Social media is talking about ars on,But was it really premeditated? In this article we have gathered information that proves that it was not.

BY: Luiz Peres, Sao Paulo, Brazil

  Videos in social networks informed that wild fires were manipulated to clean up cities and neighborhoods to start new ventures by buying lots at rock bottom prices, Others go further saying that it is the burning of files from the Diddy case.

   But of course, all this is just to cause sensationalism and misinformation, let’s get to the facts.

RESERVOIRS.

The fire chief  Kevin Easton, who oversees and fights fires gave an interview to Fox TV where he reported on “dry reservoirs.

    Completely dry — you couldn’t get any water out,” said Easton, who was part of a small mobile fire patrol trying to protect the Palisades Highlands neighborhood. He also reports that hours after the fire broke out there was no more water to fight it, causing buildings to turn to ash in an hour.

   The ex- Secretary of Water and Energy speaks of uncontrolled expansion in what was once a wild area and has become large neighborhoods , overloading the distribution system and subsequently leaving larger areas with serious fire hazards like what is happening now in Los Angeles.

   It also reports on climate changes that have contributed to low reservoir levels and making vegetation more flammable.

   Another factor is the city’s infrastructure, which has old pipes, which means that fire hydrants often stop working.

DID THE OUTBREAKS START AT THE SAME TIME?

   Another point that conspiracy theorists highlighted was that the flames started at the same time, which is not true.

   Satellite images from January 7th show that the worst-case scenario was already in effect between Malibu and Santa Monica, as can be seen below.

   In a short period of time, on January 8th, the second largest fire focus began to occur further northeast of Los Angeles, reaching Altadena, Pasadena and a little into Monterey Park.

   With the scenario very chaotic and out of control, the fires began to spread close to the Long Beach coast on January 10th.

   And contrary to what conspiracy theorists say, which involves projects like bluebeam, Alien and the richest families in the world, it is actually much more natural than you might expect.

    The cause of the fires has a name and surname, Santa Ana winds, which during the winter gain more strength due to high pressure formations on the continent that blow dry winds over over the mountains passing through deserts, where it loses humidity and gains temperature arriving in Los Angeles in California with more than 100 kilometers per hour.

    Dry vegetation together with low air humidity plus hot winds from the canyons is the perfect scenario for the start of severe forest fires like the ones we see, below shows the date of when the winds intensified, helping to spread embers and fire to other homes and businesses.

 CUTS OF FUNDS AND FIRE ACCOUNT INSURANCE?

    A trigger for conspiracy theories to gain strength was the fact that vehicle insurance companies canceled insurance policies against fires for both homes and cars.

    But that doesn’t mean they knew about any agenda, as influencers say. In April 2024, State Farm, one of the largest insurance companies, reported that it would cancel 72,000 policies by the end of the  summer.

   Action was taken following frequent warnings from monitoring bodies that warned of the risk of major fires, and as large companies always think about profit, they were more agile and thought only of himself, leaving residents outraged by his attitude.

   But we also have the guilty side called the government that made big cuts in firefighters’ funding  which totaled 17 million dollars, which raised the alert of the Los Angeles Fire Department.

    That a month before the catastrophe that occurs in the state occurs, The corporations sent a letter in December to Bass warning of a lack of maintenance resources  In an interview with the Los Angeles Times the mayor Karen Bass says that cut is proportional, Already the fire chiefin interview Fox 11 los Angeles said that the “The mayor failed her and the department”.

WOULD THE FIRES BE LINKED TO THE WORLD’S RICHEST FAMILIES REDESIGNING AFFECTED CITIES?

   The conspiracy theory that gained the most fame was that the richest families in the world were interested in cleaning up their territories.

  And this is where all the other topics fit in, conspiracy theorists combined the breach of contract with insurance companies, the lack of water and the precariousness and lack of firefighters working in the region as pre-warning of what was to come.

   But the truth is that it is no wonder that firefighters have been suffering from a shortage of manpower, whether as firefighters or firefighters, the state has not received enough manpower to meet the needs of the situation of major events like today.

   Insurance companies were aware of the risk of fires, but not because it was part of their agenda. Meteorological journalists update daily on the risk of fires, as does the government.

   The insurance company, aware of the high risk of fires, analyzed meteorological data and other factors in order to avoid losses and decided to cancel fire insurance policies.

However, no less important is the lack of water, which is not linked to planning to exhaust resources, but rather to the precariousness of the distribution service which causes hydrants to fail to distribute water to fight large-scale fires