wildfire_gt.csv

claim_id,believe_mv,harm_mv,severity,false_claim
159,2,1,21,"The post claims that during the California Los Angeles wildfires, Ben Affleck is watching his own house burning, implying that his home was destroyed by the fire and that the images show him looking at his house as it burns."
451,2,1,21,"The video claims that the cost of cleaning (desalinating) seawater and bringing it into California is roughly “$5 to $10 per 1,000 gallons,” and then says this cost is “on par with gas,” implying that desalinated water costs about as much per gallon as gasoline in the U.S."
56,2,2,22,"The post asserts that ""Biden’s FEMA has no money — all wasted on the Green New Scam!"" implying that FEMA’s disaster relief funds were essentially depleted and unavailable for the January 2025 California wildfires because they had been diverted to Green New Deal–style climate programs."
248,2,1,21,"The post’s title asserts that, according to The Hollywood Reporter, “the rock band U2 are also set to take the stage for the benefit show [FireAid Benefit Concert for L.A. Wildfire Victims, January 30th],” implying that U2 were officially announced as performers in the FireAid concert lineup."
71,2,1,21,"The post asserts that these Los Angeles wildfires ""should have never occurred"" and implies that they would have been prevented if local officials had followed Donald Trump’s advice to ""clean up the forest,"" instead of listening to environmentalists who allegedly blocked forest management out of concern for animals."
376,2,1,21,"The post, quoting another account, claims that the Los Angeles Times ""just released an article confirming that President Trump's orders are entirely responsible for the massive new water flow into Californian cities,"" and implies that previously withheld ""north water"" has now been released to aid California’s wildfires and urban water supplies."
382,2,1,21,"""The devastating wildfires in Los Angeles are a clear warning from nature that we are on the wrong path"" – presented in context as if these specific wildfires are a direct, clear consequence of AI expansion and the recent growth of AI systems like ChatGPT and AI‑enhanced Google Search."
82,1,1,11,"The California wildfires were caused by a lack of diversity in the fire department, capitalism, plastic straws, a man named Steve, the January 6 U.S. Capitol attack, racism, musician Billy Joel, Jewish people, negative reviews of the TV show *The Acolyte*, and former President Donald Trump."
516,2,1,21,"The Carlton Complex wildfire in 2014 that affected Pateros, Washington, destroyed 353 homes and caused no fatalities."
145,2,1,21,"Canada wildfire trends show no increase in recent decades, suggesting that climate change is not contributing to Canadian wildfires."
219,2,2,22,"Governor Gavin Newsom ""did not call out the National Guard until Friday"" in response to the January 2025 Southern California wildfires, including the Palisades Fire, implying that the California National Guard was only activated several days after the fires began on January 7, 2025."
77,2,1,21,The 2025 Los Angeles wildfires caused $48 billion in damage.
339,2,2,22,"The video linked in the post (“LA bird lady catches rocket whizzing by. Rocket parts recovered, investigators found launch site”) proves that the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles was started by people launching ‘rockets’ (arsonists using rocket‑like devices), i.e., that these rockets were the cause of the Palisades wildfire."
200,2,1,21,"The infographic labels “Texas Wildfires (2024)” as burning 1,100,000 acres, presented as a single wildfire event."
138,2,1,21,"CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale falsely claimed that there is no shortage of water in the Los Angeles area and that reservoirs are at or above historical levels at the time of the January 2025 Pacific Palisades wildfire, implying that water availability could not be a factor in firefighters’ low water pressure or empty hydrants."
164,2,1,21,"The community note in the screenshot states: ""This is not a link to charity. It is a link to a Democrat fundraising platform. They take 3.95% of all transactions."" This implies that the donation link Elizabeth Warren shared does not go to the listed charities at all, but instead goes to a Democratic fundraising platform that keeps 3.95% of every transaction rather than passing donations through to the charities."
133,1,1,11,"All recent wildfires, including those in California, are caused by diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) hires and by women, implying that these groups are responsible for starting or mismanaging the fires."
11,2,1,21,"The post claims that ""in many circles, they’re doubting whether insurance companies will even have enough money to pay for this catastrophe,"" suggesting that insurers may not be able to meet their obligations from the 2025 Los Angeles fires because they lack sufficient funds."
79,1,1,11,"The Los Angeles wildfires are at least partly caused by diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies in fire and police departments and other institutions, because focusing on diversity necessarily takes time and resources away from proper firefighter training, controlled burns, brush clearing, and rescue operations, leading to ‘some portion of what is happening right now absolutely’ being connected to DEI."
311,1,2,12,"The post asserts that so‑called “chemtrails” (secret, harmful chemical spraying from ordinary aircraft) are a real, ongoing practice that is simply being renamed in official and scientific contexts as “geoengineering, weather modification, atmospheric manipulation, etc.” It further implies that there is an established, published 2018 scientific paper—“California Wildfires: Role of Undisclosed Atmospheric Manipulation and Geoengineering”—that provides credible evidence that undisclosed atmospheric manipulation/chemtrails are occurring and are a primary factor in causing or intensifying California wildfires."
239,2,1,21,"Logan Paul and KSI have donated over $6 million (a total of more than $6.25 million) in Prime Energy / Prime Hydration products to the Los Angeles Fire Department and California wildfire victims, consisting of more than 1.7 million bottles already distributed in Los Angeles County plus nearly 1 million additional bottles pledged, with a total in‑kind value exceeding $6.25 million."
166,2,2,22,"The post claims that during the January 2025 Los Angeles County wildfires, “firefighters had no water to combat the blazes; there was no plan to evacuate civilians and deploy emergency services efficiently,” implying that firefighters literally lacked water supplies and that authorities had no evacuation or emergency‑services plans in place at all."
7,2,1,21,"Strong winds that are often the catalyst for large wildfires sometimes force traditional single‑propeller firefighting helicopters to be grounded because their single‑propeller systems are less stable in gusty conditions, whereas Archer’s multi‑propeller eVTOL aircraft are likely to be more stable and better equipped to handle wind gusts, so they would be able to keep flying when conventional helicopters cannot."
178,2,2,22,"Masked men on scooters with blowtorches were definitively responsible for starting the Runyon Canyon/Sunset fire and other January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires, with video proof showing them entering Runyon Canyon Park and fires erupting minutes after they left."
262,1,2,12,"The photo of burned cars on Sunset Blvd during the January 9, 2025 Palisades Fire shows that the cars ""were hit by a deadly radiation beam, instantly incinerating them, people and all,"" with engines and glass supposedly melted at around 2600°F, metal wheels melted into rivers, and nearby trees and surroundings left unburned—implying some exotic directed‑energy or radiation weapon rather than a conventional wildfire and vehicle fire."
168,2,1,21,"The meme shown in the search results (a rainbow‑colored fire hydrant in front of a large wildfire with the caption ""California Priorities"") is presented online as a real photograph from a California wildfire, implying that California authorities actually painted a working fire hydrant in rainbow colors instead of maintaining effective fire‑protection infrastructure, and that this image documents those misplaced priorities during a real 2025 California wildfire."
320,1,1,11,"The post claims that the Golden Globes segment where the presenter joked that acceptance speeches were ""on fire"" and that God had received ""zero mentions"" directly caused or triggered the subsequent historic wildfires in Los Angeles, as an immediate act of divine punishment for mocking God (""God was like, fires, you're mocking me? Bet. And then you saw what happened. Historical wildfires hit L.A."")."
440,2,2,22,The government makes money when your house burns down in a wildfire because it profits from the pending land sale and rebuild after the fire.
87,1,1,11,"California Governor Gavin Newsom publicly stated that the 2025 California wildfires were ""mostly peaceful,"" calling them ""peaceful infernos"" that would ""definitely not burn your house down or anything,"" and further said that people should not fight back if fire approaches their homes because that would be racist and they should allow the fire to consume their homes if they are ""true allies"" of indigenous blazes."
408,2,1,21,"In the Facebook-style conversation on the right side of the image, one user (Joe Steel) responds to a question about where California’s water had been diverted by stating that authorities “dumped it straight into the ocean,” implying that the water released under Trump’s order, or California’s stored water more generally, was simply being discharged directly into the Pacific Ocean instead of being used."
266,2,1,21,"The video claims that NOAA’s official record of U.S. rainfall since 1900 shows a steady increase in rainfall, concluding that there is ‘more rain, not less,’ and implying that climate change is not contributing to drought or wildfire risk in the U.S."
483,2,1,21,"The video claims that the NAWAPA project would create ""the largest reservoirs on the face of the Earth"" by collecting about 20% of the runoff from major rivers in Alaska and the Yukon/Mackenzie basins, and that four of NAWAPA’s largest reservoirs in the Alaska Basin alone would store 1.5 billion acre‑feet of water, far exceeding any existing reservoir."
366,2,1,21,"As of the morning of January 30, 2025 (the post’s date), the Los Angeles, Palisades, and Eaton fires were still “not contained.”"
74,2,1,21,"The post claims that the only copy of A$AP Rocky’s highly anticipated album ""Don’t Be Dumb"" was destroyed in a Los Angeles wildfire, implying that there was a single master copy of the album and that it was lost in that fire."
546,2,2,22,"The post states as fact that police roadblocks and barricades in Lahaina during the 2023 Maui wildfire ""trapped residents in a fiery deathtrap"" and that ""we now know"" a police barricade stopped people from escaping, implying that this was a deliberate, centrally directed action overseen by John Pelletier that caused many deaths."
510,2,2,22,"The post claims that news headlines could accurately read: ""California wildfires caused by climate change killed hundreds,"" implying that climate‑change‑caused California wildfires have killed hundreds of people (on the order of several hundred deaths) in a single or typical event."
