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Hello everyone, I'm Tracy, and I'm here with Shane and our special guest, Robert. He is a forensic arborist who has been studying plant life for over 50 years. He has visited 43 fire aftermaths and taken 121 trips to these locations, studying plant life for at least 50 years, backpacking all over the country and studying these fires for seven years.
So, thank you so much, Robert, for being here. Before we get started, please subscribe if you haven't already, and like, comment, and share this video so we can let as many people know what's really going on here.
With that, I'll introduce Robert. Welcome, Robert!
Well, howdy! How are you doing today?
Very good, thank you. So, share with us the information that you've collected. I know you're familiar with what I've been reporting on, right? And I know you have a lot of great images, so I'll let you...
Yeah, out of all these aftermaths, these 43, perhaps three or maybe four were naturally occurring fires that we know of. I might have seen somewhere in the High Sierra, generally in 50 years of backpacking the whole Sierra at all the elevations, maybe I've seen one forest fire, and it never chased us out of the mountains.
Now, they shut down the Pacific Crest Trail, close huge areas, and burn up to a million acres statewide every year. It's the same thing. So, it piqued my interest seven years ago when I saw some pictures of Santa Rosa, and they didn't make sense to me.
Anyway, my background is studying all wildflowers, ferns, shrubs, vines, and trees, mostly natives. But in the last 33 years, everything imported to California, I've learned a great deal. That's what I've always done.
So, I'm going to share my screen here. That should fill up the page.
Well, I like to start with this photo because people are wondering what a real forest fire looks like. People in the city have no clue. This is common for a horrific firestorm. This is what's left. They all look like this; there's nothing left. Perhaps this was a year or two before because the plant life is growing back already.
But it turns the twigs, the needles, the branches, even the trees will burn down sometimes to a low stump or even a hole in the ground. This is what a common one looks like to me, not like this one.
There will be some photographs in my showing here that are from the air. None of those are mine; they're all from various people. I just borrowed them off the internet.
This was the big Coffee Park fire in Santa Rosa in 2017, where 4,700 homes were turned to white ash. Incidentally, when I get to these locations, it's rare I find any blackened wood. Normal house fires put them out. There's always a degree of black and carbon, and here, no.
I've been to a lot of aftermaths now, and none of them had a house that had any... well, it was almost all white. Rare to find black. Why is that? Why is everything reduced to white ash versus...
Well, I'm going to have to say it's because of the extreme heat, but that's my educated guess. It's a different kind of flame to me. These are microwave-based flames. It's in that arena. I don't know the composition of these flames, but they don't work very well in organic material.
The organic material dries out, turns a light shade of green, maybe even brown, but it never really burns up like a normal forest fire unless it's in really close proximity to any metal or even water, like a creek or riparian corridors. I've noticed those trees will be decimated also, and I believe that's just the water is a conduit for this... these electrical weaponry, for lack of a better term.
I mean, here's Santa Rosa. This was a firestorm. They told the public the fire was moving eight or nine football fields a minute, and look at the trees. Why aren't they missing along with the houses? Many of these are pine family relatives, eucalyptus against that road there, or whatever that is against the road. Those are eucalyptus back there, the round ones. Those are so flammable.
A cigarette lighter in your hand can light those on fire. A green leaf lights them right on fire, and I've not seen that in all the aftermaths. I don't find eucalyptus trees burned up.
Is that why, in Maui, the boats... is that why you think all the boats burned on the water?
Yes, whoever is directing these weapons, they might go to the right or left farther than they need to or whatever, but that's what I believe got the boats. I don't believe flying ashes went out there and lit these boats on fire. I believe there's a lot of metals on the boats, and that's actually what was combusting—the reaction that the microwave technology has on the metals, whether they're ferrous or not. I don't believe they're flying embers at all.
Yeah, this is another one of Coffee Park, and you just take a good look. Show me the burned trees. Show me the forest fire. Incidentally, most news channels are deleting the word "forest." Now they just call them wildfires.
Right, oh my gosh. But this is the first one I ever saw seven years ago, and the first thing I saw is why are these trees like this? I was going to hike up there in one of the hills, and this came up on my Google Images. I showed my brother; we talked about it. Nothing made sense, so I went up there two months later, and my eyes fell out of my head. Nothing was normal.
I was up there eight hours for a good year. Santa... right here too, right? Is that Santa Rosa?
Yes, Santa Rosa, the Coffee Park area, a big development. Somewhere in the next six months or year, I finally found a video where somebody saw what I did. That's John Lord, the fire captain, and Matt Daen. They analyzed Paradise three different times and did five videos with Shelly. All three are friends of mine now, and sadly, we lost John Lord about two years ago. Various problems with his health. Two great people. Together they have 60 combined years of fire service, both fire captains.
Yeah, and that's seven years ago. So I started studying materials. What are the melting points of all these materials? I saw auto glass approximately melts out at 2,500 degrees, and that's the start melting to actually flow like this and go down on the street or in the car. Perhaps it goes up higher to 2,700, not sure.
Yes, the two fire captains told me in their combined 60 years they've never ever seen a window melt out. Incidentally, every fire I've been to, all these 120 trips, not one window has been intact. Every single one has melted out, no exceptions. Same with the aluminum rims or alloy rims. They melt out at 1,221 degrees, and perhaps more to flow down the street.
I have this piece at home, and I think they were a stack of aluminum or alloy rims, probably two in this one because I can barely lift it. Kind of a pretty grotesque-looking thing. These things will flow 20 or 30 feet from a car when there's nothing on the ground to keep them melting. That's a high temperature, but they keep flowing right across the dirt. Amazing.
And every aluminum alloy rim I've seen, without exception, they've all been melted to some degree.
Is it possible that maybe the ground is also causing the melting, or do you think it's the actual metal itself?
The ground itself? I think the ground would be more fused everywhere, and I would have seen more signs of that because there are metals present in the parent soil itself. You know, that's like miners. They start digging up, and they can find all the different elements in a cup of soil.
But I think you'd have to have higher amounts of one of the metals in the soil, you know, deposit, if you will, where it might fuse and turn into a melted puddle in the ground. I think there's not enough of it in one area.
Right, so who knows? This is the Concade fire aftermath, where they burned a 20,000 square foot winery to the ground and left the metal roof and the rock walls. It was a half mile away from the fire. The fire was over on the mountainside. This building is in the middle of a vineyard. There's nothing there to burn.
And around the perimeter, I found these homes and cars and such. You'll notice in any of the photos I took, the trees didn't burn. It doesn't matter what species.
And something else—the door handles. Can you explain why the door handles are always missing?
Yeah, they're always melted out and just gone. I'm not sure of their composition or what type of metal they are. They must be a light gauge of metal, but I don't know what they are. They're always missing. I never even see where they go. I think they just... I don't know, maybe drip on the ground into a tiny puddle, or they just disappear.
These weapons are very powerful. You can't even tell what this car was. Looks like a T-top. Yeah, that's about all you can tell. Just amazing what's going on. They never... where in the background, the forest didn't burn.
Uh-huh, and these are Valley Oaks back here. I took Deborah Tavares. I always refer to her as the great Deborah Tavares. Aftermath with her husband Lou, that photographs everything, and also my friend Matt Diacon. A couple of houses here and a metal shop in the back just gone.
