Jesse Watters: Horrific. This is Los Angeles County. Entire neighborhoods are burning. Over 10,000 acres in the Pacific Palisades area alone. The smoke that everyone breathes is described as a toxic soup. Five people have already died. They were burned alive. Hundreds of homes She was burned.
This is the most destructive fire in Los Angeles County history, and it is still burning. 0% of fires are contained. 0%.
Wind speeds reach 100 mph. Breathe more and more life into hell. More than 1,400 firefighters are fighting the fire on the front lines. And they didn't sleep. “I'm living proof that you can stay awake for 96 hours,” says one. But they are outnumbered and equipped.
Vehicles and a home burn as strong winds fueling devastating wildfires in the Los Angeles area force people to evacuate, at the Eaton Fire in Altadena, California, US on January 8, 2025. (Reuters/David Swanson)
The chief says she doesn't have enough firefighters. Just a few months ago, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass cut funding from the Fire Department by about $20 million. Before that, the Los Angeles Fire Department sent its additional equipment to Ukraine. Maybe they could use some of this equipment now. This is worse. Fire hydrants are dry.
Why is no water coming out of the fire hydrants? Los Angeles has It had two years of record rainfall and it hasn't rained this much, year after year, since the 1800s. Well, guess what?
All the rain washes into the ocean. A decade ago, California voted to spend billions on water storage and reservoirs. Today, Governor Newsom has not finished building one of them.
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They have done nothing to store water in a decade. Trump was in California this fall and told Gavin he needed to get his act together.