31,2,1,21,"Donald Trump claimed that Gavin Newsom and his Los Angeles team had “contained exactly ZERO percent of the fire,” implying that, at the time of his statement, there was no containment at all of the Los Angeles wildfires."
212,2,1,21,"The post claims that the video shows ""Latino/South American kids"" in Los Angeles partying and celebrating while ""LA burns"" during the California wildfires, implying that the footage was filmed in Los Angeles during those wildfires and that the fire outside the window is part of the California wildfire disaster."
265,2,1,21,"The video claims that EPA ‘official data on heat spells’ show the early 20th century was hotter than today and that temperatures peaked in the 1930s, contradicting NASA’s global temperature record, which is described as ‘ridiculous.’"
85,2,1,21,"The post claims that the Eaton and Palisades fires are now among California’s largest wildfires, and presents a bar chart titled “Structures Destroyed by Fire Name” implying that these fires rank within the state’s top 20 wildfires by size (largest fires)."
553,1,1,11,"The post asserts that BJ Penn’s mother has been murdered by the government and replaced with a lookalike, and more broadly suggests that family members of BJ Penn may have been killed and replaced by impostors as part of a government operation in response to his political activity and criticism of the Lahaina wildfires."
40,2,2,22,"There is NO MONEY IN FEMA, implying that FEMA lacks funds to respond to disasters such as the 2025 California wildfires."
529,1,1,11,"Immediately after signing the supposed executive order, firefighters successfully herded active wildfires into ""state-of-the-art Helicopter-carrying cases"" and transported them, resulting in the destruction of specific San Francisco cultural heritage sites such as the ""Full House"" house and the city’s cable cars."
221,2,2,22,"The post (via the embedded tweet text) claims that during the Los Angeles wildfires, there was a rainbow‑painted ""gay fire hydrant"" outside a burning home that had no water in it, implying that such decorative or LGBTQ‑themed hydrants used in LA were nonfunctional and contributed to homes burning down."
3,2,1,21,"""These fires are easily avoidable, but nonsense regulations in California prevent action being taken, so year after year homes burn down and more people die."" In context, this asserts that California wildfires that destroy homes and cause deaths are ""easily avoidable"" and that the primary or sole reason they are not avoided is ""nonsense regulations"" in California that prevent any meaningful wildfire‑prevention action from being taken."
141,1,1,11,"The post implies that the actress who played Topanga on the TV show ""Boy Meets World"" appearing on WWE RAW in Los Angeles and making a hand gesture similar to the Māori fire goddess Mahuika is meaningfully connected to, or suggestive of involvement in, the Topanga Canyon wildfire that began the next day (i.e., that her appearance and gesture are causally or supernaturally linked to the wildfire rather than this being a coincidence)."
540,1,2,12,"The post claims that jet fuel was used in the Los Angeles (LA) wildfires, implying that the fires were fueled or started by deliberate use of aviation fuel rather than by the documented natural and human-caused ignition sources (such as power lines, weather conditions, or typical accidental/intentional ignitions)."
211,2,1,21,"The post claims that the Chinese app shown as #2 in the App Store ranking is called ""Red Note."" The screenshot shows the Chinese name ""小红书"" and its logo, and the post equates this with an app named ""Red Note."""
146,2,1,21,The latest UN climate panel report (IPCC) finds that changes in weather conditions that promote wildfires will not be detectable above natural variability even by the end of the century.
275,2,1,21,"The post claims that there were LA wildfires in 2025 and that Elon Musk (referred to as ""Emporer Musk"") offered the victims of these LA wildfires a free month of internet service that would actually cost $395 for the first month and then $125 per month afterward."
480,1,2,12,"The video title and description assert that recent wildfires (including those that hit California) are ""nuclear wildfires"" caused by deliberate ""weather warfare"" (i.e., intentional, coordinated human attacks using weather modification to create toxic fog, historic freezes, and catastrophic wildfires)."
504,2,1,21,"The post claims that in December 2024, during that season's wildfires in California, 99‑year‑old actor Dick Van Dyke was found crawling to his car while trying to evacuate the Palisades Fire, and that three neighbors had to carry him to safety from that Palisades Fire evacuation ""last December."""
449,2,1,21,"""The money we send to Ukraine—they can’t find $100 billion of it. They’re only missing $100 billion, John. That’s a lot of fucking money."" – claiming that about $100 billion in U.S. aid to Ukraine is unaccounted for or ""missing."""
525,2,1,21,"In the 2023 (20th year) section, the post states under ""Top News"": ""Trump indicted/eventually convicted of multiple felonies."""
520,2,1,21,"Meghan Markle visited Pasadena during the California wildfires in 2025 and engaged in so‑called ""grief grifting"" related to that wildfire disaster."
490,2,1,21,"The post claims that the deputy mayor of Los Angeles, Brian Williams, merely ""allegedly"" made a bomb threat to City Hall and that he ""has not been arrested or charged with a crime"" and only remains on administrative leave, implying that as of the time of discussion there are no charges or legal consequences beyond the investigation."
534,2,1,21,"The Pentagon was built specifically to store U.S. gold; the post states that the reason they built the Pentagon was to store the gold, implying that U.S. gold reserves are stored there."
236,2,1,21,"Donald Trump promises that, if he is re‑elected again by 2028, he will end California wildfires, implying that California wildfires can be completely stopped or eliminated by his election or policies."
229,1,2,12,"California wildfires were caused or started by a so‑called ""Jewish space laser"" (i.e., a space‑based energy weapon controlled by Jewish people or organizations)."
291,1,2,12,The Los Angeles Pacific Palisades wildfires were deliberately planned and highly organized rather than being caused by natural or accidental ignition sources and weather conditions.
487,2,1,21,Seventy‑five percent of California residents say that crime is their number one concern.
396,2,2,22,"The post quotes Donald Trump saying that opening California water infrastructure so that “once empty ‘halfpipes’ are now brimming with beautiful, clean water, and heading to farmers throughout the State, and to Los Angeles” would have prevented the 2025 California wildfires: “Too bad they refused to do this during my First Term – There would have been no fires!” The user’s caption reinforces this by asserting that this water project “could have prevented all of the wildfires in California had they let him do this during his first term.”"
299,1,2,12,"People from BlackRock are going door to door in Los Angeles’ Pacific Palisades neighborhood after the fires, offering to buy burned homes for cash as part of a secret, highly organized effort to take everyone’s homes."
84,2,1,21,"The post’s title, “Hero saves bunny from wildfire,” asserts that a person rescued a bunny from an active wildfire in the video shown."
228,2,1,21,The post asserts that the Los Angeles wildfire it describes has burned about 62 square miles and that this area is larger than Paris.
544,1,2,12,"The post asserts that during the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting, there were multiple shooters and that eyewitnesses reported ""multiple shooters, strange men in tactical gear,"" implying that the official conclusion of a single shooter is false and part of a cover‑up led or facilitated by John Pelletier."
173,2,1,21,"The post from Elizabeth Warren states that people can ""split a donation between the Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation and United Way of Greater Los Angeles"" and that ""100% of your donation will go directly to these organizations,"" even though the donation link she shares goes through the ActBlue platform, which charges a percentage fee on each transaction."
118,2,2,22,"""Fat Black Lesbian DEI hire LAFD Assistant Chief Kristine Larson explicitly says it’s your fault if you need to be saved from a fire by a firefighter who is unable to do so because of physical limitations that don’t apply to firefighters who are not physically limited in the same manner, but that seeing someone who looks like you matters more anyway. It is not deceptively paraphrased. This is exactly what she says."" The post claims that in a cited video Larson literally tells the public that if a physically limited firefighter cannot save them, it is their fault, and that she explicitly prioritizes appearance over capability."
73,2,2,22,"The post relays a statement that ""our reservoirs were emptied by our governor because tribal leaders wanted to save fish,"" suggesting that California’s governor deliberately drained reservoirs at the request of tribal leaders to protect fish, thereby worsening water shortages during the wildfire response."
300,2,2,22,"Governor Gavin Newsom has had California’s dams deliberately emptied ""for no good reason,"" which is why fire hydrants in the Los Angeles Pacific Palisades fires were empty and could not supply water to fight the fires."
321,1,2,12,"The post asserts that ""whenever somebody mocks God, something like this has happened""—i.e., that there is a consistent historical pattern in which public acts of mocking God are reliably followed by disasters such as major wildfires, showing a direct cause‑and‑effect relationship between mockery of God and specific catastrophic events."
80,2,1,21,"The post title claims that Jhené Aiko is “Kanye West father’s girlfriend,” implying she is romantically involved with Kanye West’s father and is therefore his father’s girlfriend who lost her home in the California wildfires."
10,2,1,21,"The post claims that the 2025 fires in Los Angeles ""may go down, in dollar amount, as the worst in the History of our Country,"" implying they are likely to be the most costly fires ever in U.S. history."
110,2,1,21,"The post claims that climate change did not cause the California wildfires near Los Angeles in 2025 and that “the main cause is politicians failing to allow effective forest maintenance,” implying that climate change is not a significant or real driver of these fires and that it is merely a political “boogeyman” used by Democrats."
258,2,2,22,"The author claims that the Pacific Palisades wildfire’s destruction can be attributed to homeless people, asserting that because the Los Angeles Fire Department reported that 54% of fires in 2023 were started by homeless individuals, this means the Pacific Palisades fire and its level of destruction were caused by the homeless population."
406,2,1,21,"Hollywood didn’t do anything to help Western North Carolina after the wildfires there; with the exception of Dolly Parton, no one in Hollywood mentioned WNC, donated to WNC, or helped WNC in any meaningful way."