The forest is primarily Valley Oak and California Bay, which is a very combustible leaf. I can light them on fire again with a cigarette lighter. They didn't burn.
Boy, this was a terrible one. There's a bay tree right there. The bottoms will always be burned right at ground level. No reason for that. Grass couldn't do that.
Uh-huh, a lot of flames to do that. No, they're being cooked right where they're at. This was an entire bay forest, and I couldn't find one leaf burned.
And somehow the leaves turned black. You notice the bottoms of these little suckers here? They're black. I don't know if that's a slow cook or what, but I showed my kids on a barbecue. Little barbecue we do some hot dogs, and I went down and made a stick for marshmallows because these have straight sticks.
We pulled off 10 or 20 leaves, made our stick, took the leaves over, put them in the barbecue, and I said, "Stand back." In seconds, the whole thing went up. That's what bays do—very flammable oils. Almost every tree here is a bay. They didn't burn, but the ground did. Flames everywhere. They couldn't ignite a bay tree.
My eyes fall to my head every time I see these pictures. This is the car fire. I don't remember how many years ago—five or six—out of Redding, California. It was a large fire. I can't tell the species of all these. Are eucalyptus? Perhaps the rest are oaks.
Even in a grass fire, they're hot enough to turn trees brown for at least 20 feet in the air. Didn't happen that day. Houses and outbuildings here are burned to white ash again. Trees might be dead, but they're just a light shade of green to me. They're a vegetable in the microwave being cooked, sucking the water out of them. That's just my idea.
Right, and it's only a grass fire here. You can tell this was just grass, and it might have even been kept up with a tractor, lawnmowers, weed eaters, whatever. And they took all these buildings around away. So those were homes? Were these homes on the left and in the background possibly?
It's a ranch with a few outbuildings and a home to your left. Not sure. Telephone poles always burn at the bottom. A lot of times, they're just hanging, like in Paradise. They're hanging from the wires. Telephone poles are not in brush; they're in gravel, cement, side of the road. There's not much around them, yet every time I see them, they're hanging or burned at the bottom.
We saw that in Maui too. Those were the first things to go—the power lines.
Yeah, this is back to that K Cade fire, finding out many trees are cooking from the inside out. These were probably hanging over the road, and one of the crews came out and said, "All right, we got to get rid of it." This one does have a small opening, but most are burned on the inside, and there's no hole to get a flame in there, and the outside's okay.
You look down below; it's not even black. Right? That's like backwards. I usually say everything that should burn in these fires doesn't, and everything that shouldn't burn does. It is backwards. Everything's backwards.
Doesn't matter what the species is; they'll be burned from the inside out, generally the ones that hold the most water. I mean really, really liquidy water. The extreme water levers are the worst, but the oaks, they hold a ton of water. When I cut them down, water will sprit up one inch out of the trunk.
Well, water in the microwave heats up faster than chili, and the pines are doing the same thing but at a slower rate. They're more combustible. The sap will ignite at 193 degrees, and the pines aren't burning.
This was a split rail fence in the Concave fire that somebody built. These were pretty tall, 7-8 feet, kind of a homemade thing. The only place they burn is at the ground and wherever the metals were. The backside of this is burned because of the T-post they hammer in the ground, but I got the nails. I find this everywhere.
Yeah, I've seen this many times. The minute I see it, there we go. What fire does that? A normal fire would burn the post in the bottom up, not skip spots. No, they favor the metals, of course.
Right, those are elm leaves on the ground. I can usually plant them in. I see it. These all come from various fires. I just had to show how many of these I see. I've got over a thousand photos easily, whether they're painted or not. The same thing happens with guard rails.
This is just one of the better ones. The ground burned, and you know in guard rail, there's nothing under them. You're lucky to even find them in grass. It's gravel; it's dirt. There's nothing there to warrant this kind of burn. No way, and especially around a bolt.
Uh-huh, that one's not mine, and they want to see it's a lightning strike.
Uh-huh, I've seen plenty of lightning strikes in the High Sierra. They hit the tree, go right to the ground. Sometimes they go out; they're so instantaneous, or they're on fire. They don't cook from the inside out.
That one's on the media. I want to say three or four years ago, we had the entire San Francisco Ridge lines on fire, every side of the bay. This was the Mount Hamilton or Diablo range from Livermore, California, down to Pacheco Pass, and most of the range east and west from San Jose to Tracy. They really burned the whole range.
These posts, this one in particular, this is six months later. I guess spring has already passed. It's either May or June. Nothing regenerated under it—no weeds, no grass, no tubers, bulbs, rhizome, root stocks, corns, no underground seed structures of any kind. How did that happen?
I believe that pole got so hot it sterilized the soil, and that's just a guess. Some get hotter than others, but that's amazing because seeds can be, you know, three or four inches in the dirt and wait years before they come up. The same with your root stocks.
A lot to say about this. This is your big one from Beresa. I can't remember what they call this. It was 70 lightning strikes; they merged them all together, and they burned from Highway 80, Vacaville, all the way to Calistoga. It's an hour's drive.
This is Fremont Cottonwood. You've probably heard me talk about this. To me, it's the largest water-holding capacity in the whole Western United States. Nothing beats it. It's in the willow family, king of the willow family. They can easily be four and six feet in diameter, and there's one in Carson City, Nevada, probably 15 feet through.
They have to be in a spring, lake, creek, river bank. They have to have those roots going right in the water, or they won't get very big. This thing was about four feet in diameter in a spring. It fell over, burned from the inside out, and not one leaf burned.
I got reports that a week after, the roots were still like coals in the ground. I was told that's how that happens. Not to this guy. This is extreme water lever. There's nothing flammable about it except the leaves if they're dead.
Yeah, that would be your pine family mostly, or eucalyptus, or bay to burn like that, but this guy, no way. And this was a healthy one. I could tell. Looks like lightning hit it for an hour. I never seen anything like it.
So the willow family with the cottonwoods, poplars, and aspen at high altitudes, it's a direct relative of this. I won't have a picture of that aspen, but the Caldor fire that went to South Shore Tahoe, that area between Highway 50 and 88, the Caldor fire where they put a father and son in jail that reported the fire.
Oh wow. Up there, there was aspen in a couple of high subalpine areas, and I got out and analyzed them. A few were cut, a few broke. They burned internally. Again, this is 8,000 feet. You don't see fires up there. It's so rare; you wouldn't believe it.
Cold. It's consistently cold, right? That's right. Your temperature is low; the combustibility rates—there's no grass. Like this one, this is Eon. It's a little community with, I don't know how many mobile homes. It's on the confluence of the Sacramento and Mummy River, and it was burning, I think, three years ago.
I thought, I'm going to go up and take a look. Hour drive. I get up there, and the firemen were there, but they weren't keeping people out. There were even little flames out here. This was a mulberry, a direct... well, mulberries and fig trees, same family. Both have white juice, a ton of water.
I never seen like this. The bark flew off; it burned right down the middle, and they were in lawns because all the coaches had these mulberries for shade. The lawn's gone on this one. It just looks like lightning hit it for an hour or something.
I never seen like it. Holds a ton of water. When you cut them down, careful which way you're holding your chainsaw. You know, when you slant cut, it'll drip all over you, soak your pants. But here, and it wasn't a dead tree.
