The wildfires in California are one of the worst disasters in recent memory.
Americans are seeing images that look like they’re out of post-apocalyptic movies.
And Jay Leno realized one unthinkable truth about the fires in California.
Jay Leno speaks to massive cost of the devastation in California
Investigators are trying to determine the cause of the wildfires in California.
The state suffered from naturally occurring wildfires due to its climate – where dry spells are a fact of life dating back more than 100 years – and its land cover.
And there are reports from the Daily Mail that the fires may be the result of arson.
“Two men are said to have been caught on camera dumping gasoline and setting it alight immediately before the devastating Palisades fire broke out,” Daily Mail learned.
A resident of the ritzy celeb-packed area reported the video to a senior firefighter once the flames had started consuming the area,” the Daily Mail exclusively reported.
CNN’s Anderson Cooper interviewed California resident Jay Leno about the fires.
Leno had a hard time putting into words the scope of the devastation.
“It’s unbelievable… it’s literally on that scale [of 9/11],” Leno began.
Leno compared the aftermath to a nuclear bomb exploding and that the areas worst affected wouldn’t get rebuilt for a long time.
“It looks like Hiroshima or just some horrible thing. It’s an entire city wiped out. I mean, Pacific Palisades, it doesn’t exist and probably won’t exist for the next five, six years.” Leno added.
Leno theorized the price tag for the recovery effort would reach the highest number in American history.
“I don’t know how you rebuild from this. It’s $160 billion [in damage]. There’s no insurance company in the world that has that much money. I mean, the problems will be insurmountable,” Leno concluded.
Conditions on disaster relief
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) responded to criticisms that California’s failed left-wing policies allowed the fires to spread uncontrollably by supporting the idea of attaching policy changes to any disaster relief bill.
“I think there should probably be conditions on that aid. That’s my personal view. We’ll see what the consensus is. I haven’t had a chance to socialize that with any of the members over the weekend because we’ve all been very busy, but it’ll be part of the discussion,” Johnson stated.
A Wall Street Journal editorial outlined the misplaced priorities in California that saw water management take a backseat to the green new deal.
“Yet his budget for the coming fiscal year cuts the CAL FIRE’s ‘resource management’ program by half from 2023 to $466.5 million. He plans instead to pay for $325 million in spending on wildfire and forest resilience with a $10 billion ‘climate bond’ that voters approved in November. This is intended to free up general fund revenue for other spending,” the Journal’s editorial board wrote.
“Other climate bond spending includes $36 million for ‘sequestering carbon and reducing emissions’ from ranches and farms; $47 million for ‘expansion of green streets, parks and school yards’; $80 million for ‘climate action through nature-based solutions’ to ‘improve equitable access to nature’; $190 million for parks ‘in the state’s most disadvantaged communities’; and $228 million for port upgrades to support offshore wind generation,” they concluded.
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