102,2,2,22,"The post claims that the Los Angeles wildfires (including the Kenneth Fire and the other major 2025 LA-area fires) were ""weaponized"" by left‑wing activists as being due to climate change, but that ""now the police are treating it as arson after they caught the suspect,"" implying that the fires were not related to climate conditions and were instead definitively caused by a single arson suspect who has been caught."
519,1,1,11,"Every time humanity makes a species go extinct in the wild, the last place that species lived in the wild always catches fire afterward."
91,1,2,12,"The post suggests that the 2025 California wildfires in Los Angeles and surrounding areas are ""somehow someway linked"" to Donald Trump and the ""MAGA circus,"" implying that Trump may have had someone intentionally start the fires (e.g., a suspect with a blowtorch) as part of a plan to gain power over the LAPD, the National Guard, and the state of California, similar to how Adolf Hitler used violence to gain power."
83,2,2,22,"During the 2025 Los Angeles / Palisades wildfires, insurance companies are canceling fire insurance policies ""right now"" while people’s houses are burning, and the Palisades fires ""won’t be covered by insurance companies"" at all."
235,2,1,21,"As of January 9, 2025, at least 24 people had died in the Los Angeles fires and more than 4,400 buildings were damaged or destroyed specifically in the Pacific Palisades and Eastern Malibu areas."
132,2,1,21,"The post states that, according to Southern California fire officials, ""Los Angeles area wildfires are now moving at 2–3 FOOTBALL FIELDS per minute."""
210,2,2,22,"In responding to the 2025 Los Angeles wildfire, the number‑one priority of city or state officials is ""diversity"" (""diversity, diversity, diversity"") rather than public safety, fire suppression, or protection of life and property."
78,2,1,21,"The post’s title and on‑screen text assert that California Governor Gavin Newsom ""fakes a failed Joe Biden call to try and dodge a wildfire victim's questions,"" i.e., that he was not actually attempting to contact President Joe Biden and instead staged a fake phone call purely to avoid speaking with the wildfire victim."
412,2,1,21,"The post claims that the Palisades Fire ""incinerated 23,448 acres and 7,854 structures"" and that the Eaton Fire ""engulfed 14,021 acres and 10,491 structures."" It further claims that, including the Hughes, Border 2, Kenneth, and Hurst fires, ""just these six conflagrations killed 29, annihilated 18,345 structures, and reduced 56,370 acres to ash."""
507,1,2,12,"The Palisades wildfires in California were intentionally set (""no accident"") as part of a coordinated effort by powerful people connected to the Getty Villa and Getty Museum, using the fires to hide evidence and cover up crimes related to alleged underground tunnels and trafficking networks beneath the Getty properties."
481,2,2,22,"During the California wildfires, specifically in January 2025 alone, fires destroyed more than 16,000 structures and killed 29 people, bringing damage over $275 billion, making it the most expensive disaster in U.S. history."
319,1,1,11,"The post asserts that the 2025 Palisades / Los Angeles wildfires were a direct act of God sent in immediate response to presenters at the Golden Globe Awards mocking God (""God was like, fires, you're mocking me? Bet. And then you saw what happened. Historical wildfires hit L.A.""). It presents this as a factual causal explanation for the fires, not just a personal belief."
281,2,1,21,"The post claims that donating money (e.g., via GoFundMe) to the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team is needed so that the Dodgers and ""the people of LA (Shohei Ohtani, etc.)"" can buy crucial goods and services such as pitching in order to rebuild after the 2025 California wildfires, implying that the Dodgers or Shohei Ohtani are victims in need of charitable disaster‑relief funds and that such donations are an appropriate or necessary way to support wildfire recovery."
177,1,2,12,"The January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires, including the Palisades and Sunset/Runyon Canyon fires, were the result of a coordinated arson campaign by migrants or ""transients"" who, angered by the new U.S. president’s immigration policies, intentionally set Los Angeles on fire using portable blowtorches. The post presents this as established fact and says this is not a conspiracy theory but ""news"" and ""journalism."""
76,1,2,12,"The post by Alex Jones states that the Los Angeles wildfires are ""DESTROYED BY DESIGN"" and that the ""Los Angeles Fires Are Part Of A Larger Globalist Plot To Wage Economic Warfare & Deindustrialize The United States Before Triggering Total Collapse."" Elon Musk’s reply of ""True"" explicitly endorses this claim that the LA wildfires were intentionally created and coordinated as part of a secret globalist conspiracy to wage economic warfare, deindustrialize the U.S., and cause its total collapse."
232,2,1,21,"PG&E has been causing wildfires since 1994 and the most recent one being November 2018’s Camp Fire, and they are most likely the cause of the current 2025 California wildfire mentioned in the post."
473,2,2,22,"Insurance companies ""made it very clear"" that a serious fire was likely specifically because of a ""complete lack of preparedness by the state and city governments,"" a ""perpetual lack of water,"" and that California ""didn't do any"" forest‑clearing or other risk‑reduction measures, implying that insurers’ warnings uniquely predicted the disaster while public agencies ignored all risk assessments."
251,1,2,12,"The post claims that the destruction from the 2025 Palisades Fire in Pacific Palisades is ""so obvious"" evidence of a Directed Energy Weapon (DEW), asserting that the uniformity of the incineration, the presence of white dust instead of black carbon, the alleged disappearance of metal appliances, sinks, and wood stoves, and the survival of nearby trees prove that a DEW was used rather than a normal wildfire."
69,2,1,21,"The embedded tweet in the post states: ""Found a solution to fires in California. It’s called water,"" accompanied by arrows pointing from the Pacific Ocean toward California on a map, implying that simply using ocean water (or water in general) is an easy, sufficient solution to stop or prevent California wildfires."
343,1,2,12,"A forensic arborist has determined that nearly all wildfires in California since the 2018 Paradise (Camp) Fire have been caused by direct energy weapons (DEWs), and that in his review of 38 different wildfires only three were due to natural causes."
64,1,2,12,"""Los Angeles deliberately set out to exclude white men from becoming firefighters, and now they don’t have enough firefighters to prevent their city from burning to the ground."" This asserts that the City of Los Angeles (or LAFD) intentionally created policies to exclude white men from firefighter jobs and that this deliberate exclusion is the reason there are not enough firefighters to stop the city from burning in the 2025 wildfire crisis."
370,2,1,21,"The article linked in the post asserts that California’s 2025 Los Angeles–area wildfires show that “not having the most qualified people in positions of authority and public safety” due to DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) hiring and leadership practices in California fire agencies has had deadly consequences, implying that DEI-driven hiring and leadership decisions were a significant cause of the severity of the California wildfires and the failures in the wildfire response."
486,2,2,22,"Some of the undocumented immigrants (""illegal aliens"") that California politicians are supposedly ""sheltering"" from arrest and deportation were caught committing arson in connection with the 2025 California wildfires, including the Palisades Fire."
105,2,1,21,"The post claims that ""Santa Ana winds have not changed as the planet has warmed"" and presents this as a factual basis for dismissing climate change as a factor in the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires."
89,2,2,22,"AccuWeather estimates the total damage and economic loss from the Los Angeles wildfires at $135–$150 billion, with potential for upward revision, and states that this loss could equate to nearly 4% of California's annual GDP."
323,1,2,12,"The 2025 California wildfires were deliberately set by Donald Trump and his ""disaster capitalist"" associates in order to create destruction, have insurers pull coverage, deny federal aid, and then allow his rich allies to buy up burned properties for ""pennies on the dollar"" as part of a coordinated disaster capitalism scheme."
350,2,1,21,Water was running out during the LA fires because it was being withheld to save a small fish species (referred to as ‘smelt fish’).
34,1,1,11,"Democrats (referred to as a ""death cult"" and ""Democrat friends"") deliberately started the 2025 California wildfires so that FEMA could push a political agenda, and these Democrats will eventually be jailed for starting the fires."
554,1,1,11,"The post implies that Dave Chappelle himself was ""replaced by a clone"" because he criticized the establishment (""before he was replaced by a clone""), and that this is part of a broader pattern where powerful people who speak out are secretly killed or replaced by lookalikes or clones by ""the powers that be"" or the government."
506,2,1,21,"All settlements received between 2020 and 2026 from a federal-disaster-declared wildfire are exempt from federal income tax under tax bill H.R. 5863, which the poster says was passed last year."
1,2,1,21,"As of 14:30 local time on Friday, January 10, 2025, the Eaton Fire in the hills above Altadena in northern Los Angeles County had burned at least 13,690 acres (5,540 ha) and around 4,000 structures had been damaged or lost."
12,2,2,22,"Gavin Newsom is to blame for the January 2025 wildfires in Los Angeles because he refused to sign a specific “water restoration declaration” that Trump says would have allowed “millions of gallons of water” from excess rain and snowmelt in Northern California to flow daily into many parts of California, including the areas burning, and that this refusal resulted in “no water for fire hydrants” and “not [for] firefighting planes.”"
374,2,1,21,"President Trump claimed that by ordering the release of 1.6 billion gallons of water from dams in Tulare County (and 5.2 billion gallons over three days), he had effectively provided water that could be used to fight the Los Angeles County wildfires, asserting that if officials had listened to him six years earlier and similarly ""turned on the water,"" there ""would have been no fire"" in Los Angeles County."
23,1,2,12,"The post asserts that Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles, California has been deliberately ""Mauied by the elites"" so that they can clear the area and build an ""AI Technocracy Tyranny smart city,"" implying an intentional, coordinated arson or engineered disaster by powerful elites to depopulate and redevelop the area as a smart city."
381,2,1,21,"""Gita Gopinath, Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has already warned that AI will replace nearly 60% of jobs within the next five years."""
