I'd rather just drain the reservoir and take my chances. That's why I vote democrat, common sense, c'mon people. This Caruso guy doesn't know what he's talking about. What did he ever accomplish? #BASSISBEST
@@CarlaMiller-qw2pm they didn’t but it’s basic infrastructure resilience to protect the public utilities from wind, bad weather, etc. Having no power makes fighting literally any disaster that much harder, especially if sparks from down lines is causing said disaster to continue
Caruso is a lot smarter than they give him credit for. Underground electrical is a very good idea. He’s a developer and he knows a lot about building practices. Could have prevented some key issues. GOATs are a very good idea.
Caruso is a rocket scientist compared to Democrats. Caruso wants to run the city as a business while Democrats want to run it as their own personal bank account focused on all the wrong things.
Nah, I vote democrat. We need to spend billions more per year on health insurance and subsidies for the undocumented, those are the right priorities. Anything else is just racist.
Yes I agree - I found the reporting really poor on this - I started fact checking this episode and he's wrong on a lot of points. Just because you can say something with confidence doesn't mean you're right. Very disappointing.
@@thisisme-k4o no he wasn't wrong on anything, what is wrong is people like you who will never accept that you are wrong and that wherever Dems are in charge, or Socialists in any Western country, what follows is chaos, corruption, crime, waste and collapse of society. Why can you not see that your Liberalism is naivety !
@@ivanvanogre-nd1sw I'm all about virtue singaling and staying woke and affirmative action and DEI. That should trump qualifications for sure. Common sense people, c'mon.
@0:48 the talk of decisions being good should not be predicated on their being good "business" ones; maybe it looked "good" on paper for "equipment management" to have those older fire engines in that yard. Maui had 4 times the deaths in a fast-moving fire; Australia also, in much wider spaces, but I don't think their fire brigades, departments were or weren't ethnically diverse, or if it was a factor. Having private fire brigades only tends towards attrition of public departments. Bill's still kvetching re: Covid, again with the Ivermectin. What did it win a Nobel for? Horses? Kissinger & Yasser Arafat both won Nobel Peace prizes, but I doubt Bill sings their praises.
You if wanted to get goats. You’d need a permit, an environmental study, energy efficiency assessment, analysis of the goats’ fart 💨 make sure they’re not polluting, etc . That’s going to take like 20 years.
2 things, Bill - First, Caruso states "we're in the peak of fire season". January was NEVER part of that time frame. It's only in the last decade we now experience 'fire YEAR', not only a season. So when exactly CAN a reservoir be off-line for needed repairs, or whatever else is necessary? Second, Trump was NOT "right" about fire prevention maintenance of our state. Trump is neither knowledgeable nor experienced in achieving complete management of our over 30 MILLION acres of natural all-terrain vegetation, and especially not with an incident like the recent unprecedented firestorm. Thankfully, this video clip of listening to the duo of Smug & Smarmy, was a mere 2.5 minutes in length.
I agree. That's when I stopped watching the full episode, the spot between Caruso saying he knew the fire would happen and Bill was touting Trump on Ivermectin. Cheap talk and hot air 😔
The reservoir was offline since February… nearly a year… obvious mismanagement! Please don’t blame others as not knowledgeable when you are that unknowledgeable 😅
@@DianeRyan-e8c See my earlier comment - he's totally pivoting for ratings and approval of the majority. Really disappointing. I started to go off Bill Maher when I saw his fawning interview of Elon Musk. It was insane.
So you would rather say something as ignorant as "it's okay to keep dried brush" which is a major accelerant, just because you want to go against Trump? So you are aware, there is many reports, documents, emails, video footage of meetings all saying the same thing before the fire and it was ignored! Even the insurance companies that cancelled most home owners insurance was because all these reports and requirements were ignored!
@@agaperion Hmmmm - So which State would permit excessive public spending? Fire fighting is basically socialism at work, is it not? Public services is a social community issue. Constituents would not agree to massive % increases on taxes for this type of infrastructure. As in ''infrastructure week'.
The amount of money collected in California is massive, where does it all go? To silliness! Yes, there is plenty of money, it is about having stupid priorities! But either way, basic reservoir repair, cleaning the dried brush etc was NOT done!
Since when is January fire season? It's Winter and you're trying to make this a political thing not a climate thing. If you saw an area of vegetation that looked overgrown or a concern it could be a fire hazard, did you call the Mayor's office? Or the City Manager? No? Maybe it's a freak of nature or climate change that causes this terrible disaster plain and simple.
It's fire season from October until it rains. It hasn't rained in Southern California this season. Stop being an apologist for our incompetent leaders.
@kathleenmatthews4050 i lived in San Diego for 12 yrs. The Santa Ana Winds come every December January. Like clockwork. In fact....I can remember many Dec 25ths being on the beach in 90-degree weather sunning, playing in the surf with my kids. Climate change may be a factor, but these winds are also Nature, showing us all its magnificent force. .....andvwhile you discuss that aspect..... where is that mythological god that many worship? It didn't save shit, huh?
