The politics of fire

火的政治

Today, Explained

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2025-01-15

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Wildfires overtook Los Angeles, firefighters ran out of water, and the political finger-pointing began. This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy and Travis Larchuck, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Peter Balonon-Rosen, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Andrea Kristinsdottir, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members A fire hydrant burning during the Eaton fire in the Altadena area of Los Angeles county. Photo by JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  • It's kind of hard to wrap your head around the scale of the catastrophic fires in Los angeles.

  • They've burned 40,000 acres throughout the city.

  • That's roughly the size of Washington D.C.

  • some estimates are putting the damage upwards of $250 billion.

  • That'll make these the most economically devastating fires in the history of the United States.

  • And then one thing people can't seem to get over is that in this wildfire prone city, in a wildfire prone state firefight battling these blazes somehow ran out of water.

  • We have no water on these streets and we have multiple structures taken off.

  • Why was there no water in the hydrants?

  • Governor it's all literally is it going.

  • To be different next time?

  • They have no water.

  • They had no water in the fire hydrants today in Los Angeles.

  • It was a terrible thing and we're going to get that done.

  • Everyone gets that.

  • This is tragic on Today Explained.

  • We're going to try to understand why this has to be political.

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