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The shock doctrine. Private equity will buy up land for pennies on the dollar, they'll drive out poor people, install charter schools, replace normal houses with mansions and built-to-AirBNBs.

All this has happened before and all this will happen again.

There was one post where I learned that several sites were locking information about the fires behind paywalls. Commenter went to 3 or 4 sites before finding one they could actually read.

Don't they have paid firefighters for the rich and volunteers for everyone else? I think I remember hearing about Oprah's property being protected first when Hawaii was burning last. I would expect something similar in California. Money talks.