Not one mention about 100 mile an hour winds.. talk about tuesday morning quarterback. Also, it's not fire season, it's supposed to be raining at this time of year.
This guy is a case of a billionaire taking matters into his own hands. Can’t be mad at him for hiring private firefighters, shame on LA that Caruso even had to do so.
Because 100 Mph winds along with a fire is mother nature's way of saying screw you! No rain since May??? Good job pushing back ,Maher! You're so disappointing these days.
It’s not that long ago. California has only one rainy season and the rest of the year is dry. That’s the appeal of the state. They need to leverage that rainy season and fill up reservoirs which are exactly what they are built for.
@@TEXUTUBE Now is around when the rainy season is suppose to be. And the they just had a lot of rain. And you can't build a reservoir overnight. And they had hurricane winds which no one, not even this fool, could've predicted. Also if you strip the hillside of vegetation and then the rain does come it produces a mudslide. This guy is so stupid.
🔥🚒 He is not fully wrong, but that doesn’t make him right! Yes, LAFD needs more funding - same as LAPD, LAUSD and many other Departments that serve the community! I hope you invite LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley on one of your next shows, not just to thank her for the incredible job she and all of LAFD are doing, but to get the facts directly from her.
Sad thing is "Fire Season" is a thing of the past. It's become an all year around event with the weather patterns shifting and now no longer predictable. Preparation for anything and everything always is key. (Then you don't have to worry about it, READY when it's time.)
You can prevent it from ever getting that far! Take care of homeless, thesy start fires, take care of illegals they start fires. Monitor know fire zone, take care of dry vegetation, keep your reservoirs full, built more,etc. It's not rocket science. It's just common sense with the left lacks
Exactly Tanja, I was to see Trump and the Qanon crowd out there with a full brigade of fire fighters within 5 minutes of it starting and see if they're a match for 50mph winds and 100mpg gusts!!!
@@goldbug1180 Just in case anybody asks I didn't' comment about anything both of them said. I just don't remember seeing a guy with polished nails, ever. But then, I am not American and maybe men do that over there.
Notice how Bill only mentioned Bass. I remember when Newsom came on the show while still mayor of SF. Bill congratulated him on how well he was running SF. Meanwhile we could already see things were going to 💩!
Bass is in the cross hairs. She's going to be the scapegoat for the party. Not Bill's fault. At least he's brought on Caruso to start the conversation.
Hindsight is always 20/20 there was not enogh water to cover over 70 square miles, the winds were 80-110 mph with flames over 80 feet high. You would need 3 fire truck to each house to put out that type of inferno with 200k houses all at once???!!! Sorry mother nature was at an advantage no matter what!. The planes could not fly to help to cover more territory to help the firefighters!
It was NOT hindsight, when there is a warning of the fires ahead of time and when you are a known high risk area! You do not have the reservoir that holds the MOST water in disrepair for a year! Power lines that should have been buried, dried brush that should have been cleared! The flames were that large BECAUSE it was allowed to get out of control and because the accelerant of the brush! With all the money collected and spent on silliness, money could have been spent on new innovative precautions such as underground pumps from the ocean for fire emergencies use, large sprinkler systems etc! Also the empty reservoir was by far the largest one, was elevated above the communities and right next to Palisades. This warning has been said for years, detailing all needed and it was ignored! The insurance companies cancelled most home owners insurance precisely for that same neglectful reason!
Oh come on man, THIS AH did not make a prediction, he talked out of his ass. The winds were NOT predictable. Why does Bill lionize people that do not have any expertise in wildfires.
You can mitigate risks. Clear up the dry and dead vegetation from the forests. How hard is it? Living trees won’t burn as they are full of water. Dry and dead trees a fuel for fire and not to mention the bushes on the ground. 20 billion for homelessness but no money for this?
January typically has way more Santa Ana events, thus very low humidity levels than July. July is typically an onshore flow of air off the ocean which is more humid.
@@siemprecontraladerecha8588 The bigger question at play here is the firefighters from Canada and Mexico. Were they an ethnically balanced and gender neutral mix of LGBTQIA+ individuals? No one is talking about this.
There are a variety of reasons to keep old vegetation under control and removed, but when you are dealing with 90 to 100 mph winds, it doesn’t matter how much you have cleared things out. The senders are going to be so numerous and travel so far, That plays a very small role when you are dealing with fires on this level and scale. But when rebuilding occurs, yes, powerlines should be buried underground. But they’re also need to be extreme changes in building codes. You are in a high fire risk area. The only homes that survived this time were made out of concrete and metal with very specific design features. This should be the standard for all homes in these areas when things are rebuilt, the same way that dome homes are the only ones that survive in coastal areas when a hurricane hits because the wind flows over them instead of hitting them directly. We keep building homes the same way we did 400 years ago. As the world in climate change our building standards need to change as well.