183,2,2,22,"There is a current or recent wildfire disaster in Los Angeles in early 2025 that is causing or contributing to a political crisis in California, as referenced alongside disasters in North Carolina."
90,2,1,21,"The post asserts that the official reported death toll from the Los Angeles wildfires is “10” people, but that the real death toll is “undoubtedly much higher” than this figure, implying that authorities and the media are significantly underreporting or concealing the true number of fatalities."
186,1,1,11,"""One of the casualties is the Palisades Charter High School, a video of which has now gone viral showing the school destroyed."" The post asserts that Palisades Charter High School was destroyed by the January 2025 Palisades Fire, implying the school was completely destroyed and no longer exists as a functioning institution."
149,2,1,21,"The post claims that the California wildfire relief fund promoted by Pod Save America, Elizabeth Warren, and others is a ""front"" or shell scheme to secretly generate dark money for a Democratic super PAC, by routing donations through ActBlue and a 501(c)(4) so that major donors can then give millions of dollars to a super PAC undisclosed and without limits, effectively turning small‑donor wildfire relief contributions into a mechanism to expand partisan super PAC spending."
205,2,1,21,"The three women shown in the image are described as ""the fire chief, assistant chief, and training commander in Los Angeles Fire Department."" The post asserts that these specific three individuals collectively hold those top leadership positions in the Los Angeles Fire Department."
551,2,1,21,"Texas has twice the forest area of California, so if climate change were the explanation for California’s wildfires, Texas would have roughly twice as many wildfires that destroy homes as California."
154,2,1,21,"Anyone who rented or owned a home that was destroyed in a presidentially declared disaster can get an FHA 203(h) disaster loan for a home purchase price up to exactly $1,209,000 with zero down payment, available up to one year after the disaster occurrence, presented as a blanket entitlement for all such fire victims."
278,2,1,21,"""One billionaire couple owns a massive share of the state's water system, seized in a series of secretive meetings two decades ago. That system was largely paid for by the very taxpayers whose water these billionaires hold hostage."" The post presents this as meaning that Linda and Stewart Resnick effectively own and control a massive share of California’s overall water system and are holding the state’s water supply ""hostage."""
185,2,1,21,"Donald Trump states about California wildfires that: ""Los Angeles has massive amounts of water available to it. All they have to do is turn the valve, and that's the valve coming back from and down from the Pacific Northwest,"" implying that wildfire and water‑supply problems in Southern California could be solved simply by opening an existing valve that would release large amounts of water from the Pacific Northwest to Los Angeles."
19,2,2,22,"The post shows what appears to be a news-style headline stating: ""Tragedy Strikes twice for BLM founder Patrisse Cullors, as 2 of her 3 Los Angeles mansions are consumed by wildfires"" dated 2:30pm Jan 10 2024 and attributed to ""Robert Gibson for abc news."" The clear claim is that an ABC News article reported that two of Patrisse Cullors’ three Los Angeles mansions were destroyed (""consumed"") by wildfires in January 2024."
250,2,1,21,"Governor Gavin Newsom refused to sign a water restoration declaration that would have allowed millions of gallons of excess rain and snowmelt from Northern California to flow daily into many parts of California, including the Los Angeles areas burning in the January 2025 wildfires, and this refusal left “no water for fire hydrants” and “not firefighting planes,” making him directly to blame for the wildfires ravaging Los Angeles."
495,2,1,21,"The post states that the Palisades Fire in the Santa Monica Mountains of Los Angeles County, California, which erupted in early January 2025, ""rapidly spread, consuming over 23,000 acres and destroying more than 12,300 structures. Tragically, at least 25 lives were lost, and thousands were displaced. The economic impact is estimated to be up to $275 billion, making it one of the most costly natural disasters in U.S. history."" This description presents these acreage, structure-loss, death-toll, displacement, and economic-loss figures as applying to the single Palisades Fire."
429,2,1,21,"California Governor Gavin Newsom appointed or ""tapped"" a person named Fire Marshal Bill Burns, a badly burnt fire prevention expert, to lead Los Angeles wildfire recovery efforts and to help prevent future wildfires after the 2025 LA wildfires."
193,1,1,11,"California's environmental policy prevents the creation of fire breaks and the thinning of brush to prevent wildfires, i.e., that such activities are not allowed under California law or policy."
223,2,1,21,"The post implies that there is a non‑coincidental, causal or supernatural connection between the actress who played Topanga appearing on WWE RAW in Los Angeles and the outbreak of the January 2025 wildfire in Topanga Canyon the next day, further suggesting that her hand gesture—likened to that of the mythological figure Mahuika the Fire Goddess—is related to the fire starting there."
16,2,2,22,"The post, dated January 14, 2025, presents as breaking news that Barbra Streisand is currently demanding that the Trump administration address Los Angeles wildfires and has said that the winds fueling the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires are due to climate change."
479,2,1,21,"Gavin Newsom refused to sign a water restoration declaration that would have allowed millions of gallons of excess rain and snowmelt from Northern California to flow daily into many parts of California, including the Los Angeles areas burning in the 2025 wildfires, and this refusal is the reason there is no water for fire hydrants or firefighting planes."
55,2,1,21,"Rebecca Marodi, a fire captain in California, ""faced criticism from right-wing groups for allegedly being a 'DEI hire' and was scapegoated for the Los Angeles fires."""
371,2,2,22,"The post claims that the California wildfire near Los Angeles has been ""spreading rapidly for 3 days"" with ""ZERO CONTAINMENT"" and that ""nobody has ever seen such failed numbers before."" It presents this as the overall status of the California wildfires and fire response as of January 9, 2025."
47,2,1,21,"""It may not be politically correct to state that homeless individuals are the #1 cause of fires in California, but it's absolute fact."" The post asserts that homeless people are the primary cause of all fires in the entire state of California, including major wildfires, and that this is an established fact rather than an opinion or hypothesis."
94,2,1,21,"The Los Angeles County Fire Department donated its own surplus supplies and equipment to Ukraine in 2022, and as a result it now lacks the capacity to respond properly to the Pacific Palisades wildfire, which is causing deaths and untold damage to thousands of acres of land and countless homes."
411,2,1,21,"Donald Trump’s narrative that California’s water shortages and, by extension, its wildfire problems are primarily caused by environmental protections for a small fish species (often referred to as the smelt), suggesting that large volumes of usable water are being ""wasted"" to protect the fish instead of being used to alleviate drought and fire risk."
246,1,2,12,"""N95 masks do not protect from dangerous gasses and toxins unless it is a P100"" (implying that only P100 respirators provide protection and that N95s provide no protection at all from wildfire-related hazards)."
326,1,2,12,"The post asserts that “they were working with them before as too. You know... to start the fires,” implying that Los Angeles County officials and federal agencies intentionally started the 2025 LA-area wildfires (including the Palisades Fire)."
557,2,1,21,"Bill Gates is ""very much involved"" in causing or orchestrating the 2025 California wildfires as part of a plan to clear land for government‑backed smart cities, including his proposed smart city project in Arizona (Belmont), which is supposedly connected to or a motive for the California fires."
434,2,1,21,"CALHFA is offering an additional 2% toward closing costs on FHA 203(h) disaster loans, on top of zero‑down, 100% financing, implying a standing statewide CALHFA program that universally adds 2% closing‑cost assistance to all 203(h) loans for fire victims."
377,2,1,21,"The post states that the 2023 Maui wildfires that swept through Lahaina ""claimed over 100 lives."""
394,2,1,21,"Donald Trump personally authorized the release of water from two dams in California, taking away water that farmers in the San Joaquin Valley had planned to use for citrus farming, because he believed releasing this water would stop forest fires, and this specific release is now flowing unused into the ocean."
556,2,1,21,"The post claims that the Los Angeles Fire Department appeared on stage at the Grammys to be celebrated for their work fighting the fires, and that two firefighters remained on stage to help present Album of the Year."
358,1,2,12,"Anyone who rented or owned a home that was destroyed in a presidentially declared disaster can get an FHA 203(h) disaster loan with zero down payment for a purchase price up to exactly $1,209,000, available up to one year after the disaster occurrence, implying this applies broadly to all such fire victims in Altadena and Palisades."
341,1,1,11,"The video and overlaid text in the image assert that when the government wants to steal land, it deliberately starts wildfires simultaneously, and that satellite footage shows all three major fires in Los Angeles, California in 2025 starting at the same time, just like the Quebec wildfires in 2023, implying coordinated, government‑caused ignition of those fires."
303,2,1,21,"A Minecraft character (commonly known as Steve/Herobrine) is depicted in a real photograph of LA wildfires, with the implication that this blocky video‑game character is physically present at the wildfire scene and is the “Hero Brain Surgeon” helping save homes from the LA wildfires."
466,2,2,22,"""The ceremony was previously rescheduled from Jan. 17 to Jan. 19 due to the wildfires in Los Angeles."" (referring to the 2025 Oscar nominations announcement)"
70,2,1,21,"The map in the post presents itself as showing the real, expected locations of “major wildfires” and radioactive fallout zones in the United States that would result from an actual, full‑scale nuclear exchange, implying these are authoritative projections of where fires and fallout would in fact occur and at what intensities (e.g., specific areas needing 3+ weeks, 1–3 weeks, or 2–7 days in shelter for survival)."
285,2,2,22,"The post claims that the January 2025 Palisades Fire in Los Angeles is the city’s most devastating wildfire in history, having rapidly consumed over 17,000 acres, destroyed at least 1,000 structures, and forced tens of thousands to evacuate."
156,2,1,21,"Three months before the Los Angeles Pacific Palisades fires, State Farm ""canceled everybody’s fire policies"" in Los Angeles after Governor Newsom refused to allow the company to raise prices, leaving people with no insurance."
