At least two dead as ‘unprecedented’
450 wildfires scorch Louisiana
New York Post,
by
Melissa Koenig
Original Article
Posted By: tisHimself,
8/29/2023 11:01:17 AM
At least two people have died in “unprecedented” wildfires that have ravaged Louisiana in recent weeks.
An elderly woman was pronounced dead Sunday after a brush fire spread to a shed in St. Tammany Parish, just north of New Orleans, and earlier this month, a man died in Franklinton when his home and surrounding property caught fire.
The blazes were just two of more than 450 wildfires that have scorched thousands of acres in southwest Louisiana in recent weeks during record-breaking temperatures and severe drought conditions.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Safari Man 8/29/2023 11:16:29 AM (No. 1545111)
Next door in East Texas (The Woodlands) we got up to 109F a couple days ago (and then a cold front came through cooling it down to 98F). ZERO rain for a couple months. It's been brutal. Local fire crews bring all-hands for any small brush fire. It seems like an overreaction, but given how dry we are, its really not since they could get out of hand so easily. A couple days ago, US 59 was closed for 4 hours while they fought a brush fire. They had about 10-12 different fire departments for 30 acres.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
faceincrowd 8/29/2023 11:22:03 AM (No. 1545120)
More wildfires in a place I have visited and would never have thought could have a wildfire. I mean, with all of the bayous and all.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
3XALADY 8/29/2023 11:23:46 AM (No. 1545121)
Who is burning our country down?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Quigley 8/29/2023 11:27:01 AM (No. 1545125)
I hear you, #1, all the way up here in Dallas. Being outside is like standing in front of an open oven door. Dry, very dry, beyond james bond’s ability to conceive.
But not at all unprecedented. In fact pretty normal for the many decades i have lived here. We had a few years of abnormally cool summers- ie, not too many days over 100- and I can’t even say the hot weather is back with a vengeance; it’s just back.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Birddog 8/29/2023 11:29:06 AM (No. 1545129)
"14 fires started in a ten minute period"....Uhm...was there a lightning storm? Methinks this may have been a "Man Caused" issue. I noticed a log truck in one of the photos, Is this all happening in a timber harvesting area? Did people remove the spark arrestors on their saws? Were they burning slash? Some truck with burning brakes, dragging a sparking chain, driving down the road starting multiple fires?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
cold porridge 8/29/2023 11:38:03 AM (No. 1545145)
I believe most of the fires across the US, Canada and the rest of the world are being deliberately set by the leftists so that they can scream "Climate Change!" They always use fear mongering to push their agendas.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
BirdsNest 8/29/2023 11:45:01 AM (No. 1545156)
Eco-nuts.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 8/29/2023 11:59:44 AM (No. 1545171)
Ecoterror arsonists, the new threat from the climate nazies.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 8/29/2023 12:25:16 PM (No. 1545190)
Reminds me of a motto said by the left: Burn It Down. Sounds like some lefties have taken it to heart.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 8/29/2023 12:57:38 PM (No. 1545218)
One fire alone a couple years ago in Northern California created so much CO2 it wiped out 18 years of all other CO2 reductions.
So, with all of these fires, all around the globe, expect the CO2 levels to be significantly higher during this period of measurement.
Believe they arrested 79 arsonists in Greece recently, and presume most others are started by arsonists.
Yet, Democrats will claim it's all due to climate issues without any evidence.
My hunch, the environmental groups pushed to never remove any of the underbrush and use good forestry which allowed for more fuel to burn and make harder to contain.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 8/29/2023 1:43:08 PM (No. 1545253)
a. Ecoterrorists
b. Communists
c. Antifa
d. Little 0bie minions
e. Lunatic deluded leftists
f. All of the above
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 8/29/2023 2:01:58 PM (No. 1545259)
Several years ago there was a fire up here in northern California started by an arsonist who was found to be a lefty professor from one the Bay Area colleges. When mother nature isn't helping move their Climate Alarmist narrative, they're not above "helping" the narrative along themselves.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
daisey 8/29/2023 2:44:14 PM (No. 1545302)
Biden will be there shortly to offer comfort and another Biden fable about his own brush with death due to fire. He and Dr Jill feel their pain.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 8/29/2023 2:48:54 PM (No. 1545304)
Klaus's arsonists are working the south now.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Axeman 8/29/2023 5:12:11 PM (No. 1545382)
Unprecedented also means overdue where wildfires are concerned.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Encore 8/29/2023 5:51:28 PM (No. 1545390)
Arsonists caught should be subjected to their own craft. Real trial by fire. That said, I hope this hurricane in the gulf helps them out with some needed rain.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
DVC 8/29/2023 6:46:15 PM (No. 1545410)
A few eco-arsonists who get killed at the hands of the people they burned out might change this trajectory.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
NeonVortex 8/29/2023 8:03:12 PM (No. 1545452)
"Climate change"
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Along with the refinery going up in flames again Nothing to see here, move along.