I disagree! Having adequate water, fireman, equipment, cleared dry brush ALL can help and help to keep it from getting so big that it becomes impossible to contain! In addition, people would have had insurance at least!
We could have easily predicted Florida would be hit with another hurricane, so why does anybody care or help at all when it's their fault every time they get hit with a hurricane? "If it's predictable then it's preventable." Why doesn't Florida simply prevent the hurricanes as Rick suggests?
Santa Ana winds in December/January have been a common occurrence in the Palisades for the 40 years I have lived here. Warm wind on Christmas is our snow on Christmas. Cold night soccer practice with a warm breeze, that was my childhood.
Just because there are Santa Ana’s doesn’t mean it’s peak fire season. I read this time of year is a rainy season (except in San Diego where it never rains).
Where would the water come from? Where would the money come from to rebuild the infrastructure? Raise taxes again?! Everyone has criticism but no answers.
We did a calculation back in 1980 and discovered the planet is like a locomotive. It takes a long time for it to do anything. This run away train had 50 years to stop and reverse, which is normal for a planetary change. Here we are! The train not only didn't slow down, but it sped up! Now, there is no amount of effort that will stop this train on time. Atmospheric chaos is coming... brace for impact...
Fine, but I'll bet he doesn't fix everything. You know, those pesky budget cuts and all. But it's good to hear that he wants to do infrastructure spending.
This app you're on right now can show you past weather reports. Go look them up. All the ones I saw over the past month or so were warning about this very thing. Anybody who's been paying attention saw this coming.
as someone that grew up with controlled burns and brush/dead fall removal its weird watching California have this internal argument. The past and what is still used all over the world still works but yet some forget it or dont want to do it and instead they deal with fires all the time. I understand you cant get rid of them all but the damage mitigation has to have effort behind it. Crazy to us down here in the south and southwest where the cali practices would cause us fires all the time as well if we didnt practice old common sense technics.
Hey Bill , you know who else works cheap? The CDC inmates who fight wildfires for the state and are never acknowledged. It's not just the LAFD that fight fires.
Also disagree with his point about running a government is like running a business. It is not, and should never be. Government is a service “of and by the people” and in no way a business.
I'm mad at myself that I voted for Bass. I have hung on voting Democratic despite hating so much of what they do. This round? Caruso all the way. In fact, listening to him talk, it's obvious he's like the old-school republican moderates who helped California. thrive.
There’s literally a wsj video of prisoners cutting then raking brush out in la. So I don’t know why people keep mocking trump about this when the state of California is literally having prisoners do it now (a little to late)
It's not spent for the homeless. It's spent on the administration for the homeless. Those homeless managers make huge amounts of money and are obviously interested to keep their job. If there would be fewer homeless that would risk their well paid jobs...
Did Caruso run on comprehensive fire preparedness last time? did he advocate for clearing out the dry fire fuels with goats, to keep water levels fully restored, to upgrade the exposed power lines to underground power lines, etc? He claims that he would have fully funded the fire department, but we know now that it would not have been enough to have made a difference, we needed to to all the other things to be prepared. He actually ran on many other things and maybe on fully funding the fire department, which would not have been enough, and now for him to claim in hindsight that "I am so sad that I was right" is such a slimy politician speech to take credit for something that he was not any better prepared to handle what happened. And this dishonest politician is who you want to vote for in 2026 just because he made a self serving TV lie claiming that things would have been different if he had been elected? What a disgusting self serving politician. Don't be fooled by Caruso.
@accesswireless189 and bass being on a press junket as LA burned isn’t slimy? And then her petulant stonewalling to a reporter? Go preach to someone else. She’s a disgrace.
Fully fund the fire dept and the expense of what. VA, Schools, what service would you take from. Just like a company budgeting is a balancing act. Not everything gets funded.
It's not border negligence, it's criminal negligence.
People laugh, but goats are a good idea.
They absolutely work. They do a swift, thorough job & people have small businesses renting them out.
So are orange trees/
I'd rather just drain the reservoir and take my chances. That's why I vote democrat, common sense, c'mon people. This Caruso guy doesn't know what he's talking about. What did he ever accomplish? #BASSISBEST
@@arwenstrong2818greatest of all time, goats.
A very good idea
There are two companies in San Francisco that offer brush clearing services with goats and sheep.
I love that.
We have them up here in Washington too. They work really well in rough terrain.
Amazing
NorCal resident here; the goats work!!!
The power lines situation is inexcusable. NYC buried its power lines in 1888!!! Almost 140 years ago!!
Different terrain in LA.
@@dtegg91 power lines did not cause this fire
FYI Huntington Palisades - that part of town had buried power lines.
@@CarlaMiller-qw2pm they didn’t but it’s basic infrastructure resilience to protect the public utilities from wind, bad weather, etc. Having no power makes fighting literally any disaster that much harder, especially if sparks from down lines is causing said disaster to continue
not all of new york city. all of manhattan, yes, many parts of brooklyn, but there still are many above ground power lines.
