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DAVE WINNACKER stood on a hill in Northern California as flames devoured the houses below him. The Alameda County Fire Department division chief had fought wildfires before, but the 2017 North Bay Fires felt different. A sense of helplessness overcame him as he watched them burn. I had engines assigned to them, he says. But you couldn t stop it.
A former Marine (and now a fire chief in the Bay Area s Moraga-Orinda Fire District), Winnacker was one of more than 10,000 firefighters who battled the infernos, which raged for three weeks. The blaze tore through a quarter-million acres, killed 44 people, and destroyed over 6,000 homes. At times, it spread at a rate of one football field every three seconds. The damage totaled $13 billion, a new U.S. record that would fall the following year.
Congress’ Resident QAnon Loon Claimed 2018 Camp Fire was Started by Space Lasers
A recent dump of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s old social media posts includes a 2018 screed that a cabal of Jewish bankers used space lasers to start the deadliest fire in California history, as part of a high-speed rail scheme.
One of the defining characteristics of the Trump-inspired QAnon movement is that when tragedy strikes, they skip the whole “Sorry for your loss” sentiment and go straight to blaming the victims for their alleged connections to satanism, pedophilia, Jews, etc. This was a repeated pattern found in CNN’s uncovering of some absolutely bonkers social media posts by the new QAnon darling in Congress Marjorie Taylor Greene, most notably her stalking and harassment of Stoneman Douglas High School shooting survivor David Hogg.