189,2,2,22,"The image presents what appears to be a news headline stating: ""Tragedy Strikes twice for BLM founder Patrisse Cullors, as 2 of her 3 Los Angeles mansions are consumed by wildfires"" with a byline ""By Robert Gibson for abc news 2.30pm Jan 10 2024,"" implying that ABC News reported that two of Patrisse Cullors’ three Los Angeles mansions were destroyed by wildfires on January 10, 2024."
404,2,1,21,"The post quotes a tweet asking: ""Why don’t they use geoengineering like cloud seeding to bring rain down on the wildfires in California? They know how to do it."" This implies that authorities could reliably and practically use cloud seeding (a form of geoengineering) to generate rain on demand over California wildfires and that this is a known, workable solution that is simply not being used."
150,2,1,21,"Mayor Karen Bass chose to go to Africa to represent the Biden administration’s global DEI campaign even though she had been warned that wildfire season with potentially historic high winds and record gusts was fast approaching, and she then stayed in Africa for several days after the initial Malibu, Palisades, and Pasadena fires began devastating tens of thousands of acres of LA County residential and business districts."
125,2,1,21,"The op-ed headline and text assert that the 2025 wildfires ""left LA in ashes"" and that ""today, it is in ashes,"" implying that the city of Los Angeles as a whole was effectively burned down or almost entirely destroyed by the January 2025 wildfires."
405,2,2,22,"California is paying incarcerated firefighters a maximum of $10 per day, plus $1 per hour only for the hours they are actively battling a fire, during the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires."
494,2,1,21,"The post claims that the Palisades Fire burned 23,448 acres and the Eaton Fire burned 14,021 acres, and that together these two fires destroyed nearly 17,000 structures, caused 29 fatalities, and led to insured property losses estimated at $28–$35 billion."
245,2,2,22,"The article states that the IPCC and “scientists agree” that climate change is not increasing global wildfire risk, and that claims by outlets like the Guardian that climate change is increasing the global risk of wildfires starting and spreading are bunkum."
369,2,1,21,"The post claims that Los Angeles County is prohibiting people from coming back to what’s left of their homes after the 2025 Palisades Fire because the debris is toxic, implying residents cannot return to their properties at all and cannot see or retrieve anything from their homes."
533,2,1,21,"The post claims or strongly implies that the January 2025 California wildfires completely destroyed Pacific Palisades and, by extension, that Dennis Wilson’s former home, Roman Polanski’s former home, and the LaBianca house have all been burned to the ground."
384,2,1,21,"The Pentagon is located on the 38th parallel of latitude, and the repeated number 38 in various words is used as evidence of this."
517,2,1,21,"The post claims that during the January 2025 Pacific Palisades wildfire, Austin Russell’s approximately $80 million mansion was the only home with significant damage in the section of the neighborhood where it is located, implying that surrounding homes were largely untouched while his alone was destroyed."
512,1,2,12,"The post claims that Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik ""has written an article celebrating the South Carolina wildfires because he believes they mean California, no longer uniquely exposed to such fires, will not face conditions on federal funds."" It characterizes his column as celebrating the fires themselves and asserting that California is now ""off the hook"" from any conditions on federal disaster aid because other states are burning too."
395,2,1,21,"The recent wildfires in Los Angeles, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Maui all share a coordinated pattern in which they are intentionally used to clear land in key locations for planned smart cities, allowing government and corporate interests to rapidly redevelop under emergency measures and take control of prime land without normal legal and financial hurdles."
272,1,2,12,The post claims that Beyoncé has now won Album of the Year at the Grammys for the first time at the ceremony being discussed.
142,1,1,11,"The Los Angeles wildfire response in 2025 was intentionally botched or mishandled as part of a deliberate plan connected to the upcoming 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, in order to clear land in densely populated areas so that authorities or developers can buy out uninsured fire victims, take over their properties, and build hotels and Olympic venues on the newly cleared land."
409,2,1,21,"The LA Fire Department fired several white, male firefighters in order to ""boost inclusivity"" (i.e., to comply with DEI policies), and this personnel decision caused or significantly contributed to a weak response to the 2025 Los Angeles wildfire."
387,2,1,21,"A Reddit thread asking people to collectively ""manifest rain"" in Los Angeles caused it to rain there 10 days later, despite forecasts showing no rain for the next two weeks, and this collective intention stopped news about the California wildfires. The post presents this as evidence that collective intention can directly change weather and wildfire conditions without any physical action."
457,2,2,22,"Because of Trump’s order, ""billions of gallons of water needed by California farmers is lost forever"" and ""now that water, so necessary for the farmers is lost forever,"" implying that essentially all of the released water was permanently lost and could not provide any agricultural or environmental benefit."
20,2,2,22,"Over 4,400 U.S. Forest Service and National Park Service employees were fired (“got canned”) in a single day as part of Trump‑era cuts, leaving Smokey Bear’s fire‑prevention efforts essentially ‘defunded’ so that ‘it’s just you now.’"
447,2,1,21,"Governor Gavin Newsom refused to sign a “water restoration declaration” that President‑elect Donald Trump says would have allowed “millions of gallons of water, from excess rain and snow melt from the North, to flow daily into many parts of California, including the areas that are currently burning,” and that this refusal is why there is “no water for fire hydrants, not firefighting planes” during the Los Angeles wildfires."
57,2,1,21,"""This country is trillions of dollars—$36 trillion in debt—and a lot of the stuff that’s listed under USAID, all the stuff coming out, all these things they paid for—it’s so fucking insane"" – implying that USAID spending is a major driver of, or a large share of, the roughly $36 trillion U.S. national debt."
442,2,1,21,"The post claims that ""L.A. is a total wipeout!!!"" suggesting that Los Angeles as a whole was essentially destroyed by the January 2025 wildfires."
292,1,2,12,"""California farmers are PISSED because [Trump’s] 'turn on the taps' PR move did nothing to combat California wildfires and instead wasted 2 BILLION gallons of water being held in reservoirs for summer irrigation."" The post asserts that Trump ordered a PR‑motivated water release of exactly 2 billion gallons from California reservoirs, that this release had no firefighting benefit, and that the water had been held specifically for summer irrigation for California farmers."
391,2,1,21,People from BlackRock are going door to door in Los Angeles’ Pacific Palisades area offering to buy homes from fire victims as part of a highly organized plan to take everybody’s homes.
317,2,2,22,"The post claims that Beyoncé won Country Song of the Year at the Grammys for ""Cowboy Carter,"" becoming the first Black woman to do so."
453,2,2,22,"The image text states: ""TRUMP: NO VOTER ID, NO WILDFIRE AID"" implying that Donald Trump conditioned or threatened to condition federal wildfire disaster aid to California on the state adopting voter ID laws."
501,2,1,21,"The image of Smokey Bear states: ""Only YOU can prevent forest fires. Seriously. We've been defunded. It's just you now,"" implying that U.S. wildfire‑prevention and firefighting agencies (such as the U.S. Forest Service, National Park Service, and related programs behind Smokey Bear) have been defunded and no longer operate, leaving fire prevention entirely up to individuals."
209,2,1,21,"The post states that the layoffs of U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service employees in early 2025 are ""part of the Trump administration’s effort to reduce the federal workforce by laying off thousands of employees,"" implying that Donald Trump is the current U.S. president and that his administration is responsible for these 2025 federal workforce reductions."
26,2,1,21,Los Angeles officials plan to fund Mexican firefighters coming from Mexico to fight the 2025 wildfire by taking money from the city’s budget for unhoused (homeless) services.
383,2,1,21,"Governor Gavin Newsom ""chose to save an extinct tiny fish species (the delta smelt) instead of sending more water to Southern California to fight apocalyptic wildfires,"" and his blocking of water diversions from Northern California is the reason the Los Angeles / Pacific Palisades wildfires are burning in a ""virtually apocalyptic"" way."
458,2,1,21,"The post’s title and repeated text state that “The drone pilot who took out an LA firefighting plane pleads guilty to escape prison,” implying that the plea deal definitively allows him to escape any possibility of prison time."
445,2,1,21,"Trump is proposing an $880 billion cut to Medicaid, Medicare, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in order to fund $4.5 trillion in tax cuts for wealthy billionaires over the next ten years."
43,1,2,12,"""We spent $200 million on transgender animal studies. What the fuck? What are we doing?"" – asserting that the U.S. government spent $200 million specifically on ""transgender animal studies."""
425,2,1,21,The January 2025 California wildfires were deliberately set or engineered as a “natural disaster” in order to destroy evidence related to Sean “Diddy” Combs and interfere with a New York court case involving him.
256,2,1,21,"Gavin Newsom’s response states that the Fox News report that he cut the fire budget by $100 million is ""a ridiculous lie,"" asserting instead that his administration has doubled the size of the firefighting force, built the world’s largest aerial firefighting fleet, and increased forest management ten‑fold since he took office, implying that there were no significant cuts to wildfire‑related funding before the 2025 fires."
196,2,1,21,"In two weeks, wildfires in California (including the Palisades/LA fire) have ""incinerated 15,000 structures"" and released more toxic pollution than ""burning trash for 20 years,"" causing more harm to animals, land, and water supplies than previously thought possible."
332,2,1,21,"The post states that a specific 2025 California wildfire event caused ""Over 16 deaths reported, 10k structures damaged or destroyed and 23,707 acres burned"" and that this event ""is considered as the most tragic wildfire to hit California EVER!"""
329,2,1,21,"The Weeknd will be ""removing"" his song ""Dancing In The Flames"" from existence (i.e., pulling or deleting it) out of respect for victims of the Los Angeles wildfires."
