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Please share: for people impacted by #LAFire who haven't been able to check to see if their home is still standing yet, Maxar, a satellite photography company, has added the LA Fires to their free open data program. This is the same company whose photos you see in the news as before/after photos.
You'll need a free account to access the images, which are the .TIF format:
https://xpress.maxar.com/?lat=13.9518312879527&lon=0&zoom=3.3
This is not a phone-friendly service, but ask for help if needed.
Newsom proposes $2.5 billion for wildfire response as L.A. burns.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-13/newsom-proposes-billions-wildfire-response
Trump, Musk, Rs lie:
Winds fanning the flames were so fierce, & ground conds. so dry -clearing more shrubs wouldn’t have had a significant effect.
“Could've put a 10-lane FWY in front of that fire -wouldn't have slowed it."
Veg. mgt efforts are typically most effective when firefighters are able to take advantage of the reduced fire intensity they provide to snuff out flames. Fire was blowing sideways from house to house -structures themselves serving as fuel.
#LAFire https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-01-13/could-brush-clearance-have-helped-slow-the-spread-of-the-palisades-fire
Directory of fundraisers for Black families displaced by LA fires
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pK5omSsD4KGhjEHCVgcVw-rd4FZP9haoijEx1mSAm5c/htmlview
source: Reimagined/Anti-Racism Daily newsletter
(https://antiracismdaily.beehiiv.com/p/weekend-edition-self-care-this-holiday-season-amazon-workers-on-strike-luigi-mangione-s-indictment-a)
For those of you who are not aware, there are documentaries about how impossible it was to escape and to fight the "Camp" fire in Paradise CA a few years back. Same dryness, same winds, same fast moving fire that caught people off guard. There's no way to fight such a fire.
Frontline on YouTube: https://youtu.be/F3OX1PR2SCM?si=gwEaxErnFVd-Lyu_
About the Documentary on Netflix (includes link): https://www.firerescue1.com/camp-fire/articles/fire-in-paradise-documentary-captures-the-first-horrific-hours-of-the-camp-fire-hskeXWSIZAfySAvy/
This is what the LA neighborhoods are facing.
#la #lafires #lafire #wildfires #wildfire #lacounty #ClimateChange #Climate
Perspective. All the states with populations smaller than LA County. Stats U.S. Census Bureau 2023 [correction: Upper Michigan and SC should be grey. Thank you @Luxonardo
A friend of mine has organized a fundraiser for his mother, who has lost her home in the #eatonfire. He writes, "My childhood home is gone. Completely and totally. All the rare wood I had saved for a career in instrument making, the workbench I bought. All the plans and hopes and dreams and sorrows and family memories. All gone. I'm helping my mom rebuild and we could really use your help however you're able."
MUTUAL AID / LA:
PLEASE amplify/share.
If you find coop links to support, PLEASE reply. Thanks!
️The People’s Struggle functions as a “grassroots 911 dispatch” center, Galper said. Donations totaled more than $2,500, which organizers used to secure materials requested by evacuation shelters, such as toys for children or sanitary products for women.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DEk3nrKyYl2/
️“We’ve already seen how crucially underprepared the city government is in dealing with social service,” said Savannah Boyd, a co-founder of All Power Books, which is based in the West Adams neighborhood. “We knew we were going to have to start organizing for mutual aid."
https://ko-fi.com/allpower
️It’s Bigger Than Us, a Black-led non-profit based in Inglewood, delivers water and resources to first responders while also running a distribution hub.
https://www.itsbiggerthanusla.org/
️The National Day Laborer Organizing Network is raising money for immigrant workers affected by the fires.
https://ndlon.org/
️Lagartijas Climbing Crú, a collective of Black, Latino, Asian and Indigenous rock climbers, created a crowdsourced spreadsheet to connect people with evacuees who need supplies including blankets and clothes.
https://www.lagartijascc.com/
️Pasadena Humane, which is accepting donations, has been evacuating and housing animals injured and displaced by the fires. The shelter has taken in more than 100 animals for emergency boarding.
https://pasadenahumane.org/
️The charity Baby2Baby has provided more than 1m emergency supplies, including diapers and formulas, for displaced children and families.
https://baby2baby.org/
️Malibu Foundation is offering food, shelter and mental health support to vulnerable populations like seniors, low-income families, people with disabilities and uninsured households.
https://www.themalibufoundation.org/january-2025-wildfires
️CORE, Community Organized Relief Effort, is distributing masks, go-kits, hygiene kits and other protective resources to impacted areas.
https://www.coreresponse.org/southern-california-wildfires/
️This Is About Humanity has launched a fund supporting front and second-line migrant farm workers, day laborers, and other essential workers and their families severely impacted by the recent fires in Los Angeles. Through Jan. 31, TIAH is matching up to $50,000 in donations to provide critical relief, housing support, food assistance and essential resources.
https://icfdn.org/donate/?form=FUNDCBAXBVV
️Community Resource Spreadsheet on Google Docs: Over 400 Local Resources from Phone charging to shelter.
Sources: Social Media, TheGuardian, Axios
A friend shared info on a quilt drive for the #LAFire if anyone wants to participate
I’ve shopped at San Diego Sewn (online) and a fabric store in Pasadena, though not the LQS mentioned. Proud of how the quilting community comes together in times like these!
https://sandiegosewn.com/blogs/san-diego-sewn-sharing-the-experience/wrap-la-in-love
Happy to welcome #JustinTrudeau anytime in the other #CA (#California).
Thank you for being a friend and helping us out when we are in distress.
The CA Peeps need to stick together.
#Canada #LAFire #Malibu #PalisadesFire #SF #SFBay #SanFrancisco
#News #GreatNews
a friend linked me to this collected list of mutual-aid GoFundMe campaigns for Black folks and families affected by the Los Angeles wildfires. please donate if you can! 
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1pK5omSsD4KGhjEHCVgcVw-rd4FZP9haoijEx1mSAm5c/htmlview
ℂlaire 𝔻anielle ℂassidy
For most of my life I've experienced decades long meltdowns due to traumatizing overwhelm at the agonizing collapse of structures I rely on to exist (cultural, physical, interpersonal).
Also, cataclysmic ecological death.
Also, how these horrifying things will outstrip my lifetime.
But I've worked through a lot of it. I did not know that possible.
Now I choose local, personal agency. Not panic.
ANYWAY here's a guide to make a cool go-bag.
If we sit and dawdle, we're f*cked. #climatechange #LAfire
Quebecair water bomber hit a drone while doing a drop on the Palisades fire, hole in a wing, grounded - also means the plane will out for months
Seriously, anyone flying an unauthorized drone in a fire zone needs a summary lobotomy
About the LA Fires: State Farm and other insurers dropped fire coverage for everyone (I think countywide) effective the end of 2024. Replacing the coverage proved time consuming to impossible. Many many are NOT insured. I know two who weren't insured because of this fiasco; one lost their family house.
The photo is of a friend's mother's house and I did not take it.
![@PerthshireMags climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it
Los Angeles Scanner
Video of a home surrounded by the fire. [image: video still showing large windows with encroaching fire outside]](https://partyon.xyz/system/media_attachments/files/113/798/818/453/609/882/original/712bc5e0a3cdfc17.jpeg "@PerthshireMags climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it
Los Angeles Scanner
Video of a home surrounded by the fire. [image: video still showing large windows with encroaching fire outside]")