If they try to pull that, say it was all rotten and hollow. Uh-huh. Same place you say mobile... a mobile park? I feel like I hear a lot of mobile parks being burned. Have you noticed that?
That's right. They're targeting the poorest of people that don't have the assets to rebuild. Generally, they're older. A lot of them are 55 years old and more, those communities. And what do they have to do? They've lost everything. They have to go back to the city and live in a stacking pack, rent a one-bedroom place, and maybe go back to work.
Paradise had 10 mobile home parks. All 10 were eliminated. Very few in those missed their coach somehow, and I went up there three years after the fact, and I still found evidence.
Here's the same mobile home park. 19 of these mobile homes burned up. The trees... oh yeah, that last mulberry did. Eucalyptus were there; they didn't burn. Here's a coach. This is the way in. You go up the steps, open the door, and walk inside.
This is the only wood on the property. It refused to burn, and we got huge flames behind it. Another one. This is my famous one, especially with all the other materials around it. On the side of the coach, that's the door frame to walk inside on that side. The wood didn't even turn black at all.
Shows you we're dealing with a different fire. I wish I knew the composition of these flames, but it doesn't recognize the organics. The wood should have been black; it should have been burned. I mean, normal fires... stick is plastic probably, and it's not melted.
I can't speak about the stuff in the foreground, but I don't think they just brought that in there and hung it on there. You know, the cord, the gas can, and all these others, right? It looks like there's plenty of plastic in this photo that's intact.
Yeah, so you know I can't talk about the stuff if I don't know, but there's that deck. Uh-huh, that doesn't happen. I don't care if they think the wind's blown the other way when they pull that one on me.
In the background left, that's eucalyptus, silver dollar eucalyptus, just as flammable as the blue gums. They refuse to burn, and there's the fireman back there. I talked to him when they had a lady. She was the boss; she didn't know what she was talking about at all, and she was the experienced one.
The same year that burned the whole Bay Area, three or four years ago now, they took away Big Basin State Park, where we have a lot of redwoods. Here's the outskirts of the park. I'm standing on Highway 1 with the Pacific Ocean behind me, and here's a grove of blue gum eucalyptus—smaller ones, kind of narrow and overcrowded.
Fire went right through them, right under them. Leaves are on the ground; it did not ignite. This was shock treatment when I saw this. This should have gone up in a horrible inferno and left nothing because the oils, even in the trunk.
Years past, we cut down a big three-foot blue gum eucalyptus. Take everything away, and the stump would ooze the oils up out of it. My friend was a cigarette smoker. He'd take that cigarette lighter and light the stump on fire—just the oils. The whole thing instantly would be blue flames.
That's, of course, the sap or oils, but these leaves—a cigarette lighter in hand starts these unbelievable. It doesn't recognize the organics.
Is that blue flame also indicative of...?
That was just a starting. The whole stump was blue, and then higher up it turned into the normal yellows and orange. This is up in Calistoga, right next to town. A house was missing to my left, and here's a soil bag. It still had soil in it.
I moved a little bit to see if they put it there. No, there were no leaves under it. That was there. The tennis shoe was there, and you see the black. There's black everywhere. All these recent oaks and these other leaves fell after the fact.
You know, that's all at the same location. A cushion for your chair. I pick them up, and I move them all just... I gotta play devil's advocate. I don't want to make anything up.
Now, back to Big Basin. They wouldn't let me go in the park for two years, and now, of course, to go in there even for the day, you have to get on the computer, get a day-use permit to go outside and play, or you can't go. You can't show up and pay the ranger. Nope. Same with backpacking permits.
Here's a pile of, you know, redwood trees. To me, these are toddlers. This is the tallest tree on the planet, coastal redwood. When you look at the cuts, this is very important. These are not 90% dead. They should not have that heartwood.
The dark, dark area is the heartwood, non-conductive tissue. The white is the sapwood, the live tissue. I've cut down trees this size, you know, forever. You're lucky to find any brown in them at all at this age—maybe a tiny little square inch in the middle, dead center. That would be your heartwood.
It shows me these things were cooked from the inside out. I don't know what at what rate, whether it was five minutes, an hour, or eight hours, but they're cooked from the inside out. And these are toddlers when it comes to the redwoods. These are maybe, maybe the big ones, 100 feet. That's it.
And the small ones, and I'm finding log piles like this all over, so I'm photographing them. Heartwood and sapwood ratios are simple things for arborists. Anybody should know this.
The whole background has leaves dead, but I can't see they're burned. These are the roads going around Big Basin State Park. I went to all the homes with my brother, four or five trips down there. Perhaps this is a year later. They're suckering back from roots and lower trunks.
A home here is missing, and here's their plastic swimming pool, blue tarps, some other stuff. That's all plastic around here. Refuse to burn. I think the canopy on your left that collapsed probably had metal bolts here and there, and those were on fire.
Same property of one of these nice canopies with your glass table underneath burned everywhere, not that. And your media giants will always tell you the flying embers. Well, where's the hole in this canopy?
Right? All they do is lie. And all the redwood in the background, they are fire retardant, but when a firestorm comes through, it doesn't play favorites. It burns every leaf on them.
I've used to backpack in the Big Sur area. Way in the backcountry, once in a while, a natural fire came through. It left black poles, limbless for the redwoods. Then they sprout out.
Uh-huh, not so in this fire. No, the trunks are black, and I want to say that's because of liquids inside the inner bark, the cambial fluid, if you will, and they're igniting because of the liquids.
Okay, back to the mountains.
Robert, real quick, you know the famous banyan tree in Maui? They said it burned, but that it's going to come back.
I don't know. Not sure if they... I've heard a lot. I wish I could analyze it. A banyan tree has a lot of liquid inside, or it does. It's a fig; it's a weed. It's a ficus, you know, like our edible figs. That's all it is, is a fig. They grow fast; it's a softwood. They hold a lot of moisture, and it's probably cooked from the inside out and made a whole bunch of heartwood like those redwoods.
How much? I don't know because the fire was on every single side of it, burned every building, and that tree looked dead. It's probably cooked everything throughout and has a degree of heartwood.
So as it regrows and grows out heartwood, it can't flex like sapwood in the wind. Move around with the wind; it's dead tissue. So when it gets too heavy on the ends with new growth and a little bit of wind, they just break, and I fear that might happen one, two, three years down the road. It grows out, gets more weight, it can't sway; they just get too heavy, and limbs break off.
We'll see. I hope not because I hear this is a beautiful tree, but that's what I see with these things. When there's too much heartwood, even residential stuff I do, when there's too much heartwood, somebody's trimmed the tree way too much, then it grows back out like an old apple tree. It hollows out; a person gets heartwood; it hollows out, and pretty soon there's a giant hole in your apple tree.
There's a group that wants to completely remove the banyan tree because they think it represents colonialism, but there might be another reason why they want to get rid of that tree.
What's in their brain? I say leave it, cordon it off so a branch can't hit somebody, right?
Because it's... and watch it. Just watch it. The easy way—remove it. That's the easy way out.
I was told that the tree, 75 to 80% of it has survived, but they are going to have to cut away about 20% of the tree. But it is allegedly going to mostly survive.