155,2,1,21,"The image states that Blizzard donated only $1 to wildfire relief, presented as a news-style announcement: ""BLIZZARD DONATES $1 TO WILDFIRE RELIEF"" with a news banner and attribution ""VIA: BLIZZARD."""
127,2,1,21,"""Today, five times as much water has been promised and sold as actually exists."" The post asserts that under California’s water rules, the state has issued water rights and contracts totaling five times more water than physically exists or is available."
298,1,2,12,"The post states that ""Miley Cyrus reportedly lost her home and had to evacuate due to the California wildfires"" in January 2025, implying that her current home was destroyed in the 2025 California wildfires and that she personally evacuated because of those fires."
538,2,2,22,"The Los Angeles Pacific Palisades wildfires were deliberately planned and ""highly organized,"" rather than being natural or accidental disasters driven by weather, vegetation, and broader wildfire conditions."
175,2,2,22,"In January 2025, California faced devastating wildfires that resulted in 29 fatalities and the destruction of over 16,000 buildings, with insurers like Lloyd's of London anticipating losses of approximately $2.3 billion from these events."
32,2,1,21,"The post states that a homeless man was arrested after a video showed him using what appeared to be a flamethrower to start one of the Los Angeles County wildfires (the Kenneth Fire), implying that this homeless man was the person responsible for igniting the Kenneth Fire in Woodland Hills/West Hills."
114,2,1,21,"Donald Trump claimed that there was “NO WATER IN THE FIRE HYDRANTS” in Los Angeles during the wildfires, blaming this on policies and conditions allegedly left by Joe Biden."
531,2,1,21,The post claims that Donald Trump suggested vacuuming the forest floor as a solution to decrease wildfires.
174,2,2,22,"The Los Angeles wildfires (referred to as a single “LA inferno” in the post) were “exacerbated by incompetence from liberal politicians,” specifically blaming Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and asserting that she “wasn’t even in the country when the inferno began.”"
273,2,1,21,"The post implies that the 2025 Los Angeles, California wildfire was intentionally exploited or is being eagerly anticipated by BlackRock so the company can buy up “newly vacant lots in LA” created by the fire."
322,1,2,12,"Efforts to protect endangered species in California are a primary cause of, or significantly contribute to, major wildfire disasters such as the Los Angeles wildfires, because these protections prevent necessary fire prevention and thus put human beings ‘last.’"
58,2,1,21,"The 2025 California wildfires were deliberately set by Donald Trump and his ""disaster capitalist buddies"" as part of a coordinated disaster capitalism scheme: (1) insurers like State Farm first dropped policies in targeted California areas, (2) then fires were intentionally set during wind storms around these newly uninsured areas, (3) then Trump refused or threatened to refuse disaster aid so that his rich associates could buy up burned properties ""for pennies on the dollar."""
279,1,1,11,"The headline in the image states that James Woods ""breaks down in tears on CNN after losing home in L.A. fire"" and quotes him saying, ""One day you’re swimming in the pool and the next day it’s all gone,"" implying that his Los Angeles home was definitively destroyed and completely gone in the wildfire."
25,1,2,12,"Non-white firefighters and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) hiring in the Los Angeles Fire Department are responsible for a weak response to the 2025 California wildfires, because white male firefighters were allegedly fired and replaced in order to ""boost inclusivity,"" and this change in racial composition caused the poor wildfire response."
18,2,2,22,"During major wildfires outside Los Angeles in early 2025, California Governor Gavin Newsom held a real press conference in which he told victims he was diverting “millions of dollars toward the state’s emergency DEI initiatives,” said “we’re doing our best to make sure monetary aid goes somewhere else,” and announced that he was directing “all available state funding toward DEI initiatives” instead of wildfire relief, followed by calling an “emergency lunch at the French Laundry” to address the crisis."
308,2,1,21,"Governor Gavin Newsom ""refused to sign the water restoration declaration"" that Donald Trump says would have allowed ""millions of gallons of water"" from excess rain and snowmelt in Northern California to flow daily into many parts of California, including the Los Angeles areas burning in the 2025 wildfires, and that this refusal left ""no water for fire hydrants, not firefighting planes,"" making Newsom directly to blame for the wildfires and the lack of water to fight them."
67,2,1,21,"The post states that Donald Trump, as the incoming or current U.S. president, has ordered the withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement, and that this withdrawal is presently taking effect (or about to take effect) in connection with the 2025 context described in the article."
474,2,2,22,"There is a single “water main” that Governor Gavin Newsom could go to in Northern California and simply “open up” so that water would flow into California instead of going into the Pacific Ocean, and this action could be used to put out the ongoing wildfires and relieve the state’s drought conditions."
287,1,2,12,"The map titled “EFFECTS OF A FULL‑SCALE NUCLEAR EXCHANGE ON THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,” labeled as “Based on data from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Wikipedia,” implies that FEMA has produced or endorsed detailed projections of nuclear blast targets and fallout zones across the U.S., including specific shelter‑time requirements (e.g., “Severe fallout (>1 sv/hr) – >3 weeks in a shelter required for survival”) for a hypothetical full‑scale nuclear war."
491,2,1,21,The Los Angeles Pacific Palisades wildfires were deliberately planned and orchestrated rather than being caused by natural or accidental ignition sources.
276,1,1,11,"The article claims that a new paper in Nature Communications shows that, across the United States and Canada, recent wildfires are occurring at only 23% of the rate expected from the historical record back to the 17th century, and that this finding means human‑caused climate change is not making wildfires worse and instead exposes a “politicised wildfire climate change scam.”"
463,2,2,22,"The post implies that non‑white firefighters, hired or retained because of DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) policies and the firing of several white male firefighters in the Los Angeles Fire Department, are responsible for causing or worsening the California wildfires and for a weak wildfire response."
465,2,1,21,"The map in the image is presented as showing the real, data‑based “effects of a full‑scale nuclear exchange on the United States of America,” including precise fallout zones, shelter times, and target locations, and it states that it is “based on data from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Wikipedia,” implying that FEMA has produced or endorsed this specific nationwide nuclear‑exchange impact map and its detailed fallout projections."
95,2,1,21,"Sabrina Carpenter attended the 2025 BAFTA Awards and walked the BAFTA red carpet in a figure‑hugging, bejewelled gown paired with Christian Louboutin Loubi Queen Alta heels, making her one of the standout stars of the 2025 BAFTA ceremony alongside Demi Moore, Cynthia Erivo, and Ariana Grande."
181,2,1,21,"By the end of this fire event in early January 2025, there will definitely be over 3,000 human deaths and more than 1,000 pet deaths from the Southern California wildfires."
415,2,2,22,"The post claims that in early January 2025, Los Angeles is experiencing a wildfire disaster involving the “Palisades Fire” and “Eaton Fire” that together have burned over 34,000 acres, devastated nearly 10,000 structures, caused at least 16 deaths in areas such as Malibu and Altadena, forced mandatory evacuations for over 150,000 residents across Los Angeles County, knocked out power for more than 400,000 customers, and created an overall economic toll estimated between $135 billion and $150 billion, potentially making these the most expensive wildfires in U.S. history."
93,2,1,21,"The post repeats Donald Trump’s assertion that Governor Gavin Newsom ""refused to sign the water restoration declaration"" that would have allowed ""millions of gallons of water"" from northern California to flow to southern California, and that, as a result, there was ""no water for fire hydrants, not firefighting planes"" during the January 2025 Los Angeles fires. It further claims that Newsom blocked this water to protect ""an essentially worthless fish called a smelt"" and that this is why there was no water available to fight the fires."
24,2,1,21,"Donald Trump’s statement that Governor Gavin Newsom should ""go to Northern California and open up the water main, and let the water flow into his dry, starving, burning State"" implies that California’s wildfire and water‑scarcity problems could be solved by simply opening a controllable ""water main"" in Northern California that is being kept closed, and that state officials are deliberately withholding this water."
288,1,2,12,The post claims that one of Leonardo DiCaprio’s houses has burned down amid the January 2025 Pacific Palisades (Palisades) wildfire.
493,2,1,21,People from BlackRock are going door to door in Los Angeles’ Pacific Palisades area offering to buy homes after the fires as part of a highly organized scheme to take everybody’s homes.
269,1,2,12,"The article claims that the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) withdrew a long‑term U.S. wildfire area‑burned graph in 2021 “at the height of the Biden Green Mania” in order to erase inconvenient data and enable a false narrative that wildfires have been increasing, implying deliberate data manipulation for political reasons."
6,2,1,21,"The post claims that the U.S. government ""caused the costliest fire in US history"" in connection with a California / Los Angeles wildfire, implying that the federal government was directly responsible for starting or deliberately causing that wildfire."
117,2,1,21,"The post claims that actor James Woods ""repeatedly breaks down on CNN after losing home to LA wildfires"" (or California wildfires), implying that he appeared on CNN, cried multiple times on air, and stated that his own home was destroyed in the Los Angeles/Pacific Palisades wildfires."
46,2,1,21,"""Black Mayor Karen Bass was vacationing… I mean visiting Ghana during the fires using taxpayer money."" The post asserts that her trip to Ghana during the January 2025 fires was essentially a personal vacation funded by taxpayers, rather than an official government trip as part of a U.S. delegation to the inauguration of Ghana’s president."
249,2,1,21,"Bài viết khẳng định rằng vụ cháy đang diễn ra ở quận Los Angeles vào thời điểm đầu tháng 1 năm 2025 là ""vụ cháy lớn nhất và thiệt hại nặng nề nhất trong lịch sử tại quận Los Angeles, California""."
