The 405 Freeway Up in Flames!

I have to share this video with everyone who is reading and watching.

The fires devouring the Ventura and Santa Clarita highways and hills are racing toward the 405 Freeway.

The busiest freeway in the country has been closed.

The commute is down, the road is closed.

It's pretty terrifying what the fires look like.

See this tweet from a commuster driving north on the 405:

Driving through the valley of the shadow of death this morning, also known as the Sepulveda pass of the 405 where wildfires are raging. #abc7eyewitness #wildfires #SkirballFire pic.twitter.com/G6daomkw29

— Caitlin Oishi (@caitlinerin) December 6, 2017

This is insane.

I would have never believed that a fire of this magnitude would engulf key sections of Los Angeles County. The state of California is in complete ruins as it is, and now we have public safety officers and leaders who cannot assure our own safety!

This is insane. When does this corrupt malfeasance and incompetence end? California lawmakers were supposed to be raising money from bonds to store water to prepare for these unprecedented droughts, dry spells, and fires. We experienced an epic rainfall earlier this year, and yet there's no water to put out these fires.

No one is taking concentrated steps to irrigate the dry areas throughout the state of California. Isn't it stunning that the most liberal sections of California, the West Los Angeles area and the Bay Area, have endured some of the most devastating wildfires in the state's history? They have voted for and pushed for the anti-safety, anti-environmental laws, and now they are experiencing the direct consequences for these poor decisions.

Torrance Residents: Reject Trash Fee Increase!

Torrance residents!

Let me make this statement as clear as I can.

The city of Torrance wants to raise the garbage fees.

They are struggling to balance the city budget. They have put in place more fees and ticket programs, many of which are revenue positive, and very much so.

Why?

The pension liabilities, which are currently taking 23% of the annual budget.

While it is important to compensate our public safety officers, there is no reason to keep paying them over-abundant pensions and benefits.

If the city goes bankrupt, what's the point of trying to pay lavish anything to police, fire, and other city employees?

Cities exist for the citizenry, all of them. Not for labor unions, not for special interests, and not for the political ly connected power brokers

So, to every Torrance resident who is a trash rate payer.

VOTE  NO on Trash Fee Increases!!!

Make your voice heard on the document below.

Trash rate payers should have received this form below:

If not, contact city hall immediately. There is still time to make your concerns known.

Even with the fee increases. Enough with the rising rates. It's time for our elected officials to make all the tough decisions and start cutting the wasteful spending.

ABC 7 on Westlake Fire on Eighth Street

If the problems connected with illegal immigration have not enraged you now, then consider what happened in the Westlake section of Los Angeles last week.

This is an untenable tragedy.

Just awful. Check out the ABC 7 report:

HOMELESS MAN CHARGED WITH MURDER FOR WESTLAKE FIRE THATKILLED 5

A 21-year-old homeless man was arrested on suspicion of starting a fire that killed five people at a vacant two-story building in the Westlake district Monday night. (KABC)

By ABC7.com staff

Wednesday, June 15, 2016 03:51PM

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A 21-year-old homeless man was charged with capital murder on Wednesday for allegedly setting a fire in a Westlake district building that killed five people, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said.

Capital murder. Sanchez could face the death penalty!

Prosecutors are asking that Johnny Josue Sanchez be held without bail. They say he set the fire Monday night in a vacant commercial building at 2411 W. Eighth St. after getting into a dispute with other transients at the site.

Los Angeles is struggling with homelessness, urban blight, and illegal immigration. Now these problems erupted in flames altogether in Westlake.

These open border policies are killing people! Loved ones are dying, the homeless have no protection, and no one in the city of Los Angeles leadership seems to care!

It took 147 firefighters more than two hours to attack the flames at the vacant 14,351 square-foot building, which did not have working sprinklers, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.

Read that again. 147 fire-fighters. This crime destroyed a building, killed five people, and diverted am extensive number of fire fighting forces away from other damaged areas or potential fires in the city.

And who is paying for all of this?!

Firefighters rescued several people from the building, including Sanchez, and transported them to a local hospital.

Five people died, but the killer survived, as did other  people.

One person was found dead immediately at the scene and four more were found the next day by detection dogs. All five victims were believed to be transients.

Transients are people, too. No one should have to die because of such wanton criminality!

Two of the victims were identified as Jerry Dean Clemons, 59, and Mary Ann Davis, 44. One female and two male victims have not been identified.

More to come on this pressing, distressing fire!