We have goats in Agoura Hills eating dry brush.
Also downhill from the Reagan Library.
Every fire prone area needs more goats.
Same in Thousand Oaks
Make America Goats Again . . .
Caruso is a lot smarter than they give him credit for. Underground electrical is a very good idea.
He’s a developer and he knows a lot about building practices. Could have prevented some key issues.
GOATs are a very good idea.
Caruso is a rocket scientist compared to Democrats. Caruso wants to run the city as a business while Democrats want to run it as their own personal bank account focused on all the wrong things.
Those in government need to get back to basics. Take care of those first, then get to your niche passion projects.
Nah, I vote democrat. We need to spend billions more per year on health insurance and subsidies for the undocumented, those are the right priorities. Anything else is just racist.
Rick kept saying that its peak fire season. But its not peak fire season, that's usually summer and fall
Exactly. This guy doesn't know what he's talking about. Just another grifter.
It's always fire season in SoCal when it hasn't rained since last year.😅
Season or no season, those in charge cut water and man power for dei, drug needles, and illegals. They BLUE it! And cost lives and livelihoods
When it does not rain for 8 months and there is brush then it is fire season
@@arvnar2023 OP is somewhat right but Arvnar covers the most relevant aspect.
January is not peak fire season in LA traditionally.
What's your point?
That he's saying it's leak fire season... and it's not.
Yes I agree - I found the reporting really poor on this - I started fact checking this episode and he's wrong on a lot of points. Just because you can say something with confidence doesn't mean you're right. Very disappointing.
@@thisisme-k4o I dont think he is wrong!
@@thisisme-k4o no he wasn't wrong on anything, what is wrong is people like you who will never accept that you are wrong and that wherever Dems are in charge, or Socialists in any Western country, what follows is chaos, corruption, crime, waste and collapse of society. Why can you not see that your Liberalism is naivety !
The voters rejected him in favor of Karen Bass. Lol. Reap the rewards LA voters!!!
Bass is more woke though, and that's what counts.
@@daleb4148
She has Virtue-Signalling selfies from Ghana to prove it!
@@ivanvanogre-nd1sw I'm all about virtue singaling and staying woke and affirmative action and DEI. That should trump qualifications for sure. Common sense people, c'mon.
@@daleb4148 agree. DEI is the #1 priority
Karen Bass is good at staring at reporters for long periods of time without saying anything. It's an art.
@0:48 the talk of decisions being good should not be predicated on their being good "business" ones; maybe it looked "good" on paper for "equipment management" to have those older fire engines in that yard. Maui had 4 times the deaths in a fast-moving fire; Australia also, in much wider spaces, but I don't think their fire brigades, departments were or weren't ethnically diverse, or if it was a factor.
Having private fire brigades only tends towards attrition of public departments.
Bill's still kvetching re: Covid, again with the Ivermectin. What did it win a Nobel for? Horses?
Kissinger & Yasser Arafat both won Nobel Peace prizes, but I doubt Bill sings their praises.
You if wanted to get goats. You’d need a permit, an environmental study, energy efficiency assessment, analysis of the goats’ fart 💨 make sure they’re not polluting, etc . That’s going to take like 20 years.
No you don't that's why it's good
Actually, no. They do this in my area.
But think about the random flowers that might go extinct if the goats eat them.
2 things, Bill - First, Caruso states "we're in the peak of fire season". January was NEVER part of that time frame. It's only in the last decade we now experience 'fire YEAR', not only a season. So when exactly CAN a reservoir be off-line for needed repairs, or whatever else is necessary? Second, Trump was NOT "right" about fire prevention maintenance of our state. Trump is neither knowledgeable nor experienced in achieving complete management of our over 30 MILLION acres of natural all-terrain vegetation, and especially not with an incident like the recent unprecedented firestorm. Thankfully, this video clip of listening to the duo of Smug & Smarmy, was a mere 2.5 minutes in length.
I agree. That's when I stopped watching the full episode, the spot between Caruso saying he knew the fire would happen and Bill was touting Trump on Ivermectin. Cheap talk and hot air 😔
You work for Karen Bass huh?
The reservoir was offline since February… nearly a year… obvious mismanagement! Please don’t blame others as not knowledgeable when you are that unknowledgeable 😅
@@DianeRyan-e8c See my earlier comment - he's totally pivoting for ratings and approval of the majority. Really disappointing. I started to go off Bill Maher when I saw his fawning interview of Elon Musk. It was insane.
So you would rather say something as ignorant as "it's okay to keep dried brush" which is a major accelerant, just because you want to go against Trump? So you are aware, there is many reports, documents, emails, video footage of meetings all saying the same thing before the fire and it was ignored! Even the insurance companies that cancelled most home owners insurance was because all these reports and requirements were ignored!
Build underground power lines? Every country in the world tries to do that but the cost is too exhorbitant. GOP would never go for that one.
