LA Firestorm documentary

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Sunday, 2/1, Reel Channel HD, will show a 3-part, 3 hour documentary on the LA firestorm. This is Channel 238 on Direct TV. I believe there are other options as well.
 
When will the good people of greater Los Angles, and other areas, wake up and see that the problem is with the state and city officials who failed to plan and react to a well expected dry and windy fire danger. I have studied Conflagrations since my time in Fire Science in college, including the ongoing fire problems in Urban/Rural Interface areas., and it is sad that people even try to rebuild the same way they did in the past.
Captain Bob Rainey FDNY Engine 26 retired.
 
That documentary was tough to watch. I lasted about an hour. It did have great video which put you right in middle of desperate people, in way over their heads, looking for help that was never going to come.

My brother lives in LA (three doors down from the Garcia House of Lethal Weapon 2 fame). I was talking to him that evening when suddenly the line went dead. After a moment, he got back on the line. He'd gotten an automated message ordering him to leave his house NOW. In LA it's not a suggestion, It's against the law not to evacuate. It was for a fire above Sunset Strip. He was uphill, but also upwind, and it was quickly contained
 
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