Design for Disaster: 63-year-old LAFD film perfectly describes — and warns of — today's Los Angeles fires (video)

As the catastrophic fires continue to burn in Los Angeles, a fascinating documentary of the 1961 Bel Air fire has resurfaced, and it's as if it were talking (and warning us) about today's Palisades and Eaton Canyon fires.
Only, unlike today's 'experts,' the narrator of Design for Disaster: The Story of the Bel Air Conflagration 1962 explains the dangers of living in the flammable hills of LA — especially perilous when the Santa Ana winds hit — with old-fashioned facts, rather than modern-day misinformation and conspiracy theories. — Read the rest
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