Summary
President Biden announced the federal government will cover 100% of costs for initial disaster response to the Los Angeles wildfires for 180 days.
The funding includes debris removal, temporary shelters, and first responder salaries.
Biden declared a major disaster, allowing immediate aid access, and directed the Pentagon to assist with firefighting resources.
With 28,000 acres burned, five deaths, and mass evacuations, Biden urged Congress to provide additional aid.
FEMA is coordinating recovery efforts on-site.
Just to confirm, there’s no plan to subsidize the rebuilding of $40,000,000 mansions, right?
I don’t know about the US, but in the UK, rebuilding would be covered by the homeowner’s buildings insurance.
Although insurance companies would probably try to claim it as an Act Of God to get out of it. Don’t know how that would go legally…
I’m an Atheist. Act of God is nonsense. What does it even mean? It can mean whatever the fucking insurance wants it to mean and it’s horseshit
Privatize the profits, socialize the losses…
I’m an atheist that understands that an act of god refers to any destructive natural event where the damage to property couldn’t have been reasonably prevented. And insurance companies detail exactly what is and isn’t covered per policy; it’s just that they can get away with denying coverage due to lack of oversight/policing of them.
Isn’t that what insurance is for?
Insurance is literally a market of risk assessments. The odds of any given event are x, y and z and the cost of each of those events are a, b, and c. Take the number of people who are applying for policies and spread the cost based on the risks and figure out how much each needs to pay to be able to cover x, y or z should/when any of them occur. There’s discussions to be had on how much a percentage of profit should be allowable on the top and how much to subsidize on known high risk coverage that is not mathematically reasonable but it all boils down to buying risk based on the chance and cost of any given event happening. Act of God/Force Majeure make complete sense when framing it this way. The insurance policy is based on known and predicted risks. You don’t have volcano insurance in NJ and you don’t have hurricane insurance in Kansas because they aren’t expected disasters so they aren’t included in the risk calculations. Act of God is a catch all term for things beyond the expected scope of the policy which is based on clearly established limits and scenarios.
That is one reason, yes.
You can’t prevent earthquakes but they sell earthquake insurance.
Many modern buildings are designed to withstand earthquakes of some magnitude; this is what reasonable prevention means.
You can’t prevent any natural force unless your uncle knows god (and is on good terms with them). What was stated was the ‘reasonable prevention of damage’. insurance companies that sell earthquake insurance won’t insure buildings that are not up to code, which in turn is based on locally expected disasters, their expected commonality, their expected severity, and what is considered to be reasonable measures for the prevention of damage (or an excess of e.g. mitigation).
For example, where I live you can’t get hail insurance unless you have impact resistant shingles. I had and have exactly that so I got hail insurance; after a particularly bad hail storm (and 8 previous years of wear) I filed a claim and had my entire roof redone at my insurer’s expense. I was kind of surprised how straight forward the process was and the stark absence of bullshittery, but I may have just gotten lucky. The area I’m in gets a lot of hail so it may also be in the insurer’s best interesting not to get a name for denying for hail damage.
Yeah wtf with the religious taint. That’s what I call all these stupid terms that creep into secular government and businesses because it reminds me of the Zerg’s creep from StarCraft. Lol
I don’t know about the US, but in the UK, rebuilding would be covered by the homeowner’s buildings insurance.
A lot of these places were dropped from their insurance because insurance companies made the risk calculation.
Acts of God are covered by homeowners insurance unless explicitly stated otherwise. A homeowner in the Palisades without fire insurance is…playing with fire.
I haven’t read the articles but there’s a bunch of headlines that insurance companies were dropping a lot of houses in the Palisades area.
Very much depends on the insurance held
No mention of rebuilding subsidies for homeowners. I assume they’ll be assisting with state-funded infrastructure after recovery as well.
Meeting with federal officials at the White House, Biden said the funds would go toward debris removal, temporary shelters, salaries for first responders and more for 180 days.
Isn’t that why you have insurance
For sure, it is. But in the likely event that insurance providers somehow deny the claim, the cynic in me expects the government to provide socialized support for the wealthy as soon as it can.
Might as well make the last time it ever happens a good one.
Good call, Joe.
Its so that 47 cant walk it back and hold the state hostage by witholding relief funds… Again.
Then California withholds it’s funds to the federal government…
Trump will let Cali burn.
Trump would sell NFTs of the ash mounds found in LA, then rug pull and move the assets to the Cayman Islands.
Say what you want about him but the military is sending 10 water helicopters and every fire plane it has. There’s also over a thousand ground personnel going to help. And if you’ve looked at the fire recently you’ll see why, there’s a real danger it breaks into the semi-urban area.
Isn’t that socialism or communism or government over reach though? How can Republicans stand for this?!
