and the Santa Ana winds are early by 4-6 weeks. A contributor to the scope of this catastrophe.
wow ty for saving this area. AS just a regular Mainer with not much money to buy a new car or muffler I would Imagine I'd be held hostage here for not passing inspection. Judging by the amount of money it costs from the clean-up. I don"t imagine they"ll keep hostages. Scary place for a tourist who wanted to be where BayWatch is.
That wasn’t the issue. You can’t control 100 mph winds and dry heat and a drought. You realize 100 mph winds is a category 3 hurricane right? Now combine that with embers the size of your head blowing at 100 mph. They couldn’t even get aircraft into the air to do water drops because of the wind, too dangerous to fly.
That brush clearing at the beginning of the video is the California Incline. It is a sloping road in Santa Monica, California that connects to Pacific Coast Highway (PCH). Not really a wildfire threat risk area, done for easy news-clips. BTW slope in this area has been slowly eroding for years.
@@tjCAUk Not so. In other civilised countries where there are seasonal fire risks they have planned and controlled large scale burn offs and clearing exercises to reduce the amount of scrub and leaf litter as a preventative measure. Not so Los Angeles it seems. There were vast tracts of land which should have had such a scheme of planned maintenance but did not. There was also an empty reservoir which was apparently undergoing cover repair in Winter which is obviously a sensible idea but now it's been revealed the reservoir had been empty for 12 months with no action. The US needs to observe what other countries do to minimise fire risks in populated areas such as Australia.
We are still in the rainy season in the Los Angeles area and yet no great amounts of rain fell. The areas burnt now can get mudslides if sufficient rain does fall as February is peak for rain ( 5 days average in that month).
For those who dont live here and have no clue... They are clearing brush to protect the homes not affected by the original fire. We have 40 million people in CA... this PCH has 2 lanes on each side and is packed everyday. Shuttting this down is a disaster , so stop making silly comments and you have never even been here. Some of us use it everyday.
I understand that dry stuff they are clearing off the bluff below Ocean Ave is a fire hazard, but won't that lead to slope destabilizing when the rain comes?
In the early '90s I working in Santa Monica and lived in T.O. Instead of taking the horrible 405/101, I'd take SM Blvd to Ocean and down the CA Incline and PCH all the way up to Kanan Dume. I figured if I had to be stuck in traffic I'd rather have the amazing views of PCH to look at. Heartbreaking to see this now.
What a chaos! You documented it very well; thanks for that. What I do not understand, as someone from the Netherlands, is why wood is used as the primary building material, I mean for the poles, homes, and other structures. As we can all see, the only standing structures are the fireplaces, which are made of bricks. Over here in the Netherlands, bricks, concrete, and steel beams are the main materials for building homes and public places.
Regarding the utilities, why not place them underground? Electricity, broadband internet, gas, and other utilities are all underground here. Especially in hazardous areas like the beautiful nature over there, it should be mandatory. Removing the brush, trees, and vegetation on a hillside only increases the risk of mudslides.
Please think about this and spend your tax money wisely. That said, I wish you all the best and send my condolences to those affected.
Moi j'appelle ça des maisons en carton
Correct. Some building & land usage methods in the US (such as leaving utility systems fully exposed) are oddly unsophisticated.
@@patrickleclere5875because of the “Cardboard houses” most Americans own a house which you cannot say for most Europeans.
We also get frequent earthquakes here, and brick houses would not stand a chance when the dreaded Big One arrives (or even a relatively minor jolt - look at what happens in European countries whenever a moderate earthquake strikes. Brick homes just crumble.) While it is possible to build fireproof and earthquake-proof structures using reinforced concrete, metal roofs, etc., the cost is very high. Very few could afford to build that way.
@@birgitwiley5540 I would rather live in a brick and concrete build fireproof and small appartement then a big cardboard home priced at $500.000 and up!
I take that back I think this is your number one video you've done. Love the dogs visiting the military and the police and firefighters and all that great work but this is actually phenomenal work right here. You really are showing the people the ins and outs. Nobody else is doing this kind of coverage right now. I'm glad to see that you're getting subscribers and your channel is building congratulations to you man. The best to you and your family.
All that brush should have been cleared way before this.
Newsome ordered it not to be cleaned. A rare tick might live there.