But yeah, they will cut about 20% of it, and that hurts it. Yeah, because you cut off X amount of green that corresponds directly to the limbs, the trunk, and the roots, so it dies back more. When you cut that off, it doesn't have the green to sustain good health.
Oh boy, terrible. This one I came off Highway 99. I had to go up to the Shaver Lake area, that gigantic fire that almost went to the crest of the Sierra, south of Mammoth, Shaver Lake, Hunden Lake.
This would be the southern fork of the San Joaquin River system. Another gargantuan fire. I think it was February, but I went up to the first area I could, and this is all I had to do—go to the first house. The windows were melted out, the tires are melted out, there were some plastics here, the trees were dead, and some kind of looked burned, but it was just... that's the only one I kept for that fire.
But there was a bunch of cars like this. The houses were gone. It was the same stuff exactly, so I didn't go any farther. Big fire. I can't remember how many homes they burned, and there was a lot of plastics here with the snow on them. I had to brush them off and take pictures.
But I wanted to go... I don't remember the name of it, but Shaver Lake on Highway 168 up there. They gave it a three-digit, you know, like LNC or CBS or whatever. They give those numbers now.
And now that I'm seeing snow, there was also a fire where it snowed during the fire—the Smokehouse Creek Fire. Either snowed during or immediately after the Texas one, the Texas Panhandle.
Oh yeah, that worked out real well for them. They were cooked as poor cattle.
The Russian River comes in; it goes out to the ocean north of San Francisco Bay. Back in there, there's an area called the Armstrong Redwoods State Park, and there was a fire up there that burned somewhere near Lake Sonoma over the ridges to that Armstrong Redwoods Park.
I took all the roads I could for a day. I came back in here, and I find this stockpile of plastics that they're getting ready to take off the property. If you get there quick enough, you'll find these. You notice everything here didn't want to melt or burn.
They've collected other stuff in those black bags. I don't know what, but all the garbage cans, all this fencing, all these plastics. If you get there quick enough, you can see what's going on.
Same fire, I see this chainsaw. I think I have that model in the back of this pickup truck. The window melted out at 2,500 degrees. All the tires burned completely, leaving the slinky-like steel belts.
Wasn't it hot as heck? Well, of course it was. The plastics—that plastic should be gone completely down to the metals. Didn't happen. That was amazing when I looked in that truck. I couldn't believe it.
Yeah, a cigarette lighter, if you had enough fuel, you could probably melt the plastic, no problem. It had a little damage, but from what happened to this window and these tires, you don't burn a tire that quick, but with these fires, perhaps they do.
I don't know. That was damning. Over on the border of Nevada, south of Topaz, which is Nevada, where they can gamble, you're on Highway 395.
The highway that goes up the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada, a community called Walker in the Walker River system. Here was a metal shop. The house to the right is missing, but it's the metal shop I want to look at. Whatever metal workers, what he did, all this metal got superheated.
And oddly, the tree on the left is a pinion pine, the pine nut of commerce that we eat. Those are kind of more flammable than most pines. They're high desert, along with their juniper, juniper pinion woodlands. When a fire comes through a natural fire, it burns them up completely. It didn't happen this day.
And I think there were flames all over the place. No pinion. That's a good-sized pinion. They usually don't achieve that height. Rare.
Oh, that was scary. Same place. That's just in the foreground. All the tires, that's the way your tires look like.
And also, Robert, we've noticed that a lot of metals will instantly rust. I noticed a lot of those metals, and you had the reasoning for that. I didn't know. I just thought heavy dew or rain, and they'd rust right away, but it's something else.
Yeah, this rust seems to occur rather instantly, like as soon as the fire has passed. It seems like the metal is in this state, and it would take a period of time for it to oxidize naturally according to a chemical process.
However, it looks like there was perhaps some sort of electrolysis that took place that actually rusted these metals almost instantly.
Wow, I had no idea. It was above my pay grade.
There were kids' toys all behind here by the house—plastic toys everywhere. But I didn't want to overload you with too many photographs.
So there's what you see. What's left of the tire? Usually, I don't even find this much. I can't even find the black. Usually, that's the way I find almost 99% of my tires.
Then I find this in this... I'll say in the same areas. It could be a hoarder of tires in the backyard—100, 200 tires—and there'll be one untouched just like that.
Polyester cord, I believe there's one steel core right on the edge, one wire to hold like the bead to hold it on the rim. Other than these are unaffected; they're not melted at all.
And I'll pick them up to see if they've been sitting in the dirt. There'll be a ring in the soil. They've been there the whole time. No metal.
There's your microwave technology, and I've seen that everywhere. This is north on one of... one by Ukiah, a little town called Calpella. They had a fire there. I want to say it was called the Hopkins fire, and also near Lake Menino.
I walked all over, spent a day there, and months later, they put a homeless person in jail and said he did it.
Oh no, no, no, no. I've got heaps of evidence on this one. This is a parking block, homemade, painted red, probably 20 feet long, if not more. Every 8 feet is where they attach it to a post going in the ground.
Everyone burns only where the bolts are. I have more, but I only put two here.
Have you noticed that certain colors tend to be less affected?
Only the blue, and that's just since Maui. Back in my photos, and I have a lot of play structures and little kids' plastic blue swimming pools.
So that one's a newer one for me since Hawaii. I've had to do that double-check on all these old photos, but you've seen that other places.
That's a kind of...
Yeah, yeah, and even in Maui, you look hard enough, I found a play structure, and the homes were gone. Here's this nice plastic, good size one too for a lot of kids. It's in one of my videos with Michelle, I think.
So there was a... so there was a homeless guy they put in jail and threw the book at him. I think he's even convicted now.
This is up at Redding, California. The next fire was the Fawn fire, F-A-W-N, I believe, like the deer. I happened to go up there on the way to Oregon, and anomalies everywhere.
Here's a fence line. They all look like this—burn at the nails, burn at the ground. Eucalyptus were up there. It's not that cold of a habitat. Eucalyptus are subtropical generally, but they can live in Redding. It doesn't get quite that cold.
They put a lady in jail, Alexandria something, a blonde lady, and she was backpacking, and they threw the book at her. I've talked to her lawyer; he wasn't interested in me at all. Incidentally, he worked for the feds down out of Modesto or Oakdale before he got the job up here as a public defender. I don't trust these people.
So here's that photo. There's a better one that might be on the front of my book when it comes out, or that one. I like them both. What kind of fire can do that? And it's still there.
I've been by there twice. This is the same fire. I talked to a gentleman. Everybody directed me up this hill. His whole two-story house is missing. I don't see one burned tree.
There's Ponderosa pine, black oak, white oak. There's a Deodar cedar to the left there, a little bit—that's pine family from the Himalayas—and a digger pine on the left, the big multi-branched one. Nothing to burn that day.
Just the house.
There was another thing we've been noticing is there's no toilets or bathtubs or windows. The glass, I can't find.
Right, yeah. So I just wanted to throw out that aluminum does start melting at about 1,221, like you said. Glass starts to melt at about 2,200, but porcelain, the melting point is much higher than even that of glass.
Really? Yes, I haven't looked that one up.
Oh my gosh. Kind of like that day 22, 23 years ago in New York where they couldn't find a piece of a toilet.
