The flames came fast, faster than anyone could outrun. On a stretch of California highway north of Los Angeles, commuters became trapped in a moving inferno yesterday. Sources confirm at least a dozen vehicles were swallowed by a wildfire that jumped the road with no warning.
Eyewitnesses describe a wall of orange and black, the roar of combustion drowning out screams. One survivor, a trucker who managed to reverse out of the chaos, told me: "The sky turned to hell.
You couldn't see five feet. People were just running." This is not an act of God.
This is a predictable consequence of decades of environmental mismanagement and corporate negligence. I have seen the documents. Utility companies, long accused of failing to maintain power lines, face billions in liability.
Yet year after year, they spend millions on lobbyists to weaken safety regulations. Meanwhile, the state's wildfire budget is a game of catch-up. The bodies are still being counted.
But the trail of blame leads to boardrooms, not just burn zones.