Can't shift blame to the GOP for problems in California, kiddo.
@@agaperion Hmmmm - So which State would permit excessive public spending? Fire fighting is basically socialism at work, is it not? Public services is a social community issue. Constituents would not agree to massive % increases on taxes for this type of infrastructure. As in ''infrastructure week'.
The amount of money collected in California is massive, where does it all go? To silliness! Yes, there is plenty of money, it is about having stupid priorities! But either way, basic reservoir repair, cleaning the dried brush etc was NOT done!
This guy should run for president. At least he can string a sentence together.
If he can be our Governor I will be very happy with that.
If he becomes the next , mayor , then the next governor , he has a shot. problem is if he was 10 years younger he would have the energy.
I'd be fine with Mayor
There's ALWAYS a water shortage in Cal. HELLO, can those stupid politicians help with that? NOOOOOO
There's not a water shortage, there's a reservoir and aquaduct shortage.
No rain in more than 6 months is a water shortage for sure
Since when is January fire season? It's Winter and you're trying to make this a political thing not a climate thing. If you saw an area of vegetation that looked overgrown or a concern it could be a fire hazard, did you call the Mayor's office? Or the City Manager? No? Maybe it's a freak of nature or climate change that causes this terrible disaster plain and simple.
Jan is the most windy thus fire season
It's fire season from October until it rains. It hasn't rained in Southern California this season. Stop being an apologist for our incompetent leaders.
@kathleenmatthews4050
i lived in San Diego for 12 yrs. The Santa Ana Winds come every December January. Like clockwork.
In fact....I can remember many Dec 25ths being on the beach in 90-degree weather sunning, playing in the surf with my kids.
Climate change may be a factor, but these winds are also Nature, showing us all its magnificent force.
.....andvwhile you discuss that aspect..... where is that mythological god that many worship?
It didn't save shit, huh?
even fire fighters are saying it was preventable
Is it a climate thing that they don't even have water in hydrants? Stop defending the gross incompetence!
Not one mention about 100 mile an hour winds.. talk about tuesday morning quarterback. Also, it's not fire season, it's supposed to be raining at this time of year.
It's fire season . . . until it rains. Calendar has nothing to do with it . . .
No one but the dozens of people in the comments here
Exactly!!!!
You know nothing. You're probably paid by Bass and Newsom to gaslight in the comments.
It’s always fire season in socal, even gov Newsome said that.
This guy is a case of a billionaire taking matters into his own hands. Can’t be mad at him for hiring private firefighters, shame on LA that Caruso even had to do so.
Yes, we need more billionaires in charge b/c they look out for us. /s
@@Chris-pi4px it’s like he listened to the people who told him this was going to happen, plain and simple common sense.
@@NotSoMuchFrankly They will be in three days. We'll see how that works out.
There just ain't no fixing your kind of stupid!
@@NotSoMuchFrankly They're doing a better job than the politicians.
Lazy people create problems. Clean your house before blaming the homeless.
Hey!!
"What is predictable is preventable" - words to live by
The important thing is mayor Bass got to meet the new president of Ghana. Thanks to Biden.
So Biden told her to go to Ghana? I guess you won't have anyone to blame when Biden is out of office. You won't blame Trump for anything, of course.
She also got to have a nice expensive trip too. But the most important thing is that she got to go to Paris for the Olympics.
@@olddirtbiker5088They aren't lying. Bass went to Ghana "at Biden's request." It is a fact mentioned by the press.
Bill letting a smarter more knowledgeable person talk is a rarity
Please. We are all begging you. Whoever is the woo guy you've hired for the past 5 years. Fire them. Its the most obnoxious human being on earth
And so much of this particular show is tone-deaf laughter, and it's not funny at all.
Because 100 Mph winds along with a fire is mother nature's way of saying screw you! No rain since May??? Good job pushing back ,Maher! You're so disappointing these days.
It’s not that long ago. California has only one rainy season and the rest of the year is dry. That’s the appeal of the state. They need to leverage that rainy season and fill up reservoirs which are exactly what they are built for.
Disappointing is putting it kindly. He has become Zelig.
@@TEXUTUBE Now is around when the rainy season is suppose to be. And the they just had a lot of rain. And you can't build a reservoir overnight. And they had hurricane winds which no one, not even this fool, could've predicted.
Also if you strip the hillside of vegetation and then the rain does come it produces a mudslide. This guy is so stupid.
Some saved their homes with rather simple measures. .... others just walked away
@@CHMichael And those simple measures were what?
Simple statements like this are nothing but misinformation.
When will this be available on Amazon Prime Video?
It’s funny cause if Trump said the goat idea he’d be mocked for months…. I blame it on his incoherent, goofy ass delivery. God I hate him lol
goats are a good idea - don‘t laugh at goats !
🔥🚒 He is not fully wrong, but that doesn’t make him right! Yes, LAFD needs more funding - same as LAPD, LAUSD and many other Departments that serve the community! I hope you invite LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley on one of your next shows, not just to thank her for the incredible job she and all of LAFD are doing, but to get the facts directly from her.