Right, my girlfriend saw this one. This is a tall post, perhaps five or six feet high, and way up high, eye level, can tell the way I'm shooting. Here's this just the nail area burned.
Big Basin again, the redwoods over on the coast. She saw that. Boy, I had to get out of the car. Incidentally, in Big Basin, there's two kinds of alders there—another very extreme water-loving family is the alder family, which have the birch in them also.
And mostly our birches are all imported. They're put in front yards. These white ones, we do have one in California on the eastern side of the Sierra called water birch with a brown trunk, small thing.
But alders and birch—the alder trees in Big Basin, they were dead, and they didn't turn black. So much water in you wouldn't believe it. An alder, and again, they have to be planted right next to a creek, spring, lake, whatever.
Because I looked around, all the redwoods were kind of brown, and I saw the alders. First thing I was looking for is the stream water level. That tells me a big story right there.
So they burned that park. North of the mountain, Mount Shasta was a fire. I don't know the name of it. It burned a motel to the ground, and here's this board full of nails. It was laying on the ground. You can see the print. I picked it up just so I could show the picture.
What really burned? The nails on that board. This is north of Weed, California, perhaps 15 miles or 20. They burned a motel to the ground. I want to say two years ago in the San Francisco Bay area, where the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers meet in the Benicia area.
They go through the straight there. There's a little place called Port Costa, where the Transcontinental railroads used to be floated across in the 1800s. Where they come out, there's a little park there with a whole grove of blue gum eucalyptus.
Anytime there's a fire near me, I'm going to go look at it just because. And 100% of them have been like this. This little guard rail is a park guard rail, and actually, it's all wood. There's no metal here.
The cross member, the long ones, and the post are all wood, and each one was burned like this where the screws were. And there's the grove, Benicia, on the far left. The ground's on fire; the trees turn brown. They refuse to ignite.
And oddly, there were some baby elderberries up here, which are very deep-rooted and water lovers. They were toasted right at the ground, one or two inches up, but this thing should have been hell on earth. It should have been flames everywhere. Didn't happen.
Have you noticed other places, like when there's a lake or something, that the boats are often destroyed?
The only one I saw was on pictures was the car fire at Whiskey Town Lake, which is west of Redding. There's a wooden dock going all the way out to the boats out in the middle. The wooden dock's okay; the boats out there—wait, I'm talking 100 or maybe 200 feet out on the water—the metal boats were all half burned and melted.
And you'll see those on the internet. Like, I saw that. That jumped out right away.
This is coming over Monitor Pass, Highway 89, coming down to 395 where Topaz is. I noticed there had been a fire. I looked out of my window. I saw that had to go up on the hill and get close.
The barbed wire perhaps moves up and down with the wind, but why wouldn't it burn consistently from the bottom up? No, it's the wires. If there's a lot of wrapped barbed wire, that's usually where the worst burning is. Sometimes one strand around it will not ignite it.
But still, that burn pattern doesn't make sense.
Do you also find that where you see these wirings, that wire will conduct heat for long distances and even go into a building? I'm thinking about the Pentecostal church that had that beam that was burned, but the rest of the church was still okay.
So we're thinking the wiring that was going through the ceiling is what was bringing the fire.
Yeah, I believe that there was induction, external induction, induced through the wiring of that building, and there was resistive heating that heated it up and caught the surrounding area on fire, but only for a couple inches in each direction.
There was a cable on a railroad trestle. I don't remember the fire. It's either Canada or up in Oregon, Washington, just not too many months ago. It's a railroad trestle. Here's this cable; the whole thing's on fire. You can find that on the internet.
Yeah, it might also be why in Jasper, the appliances...
Oh yes, Fort McMurray.
Yeah, Fort McMurray had a lot of shorted appliances, but the house was okay. That was the only Fort McMurray fire, about what, five years ago?
Uh, 2016, Fort McMurray, Canada. Yeah, that was the major fire that they had.
Okay, yeah, that's one of the ones I learned about. So many around the world I've learned about.
Here's more of the same. I see eucalyptus in here down on the bottom. I don't remember the exact location, but look at the heartwood buildup. That's way too much. On the far left, up top, you see little brown areas. That's more normal, a small amount of heartwood.
That's just arborist 101. These were starting to compost, so these weren't pine. No, these look like oak. Look at the little areas in the middle. They're black in the middle. Little holes are starting.
Now these are oaks. Looks like most of them. Can't tell which species, but heartwood way too much. They're cooked internally.
Now here's our big Dixie fire—almost a million acres. Greenville, California took the whole town away, left one gas station and one food store. You going to guess who owns those?
Took the whole town away. Oh my God. The whole forest is dead, but I can't see it's burned. The trunks are burned up, oh, 70, 80 feet in the air, but look at the needles. This is a Ponderosa pine, white fir, red fir, probably a silver pine, and could be a Douglas fir in there. They didn't burn up.
What kind of forest fire forgot the forest again?
Yeah, and they started clearing from the road a good 100 feet or more. Every tree on both sides of the road to make future fire lines.
There's the town. I traveled a lot on this fire footprint. I couldn't believe it how huge it was. All the trees are dead in the picture, but I can't say they burned up.
And here's your city anomalies everywhere. Whoever it was, they took all the plastic garbage cans and got rid of them so nobody would see the evidence. But I found some brand new ones in somebody's yard with brand new numbers and writing on them, so they did have garbage cans.
One of my questions that I asked the public always, if they have that service, they're quick to get in there and get rid of items that should have burned.
Oh, that was the Dixie fire, which burned almost a million acres.
And in contrast, I'm sorry, have you noticed recently it's been a lot harder to find those types of, you know, images or video? I just feel like in the short time I've been looking at it, there's very little to find.
They're quick. There was a lot of information. They make sure they keep the public out and say you can't come back till we make it safe. Meanwhile, the trucks are coming in empty, and they're going out full.
It'd be nice if people saw them, followed them, see what they're dumping, where they're taking it. Somebody's doing this work, and they're keeping their mouth shut, and I've caught them in here. I'll show you a pile that's coming up.
Oh, here it is. Okay, this is the Oak fire, Mariposa, California, where they put a whole diabetic man at 71 years old that can hardly walk, whose land he owns a lot of property. They grabbed him and put him in jail at gunpoint.
And I happened to go there and analyze it. One of my best days of analyzing. I drove 140 miles to Mariposa and spent the whole day and came home late.
It's the same thing. They put this old guy, Edward Wakerman, in jail, and Tuesday they were had a court case for him to say, "Hey, should we give him bail or not? Should you know?" It was all about his bail, and they have zero evidence on him.
They say they have all kinds of evidence; they never showed any of it. He has 16 felonies against him for this fire that he couldn't have started in his wildest dreams.
This board is in my garage now since it fell outside in the public area. I figured I'm picking up litter. See the nails in it? There were nine burn spots; each one had a nail. I moved it around to take better pictures, and the nails kept falling out.
There's still four nails in it. What kind of fire is this that this old gentleman started? It's damning evidence. It's going to be in my book, and his name's going to be in my book too.
And these trees with leaves to the ground, they don't want to burn. The water tank up there on the hill melted, and I walked up there, actually looked. There were metal pieces in the areas where they caved in—little metal fittings and elbows for the water.
