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Well, for a start, most of LA, you'll note, is still there. The Great Fire of London destroyed 15% of the city's housing and displaced about half the population

Well, for a start, most of LA, you'll note, is still there. The Great Fire of London destroyed 15% of the city's housing and displaced about half the population. Large cities do not, these days, as a general rule, more or less just spontaneously burn down; the LA fires are driven by extreme weather conditions, and even then have not caused remotely the sort of destruction that you used to see from big urban fires.

trhway 2y ago
>The Great Fire of London destroyed 15% of the city's housing LA - 500 sq miles. The Palicades Fire is 37 square miles. With other fires it is smth like 55 and it is still not done. >the LA fires are driven by extreme weather conditions yes, sounds very familiar - in USSR we had a saying "suddenly came winter" explaining all the societal/economical/etc. failures there