Why? None of it burned
The woke government spent billions elsewhere
@@lisizecha9759. Maybe not but the large majority of it certainly did. The governor should be in a cell. Clown of a man 🤡
Code states only 10’ from the road must be cleared ,
Clearing the brush is like closing the barn door after the horse already bolted.
Oh, yes.
Too late.
Better late than never. Unfortunately, there will be more fires and they will be more prepared.
Exactly,a little too late now to start showing the world they care!,i sincerely hope the powers that be see jail time for what could have been greatly avoided!
Then why are some news oranizations saying that some houses were saved by people clearing the brush around them?
Согласен это полная ерунда и одноразовая акция.
We live on the East Coast, but absolutely love Southern California. We’ve visited Southern California twice in the last 3 years for vacation, so we’ve grown to love the place. I’m happy to see Utility Companies already out rebuilding the necessary infrastructure to get Southern California back up and running again. We’re cheering for you guys all the way over here on the East Coast!!
thank you, it's very sad... but they are spirited folks and will rebuild. The lives lost are just unspeakably sad. thank you.
They are in needs of donations:money!
I live in Los Angeles and you wouldn't like it here because right now it gets too hot during the daytime and it's near freezing at night, almost all the way down to 40°. There's too many outdoor cafes, too much nightlife, and too many outdoor activities to choose from. There's just no time to sit around and eat junk food and get fat and watch TV.
Google search it and you'll find mobile home parks are letting them stay for free. Make it simply bulldoze their property, park a mobile home on it add live in luxury, that's what Dolly Parton is doing.
Utilities are using archaic methods to rebuild. Every power pole in Japan is concrete or steel. Wood, really? And even then, we should bury the lines.
Thank you for taking the best footage by riding on your bike with the camera on your head !
Kind of a shame that he doesn't take a mountain bike ride up to North Carolina in the mountains and see real American people suffering
It's not really riding when you have an electric motor on it.
Hes not only one that does that.And its nothing special looking others misery.
There's a new normal for everyone. Be strong you guys. One of those homes on the ocean used to belong to my cousin. It still hurts to see this fire damage at the house he shared with his wife before ALS took her. And where his daughter was born... before the medical bills. Sad to see.
I can remember riding in the car with my family through this section of Pacific Coast Highway on our way home from Oxnard in Ventura county. this was in the early 60's. I was around 6 years old and today I'm 66 years old.
You want a metal........😂😂😂😂
@Rudolph-f2y a metal ?
@@Rudolph-f2yhave some respect little boy
@@Rudolph-f2yA metal what? A metal medal? Ozzy Osbourne already has them all.
@@Rudolph-f2yYou need to stop metaling in other people's affairs
I work for the City of Los Angeles and they slow about everything glad to see them cleaning up that dry shyt along pch that should have been a priority long time ago I knew people personally that got burned out that I've met by just working there for years and hope they get the right kind of help...🇺🇸💯
Suis choqué de constater un état très riche comme la Californie être à ce point dans des situations compliquées dans certains domaines comme l'entretien des espaces verts le nettoyage préventif des abords, l'entretien, la vérification et la maintenance des bouches à incendie....waouh c'est dingue franchement...
Cant BELIEVE they are putting up CHEAP FLAMMABLE WODDEN POLES again
CANT FIX STUPID
@@DanThomas-n1e Doesn't matter, if the metal poles are exposed to fire the wires are going to melt anyway. Better to put up wooden poles that can be repaired quickly and efficiently, and spend the money elsewhere where it might actually matter.
@@joeylantis22 You are a genius. If the wired burn and drop THE ARE NOT ELECTRFIED AND CANNOT START A FIRE-DUHHH. The POLE are burning and LIVE WIRES are starting the fires in the 50 year over growth of scrub brush. Firefighters took 45 minutes to respond to the first pallisades fire, no water in the hydrants. Its intentional fires and if they wanted to stop it with concrete pole or buried lines they would
Those people working show heroism and gave their best of help. Salute to them. God bless them.
SMH Not heros, paid workers. There is no god only fact and superstition. Believe it.
Don't misuse the word heros, they're paid workers on a beautiful sunny day.
There is no god only fact and superstition. Believe it.
I hear ya but, CIty workers and those other agencies sign up for disaster work when they become employed. They mostly are there manditorily and following strict instructions on schedule, lunch break, relief time etc. Put simply, these folks are doing their jobs. Thats part of the deal. Newsom should have been funding them to do that work all year round to prevent the BS. Now the will pay the workers the OT they skimped out on the last few years.
