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.
It’s not volunteers actually, it’s prisoners being used as forced labor https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/08/la-wildfires-incarcerated-firefighters
You mean slaves?
yup
IIRC i read somewhere that these prison people volunteered, actually.
Most of firefighters in California, at least those fighting wildfires, are prison inmates, which is constitutionally slave labour.
That is all true, but I think OP is talking about news channels monetizing wildfire
