In aftermath of Michigan LDS church attack, investigators seek gunman’s motive
Anti-Mormon hate led to a mass shooting and the burning down of a church.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xRBPAsn-bc
Tag: fire
Did Anyone Edit This “Trump 2020” Image? My Findings
The image of the murderer of Mormons wearing a Trump shirt appears to be real.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5GJSyH8_ow
Attack at a Mormon church in Michigan leaves at least 1 dead, 9 injured
“At least one person was killed and nine were injured when a gunman attacked a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints service in Michigan on Sunday morning, police said. The shooter was killed by police.
Authorities say the 40-year-old male suspect rammed his vehicle through the front doors of the church in Grand Blanc Township, about 60 miles northwest of Detroit, before exiting and opening fire with an “assault rifle” on the hundreds of worshippers inside.
Grand Blanc Township Police Chief William Renye said investigators believe the suspect also deliberately set fire to the church, which appeared engulfed in flames in photos and videos shared on social media.”
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/28/nx-s1-5555970/multiple-people-shot-mormon-church-michigan-shooter-down
Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Could Make Wildfire Season Deadlier This Year
“Firefighters on the scene told the Times that “members of the crew were told not to take video of the incident.” When the two firefighters were detained, the rest of the crew was “denied the chance to say goodbye.”
“I asked them if his (family) can say goodbye to him because they’re family, and they’re just ripping them away,” one firefighter told the Times. A federal officer responded by telling him “to get the (expletive) out of here,” or he’d make him leave.”
https://reason.com/2025/08/28/trumps-immigration-crackdown-could-make-wildfire-season-deadlier-this-year/
Why Is Trump’s Border Patrol Arresting Firefighters During a Wildfire?
“On Wednesday, The Seattle Times reported federal law enforcement had arrested “two people fighting the Bear Gulch fire on the Olympic Peninsula.”
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Out of 44 crew members onsite, “two individuals were found to be present in the United States illegally, one with a previous order of removal. The two individuals were arrested and transported to the Bellingham Station on charges of illegal entry.”
The arrest was a reversal of federal policy under two presidents. “Absent exigent circumstances, immigration enforcement will not be conducted at locations where disaster and emergency response and relief is being provided,” the Department of Homeland Security announced in 2021, during Joe Biden’s presidency. And in August 2018, under Trump, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) declared it would “suspend routine immigration enforcement operations in the areas affected by” wildfires in northern California, as well as “evacuation sites, or assistance centers such as shelters or food banks.”
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“Hispanic immigrants play a pivotal role in wildfire response,” Reason’s Jeff Luse wrote this week. “Federal officials showing up to job sites and removing these workers from privately contracted crews will very likely delay wildfire response times and put more Americans at risk.”
CBP did not reveal the nationality of the two people arrested. Regardless, it’s especially ironic to arrest two firefighters for immigration offenses while they actively fight a wildfire that, as of Wednesday evening, was only 13 percent contained.
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there is considerable evidence the Trump administration is simply rounding up as many potential deportees as possible, regardless of the actual danger they pose.”
https://reason.com/2025/08/29/why-is-trumps-border-patrol-arresting-firefighters-during-a-wildfire/
How Overregulation Burned Out Competition in the Fire Retardant Industry
https://reason.com/2025/08/07/how-overregulation-burned-out-competition-in-the-fire-retardant-industry/
Why small-time criminals burned a London warehouse for Russia’s mercenary group Wagner
“By the time the fire was out more than £100,000 worth of goods had been destroyed including communications equipment for Starlink satellites, which have proved vital on the frontline in the war in Ukraine.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czjkke22gv9o
DOGE: A huge FAILURE completely UNABLE to cut U.S. spending
Examples and studies show that sometimes firing lots of government workers actually makes the government less efficient because those agencies and departments are understaffed. DOGE is firing any workers it can, not searching for actually unnecessary or bad workers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MycHGpcybB8
California’s Wildfires Exposed Failings of the State’s Leadership
California’s Wildfires Exposed Failings of the State’s Leadership
https://reason.com/2025/01/31/californias-wildfires-exposed-failings-of-the-states-leadership/
Climate change made LA fires far more likely, study says
“Human-caused climate change made the Los Angeles-area fires more likely and more destructive, according to a study”
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“The study — from an international group of 32 climate researchers — shows how climate change fits into the myriad factors that made the multiple blazes one of California’s most destructive and expensive wildfire disasters on record.”
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“The scientists found that low rainfall from October through December is now more than twice as likely compared to the climate that existed before humans began burning fossil fuels such as oil, coal and gas for energy.”
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“the LA fire season is becoming longer, with “highly flammable drought conditions” lasting about 23 more days now than during the preindustrial era.”
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/28/la-fires-cause-climate-change-more-likely