Remember the Lahaina Fire, when feds sealed off the area for months? Every quack here said that a billionaire with an outsized presence on the island was behind it. Well...turns out they were right. But it wasn't Oprah's fault. It was Elon Musk's fault...🧵 Many people are learning how dangerous EVs are when it comes to fires. Thermal runaway in a lithium battery leads to explosive vehicle fires that are impossible to extinguish. While a typical vehicle fire can be extinguished in seconds, a Tesla will burn for up to 24 hours, and firefighters have to run water shuttles to nurse the thing with thousands of gallons of waters until the battery fully de-energizes.

114 years ago, today, the most consequential wildfire in history blew up right here. Today, we are in Wallace, ID on the anniversary of the Great Fire of 1910...ground zero of the fire, and site of the legendary Pulaski Tunnel...but the facts of this fire are simply unreal...🧵

1910, back in the "optimal climate", was the driest year in memory. Transients, loggers, homesteaders, and *especially* trains had sparked hundreds of fires in the tinder-dry forest. Then on August 20th, hurricane force winds blew it out like a nuclear bomb.