January 13, 2025
The Newsom/Bass Wildfires and the Allocation of Blame
By John F. Di Leo
In January 2025, wildfires devastated Los Angeles County.
While not every detail is yet known – and some details will likely never be known – these fires have destroyed entire communities, burned thousands of houses, schools, churches and businesses, killed and injured people and pets.
The losses in physical structure can be counted; the losses in dollar value can only be guessed at. Property insurance figures estimate the value of a building, but the residents can never accurately estimate – and insure for – all the contents within.
The victims of these wildfires have lost a hundred years or more of family photo albums, precious heirlooms like grandma’s sterling silverware and grandpa’s hunting rifle, children’s mementos from school plays, choir performances, baseball games, debate championships. Great grandma’s engagement ring might have been insured; great grandpa’s graduation picture from his WWII change of command ceremony would not have been; both are irreplaceable.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/01/the_newsom_bass_wildfires_and_the_allocation_of_blame.html
