It’s been over a week, and neither the fires nor the fake news have been contained.
Much of the mythology around the LA fires revolves around who or what started the deadly conflagrations.
Here are only some of the people and things being erroneously or prematurely blamed for starting the LA fires.
The Jews: Fan-favorite conspiracy theory “The Jews did it” made an early appearance after the fire.
That sometrees didn’t burndoesn’t prove it was lasers either.
A book of matches would be more efficient tool anyway.
Anyway, Californiadidn’t turn away 40 firetrucks from Oregonfor not meeting emissions standards.
There will be years of lawsuits to straighten it all out, rest assured.
This isnot true.Like it’s fully made-up.
Illegal immigrants: This one is at least plausible.
In the days after the fire, LA policearrested a homelesscitizen of Mexico who was carrying a blowtorch.
But whether the blowtorch was used to set fires hasn’t been determined.
Could it have been understandably nervous local residents mistaking a drug-smoking blowtorch for a fire-starting blowtorch?
Many helpful X users also pointed out that"Oren" is a Jewish name.
That could change, of course, but for now, that’s all we know.
Because he’s Mel Gibson, I assume he’s talking about the Jews, but you never know.
I guess it depends on what you mean by “caused.”
Like, goodbye single-family homes, hello high-density housing."
She seems purposefully vague about the details so viewers can fill in the blanks themselves.
While this is possible, a huge fire seems like a wildly ineffective tool for evidence destruction.
So whatreallycaused the LA fires?
In a broad sense, the LA fires were the result of unprecedented high winds and dry conditions.
The Santa Ana winds are a semi-annual event, and high winds in California usually result in fires.
Small blazes that would be quickly extinguished on a normal day become huge wildfires when it gets windy enough.
To be fair to Nature, most of those small blazes are due to people.