I’m glad you were given access to document all this
Your channel and a couple others I watch has way better coverage than any news !
What are the other channels that have good coverage?
I will try and send you a channel name but it may get removed before you get it. @@di4085
WE (the people) are the news now!!
Yes that's what I prayed for years ago because the news media was not being truthful. So that new news stations would rise up and they have. We are the news source!
What great reporting! Really appreciate that someone is documenting the area at this time. Well done.
Thank you for a brilliant video. This is the best I have seen, and shows us a close up of the utter devastation. Your camera work is amazing. It was such a privilege to ride along with you.
Cant BELIEVE they are putting up CHEAP FLAMMABLE WODDEN POLES again
CANT FIX STUPID
Hey man. What a cool privilege that you’re getting to document such a big part of history. I’m glad you’re getting that opportunity. YOU DEFINITELY DESERVE IT SMC!
yet people with stranded cars and belongings can’t get in!
@holmesglenn True most people who didn't loose thier home might has well have because the can't go back untill clean up happends and that can be years..
Thank you very much, I was looking for information about what could have happened to the Gette Villa and I just saw on your film how you passed by it. Still standing. Thank you once more.
It's standing because they did strict vegetation management around the property.
The brush is gone, but the rain will come…..
It's an eternal process so long as humans live where fires break out. Just how it be.
@@Intamin That's right! The fires were there way before the humans decided to inhabit the area!!!!!
It never rains in Comifornia but girl don’t they warn ya 😏
@@glenngray1201 Wow! Someone ought to write a song with those lyrics in it!🤔🤔🤣🤣👍👍
Imagine driving or cycling along this stunning coastline without these ugly properties in the way. This most outstanding area, and hopefully soon to be World Heritage-listed, must never be redeveloped.
What a brilliant recovery job these guys are doing.May they stay safe while they go about their work.
Shame the power workers have to stand poles up while standing knee deep in piles of rubble that should have been removed before they started. One guy tripped and fell over on camera. Care factor zero by their money-grubbing bosses.😢
Please continue to document the damage and rebuilding process.
Why are US power poles, made of wood? Here in Europe almost all of our power poles are made of reinforced concrete, even rural areas have concrete power poles.
Not all US power poles are made of wood, but on the west coast wood poles are cheap and plentiful. Same reason houses on the west coast are made mostly of wood. Cheap and plentiful and they stand up to earthquakes reasonably well.
They don't burn that easily. They do start fires though.
Time to put them underground.
@@Horace1993 For sure, underground power cables would work, but I think it would be too expensive to move all the power lines underground. Also, wouldn't the repair work on them be a pain in the ass?
@@matriksky Even if maintaining such an underground power line seems complicated, it's actually not that complicated unless you have to replace the entire cable, which actually has to be done almost every 40 to 50 years. Of course, it can happen during construction work on a road that, for example, an excavator damages an underground cable, but in these cases the entire cable is not replaced straight away. These cables are usually divided into segments and connected to each other via cable connectors. In this case, the damaged cable segment is then simply replaced. Often an entire street doesn't even have to be torn up because these cable segments are simply pulled through the cable ducts/tubes underground. I think that's cheaper in the long run than a fragile high-voltage pylon made of wood, which can simply topple over due to devastating storms etc. and trigger a forest fire that burns an entire residential area to rubble.
Thanks to all the workers,firefighters ,first respomders ect who heroically did their best to help restore per,water and gas.
37:00 Looks like a Volvo 240.
I love your videos especially with no narritive.
Poor Volvo. 😢
The amount of manpower and machinery America can throw at problems (when and where it wants to..) is amazing.
For the RICH.
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They like to think ahead... after it happens. It is amazing.
For me all of this looks stupid and amateur from firefighters to workers and to the work they are doing. Amazing!
Should be underground don't you think
Who's going to pay for that? Don't YOU think?
There's not enough time
Thanks for taking us with you on your cool scooter.
Amazing all of that water in the ocean and they still burnt to a crisp.
Thank you, Fabian, for the video documentation of the recovery process. I think you have the very best coverage. By staying on one process long enough for us to see what is happening is your best effort and I appreciate it. Thanks again/
Seems like a missed opportunity to modernize the infrastructure and go underground or at least concrete poles. Especially somewhere that's so corrosive and scenic.