Sad thing is "Fire Season" is a thing of the past. It's become an all year around event with the weather patterns shifting and now no longer predictable. Preparation for anything and everything always is key. (Then you don't have to worry about it, READY when it's time.)
for ficks sake bill.... you make it so hard to like you
California was preventable. North Carolina wasn't preventable. Cali demands national taxpayer financial support. NC gets what?
Billions of dollars .. and counting.
This is crap. That fire hit so hard because of hundred mile an hour Santa Ana winds. You cannot put that out.
And because they didn't rake
You can prevent it from ever getting that far! Take care of homeless, thesy start fires, take care of illegals they start fires. Monitor know fire zone, take care of dry vegetation, keep your reservoirs full, built more,etc. It's not rocket science. It's just common sense with the left lacks
Exactly Tanja, I was to see Trump and the Qanon crowd out there with a full brigade of fire fighters within 5 minutes of it starting and see if they're a match for 50mph winds and 100mpg gusts!!!
They could've saved at least dozens of houses with adequate water.
@@kurtsakslsvideosaks9185if you clean the forest the fire wouldn't start
It seems Rick Caruso made sure he has beautiful nail polish...
Dont hate cause he's fit.
Nails aside, what did you think of what he said?
They're most likely buffed not polished.
All that woke-libs have left are insults and “neener, neener” stuff like this
@@goldbug1180 Just in case anybody asks I didn't' comment about anything both of them said. I just don't remember seeing a guy with polished nails, ever. But then, I am not American and maybe men do that over there.
I’m from the high desert, where fires live…. This guy is full of it….
Unfortunately less full of it than Karen Bass. Had he been mayor we might not be this deep in this BS.
Notice how Bill only mentioned Bass. I remember when Newsom came on the show while still mayor of SF. Bill congratulated him on how well he was running SF. Meanwhile we could already see things were going to 💩!
Now the state is a laughing stock
Bass is in the cross hairs. She's going to be the scapegoat for the party. Not Bill's fault. At least he's brought on Caruso to start the conversation.
The Internet is so important when they update they put it underground. You'd think the electrical companies would be as smart.
It’s all about money and repairs for you have to have excuses for money
Did this village send their private firemen to go help others in surrounding areas after they were safe?
Excellent job💙
Oh dude goats is a great idea. Might lose some to lions tho
Better than joggers or bikers.
Hindsight is always 20/20 there was not enogh water to cover over 70 square miles, the winds were 80-110 mph with flames over 80 feet high. You would need 3 fire truck to each house to put out that type of inferno with 200k houses all at once???!!! Sorry mother nature was at an advantage no matter what!. The planes could not fly to help to cover more territory to help the firefighters!
It was NOT hindsight, when there is a warning of the fires ahead of time and when you are a known high risk area! You do not have the reservoir that holds the MOST water in disrepair for a year! Power lines that should have been buried, dried brush that should have been cleared! The flames were that large BECAUSE it was allowed to get out of control and because the accelerant of the brush! With all the money collected and spent on silliness, money could have been spent on new innovative precautions such as underground pumps from the ocean for fire emergencies use, large sprinkler systems etc! Also the empty reservoir was by far the largest one, was elevated above the communities and right next to Palisades. This warning has been said for years, detailing all needed and it was ignored! The insurance companies cancelled most home owners insurance precisely for that same neglectful reason!
Border negligence? It is negligence.
Im not even from Cali I know that january is not peak fire season..
It's fire season . . . until it rains. Calendar has nothing to do with it . . .
What are you talking about? Stay in your lane.
We use goats in Colorado 🐐
Oh come on man, THIS AH did not make a prediction, he talked out of his ass. The winds were NOT predictable. Why does Bill lionize people that do not have any expertise in wildfires.
You can mitigate risks. Clear up the dry and dead vegetation from the forests. How hard is it? Living trees won’t burn as they are full of water. Dry and dead trees a fuel for fire and not to mention the bushes on the ground. 20 billion for homelessness but no money for this?
His ugly mall ruined the palisades
More than the fires (?) Come on . . . get real.
January is “peak fire season”? Really. Hard to believe that January is worse than July as an example.
It's fire season . . . until it rains. Calendar has nothing to do with it . . .
January typically has way more Santa Ana events, thus very low humidity levels than July. July is typically an onshore flow of air off the ocean which is more humid.
This guy had private fire Fighters. Where did they get the water from is the question? So unfair for Altadena people.
He used flame retardant, and he also brought in water trucks. Yea, LA could have done that too. Smart is not unfair, any structure saved is a win.
@ the guy thinks of the Country as if it were a Business. Such a crap.
Yeah. That's a question. Here's another. How do private firefighters in Brentwood affect Altadena which is 40 miles away?
@ and yet another question rises, where did These private fire Fighters get their water from? Did they also bring it from Oregon ?
