Los Angeles

“Going into San Francisco, like crazy streets, tons of pedestrians, like shoddy streets, like all sorts of weather, fog, and also people that will vandalize you. So if they can solve that, it's going to be a breeze to go to Chicago or LA.”

“Private firefighters weren't allowed to get into places like the police weren't letting them go in. If you wanted to have private firefighters defend your home, that was not an option.”

“All firefighting services are way over capacity. There's no option but to let the areas burn.”

“It's definitely the most destructive fire in Los Angeles history, surpassing a fire that happened in 2008.”

“And there's this conservation mindset, but the flip side of that is that if you don't have a lot of groundwater everywhere, and the land around, around Los Angeles and in California is not just moist all the time, well then, it's prone to fire.”

“LA had just cut its fire department budget and shows some of the department budget operational budget increases and decreases. And so fire was one of the few to actually get cut. Police went way up, library went up, housing went up, but fire and sanitation wen…”

“She was briefed on the fires on Monday, decided to stay in Ghana. ... She was fully briefed.”

“She quickly had She quickly had her home robbed by criminals. And she had loose guns in her house. So they, the criminals managed to steal guns that were not in safes.”

“If you alleviate the housing pressure by building taller buildings in the core downtown and surrounding area, Well, then you don't need to be as dense once you get up into the mountains, and that leads to less fire risks.”

“But as of right now, they're projecting that these fires will have cost somewhere in the range of a hundred and fifty billion dollars is the official number. As of now, everybody expects that to tick up over 200 at some point. I believe that Hurricane Katrina …”

“The air in LA, even though the AQI is a decent spot is still deeply toxic.”

“What's going to happen is Altadena is in close proximity to LA. People will look at that very opportunistically and say we can create three million dollar homes here, you know, and three million dollar gated communities by going out.”

“It's also not just the worst fire in LA history, it's the worst fire In American history from the lens of economic damage.”

“When you have less Zooms, then when somebody, like, I had this, like, VC asking me for a Zoom this week, and I was like, cool, you're an SF, just let me know next time you're LA. Like, if it's so important, just, like, take a five minute flight. And they're li…”