I would have thought taking out the vegatation from the hillside would be a bad move, because when it rains, all that will suddenly cover that highway with mud.
Yea we're dealing with very high level of incompetence here in LA ... actually most of California... they've wrecked the state, and continue to do so unfortunately.
Semi arid region was never meant to have millions of people living there with high density development. Houses on the hillsides of steep canyons, minimal rainfall, earth quake prone, ocean reclaiming the beaches.
What could possibly go wrong?
Very interesting how the beach front property was burnt down and across the road everything is not burnt. Strange fire.
Strong Wind + Embers = jumping fire, nothing strange...
@mikegrogor8632 looking on Google maps I found this area. Looks pretty strange especially the unburned blue trash cans and a blue tarp by the totally burnt car.
I'm not an arson investigator but I know how to use Google maps. Never having actually visited the area I found myself wondering what the buildings looked like before they were destroyed. If you look on Google Street view at the beach front properties before the fire you can follow the same route the camera man does and in a lot of cases even see vehicles parked in the same spots they are in now. I was surprised to see that nearly all of the buildings literally touched each other with the only spaces between them being the occasional public beach access, All it took was a virtual waterfall of embers blasting across the highway at any point up or down the road and once one building caught fire they all did like a fuse running down the beach. If a person had dropped a lit cigarette or had a grease fire on the stove that resulted in the home catching on fire AND for some reason the fire department was delayed or just never showed the result would have been the same. In this case the wind was blowing towards the ocean keeping the fire from coming back across to side of the road it originated from.
@paulschane5865 I'm pretty sure California has some strict fire regulations about that. I was looking at Google maps also. This is a really bad situation. People must be in total shock.
Also the winds were blowing at 50 - 60 MPH over the hill blowing embers across PCH towards the ocean, at times the flames looked like a giant blow torch. All it took were a few embers to land on a roof of an one of those ocean front mansions and the whole block would go up in flames. Many of the homeowners on the east side of PCH lower on the hill got "lucky" that the embers were blown over their homes and possibly that there wasn't much dry brush for the flames to feed on and go down the hill.
thousands of buildings on the ocean coast do not make a nature-friendly shore, this looks ugly, why is it not banned to build along the ocean beaches?
I hope all the liberals who care so much for the environment don't plan on rebuilding their POS in the ocean beach.
Won't removing all the brush along the hillside increase erosion and possibly cause mudslides?
That's the idea..
Of coarse
Definitely.
California gets most of its rain in the winter so the sage weed is green and takes in a lot of the rain that falls. In the summer it dries out increasing the chance for fires. Clearing the brush would have saved these people's homes and lives
@@kylan442 To destroy more houses of those who you doesn't like?
Prayers up for a STRONG Malibu REBUILD🙏🏽🙏🏻🙏🏽🙏🏻
Yes and no PCH structures
Thank you for filming. I’m now a subscriber
Yea this looks normal. Please!! In my 47 years as a firefighter and 10 of those years as a Arson Investigator this fire like so many in the past just do not add up. Period
Great documentation of the restoration effort of Malibu.... it's going to take years to rebuild most likely. It's also surreal and sad seeing this iconic stretch of the PCH gone since I visited it a few months ago and glad I took a lot of pictures of how it used to be. Now it's gone along with the entire Palasides and looks almost like a warzone complete with military checkpoints.
@SantaMonicaCloseup I really appreciate these videos. You have great access and I don't want LA and the first responders to be forgotten. Former Angelino, loved LA since childhood. So heartbroken still. Making homes with poured in place concrete or precast is insane at a master build level.
Don't let them rebuild their ugly houses on the shoreline the shoreline belongs to all of california not just a few rich ppl
Just buy all the land from the property owners and leave the lots empty.
Probably the plan
@WakieUppieYall No rich people own that ocean front property, and rich people donate to politicians. They also pay a shitload of taxes, and California already has a 68 billion dollar budget deficit.
This is sadly an example of capitalism and greed. You see it all over the country, drove to North Carolina shore and couldn’t see the ocean because whole shoreline blocked by houses. Just can’t relate but that’s the culture.
@brutusl2786 It's a highway? You should be watching the road not staring at the ocean. Besides if it wasn't for capitalism , this video wouldn't exist, you wouldn't be able to get on the internet with your computer, tablet, or smartphone and bitch about capitalism. You don't like capitalism when it blocks your view, but you like the conveniences it provides.