@@siemprecontraladerecha8588 The bigger question at play here is the firefighters from Canada and Mexico. Were they an ethnically balanced and gender neutral mix of LGBTQIA+ individuals? No one is talking about this.
There are a variety of reasons to keep old vegetation under control and removed, but when you are dealing with 90 to 100 mph winds, it doesn’t matter how much you have cleared things out. The senders are going to be so numerous and travel so far, That plays a very small role when you are dealing with fires on this level and scale.
But when rebuilding occurs, yes, powerlines should be buried underground. But they’re also need to be extreme changes in building codes. You are in a high fire risk area. The only homes that survived this time were made out of concrete and metal with very specific design features. This should be the standard for all homes in these areas when things are rebuilt, the same way that dome homes are the only ones that survive in coastal areas when a hurricane hits because the wind flows over them instead of hitting them directly. We keep building homes the same way we did 400 years ago. As the world in climate change our building standards need to change as well.
I disagree! Having adequate water, fireman, equipment, cleared dry brush ALL can help and help to keep it from getting so big that it becomes impossible to contain! In addition, people would have had insurance at least!
A useless conversation
We could have easily predicted Florida would be hit with another hurricane, so why does anybody care or help at all when it's their fault every time they get hit with a hurricane? "If it's predictable then it's preventable." Why doesn't Florida simply prevent the hurricanes as Rick suggests?
Apples and oranges comparison. Fires are preventable, hurricanes are not.
Thats silly! Water fights fire! Nothing fights hurricane!
You know you have to move when “fire season” is a completely normal yearly occurrence…
January is fire season? Who is this phoney? Thanks Bill for using your first guest to complement Trump. We know who and what you are now
He's a billionaire who has actual experience. Who are you and when are you coming to California to fix things?
Yes, when there has been no rain and is season for the winds!
Get rid of that damn brush. And eucalyptus trees(seriously)
Peak fire season, no the Santa Ana winds are expected at that time of year!
Santa Ana winds in December/January have been a common occurrence in the Palisades for the 40 years I have lived here. Warm wind on Christmas is our snow on Christmas. Cold night soccer practice with a warm breeze, that was my childhood.
@ okay then why was “always has something to say” Mayor Karen Bass on taxpayer trip to Guyana??!?!?!🇬🇾
Thx 🙏 bc I’ve heard the opposite from MSM whom I don’t believe & cut cable permanently!
Just because there are Santa Ana’s doesn’t mean it’s peak fire season. I read this time of year is a rainy season (except in San Diego where it never rains).
@@bonniejosavland3227 Ghana, actually, but your point is the same . . .
Yes 100mph hurricane firestorm was completely predictable. Protect palisade village is easier than protecting a whole town from first ever firecane
All the money spent on climate change and still these results!
🤣 they’re so dumb
We don't have climate change in California. I can't even get a plastic straw here
If we want to blame climate change, someone explain why rejoining the Paris climate agreement did nothing? 😂
Where would the water come from? Where would the money come from to rebuild the infrastructure? Raise taxes again?! Everyone has criticism but no answers.
Not peak fire season, you are lying and politicizing a tragedy
You're a low information person throwing around lies
Idiots in California voted for Bass when they could have had this guy.
When the winds are 80-90mph the helicopters can’t fly and it delays the fire fighters work.
Bill Maher for president! Goats!!
Smooth-talking, slick, rich Republicans. Just what California needs more of. 🙄
this but unironically
Naw, send them to a Red State
We need less progressives, too
TDS, Making Woketards Broke Again or still vote blue & live in your DEI Marxist zoo.
@@alexkocian690 Don't you just love it (?) (As long as you don't live in California, of course . . .)
That's true. Our state would be in a much better place if we didn't have all these republicans running it.
Not smooth talking. Honest and true.
wait bill maher conceded ground to trump
He has before he compliments where it is deserved!
Yep. He’s bending the knee too. Just weak.
We did a calculation back in 1980 and discovered the planet is like a locomotive.
It takes a long time for it to do anything. This run away train had 50 years to stop and reverse, which is normal for a planetary change.
Here we are! The train not only didn't slow down, but it sped up!
Now, there is no amount of effort that will stop this train on time. Atmospheric chaos is coming... brace for impact...
ARSON
This guy is gonna be mayor
If he runs for Governor I will gladly vote for him!!!
An honest and decent human being would be a refreshing change...
Fine, but I'll bet he doesn't fix everything. You know, those pesky budget cuts and all. But it's good to hear that he wants to do infrastructure spending.
@@johnogrady2418 I would like Bass as our governor. She did a great job of answering the reporter's questions as soon as she landed in LA from Africa.
@@daleb4148 ⚠((!!!SARC!!!))⚠
Should've elected him instead of DEI Karen.
Make voter ID a requirement
Bill Burr says otherwise RIck!
"To know there's a fire coming"? Uhh..what? We can't predict fires and we certainly can't predict where fires will start.
