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Fires continue to destroy parts of Los Angeles and its surrounding areas. At this writing, more than 40,000 acres have burned. Twelve thousand-plus structures -- mostly homes but also businesses, churches and schools have burned to the ground. Pacific Palisades is virtually gone, as are parts of Malibu and much of Altadena. Almost 200,000 people have been forced to evacuate, and thousands of them will have no home to return to. Two dozen people have been killed. Estimates of the damage done are already at almost $150 billion – 10 times the losses of the Maui fires last year and the California fires are nowhere near contained.
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Read more[ Hans von Spakovsky is the manager of the Election Law Reform Initiative and a senior legal fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation.]
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