334,2,1,21,"The post states that in early January 2025, the Palisades Fire in the Santa Monica Mountains of Los Angeles County, California, ""rapidly spread, consuming over 23,000 acres and destroying more than 12,300 structures. Tragically, at least 25 lives were lost, and thousands were displaced. The economic impact is estimated to be up to $275 billion, making it one of the most costly natural disasters in U.S. history."" This is presented as the impact of the Palisades Fire alone."
389,2,1,21,"President Trump’s statement in the post that by signing an executive order to ""open the pumps and valves in the north"" he will get water ""pouring down"" and ""let hundreds of millions of gallons of water flow down into Southern California"" in a way that will effectively provide an unlimited new water supply and materially change wildfire response in Los Angeles."
17,2,2,22,The post claims that the Grammys raised money for the Los Angeles wildfires and showed ads for small businesses as part of the ceremony.
49,2,1,21,"California has ""no water"" for fire hydrants or firefighting planes in the Los Angeles wildfires because state officials send ""millions and millions of gallons"" or ""tremendous amounts, millions of gallons"" of water to the Pacific Ocean to protect the Delta smelt, and this diverted water could otherwise have prevented the fires or their spread."
355,1,2,12,"The post states that actor James Woods ""lost his home in California’s Pacific Palisades neighborhood"" in the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires, describing the house as destroyed and ""all gone"" as a result of the Pacific Palisades fire."
423,1,1,11,"The post claims that a blue car (specifically a retro blue VW bus) survived the Pacific Palisades fires because directed energy weapon (DEW) lasers ""can't see blue"" or cannot affect blue-colored objects."
4,2,1,21,"As we know, unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) are attracted to disaster events, whether man‑made or natural, and have been seen during the September 11, 2001 attacks, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (April 20–September 19, 2010), and the Fukushima nuclear accident."
469,2,1,21,"California Governor Gavin Newsom chose to save an extinct (or ‘essentially worthless’) tiny fish species called the delta smelt instead of sending water to Southern California to fight the ‘apocalyptic’ wildfires in the Pacific Palisades, by blocking an order that would have diverted more water from Northern California to the burning areas."
432,1,2,12,"Red Hot Chili Peppers singer Anthony Kiedis has stated that the band is considering making new music specifically about the Los Angeles wildfires, including songs with titles such as “California-burna-fication” and “Funky Flame-a Flicka Flicka Fire Fighter,” as a tribute to California and firefighters."
61,2,1,21,"The 2025 California wildfires were not natural disasters but were deliberately planned in advance (i.e., intentionally orchestrated rather than resulting from natural or accidental causes)."
197,2,1,21,"The post claims that slavery is legal in the United States under the 13th Amendment for convicted felons, implying that the Constitution straightforwardly permits slavery as long as a person has been convicted of a crime."
545,2,1,21,The post claims or strongly implies that donations made through the californiafirefacts.com link and processed via ActBlue for Gavin Newsom’s super PAC (“Campaign for Democracy”) will ultimately be funneled to Democratic Party causes rather than to the California Fire Foundation and wildfire victims. It suggests that using ActBlue and the super PAC as the fundraising entity means the money is not really going to the stated wildfire relief charity.
537,2,1,21,"The post claims that key pieces of surveillance footage from inside Mandalay Bay related to the Las Vegas shooting are ""missing, redacted, or never released"" as part of a deliberate cover‑up."
111,2,2,22,"Three weeks into his Senate tenure in late January 2025, Tim Sheehy introduced a bipartisan Aerial Firefighting Enhancement Act of 2025 in the U.S. Senate, which was met with bipartisan support from both Republicans and Democrats."
378,2,1,21,"Policies protecting the endangered Delta smelt, which limit how much water can be pumped from the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta, are the reason firefighters in the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires lacked water — i.e., the Delta smelt and related environmental water rules caused the water‑supply problems (dry hydrants and tanks) during the Palisades and other LA fires."
312,2,1,21,"""ChatGPT consumes 1000 times more power than Google Search for processing a single query."""
30,2,2,22,"California Governor Gavin Newsom ""plans to crash"" President Donald Trump’s visit to Los Angeles related to the 2025 California wildfires, implying that Newsom intends to physically disrupt, block, or interfere with the president’s official disaster visit in an improper or unlawful way."
521,2,1,21,"Donald Trump claimed on Truth Social that California Governor Gavin Newsom’s water policies, specifically prioritizing a so‑called “worthless fish” (the endangered Delta smelt) and not allowing “millions of gallons of water, from excess rain and snow melt from the North, to flow daily into many parts of California, including the areas that are currently burning in a virtually apocalyptic way,” are to blame for the Los Angeles wildfires and the severity of the fire disaster."
226,2,1,21,"From 1980 to 2024, tropical cyclones (hurricanes) in the United States have caused approximately 6,897 deaths, making them the deadliest category of billion‑dollar disasters."
515,2,1,21,"The post claims that California’s recent wildfires are not evidence of an accelerating climate crisis and that climate change is not a significant driver of recent wildfire trends; instead, it asserts that human factors such as forest management, fire suppression, and urban expansion are the ""real"" causes, while climate change is essentially a scapegoat and not a major contributor."
27,2,1,21,"The post asserts as a prediction stated as certainty that: ""The US will go into acute stagflation inside of 4 months"" of March 5, 2025 (i.e., by early July 2025), and that this will then ""transition to a depression more severe than the 2008 crisis before the end of the year"" 2025, and that this outcome is ""already unavoidable."""
8,2,1,21,"The post claims that a person referred to as ""Eric the midget"" started the California wildfires that occurred in 2025."
182,2,2,22,"In a January 8, 2025 social media post about the California wildfires, the account ""Donald J. Trump"" states: ""As of this moment, Gavin Newscum and his Los Angeles crew have contained exactly ZERO percent of the fire. It is burning at levels that even surpass last night."" The claim is that, at the time of posting on January 8, 2025 (around 2:09 p.m. ET / late morning PT), California and Los Angeles fire authorities had achieved 0% containment of the major Los Angeles–area wildfires burning that day."
51,2,2,22,"The post claims that the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires were the result of a coordinated arson campaign, with “masked men with blow torches” attempting to set the hills on fire, and that there is video proof of multiple suspects doing this. It further asserts that these reports are coming from “A‑list actors and comedians on X/Twitter who actually live there and are witnessing these things with their own eyes,” implying this is the true or primary cause of the fires rather than weather and environmental conditions."
109,2,2,22,"Insurance companies canceled fire coverage for thousands of residents ahead of the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires, so people who lost everything will receive no compensation."
230,1,2,12,"Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass demanded that the Los Angeles Fire Department cut an additional $49 million from its budget just one week before the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires broke out, as stated in a leaked memo."
38,2,1,21,"The LA Palisades wildfire was intentionally started in order to clear land and pave the way for building a ‘smart city,’ and the fire was part of a deliberate plan from beneficiaries of such a project."
158,2,1,21,"Gavin Newsom and his Los Angeles crew have contained exactly ZERO percent of the fire; the fire is burning at levels that surpass the previous night, implying that as of the time of these posts, the Los Angeles wildfires had 0% containment."
238,2,1,21,"The post claims that California has decided to privatize water resources (i.e., that the state has made a policy decision to privatize its water resources) and links this decision to Los Angeles battling wildfires."
532,2,1,21,"The Palisades Fire and broader LA-area wildfires in January 2025 were “not a new problem of climate change,” implying that climate change was not a significant contributing factor to the severity and behavior of these fires."
119,2,1,21,"Only globalists think they can convince people that wildfires (or brush/“bush” fires) occur in winter; the post asserts that winter wildfires are fake and cannot naturally occur, citing recent fires in Los Angeles, Japan, and New York/Long Island as “fake wildfires” and “signalling events.”"
424,2,2,22,"The image, styled as a breaking news graphic with an HT logo, claims that Indian cricketer Virat Kohli is practicing cricket in the middle of the Los Angeles (LA) wildfires, with the headline text: ""Virat Kohli Practices in LA Wildfires"" and a quote attributed to him: ""If I Can Time a Cover Drive Here, I Can Time It Anywhere."""
115,2,2,22,"Fox News claims that ""Gov. Newsom cut fire budget by $100M months before lethal California fires,"" implying that California’s overall fire budget and firefighting capacity were reduced by about $100 million shortly before the deadly 2025 California wildfires."
542,2,1,21,"The post claims that the (unnamed) new mayor of Los Angeles ""cut funding to the fire department, emptied reservoirs and split town while her city was burning,"" and implies these actions helped cause or worsen the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires."
204,2,1,21,"The January 2025 Los Angeles fire is described as “a mashup of empty reservoirs, high winds, and documented arson,” implying that (1) empty reservoirs were a key causal factor in the disaster and (2) the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires as a whole were definitively caused by arson (“documented arson”)."
176,2,1,21,"The post states that the aircraft shown is a Canadair CL‑215 powered by two Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp R‑2800 piston engines, that it can scoop 5,436 liters (1,436 US gallons) of water in 12 seconds, and that this specific type was crucial in controlling the LA fire."
433,2,2,22,"As of January 12, 2025, the LA wildfires have claimed 16 lives, with 13 people still missing, and over 12,000 structures have been damaged or destroyed, with 153,000 residents evacuated."
302,2,1,21,"The video claims that during the Los Angeles wildfire crisis, specifically mentioning the Palisades, Eaton, and Hearst fires, at least 11 people are dead, more than 150,000 people are under evacuation orders, about 10,000 buildings and structures have been burned to the ground, and total damages have reached $150 billion."
195,2,2,22,"The post claims that Six Flags Magic Mountain will be closed on Friday, January 24, 2025 specifically due to wildfires."
438,2,1,21,"Estimated damages from the Los Angeles wildfires now exceed $150 billion, making this the costliest wildfire in U.S. history as of January 12, 2025."