Wrong. Insurance companies do just that. And they did it right where the fires started . . .
This app you're on right now can show you past weather reports. Go look them up. All the ones I saw over the past month or so were warning about this very thing. Anybody who's been paying attention saw this coming.
as someone that grew up with controlled burns and brush/dead fall removal its weird watching California have this internal argument. The past and what is still used all over the world still works but yet some forget it or dont want to do it and instead they deal with fires all the time. I understand you cant get rid of them all but the damage mitigation has to have effort behind it. Crazy to us down here in the south and southwest where the cali practices would cause us fires all the time as well if we didnt practice old common sense technics.
I voted 🗳️ for Rick 👍 Now he’d make a great governor.
Get used to prescribed burns.
And they needed to turn off the gas lines. When they are evacuating people. A lot of the house is burnt up too fast because the gas was still on.
Goats where suggested in this region and were rejected because it was decided that it would be
" exploitation of the goats "
I heard that reservoir had been out of commission for a year and a half.
Illinois resident here. we have goats that eat vegetation by the fields at ohare
Just put AOC out there with all the Cali vegans. They would probably outperform the goats
Do you know who calls it Cali? People who don't live in California.
@ and?
I think the lady’s of the view could give the goats a run for their money ……
@@ZapataE 🤣
So Sacramento put Michael Jordan and Tom Brady to eat the vegitation . For free?
Hey Bill , you know who else works cheap? The CDC inmates who fight wildfires for the state and are never acknowledged. It's not just the LAFD that fight fires.
Goats are nature's lawnmower.
They eat anything and everything.
Also disagree with his point about running a government is like running a business. It is not, and should never be. Government is a service “of and by the people” and in no way a business.
Government COSTS money.
Business has balance sheets.
Wasting OUR money on Woke is WRONG.
Gavin Newsom is brilliant. Organized. And compasionate so stop dissing the guy
He's a politician who is absolutely a disgrace. Do some actual research.
I'm mad at myself that I voted for Bass. I have hung on voting Democratic despite hating so much of what they do. This round? Caruso all the way. In fact, listening to him talk, it's obvious he's like the old-school republican moderates who helped California. thrive.
Knowing this city, Angelenos will continue to vote for democrats no matter what, gotta stay woke and gender fluid and make DEI the main priority.
Undergrounding power is easy to say, it’s not that easy to do!
is this the guy who hired fire fighters to protect his mansion and business's? this guy is evil
And you work for the Democrats trying to do spin
Remember 1994 and the Brentwood Butcher OJ? Yeah that Brentwood.
There’s literally a wsj video of prisoners cutting then raking brush out in la. So I don’t know why people keep mocking trump about this when the state of California is literally having prisoners do it now (a little to late)
Stop spending ever dollar taking care of the homeless at the expense or the rest of us.
Yes, because letting the homeless run rampant and uncontrolled and overwhelm the streets will help all Americans and save taxpayers money.
Which only attracts the homeless from all over the US. It’s like they say , “Don’t feed the bears!”
It's not spent for the homeless. It's spent on the administration for the homeless. Those homeless managers make huge amounts of money and are obviously interested to keep their job. If there would be fewer homeless that would risk their well paid jobs...
Bring back the Ibex Goats! And pronghorn
a 40 year old forest is not old.
Goats also fertilize the soil 🐐
Voted for Bass. Will vote for Caruso in 2026.
Did Caruso run on comprehensive fire preparedness last time? did he advocate for clearing out the dry fire fuels with goats, to keep water levels fully restored, to upgrade the exposed power lines to underground power lines, etc? He claims that he would have fully funded the fire department, but we know now that it would not have been enough to have made a difference, we needed to to all the other things to be prepared. He actually ran on many other things and maybe on fully funding the fire department, which would not have been enough, and now for him to claim in hindsight that "I am so sad that I was right" is such a slimy politician speech to take credit for something that he was not any better prepared to handle what happened. And this dishonest politician is who you want to vote for in 2026 just because he made a self serving TV lie claiming that things would have been different if he had been elected? What a disgusting self serving politician. Don't be fooled by Caruso.
@accesswireless189 and bass being on a press junket as LA burned isn’t slimy? And then her petulant stonewalling to a reporter? Go preach to someone else. She’s a disgrace.
Just stop
You didn't mention what the insurance companies did or didn't do. Important.
Exactly. The insurance companies were warning everyone that these areas were _uninsurable_ because this disaster was _inevitable_ . . .
This was done to get a big fire, thus big federal money.
Fully fund the fire dept and the expense of what. VA, Schools, what service would you take from. Just like a company budgeting is a balancing act. Not everything gets funded.
If it's Woke it must go broke. It will add up.
Rebuild with Adobe bricks, it has many benefits.
2:05 goat 🐐 🙌 🐐 🙌
He lost me when he lied about this being peak fire season.
It is peak fire season. Did you not see the multiple fires in Los Angeles this month?