NPR: Trump's Forest Service cuts have people in tinder dry New Mexico on edge https://www.kpbs.org/news/national/2025/04/17/trumps-forest-service-cuts-have-people-in-tinder-dry-new-mexico-on-edge
#NIFC #wildfires #firewx
NIFC New Or Updated Wildfire Perimeter
Incident Name: Prickly
Acres: 3.0 acres
Updated: Apr 16, 2025 23:28 UTC
Source: IRWIN
#PricklyFire #WIwx
CalMatters: How labor killed a bill to let California wildfire victims sue Big Oil for climate change
https://www.kpbs.org/news/politics/2025/04/17/how-labor-killed-a-bill-to-let-california-wildfire-victims-sue-big-oil-for-climate-change
Near surface smoke forecast for the CONUS area, starting:
Apr 17 2025 - 06:00 PDT
Apr 17 2025 - 09:00 EDT
Model run: 20250417T13:00 UTC
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As wildfires ravage Scotland due to extraordinary temperatures drying out our land, there has never been a more important time to join the climate movement.
Our big April Gathering Weekend is coming up - sign up now to learn crucial skills for our movement, and to decide what our focus for this year should be!
Before we celebrate our Freedom Day, we'll have the opportunity to learn about the main results achieved by the #FIREUSES project team. The conference will take place at the National Library of Portugal on 24 April.
Near surface smoke forecast for the CONUS area, starting:
Apr 16 2025 - 21:00 PDT
Apr 17 2025 - 00:00 EDT
Model run: 20250417T04:00 UTC
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https://www.europesays.com/2002272/ DOGE targets a community service program in its latest cost-cutting effort #120894978 #article #DepartmentOfGovernmentEfficiency #doge #EducationCosts #ElonMusk #EmailAndMessaging #GeneralNews #GovernmentBudgets #HurricanesAndTyphoons #Musk #NaturalDisasters #Politics #taxes #U.S.News #wildfires
Disaster preparedness progress today: more intumescent paint, slowly working through the rest of the paint in order of vulnerability. (first was the siding, the the eaves above remaining plants next to the house, then the lower level eave exposures, and now the other side of the house with eaves that have exposures.) Running short on energy, not paint, LOL. (it's an arm workout!!). Also trying to finish off sections one at a time, so it doesn't look the house is disassembled.
The #LosAngelesCounty Department of #PublicHealth has launched an interactive online dashboard that provides the public with access to environmental and health monitoring data collected in response to the January 2025 #wildfires.
This dashboard offers a visual overview of monitoring locations across Los Angeles County, including areas where assessments are being conducted for air, surface, water, and human health impacts.
https://ph-lacounty.hub.arcgis.com/pages/post-fire-assessment-home
***THIS IS WHY (and HOW) POSTING RADIO TRAFFIC during wildfires saves lives. #wildfires #EatonFire
California's senator Scott Wiener proposed a bill that would've let wildfire victims sue the oil companies for causing the climate crisis.
Guess who teamed up with the Big Oil execs to defeat the bill?
Unions.
Specifically the unions representing oil industry workers. In other words, the workers collaborated with their class enemies: their bosses.
I'm not opposed to unions. I've been a union organizer for decades. But goddamn, these blockheads are acting just like Mr. Block (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Block). They somehow forgot the first rule of labor: the boss is NOT your friend. Be suspicious. Don't trust them. And sure as hell don't collaborate with them to help enrich them even further, especially not on your backs, nor in ways that further destroy the planet.
"The working class and the employing class have nothing in common.... Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organise as a class, take possession of the means of production, abolish the wage system, and live in harmony with the earth."
-- preamble to the constitution of the IWW
That last line, added to the original 1905 preamble to the IWW constitution in the late 1980s, might sound a bit vague and "crunchy." But it was an attempt to acknowledge that some types of work simply shouldn't exist. That's not to say those who currently work in those industries (e.g. Fossil fuel extraction) should be thrown under the bus. Everyone should be allowed to do something productive that they enjoy. And everyone should have all the material necessities to live a safe secure and meaningful existence. But saving the planet from climate collapse will certainly require many changes in the types of work that are available. Coal mining, for example, has been on the decline for years because there is so little left in many regions that it's not profitable for the bosses to continue paying miners to mine ît anymore.
In a sane and compassionate world, we'd provide these workers with free Healthcare housing, UBI, and retraining so they could transition to some other productive endeavor. And union leaders would recognize that the interests of their members are much more closely aligned with, and linked to, those of the rest of the working class. (Continued burning of oil will contribute to more climate disasters, more wild fires, and possible the loss of their own members' lives or homes).
https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/04/california-oil-union-climate-bill/
Wildfire Sunset - it was August 15th and there were wildfires everywhere. Coming home on Route 6 and thsi amazing sunset appeared, perhaps tinged with that wildrire smoke...
https://renata-natale.pixels.com/featured/wildfire-sunset-route-6-renata-natale.html
California unions block climate bill targeting oil companies https://www.byteseu.com/926883/ #CaliforniaLegislature #Climate #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #OilAndGas #Wildfires
Tanau gwyllt yn gwthio bywyd gwyllt prin i ddifodiant / Wildfires pushing rare wildlife to extinction
‘Coed Cadw the Woodland Trust in Wales said an irreplaceable area of temperate Atlantic rainforest had been affected’
Increasing long dry spells are increasingly impacting wildlife, all ecosystems, including our rich & rare Atlantic Temperate Rainforests. @waleslink
#Wildfires remove texture making flooding worse.
..."“I gotta say that a lot of parallels came the government there failed completely, alright? They issued an evacuation order two and a half hours later,” he added"... #PalisadesFire #wildfires
Hawaii News Now: Attorney for Lahaina fire survivors loses own home in Palisades fire
(note: site may be unusable without an ad blocker, based on my prior visits there).
Near surface smoke forecast for the CONUS area, starting:
Apr 15 2025 - 12:00 PDT
Apr 15 2025 - 15:00 EDT
Model run: 20250415T19:00 UTC
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LA Times: This massive map helps Altadena fire victims feel seen
https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2025-04-02/altadena-eaton-fire-map
