Hiring a private fire crew costs thousands of dollars a day, and most work through government contracts or with insurance companies. Some wealthy property owners are calling them in directly.

Outside one mansion in a Palisades neighborhood with little or no fire damage, two men — who declined to provide their names — said they often contract with city governments, but this afternoon were protecting a single house. They said they did not know who the owner was, only that their company, National Wildfire Protection Service, had dispatched them there.

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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    2 days ago

    I don't care if it's apocryphal I desperately need it to be true that he got molten gold poured down his gullet.

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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      1 day ago

      AFAIK it's a question of whether it was done to him before or after he died.