Why did Gavin Newsom lie about his promise to conduct one million acres of controlled burns, over-stating them by 690%?

Why didn’t Rick Caruso’s properties burn while everything else did?

What’s the primary cause of the LA fire? Arson? Empty reservoirs? Bad forest management?

What does containment actually mean?

Why don’t we do controlled burns like the Native Americans did?

I speak with the Gabriel Kirkpatrick Mann, the incisive and trustworthy director of critically-acclaimed documentary Hotshot (2023), to get some answers. He embedded with firefighters for years, and he’s an expert on the topic of California wildfire, the absolute best guy to get real information from during this hectic time when bad information is everywhere.

Rent and support Hotshot to discover the real truth behind the “fire industrial complex” as described by Mann.

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