CA in trouble 2

(cont'd from yesterday's post)

According to yesterday's video, most California wildfires are started by aging power lines (which also caused the 2023 Hawaii fire on Maui). 

Arsonists, too, may have had a hand in the current 2025 fire and there have been arrests. Combined with those power lines, plus the occasional backyard barbecue or fireworks, 95% of fires are attributed to human activity.

 

 

Strong winds spread the fires (photo), at least 29 people died, neighborhood after neighborhood was evacuated, and tens of thousands of homeowners lost their homes. In some cases where a home was damaged but not completely destroyed, looters arrived to take out of them whatever valuable property they could handle. About 40 have been arrested.