The guy falling at 36:00 lol. Yes, I watched the whole thing while eating lunch. Mankind is amazingly resilient. These guys know exactly what they are doing and were ready to go. We can get through anything with modern engineering and preparedness.
Power poles.... Most european countries have underground power and telephone cables. That's why snow, ice and fire don't interrupt the whole infrastructure. And that's why storms don't tear down power lines and cause bush fires. Maybe it's time to modernize.
We're in the process, we have probably 300x as much power power supply than any European country. The other problem is our power layout often trespasses property lines and other utilities that can't be moved
@@13eckerlosmuerte So 300 times more definitely not.
For example, in Germany and many other countries in Europe, more electricity flows through the cables. The only thing that differs is the way (the system behind it) how the electricity is transported and ultimately arrives at the respective house (end consumer). In Europe, electricity is transmitted from power plants with a voltage of up to 380 kV to substations on the edge of a metropolitan area or smaller towns via high-voltage lines (usually above ground and large and tall steel poles). There the electrical voltage is then converted to a lower electrical voltage, the medium voltage (usually to around 20kV) and then passed on in urban areas via underground lines.
From there it usually goes to one of the countless transformers/distribution stations that are connected to several houses in an area and the voltage from 20kV is converted to the electrical voltage of 230V or 400V. From this transformer it goes into distribution boxes (usually in the basement of the respective house) in the various houses, apartments, etc. Electricity comes out of the socket with a voltage of 230V 50hz. In the case of fiber optic cables for telephony and internet or TV cables, there is a similar system (distribution system) in Europe, but these cables are often laid underground throughout. In the USA it is often the case that every single house has a power transformer and there is no distribution system. In addition, these underground power lines in Europe are often owned by the city, country or town and not by companies. These power lines are also shared by several electricity providers so that there are no problems with unwanted overlaps.
In Europe, some cities also have overhead lines over streets, but in most cases there are also lines for trams or buses that are powered by electricity via overhead lines and these lines often have poles made of steel or are made of concrete. In addition, these are also separated from municipal household supply lines and have their own power supply infrastructure.
thank you for doing this it gives a complete depiction of the state of things
Multi million dollar homes sandwiched against each other on a very narrow strip of land between the highway and the ocean makes no sense to me.
i believe winds were blowing with the speed of 100 mph during fire so it does make sense
no it does not make sense ... the brush on side of highway up the cutting seems either barren or unburned ...
the houses would have fire suppression .. pumps .. backup generators ... it does not make snse ... so many videos h fires seem to be of house foires not forest fies
absurd to say malibu strip burned up like wood and ricepaper houses in a ww2 tokyo firestorm
Sorry, I’m not talking about the fires exactly. I’m referring to the weirdness of building so many houses on this tiny strip of sand
@@bonniebates185 Everyone wants a house by the beach, but LA is heavily divided by rock formations. A lot of those beaches are very narrow, leaving little room. In Malibu you can walk from the start of a little beach to the end in a couple minutes. Malibu is not Santa Monica - there is very little land to build by the ocean.
@ ok thanks. I’m on the East Coast. Even the Jersey Shore isen’t packed that tight.
Thank you for showing that the Will Rogers State Beach parking lot, the trees, and the structure next to it still stand. I used to go there a lot and was wondering about it!!
Power polls need to be under ground next time
Agreed, how stupid are these people? Advanced civilisations have underground power especially in high wind fire prone areas. The U.S is third World.
Where do you think they are? Floating in mid air?
Not going to happen. Ratepayers already complain their rates are too high....they would have to foot the bill for that.
@moseschung3220 but 200 billion for Ukraine. Biden sure bent the U.S over and penetrated it in the a..
Those would be some deep ass holes 😂
While Malibu and Maui had similar fires, in CA there’s more property damage, HI more loss of life. Cali seems to be healthily working towards normalcy and recovery with transparency. Hawaii, sadly is clouded in mystery, has no transparency, and seems that efforts to recover are being suppressed and narrowly directed for the benefit of the few. Prayers for Lahaina and LA
Finally, the opportunity came to have the power lines underground, an important fire safety measure. But no... Los Angeles remains a disaster with no plan
8:35. "Star Waggons". Built to accomodate film and television performers and their staff while off the set. It was founded and owned by Lyle Waggoner, best remembered for is appearances on the Carol Burnett Show.