I've been trying to contact these people. Every time I go up now, they've cleared it off and put a mobile home in there. I've left them notes. I think they're afraid to get involved because that board was in a street, another property real close.
Or is that the same truck? Real close. Oddly, the people that have that burned-up property, the only tree that burned was a Lombardy poplar, a little five or six-inch diameter poplar, which is an extreme water lever down by the road.
It burned just the very bottom, and they removed it and got rid of it, and it's just green piping.
Was that there, you think?
No, that's just, you know, contain the area, keep the pollutant from draining down into the watershed. Cosmetic.
This was behind a container freight. Oh, inside the container freight, you wouldn't believe it. Everything looked like just fried completely. Everything in that metal...
Because they metal. This was behind a container freight. Everything on the property they could find to be hauled away and taken, you know, disposed of.
Look how many plastics—the little pots, the garden hose, the PVCs, the chair. They... whoever collected it and put it here, they probably didn't work the day it was taken away, and nobody saw it.
Why?
Oh yeah, it's not the homeowner. Uh-uh. I don't believe that.
There's a BNB up there, and I keep calling them, and there's no answer. I believe their place burned to the ground. It's up a dirt driveway, so I couldn't see the house.
But right here, this is still here on the street. It burned where the bolts and nails were. Big sign.
That's another commonality I'm hearing, like little bed and breakfasts and a lot of motels.
See, and motels targeted? Well, you know who owns all the motels in California.
The mosquito fire east of Auburn, California, on Highway 80. I saw some pictures, drove up there, crossed the new bridge, the Forest Dale bridge, and most of the roads were open, and they didn't take everything out.
So here's a predominant Ponderosa pine forest—little short ones. Everything where the flames are in the needles, they refuse to ignite.
And here's your cars. This is a dirt parking lot. I don't believe there was ever grass in it, you know, anything combustible. Same stuff. The rims are melted; the windows are gone.
And oddly, down on the left, those are black oaks. They're more of a coniferous zone tree. They'll grow up to perhaps 7,000 feet, and they'll grow up. Some of them 100 feet tall, they'll be in Yuba Valley and compete with the conifers.
They hold a ton of water. Those are the ones that burned down there on the left. Smaller leaves are gone.
I'm sorry, let's say they wanted to clear... let's say they want to clear a forest to, you know, do something with the land. Would burning it be a much easier process versus doing it without burning it?
You'd have to be careful because to burn it, you have to get the fire up in the canopy, and you don't want it up in the canopy. It turns into a firestorm; it starts spreading to other trees.
I don't know. The best is to log it, make profit on it, and pull the stumps out or whatever with tractors. Knock them down, get them on the ground. If you're going to burn them, put them in slash piles and do it in winter.
They have whole tree chippers nowadays. If the tree is not big enough to use for lumber, they knock it down. The thing picks it up, chips the entire tree. This is all the way up to, I think, 28 to 30 inches. The whole tree goes right through the machine.
Yeah, I don't know. There's different ways to do that, but let's hope we never see that day.
John Lord and Matt woke me up to this one. This is your Caldor fire. Way down the left in the background, you see some blue. That's Cable's Lake. We're almost at Carson Pass.
This is a subalpine belt. Those are all aspen, and I found anomalies, of course, but John Lord told me about the pipes. Perfect timing during the fire and where it crosses the road.
They have the old metal pipes. They pulled TW 11 or 12 out on this road and replaced them with a plastic pipe or Smith if it's a bigger creek that comes through. They need to make a big smint pipe in there or a square one, and I'm finding this all over now.
Big Basin did it. Darnell's fire did it. Salinas fire did it. The Caldor right here, and Paradise, yeah, Paradise also.
And I tracked down where the pipes were. There's one gas station at Kirkwood Ski Resort on the main road, Highway 88. There behind it are the 11 pipes, and I've seen this. I'm taking note of it.
I guess they don't want the road to collapse when a diesel truck goes over it because these pipes are probably compromised.
Up north in Weed, California, there was a fire called the mill fire because it started at a lumber mill, and this one killed three people, burned their homes to the ground. They couldn't get out of their homes.
And it was the same thing. I spent two different days up there analyzing this, and it's the same thing—just a nightmare. Here's your Corral fire. This is June now, this year.
Highway 5 is right here. This is the ramps, and here's your eucalyptus. It's down in the flames, refuse to burn. There's the boards. I'm just putting one in here.
There's many boards like this everywhere where only the screws or other fasteners were on fire.
And Shane, we did the one, right? Did we report the...
Yeah, that was June 1st.
Yeah, and it started up the canyon at the Lawrence Livermore Lab. They have two labs—one's on this side, on the Tracy side. I drove up the road. It started right next to their building.
Yeah, where they make the trillion-watt laser and whatever else they have.
And I'm finding this all over now.
Big Basin did it. Darnell's fire did it. Salinas fire did it. The Caldor right here, and Paradise, yeah, Paradise also.
And I tracked down where the pipes were. There's one gas station at Kirkwood Ski Resort on the main road, Highway 88. There behind it are the 11 pipes, and I've seen this. I'm taking note of it.
I guess they don't want the road to collapse when a diesel truck goes over it because these pipes are probably compromised.
Up north in Weed, California, there was a fire called the mill fire because it started at a lumber mill, and this one killed three people, burned their homes to the ground. They couldn't get out of their homes.
And it was the same thing. I spent two different days up there analyzing this, and it's the same thing—just a nightmare. Here's your Corral fire. This is June now, this year.
Highway 5 is right here. This is the ramps, and here's your eucalyptus. It's down in the flames, refuse to burn. There's the boards. I'm just putting one in here.
There's many boards like this everywhere where only the screws or other fasteners were on fire.
And Shane, we did the one, right? Did we report the...
Yeah, that was June 1st.
Yeah, and it started up the canyon at the Lawrence Livermore Lab. They have two labs—one's on this side, on the Tracy side. I drove up the road. It started right next to their building.
Yeah, where they make the trillion-watt laser and whatever else they have.
And I'm finding this all over now.
Big Basin did it. Darnell's fire did it. Salinas fire did it. The Caldor right here, and Paradise, yeah, Paradise also.
And I tracked down where the pipes were. There's one gas station at Kirkwood Ski Resort on the main road, Highway 88. There behind it are the 11 pipes, and I've seen this. I'm taking note of it.
I guess they don't want the road to collapse when a diesel truck goes over it because these pipes are probably compromised.
Up north in Weed, California, there was a fire called the mill fire because it started at a lumber mill, and this one killed three people, burned their homes to the ground. They couldn't get out of their homes.
And it was the same thing. I spent two different days up there analyzing this, and it's the same thing—just a nightmare. Here's your Corral fire. This is June now, this year.
Highway 5 is right here. This is the ramps, and here's your eucalyptus. It's down in the flames, refuse to burn. There's the boards. I'm just putting one in here.
There's many boards like this everywhere where only the screws or other fasteners were on fire.
And Shane, we did the one, right? Did we report the...
Yeah, that was June 1st.
Yeah, and it started up the canyon at the Lawrence Livermore Lab. They have two labs—one's on this side, on the Tracy side. I drove up the road. It started right next to their building.