68,2,1,21,"""Fun fact – I bet most people don’t realize that DUI, car theft, meth, and gun possession by former felons are also misdemeanors in lots of places. So, if you live in LA, and are caught carrying a stolen Sony Bravia 9, strapped with a Glock 19, a baggie of meth in your pocket, and then flee the scene with a stolen Kia Optima with an open bottle of Fireball Cinnamon . . . you might STILL only get a ticket. Possibly no cash bail."" The post claims that in many places, including Los Angeles, DUI, car theft, meth possession, and gun possession by former felons are only misdemeanors, and that even a combination of stolen property, illegal gun possession by a felon, meth possession, DUI, and auto theft might result only in a citation and possibly no cash bail."
536,2,1,21,The post claims that both Kawhi Leonard’s home and JJ Redick’s home burned down in the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires.
169,2,2,22,"Tim Sheehy, the ex‑CEO of Bridger Aerospace, stepped down because he assumed office as a U.S. Republican Senator from Montana at the beginning of 2025."
282,1,2,12,"The mayor of Los Angeles cut the fire department’s budget in a state that has a wildfire season, implying that the current mayor personally reduced funding for the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD)."
522,2,1,21,The Los Angeles Pacific Palisades wildfires were deliberately planned and orchestrated rather than being caused by natural or accidental factors.
194,2,1,21,"From 1980 to 2024, severe storms including tornadoes have caused around 2,094 fatalities in the United States."
153,2,2,22,"The Los Angeles wildfires have burned approximately 38,000 acres of land, which is about 2.5 times the size of Manhattan, New York."
443,2,1,21,"The post states that, according to the New York Post, California Governor Gavin Newsom ""cut $100M for fire prevention before deadly wildfires,"" including cutting $5 million from CAL FIRE’s now-$129 million budget for fuel reduction teams and related National Guard vegetation‑management work, and presents this as if it were a straightforward cut to the state’s overall fire‑prevention spending rather than a reduction within a specific, time‑limited wildfire and forest‑resilience package while overall fire‑protection spending increased."
508,1,2,12,"""California farmers are PISSED because his 'turn on the taps' PR move did nothing to combat California wildfires and instead wasted 2 BILLION gallons of water being held in reservoirs for summer irrigation."" The post asserts that Trump’s action to ""turn on the taps"" in California (loosening environmental water restrictions) both (1) did nothing at all to help combat California wildfires and (2) directly wasted exactly 2 billion gallons of water that had been stored in reservoirs for summer irrigation."
422,2,1,21,"The wildfires near Myrtle Beach and in other places (Los Angeles, Maui/Lahaina, Canada, Spain) were intentionally set or manipulated as part of a coordinated conspiracy or “criminal land grab” to destroy areas and clear them for a UN‑linked ‘smart city’ project (including turning Myrtle Beach into a so‑called “META BEACH”)."
290,2,2,22,"From January 7 to 31, 2025, a series of 17 destructive wildfires affected the Los Angeles metropolitan area and San Diego County in California, killing at least 29 people, forcing more than 200,000 people to evacuate, and destroying or damaging more than 18,000 homes and structures. Most of the damage was from two largest fires called the Palisades Fire in Pacific Palisades and the Eaton Fire."
104,2,1,21,"Three months before the Los Angeles Pacific Palisades fires, State Farm ‘canceled everybody’s fire policies’ in Los Angeles after Governor Newsom refused to allow the company to raise prices, leaving people with no insurance."
337,2,1,21,"The post asserts that any connection between the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires and climate change is ""unsupported by data"" and that linking these fires (or even a single year’s wildfires) to long‑term climate change is merely a simplistic media narrative, not grounded in scientific evidence."
75,1,1,11,"The post claims that there was a specific wildfire disaster in Los Angeles in early 2025 that is causing or will cause California Governor Gavin Newsom to be recalled and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass to probably lose re‑election, leading to a Republican taking their place in California."
365,2,2,22,"The post implies that the song or album ""Campaign Blue"" by Benji Blue Bills – specifically the track ""Leaving LA"" released on October 18, 2023 – accurately predicted the Los Angeles wildfires that occurred in 2025."
535,2,1,21,"The January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires (Eaton, Palisades, and a third fire) caused “$150 billion” in damage."
120,2,2,22,"The United States experienced record wildfires in the last quarter of 2024, many in California."
333,2,1,21,"The post quotes Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene asserting that the devastating 2025 Los Angeles / California wildfires ""appear"" or are ""likely"" to have been deliberately started by arsonists or terrorists, implying that arson or terrorism is the primary or likely cause of the wildfire outbreak, despite investigations still being ongoing and no such determination having been made by authorities."
353,2,1,21,"The post states that “with the disasters in North Carolina and the wildfire in Los Angeles, it looks like Gavin Newsom will be recalled and Karen Bass will probably lose their re‑election, meaning a Republican candidate will likely take their place in California,” presenting it as if these outcomes are already likely or underway because of the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires."
502,2,1,21,The HYDROTEC mobile charging units deployed by GM during the Los Angeles wildfires are powered by a renewable source of hydrogen.
472,2,1,21,"The post states that the United States’ official withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord has just occurred and is a current event in 2025, framing it as a recent decision that is now creating a new global leadership vacuum and immediate international reaction."
305,2,1,21,"California politicians such as Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass ""didn't do anything"" to address wildfire risk before the major California wildfires, including not clearing forests, not preparing firefighters with water, trucks, tools and other resources, and not taking steps to deter arsonists."
297,2,2,22,"The post states that the wildfire shown (identified in the video text as “#Border2Fire” near the border in San Diego, CA) is at 0% containment and has burned 50 acres as of the day of the post (January 23, 2025)."
349,2,1,21,"Three months before the Los Angeles Pacific Palisades fires, State Farm ""canceled everybody's fire policies"" in Los Angeles after Governor Newsom refused to let the company raise prices, leaving people with no insurance."
454,2,2,22,"Zero mega‑mansions were destroyed in the Los Angeles wildfires, similar to claims made about Maui, implying selective targeting of less valuable properties."
325,1,2,12,"The post’s title asserts that California has completely run out of money to rebuild after the Los Angeles wildfires (i.e., the state has no funds or financial capacity left for recovery and rebuilding efforts following the 2025 LA wildfires)."
37,2,1,21,"The post claims that the Golden Globes ceremony mocked God by joking that God had zero shout‑outs, and that immediately afterward God directly responded by sending or allowing the subsequent “historical wildfires” in Los Angeles (including the 2025 Palisade Fire) as punishment for this mockery. It further generalizes that “whenever somebody mocks God, something like this has happened,” implying a consistent causal pattern between public mockery of God and specific natural disasters such as California wildfires."
140,2,1,21,"The post claims that Australians sold Californians Australian eucalyptus trees around 1920 without telling them that the trees take at least 100 years to mature, that thousands of investors went broke because of this, and that only in 2017—100 years later—did the eucalyptus finally mature, spread everywhere, and cause California to burn down because the trees produce a highly flammable toxic oil that builds up in the tree."
254,2,1,21,"The meme text at the bottom of the image states: ""Hey, HIS HOUSE DIDN'T BURN DOWN AT ALL. HE LIED TO US THROUGH TWITTER!"" implying that James Woods falsely claimed his house had burned down in the Los Angeles wildfires and then lied about its status on X (Twitter)."
336,2,1,21,"""Los Angeles landlords are raising rents by as much as 124% after the wildfires."" The meme presents this as a factual statement about rent increases in Los Angeles specifically tied to the 2025 California wildfires."
60,2,2,22,"In the post, Donald Trump is quoted as saying that by signing an executive order to ""open the pumps and valves in the north"" and ""get the water pouring down here as quickly as possible"" he will ""let hundreds of millions of gallons of water flow down into Southern California"" in a way that will address water shortages for firefighting and prevent disasters like the Los Angeles area wildfires shown in the image."
112,2,2,22,"Donald Trump claimed on Truth Social that California Governor Gavin Newsom ""refused to sign the water restoration declaration"" that was put before him, which supposedly would have allowed millions of gallons of excess rain and snowmelt from Northern California to flow daily into many parts of the state, including the areas burning in the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires. Trump further asserted that Newsom did this in order to protect an ""essentially worthless"" fish called a smelt by giving it more water, implying that this decision deprived firefighters and communities of water needed to fight the fires."
313,1,2,12,"California Governor Gavin Newsom (and ""liberals that run LA"") failed to refill California’s reservoirs or deliberately ""returned"" the state’s water to the ocean, and this is why firefighters lacked water and hydrants went dry during the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires."
306,2,1,21,"The 2025 California wildfires were deliberately set by Donald Trump and his ""disaster capitalist buddies"" as part of a coordinated plan to burn uninsured areas so that his rich associates could later buy up the properties cheaply."
263,2,1,21,"""So, initially the charity skins for the LA Wildfires would be Mythmaker Jhin and Firefighter Tristana."" The post states as fact that Riot’s original, official plan for the LA Wildfires fundraiser in League of Legends included two charity skins, Mythmaker Jhin and Firefighter Tristana, and that both were going to be live together as charity skins for this event."
151,2,1,21,"The video claims that in the United States there has been no upward trend in heat waves over the last ~120 years and that heat waves were much more common and more intense in the 1930s than today, implying that climate change is not increasing heat‑wave risk relevant to wildfires."
267,2,1,21,"Donald Trump pardoned 1,561 people charged in the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and commuted 14 sentences for the most violent individuals."
452,2,2,22,"The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) said in a post on X that the state has experienced a 293,000% surge in total acres burned in the first 10 days of January 2025 compared with the five‑year average, with nearly 40,000 acres burned in that period."