Thanks. Never knew that.
Great reportage, as usual.
Amazing footage. Great work. The damage is unimaginable.
Why don't they replace all those burned electric poles with steel poles is beyond me.. Great video. Thank you.
Or spun concrete…
Wooden electric poles need less maintenance , particularly if they are next to the ocean..There are also concrete electric poles but they are much more expensive.
Actually, steel is not very good in fire. It loses rigidity well before it melts, sometimes at as low as 800 C temperature
@@dmitripogosian5084 Well, they are replacing the many with a steel or an iron clad pole. They have been doing this routinely throughout CA for a few years in fire prone areas.
Great video, thank you! But truthfully, sitting here watching the firemen and women doing the weed abatement alongside P.C.H. brings the saying "a day late and a dollar short" to mind.
I agree with some other comments that the houses that were suspended over the beach should not be rebuilt. They would only be threatened again by rising tides and the inevitable future fires. Great video Fabian.
I agree. Take the I insurance from fire. There is no coverage for shoreline erosion.
I disagree, but rest assured everyone who lost their house will have a struggle to rebuild... the government will make it nearly impossible to rebuild... but they'll make it easy to build their marshall plan ( Newsome quote) to rebuild LA 2.0 their BS 15 min smart city tech ghetto brought to you by the WEF and agenda 2030.
I disagree. They need to be rebuilt. It’s part of Malibu being able to drive down PCH and seeing those beautiful houses alongside the beach.
@ I agree they should be allowed to rebuild just like everyone else should be able to rebuild and quick.. not 3 years from now.
Unless you owned one of those multimillion dollar plots which are more valuable than the cost of rebuilding a house. I wonder if you owned one if you would be prepared to walk away from it as a loss and be happy for the public to access your land to get to the beach and to have picnics on it.
Thanks for these, a question. Are you purposely not filming certain areas? I noticed you didnt turn your head right at all at Gladstones or even Topanga. I noticed you even edited out when you crossed Sunset northbound.
You are giving such great info on the clean up. The news just gives us useless info and useless opinions. Where are you nbc, abc, cbs & ktla. Thank You for what you are doing.
There’s no way they should allow building to go back to hiding g the ocean from the public. It was a great mistake in first place.
Marvelous footage, and the e-bike is the perfect vehicle for filming it.
Using a gimbal/ stabilizer with a chest mount maybe? Thank you for the tour.
What their doing as far as brush removal is great. But they need a chipping machine to grind up all the undergrowth instead of trying to pack it down in dump trucks! Makes more sense with a chipper. 😊
They could always burn it, lol.
Never assume common sense when a bureaucracy is involved.
That brush clearing at the beginning of the video is the California Incline. It is a sloping road in Santa Monica, California that connects to Pacific Coast Highway (PCH). Not really a wildfire threat risk area, done for easy news-clips. BTW slope in this area has been slowly eroding for years.
No more ugly poles.. let's go underground
Then they can't blame the fires on the power poles that the homeless crackies start
Power underground is a bad idea, especially if it is next to old water infrastructure that is prone to leaking. Water split with electricity = hydrogen and oxygen = explosion under ground, not good if you happen to be driving over that section of the road.
@@falcosparverius1. Most of our power is underground in Minnesota. Only the older areas are above ground…and those neighborhoods are unsightly because of it.
Also too expensive!
@@john8451 It's most costly than overhead lines, but Europe for generations has still managed to do a lot of undergrounding. Imagine coastal areas of Italy, France or Spain with power poles all over the landscape.
That's an insane amount of work. Nice job LA!
Caution when riding closely next to parked vehicles. It will only take one door opening as you pass next to it to ruin your day.
Haha, he is a superhero - never fails
I just started watching the video and noticed all the trees behind theses guys. Yikes!
Here in New Jersey, I noticed a lot of trees in central and south Jersey along the Garden State Parkway have been cut. Is this to prevent forest fires from spreading ?
Ironic. All those houses burned to the ground with an endless supply of water in their front yard. Maybe each house (along the beach) could have a super soaker sprinkler system on the roof and perimeter .I've read about landscape breaks around houses. It will be interesting to see what evolves when they start to rebuild.