Yeah, where they make the trillion-watt laser and whatever else they have.
And I'm finding this all over now.
Big Basin did it. Darnell's fire did it. Salinas fire did it. The Caldor right here, and Paradise, yeah, Paradise also.
And I tracked down where the pipes were. There's one gas station at Kirkwood Ski Resort on the main road, Highway 88. There behind it are the 11 pipes, and I've seen this. I'm taking note of it.
I guess they don't want the road to collapse when a diesel truck goes over it because these pipes are probably compromised.
Up north in Weed, California, there was a fire called the mill fire because it started at a lumber mill, and this one killed three people, burned their homes to the ground. They couldn't get out of their homes.
And it was the same thing. I spent two different days up there analyzing this, and it's the same thing—just a nightmare. Here's your Corral fire. This is June now, this year.
Highway 5 is right here. This is the ramps, and here's your eucalyptus. It's down in the flames, refuse to burn. There's the boards. I'm just putting one in here.
There's many boards like this everywhere where only the screws or other fasteners were on fire.
And Shane, we did the one, right? Did we report the...
Yeah, that was June 1st.
Yeah, and it started up the canyon at the Lawrence Livermore Lab. They have two labs—one's on this side, on the Tracy side. I drove up the road. It started right next to their building.
Yeah, where they make the trillion-watt laser and whatever else they have.
And I'm finding this all over now.
Big Basin did it. Darnell's fire did it. Salinas fire did it. The Caldor right here, and Paradise, yeah, Paradise also.
And I tracked down where the pipes were. There's one gas station at Kirkwood Ski Resort on the main road, Highway 88. There behind it are the 11 pipes, and I've seen this. I'm taking note of it.
I guess they don't want the road to collapse when a diesel truck goes over it because these pipes are probably compromised.
Up north in Weed, California, there was a fire called the mill fire because it started at a lumber mill, and this one killed three people, burned their homes to the ground. They couldn't get out of their homes.
And it was the same thing. I spent two different days up there analyzing this, and it's the same thing—just a nightmare. Here's your Corral fire. This is June now, this year.
Highway 5 is right here. This is the ramps, and here's your eucalyptus. It's down in the flames, refuse to burn. There's the boards. I'm just putting one in here.
There's many boards like this everywhere where only the screws or other fasteners were on fire.
And Shane, we did the one, right? Did we report the...
Yeah, that was June 1st.
Yeah, and it started up the canyon at the Lawrence Livermore Lab. They have two labs—one's on this side, on the Tracy side. I drove up the road. It started right next to their building.
Yeah, where they make the trillion-watt laser and whatever else they have.
And I'm finding this all over now.
Big Basin did it. Darnell's fire did it. Salinas fire did it. The Caldor right here, and Paradise, yeah, Paradise also.
And I tracked down where the pipes were. There's one gas station at Kirkwood Ski Resort on the main road, Highway 88. There behind it are the 11 pipes, and I've seen this. I'm taking note of it.
I guess they don't want the road to collapse when a diesel truck goes over it because these pipes are probably compromised.
Up north in Weed, California, there was a fire called the mill fire because it started at a lumber mill, and this one killed three people, burned their homes to the ground. They couldn't get out of their homes.
And it was the same thing. I spent two different days up there analyzing this, and it's the same thing—just a nightmare. Here's your Corral fire. This is June now, this year.
Highway 5 is right here. This is the ramps, and here's your eucalyptus. It's down in the flames, refuse to burn. There's the boards. I'm just putting one in here.
There's many boards like this everywhere where only the screws or other fasteners were on fire.
And Shane, we did the one, right? Did we report the...
Yeah, that was June 1st.
Yeah, and it started up the canyon at the Lawrence Livermore Lab. They have two labs—one's on this side, on the Tracy side. I drove up the road. It started right next to their building.
Yeah, where they make the trillion-watt laser and whatever else they have.
And I'm finding this all over now.
Big Basin did it. Darnell's fire did it. Salinas fire did it. The Caldor right here, and Paradise, yeah, Paradise also.
And I tracked down where the pipes were. There's one gas station at Kirkwood Ski Resort on the main road, Highway 88. There behind it are the 11 pipes, and I've seen this. I'm taking note of it.
I guess they don't want the road to collapse when a diesel truck goes over it because these pipes are probably compromised.
Up north in Weed, California, there was a fire called the mill fire because it started at a lumber mill, and this one killed three people, burned their homes to the ground. They couldn't get out of their homes.
And it was the same thing. I spent two different days up there analyzing this, and it's the same thing—just a nightmare. Here's your Corral fire. This is June now, this year.
Highway 5 is right here. This is the ramps, and here's your eucalyptus. It's down in the flames, refuse to burn. There's the boards. I'm just putting one in here.
There's many boards like this everywhere where only the screws or other fasteners were on fire.
And Shane, we did the one, right? Did we report the...
Yeah, that was June 1st.
Yeah, and it started up the canyon at the Lawrence Livermore Lab. They have two labs—one's on this side, on the Tracy side. I drove up the road. It started right next to their building.
Yeah, where they make the trillion-watt laser and whatever else they have.
And I'm finding this all over now.
Big Basin did it. Darnell's fire did it. Salinas fire did it. The Caldor right here, and Paradise, yeah, Paradise also.
And I tracked down where the pipes were. There's one gas station at Kirkwood Ski Resort on the main road, Highway 88. There behind it are the 11 pipes, and I've seen this. I'm taking note of it.
I guess they don't want the road to collapse when a diesel truck goes over it because these pipes are probably compromised.
Up north in Weed, California, there was a fire called the mill fire because it started at a lumber mill, and this one killed three people, burned their homes to the ground. They couldn't get out of their homes.
And it was the same thing. I spent two different days up there analyzing this, and it's the same thing—just a nightmare. Here's your Corral fire. This is June now, this year.
Highway 5 is right here. This is the ramps, and here's your eucalyptus. It's down in the flames, refuse to burn. There's the boards. I'm just putting one in here.
There's many boards like this everywhere where only the screws or other fasteners were on fire.
And Shane, we did the one, right? Did we report the...
Yeah, that was June 1st.
Yeah, and it started up the canyon at the Lawrence Livermore Lab. They have two labs—one's on this side, on the Tracy side. I drove up the road. It started right next to their building.
Yeah, where they make the trillion-watt laser and whatever else they have.
And I'm finding this all over now.
Big Basin did it. Darnell's fire did it. Salinas fire did it. The Caldor right here, and Paradise, yeah, Paradise also.
And I tracked down where the pipes were. There's one gas station at Kirkwood Ski Resort on the main road, Highway 88. There behind it are the 11 pipes, and I've seen this. I'm taking note of it.
I guess they don't want the road to collapse when a diesel truck goes over it because these pipes are probably compromised.
Up north in Weed, California, there was a fire called the mill fire because it started at a lumber mill, and this one killed three people, burned their homes to the ground. They couldn't get out of their homes.
And it was the same thing. I spent two different days up there analyzing this, and it's the same thing—just a nightmare. Here's your Corral fire. This is June now, this year.
Highway 5 is right here. This is the ramps, and here's your eucalyptus. It's down in the flames, refuse to burn. There's the boards. I'm just putting one in here.