It will be built back the same as before. That's what evolves. Malibu has had seven devastating fires since 1930. Nothing has been done any different there...Some of those homes have been rebuilt three or four times.
Surprised they're not taking the opportunity to relocate the power lines underground.
@@Plutogalaxy I forget, they'd have to do studies of the 'environmental impact to the endangered Pacific spotted sand fleas before they could look ahead by routing power poles to structures that don't exist.
@@Plutogalaxy If the cost of such work were amortized, it could be done. If the cost of a highway were dependent on fees from people who live right next to a freeway, those homeowners would have annual expenses of $5 million. Same idea applies to how schools, libraries & other public work projects are funded.
@@gcrauwels941 I got some of those in my shorts one time ,screw them ! BTW everything runs along PCH they have to fix them or Malibu will not have enough power I too hope that the wires get buried.
It would be nice if Newsom would think ahead and put forth the case to Trump and FEMA to underground some of the trunk lines. Instead of paying in 20-30 years to replace the overhead lines again.
waaay more expensive
We take so much for granted, thank you to all the workers trying to get people back in their communities. It won't be what it was but it may be better ❤❤💐 59:17 is eerie, where did that staircase lead to?
Oh, so now they are clearing the brush? Finally... 1:07
Looks pretty arid. Still a great place. Impressed with the resources. Great video. Sorry to see so much devastation.
How are they letting you thru. We all wonder. Press tag you have?
I love your footage. It’s incredible, but so sad to see. Amazing response, my question is, how are you able to get in past the barricades into the restricted zone?
He Is a photojournalist with a press pass.
Go Bless our first responders! Keep them safe and THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Press pass is like having The Golden Ticket!
I must say, props to those lineman. At the average rate of what looks like a pole in the ground every 30-45 minutes, I imagine about 20 - 25 poles a day for 1 crew.
I imagine there are more crews from around the country, but who knows.
Thanks for taking the time to post the long video
It was interesting to see the rows of houses that remained between the burned down ones
It was a true gamble
Furthermore, looking over everybody's shoulder without contributing, you reminded me of my mother in law 🤣
I can’t get past that incredible scenery. The ocean + mountains. Gorgeous. Now I can understand why people love Los Angeles so much.
Thank you for your updates. Stay safe.
Millionaires have millions of USD for houses, but no water pumps, even though the houses are by the sea. The US has the weapons for the criminal regime in Ukraine and elsewhere in the world, but it does not have the water distribution and power lines in the country in LA, where every year there is not only a threat, but a recurrence of fires. America is a strange country.
Woke government is coming to an end
American Freedom at its finest.
Who told you about "criminal regime in Ukraine"? Putin or cockroaches in your head?
Guess a lot of miljonairs will rebuild with some safety measures against fire.
Kinda ironic to see Trump go all in on fossil energy to lower inflation and on the other hand we see this. You can put the economy 1st. But I guess mother nature has the final verdict.
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watching this video Hurts! I drive by all these places Often, can't imagine what the residents feel. in a way this videos are getting me ready for when I see it in person. 😔
They have the road shut down to traffic, they have the time and safety for the future should be top of mind, so why are they not digging to bury the electricity RIGHT NOW? Doesn’t make sense to do the same thing again when they have time right now to get it done right and safe. Bury the electric lines cali! This is one of the things that the congress talks about that would be easy for cali to do right now to stop future fires and should tie this simple idea to the aid money. We will give you aid money if you start to do things differently and more safely and sanely like burying the lines. I saw the claim photos and a lot of those homes along the coast there were hit by downed lines. Now we don’t know if they caught on fire first and burned the poles or if the poles burned down the homes. So why not take that one variation out of the equation right now and bury the lines so that the poles are not starting the fires in the future. Anyway, it is enraging to see california doing the same exact thing as in the past and not doing better by simply starting right now by burying those lines before rebuilding. They have the time to do so, so do it right, start out right and start out more safe than before and bury the lines. It does not take a brain surgeon to realize the common sense in this. But maybe the politicians down there have no common sense or want to see this happen again so just keep the lines in the air still.
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Yes us allstupid
A little late on the brush clearing, don't you think ? All power and telecom should be in underground conduit. We will never learn
Looks like the original residents had part of the solution, Adobe. Then stucco.
I’m wondering if now the removal of all the bushes and trees will cause erosion and landslides?