There's many boards like this everywhere where only the screws or other fasteners were on fire.
And Shane, we did the one, right? Did we report the...
Yeah, that was June 1st.
Yeah, and it started up the canyon at the Lawrence Livermore Lab. They have two labs—one's on this side, on the Tracy side. I drove up the road. It started right next to their building.
Yeah, where they make the trillion-watt laser and whatever else they have.
And I'm finding this all over now.
Big Basin did it. Darnell's fire did it. Salinas fire did it. The Caldor right here, and Paradise, yeah, Paradise also.
And I tracked down where the pipes were. There's one gas station at Kirkwood Ski Resort on the main road, Highway 88. There behind it are the 11 pipes, and I've seen this. I'm taking note of it.
I guess they don't want the road to collapse when a diesel truck goes over it because these pipes are probably compromised.
Up north in Weed, California, there was a fire called the mill fire because it started at a lumber mill, and this one killed three people, burned their homes to the ground. They couldn't get out of their homes.
And it was the same thing. I spent two different days up there analyzing this, and it's the same thing—just a nightmare. Here's your Corral fire. This is June now, this year.
Highway 5 is right here. This is the ramps, and here's your eucalyptus. It's down in the flames, refuse to burn. There's the boards. I'm just putting one in here.
There's many boards like this everywhere where only the screws or other fasteners were on fire.
And Shane, we did the one, right? Did we report the...
Yeah, that was June 1st.
Yeah, and it started up the canyon at the Lawrence Livermore Lab. They have two labs—one's on this side, on the Tracy side. I drove up the road. It started right next to their building.
Yeah, where they make the trillion-watt laser and whatever else they have.
And I'm finding this all over now.
Big Basin did it. Darnell's fire did it. Salinas fire did it. The Caldor right here, and Paradise, yeah, Paradise also.
And I tracked down where the pipes were. There's one gas station at Kirkwood Ski Resort on the main road, Highway 88. There behind it are the 11 pipes, and I've seen this. I'm taking note of it.
I guess they don't want the road to collapse when a diesel truck goes over it because these pipes are probably compromised.
Up north in Weed, California, there was a fire called the mill fire because it started at a lumber mill, and this one killed three people, burned their homes to the ground. They couldn't get out of their homes.
And it was the same thing. I spent two different days up there analyzing this, and it's the same thing—just a nightmare. Here's your Corral fire. This is June now, this year.
Highway 5 is right here. This is the ramps, and here's your eucalyptus. It's down in the flames, refuse to burn. There's the boards. I'm just putting one in here.
There's many boards like this everywhere where only the screws or other fasteners were on fire.
And Shane, we did the one, right? Did we report the...
Yeah, that was June 1st.
Yeah, and it started up the canyon at the Lawrence Livermore Lab. They have two labs—one's on this side, on the Tracy side. I drove up the road. It started right next to their building.
Yeah, where they make the trillion-watt laser and whatever else they have.
And I'm finding this all over now.
Big Basin did it. Darnell's fire did it. Salinas fire did it. The Caldor right here, and Paradise, yeah, Paradise also.
And I tracked down where the pipes were. There's one gas station at Kirkwood Ski Resort on the main road, Highway 88. There behind it are the 11 pipes, and I've seen this. I'm taking note of it.
I guess they don't want the road to collapse when a diesel truck goes over it because these pipes are probably compromised.
Up north in Weed, California, there was a fire called the mill fire because it started at a lumber mill, and this one killed three people, burned their homes to the ground. They couldn't get out of their homes.
And it was the same thing. I spent two different days up there analyzing this, and it's the same thing—just a nightmare. Here's your Corral fire. This is June now, this year.
Highway 5 is right here. This is the ramps, and here's your eucalyptus. It's down in the flames, refuse to burn. There's the boards. I'm just putting one in here.
There's many boards like this everywhere where only the screws or other fasteners were on fire.
And Shane, we did the one, right? Did we report the...
Yeah, that was June 1st.
Yeah, and it started up the canyon at the Lawrence Livermore Lab. They have two labs—one's on this side, on the Tracy side. I drove up the road. It started right next to their building.
Yeah, where they make the trillion-watt laser and whatever else they have.
And I'm finding this all over now.
Big Basin did it. Darnell's fire did it. Salinas fire did it. The Caldor right here, and Paradise, yeah, Paradise also.
And I tracked down where the pipes were. There's one gas station at Kirkwood Ski Resort on the main road, Highway 88. There behind it are the 11 pipes, and I've seen this. I'm taking note of it.
I guess they don't want the road to collapse when a diesel truck goes over it because these pipes are probably compromised.
Up north in Weed, California, there was a fire called the mill fire because it started at a lumber mill, and this one killed three people, burned their homes to the ground. They couldn't get out of their homes.
And it was the same thing. I spent two different days up there analyzing this, and it's the same thing—just a nightmare. Here's your Corral fire. This is June now, this year.
Highway 5 is right here. This is the ramps, and here's your eucalyptus. It's down in the flames, refuse to burn. There's the boards. I'm just putting one in here.
There's many boards like this everywhere where only the screws or other fasteners were on fire.
And Shane, we did the one, right? Did we report the...
Yeah, that was June 1st.
Yeah, and it started up the canyon at the Lawrence Livermore Lab. They have two labs—one's on this side, on the Tracy side. I drove up the road. It started right next to their building.
Yeah, where they make the trillion-watt laser and whatever else they have.
And I'm finding this all over now.
Big Basin did it. Darnell's fire did it. Salinas fire did it. The Caldor right here, and Paradise, yeah, Paradise also.
And I tracked down where the pipes were. There's one gas station at Kirkwood Ski Resort on the main road, Highway 88. There behind it are the 11 pipes, and I've seen this. I'm taking note of it.
I guess they don't want the road to collapse when a diesel truck goes over it because these pipes are probably compromised.
Up north in Weed, California, there was a fire called the mill fire because it started at a lumber mill, and this one killed three people, burned their homes to the ground. They couldn't get out of their homes.
And it was the same thing. I spent two different days up there analyzing this, and it's the same thing—just a nightmare. Here's your Corral fire. This is June now, this year.
Highway 5 is right here. This is the ramps, and here's your eucalyptus. It's down in the flames, refuse to burn. There's the boards. I'm just putting one in here.
There's many boards like this everywhere where only the screws or other fasteners were on fire.
And Shane, we did the one, right? Did we report the...
Yeah, that was June 1st.
Yeah, and it started up the canyon at the Lawrence Livermore Lab. They have two labs—one's on this side, on the Tracy side. I drove up the road. It started right next to their building.
Yeah, where they make the trillion-watt laser and whatever else they have.
And I'm finding this all over now.
Big Basin did it. Darnell's fire did it. Salinas fire did it. The Caldor right here, and Paradise, yeah, Paradise also.
And I tracked down where the pipes were. There's one gas station at Kirkwood Ski Resort on the main road, Highway 88. There behind it are the 11 pipes, and I've seen this. I'm taking note of it.
I guess they don't want the road to collapse when a diesel truck goes over it because these pipes are probably compromised.
Up north in Weed, California, there was a fire called the mill fire because it started at a lumber mill, and this one killed three people, burned their homes to the ground. They couldn't