Your not the only one thinking that in the comments section
We have watched part one 🔥
Stand by for part two as it comes with the territory..
Ventura loves you Malibu!! Sending support from The 805 ♥ (home of The Thomas Fire)
What does 805 mean?
@@di4085 That's the telephone area code of Ventura County.
Thank you for this video
Que bonito se ve el mar sin las mansiones.eo creador seba lo que hace.
It is so cool seeing work already started to bring back electricity. Thank you for this for uploading this video. Rebuilding California like it should be. Thank you so much for this video. This is the kind of video I like seeing. I feel so sad for those who lost their homes. But rebuilding is what needs to be done. I look forward to seeing everything back to normal. No more fires.
What happens when it pours rain? Won't there be mud slides?
The roots are still there. It all grows back.
@@CjbrkBrooksI did not know that, I mean I guess I did but it didnt occour to me. Thank you for answering a question question that has been bugging me for a couple of days now.
Yes. They are coming and it won’t be pretty. The rainy season (4 weeks) is late and the Santa Ana winds are early by 4-6 weeks. A contributor to the scope of this catastrophe.
Yes
Extraordinary!!!! Thank you.
Thanks!
Such irony of that water spewing from underground to the surface.
Yeah they claim to not have enough water from fire hydrants and the homes were mostly along the ocean ...hmmmm🤔
Thats not even how you use the word irony..
@@tomatosofficial1124
Clearly missing the point let's move on...don't bother replying.😮
wow ty for saving this area. AS just a regular Mainer with not much money to buy a new car or muffler I would Imagine I'd be held hostage here for not passing inspection. Judging by the amount of money it costs from the clean-up. I don"t imagine they"ll keep hostages. Scary place for a tourist who wanted to be where BayWatch is.
Why wasn't this brush controlled? Blatant negligence.
That wasn’t the issue. You can’t control 100 mph winds and dry heat and a drought. You realize 100 mph winds is a category 3 hurricane right? Now combine that with embers the size of your head blowing at 100 mph. They couldn’t even get aircraft into the air to do water drops because of the wind, too dangerous to fly.
Sitting at your computer pretending you're an expert
That brush clearing at the beginning of the video is the California Incline. It is a sloping road in Santa Monica, California that connects to Pacific Coast Highway (PCH). Not really a wildfire threat risk area, done for easy news-clips. BTW slope in this area has been slowly eroding for years.
So you like desert landscape, land erosion and landslides, eh?
@@tjCAUk Not so. In other civilised countries where there are seasonal fire risks they have planned and controlled large scale burn offs and clearing exercises to reduce the amount of scrub and leaf litter as a preventative measure. Not so Los Angeles it seems. There were vast tracts of land which should have had such a scheme of planned maintenance but did not. There was also an empty reservoir which was apparently undergoing cover repair in Winter which is obviously a sensible idea but now it's been revealed the reservoir had been empty for 12 months with no action. The US needs to observe what other countries do to minimise fire risks in populated areas such as Australia.
We are still in the rainy season in the Los Angeles area and yet no great amounts of rain fell. The areas burnt now can get mudslides if sufficient rain does fall as February is peak for rain ( 5 days average in that month).
For those who dont live here and have no clue... They are clearing brush to protect the homes not affected by the original fire. We have 40 million people in CA... this PCH has 2 lanes on each side and is packed everyday. Shuttting this down is a disaster , so stop making silly comments and you have never even been here. Some of us use it everyday.
I lived in San diego you should move to worst is coming
How do you get through all those checkpoint's so easily..
Press pass identification.
Apostrophe abuse...
Danke für die tolle Berichterstattung
I understand that dry stuff they are clearing off the bluff below Ocean Ave is a fire hazard, but won't that lead to slope destabilizing when the rain comes?
Thank you!!! to the brave, firefighters in LA 🙏🙏🙏 God Bless you🙏🙏🙏
Thank you beautiful job 🙏🙏🙏😱
First priority is to put up more power poles that cause more fires
Job security after the next fire.
In the early '90s I working in Santa Monica and lived in T.O. Instead of taking the horrible 405/101, I'd take SM Blvd to Ocean and down the CA Incline and PCH all the way up to Kanan Dume. I figured if I had to be stuck in traffic I'd rather have the amazing views of PCH to look at.
Heartbreaking to see this now.
God bless America. I wish you a speedy recovery.