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https://www.yahoo.com/news/posted-videos-start-palisades-fire-215039369.html
Yahoo! News
Los Angeles Times
He posted videos of the start of the Palisades fire. Then the internet blamed him
Noah Goldberg
Tue, January 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM PST
The five men were meditating off a trail near Skull Rock in the hills above Pacific Palisades on the morning of Jan. 7.
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-5584-year-the-reader-1987
Battlestar Galactica - tv miniseries - 12/08/2003, 12/09/2003
(from internet transcript)
(CIC)
Tigh: Report.
Chief: We've got structural buckling all along this line. We've gotta get those fires out!
Captain: I know! Fire suppressors are down, water main is down, I'm trying to fight this fire with hand-held gear.
Chief: We've got another decompression heading toward the port pod.
Captain: What are your orders, sir?
(Tigh says nothing, looks at Adama.)
Captain: Sir? (to Chief) All right listen, I need you to get the rest of your DC teams down from the landing bay, give them a-
Tigh: No time. Seal off everything forward of frame 30 and start an emergency vent of all compartments.
Chief: But wait, I've got over a hundred people trapped up behind frame 34, I just need a minute to get 'em out.
Tigh: We don't seal it off now, we're going to lose a lot more than a hundred men. Seal it off, now.
Chief: They just need a minute!
Tigh: We don't have a minute! The fire reaches the hangar pods, it'll ignite the fuel lines and we'll lose the ship. Do it!
Chief: (on intercom) All hands. Seal off... all bulkheads, 25 through 40. That's an order.
(We see people in the affected area, running, coughing, through the smoke. Tigh turns a key to vent the areas - bodies fly out, the fire extinguishes.)
Captain: Venting complete. Fires are out.
Tigh: If they remembered their training, then they had their suits on and they were braced for possible vent action.
Chief: There's a lot of rooks in there.
Tigh: No one's a rook anymore.
From 2/7/1980 ( premiere USA TV series episode "In Search of..."::"John the Baptist" [ Superstition ; delusion ; wishful-thinking ] ) To 1/7/2025 ( ) is 16406 days
16406 = 8203 + 8203
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/18/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2), from my official enlisted US Navy records: during USA Armed Forces Expeditionary Operation Earnest Will with my personal participation and commendation - CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance) - aboard the USS Wainwright CG-28 US Navy the United States Operation Praying Mantis ) is 8203 days
From 2/11/1929 ( that wacky cult phony religious Vatican City, Catholic-superstition, established among all the other wacko nutjob religions on this Planet Earth and *all* religion, "spirituality", "karma", any "faith" marketing-buzzword, is mere superstition and cowardice, cowardly terror of mortality ) To 4/18/1988 ( see above ) is 21616 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/7/2025 ( ) is 21616 days
From 3/31/1985 ( as Kerry Burgess my official US Navy documents includes: General Shipboard Firefighting, USS Taylor FFG-50, US Navy ) To 1/7/2025 ( ) is 14527 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/11/2005 ( from earthobservatory.nasa.gov: satellite photograph of the School Fire in Washington State USA ) is 14527 days
From 12/8/2003 ( premiere USA TV miniseries "Battlestar Galactica" ) To 1/7/2025 ( ) is 7701 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/3/1986 ( Ronald Reagan, 40th President of USA: Proclamation 5584 - Year of the Reader, 1987 ) is 7701 days
From 11/20/1959 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Twilight Zone"::"Time Enough at Last" ) To 1/7/2025 ( ) is 23790 days
23790 = 11895 + 11895
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/28/1998 ( premiere USA TV series episode "New York Undercover"::"The Unusual Suspects" ) is 11895 days
From 11/26/1942 ( premiere USA film "Casablanca" ) To 1/31/2002 ( ) is 21616 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/7/2025 ( ) is 21616 days
From 8/17/1962 ( ) To 10/22/2021 ( debut "Invasion" - AppleTV+ streaming-video serial ) is 21616 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/7/2025 ( ) is 21616 days
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034583/releaseinfo/
IMDb
Casablanca
Release info
United States November 26, 1942 (New York City, New York, premiere)
Full Cast & Crew
Humphrey Bogart ... Rick Blaine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kloss
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casablanca_(film)
Casablanca (film)
From Wikipedia
In December 1941, American expatriate Rick Blaine owns a nightclub and gambling den in Casablanca. "Rick's Café Américain" attracts a varied clientele, including Vichy French and Nazi German officials, refugees desperate to reach the neutral United States, and those who prey on them. Although Rick professes to be neutral in all matters, he ran guns to Ethiopia in 1935 and fought on the Loyalist side in the Spanish Civil War.
Petty crook Ugarte boasts to Rick of letters of transit obtained by murdering two German couriers. The papers allow the bearers to travel freely around German-occupied Europe and to neutral Portugal. Ugarte plans to sell them at the club and persuades Rick to hold them for him. Before he can meet his contact, Ugarte is arrested by the local police under Captain Louis Renault, the unabashedly corrupt prefect of police. Ugarte dies in a police chase without revealing that Rick has the letters.
Then, the reason for Rick's cynical nature - former lover Ilsa Lund - enters his establishment. Spotting Rick's friend and house pianist, Sam, Ilsa asks him to play "As Time Goes By".
Battlestar Galactica - tv miniseries - 12/08/2003, 12/09/2003
(from internet transcript)
(At Baltar's house - he has his hands clasped, as though in prayer, and the television is on.)
Reporters: We don't have any more information yet, but, uh... / ...all remaining ships able to leave Caprica... / ...no actual enemy has yet been sighted... / ...get out into the open countryside or the lesser populated areas of the city... / ...but there doesn't seem to be any doubt... (One tv feed goes out. On the other, we can see the force of a blast before it too goes to static.)
Baltar: What have I done? What am I gonna do? There's no way out.
Six: I know.
Baltar: Sure you know. That's your doing, isn't it? Wait. Wait, there has to be another way out of here. I mean, I mean, you must have an escape plan. You're not about to be destroyed by your own bombs, are you? How are you leaving? (There's a bright blast outside.) Ow!
Six: Gaius. I can't die. When this body is destroyed, my memory, my consciousness, will be transmitted to a new one. I'll just wake up somewhere else in an identical body.
Baltar: You mean there's more out there like you?
Six: There are twelve models. I'm number six.
Baltar: (crying) I don't want to die. I don't want-
Six: Get down. (She pushes him down as the windows explode.)
(We see the surface of the planet - there are lots and lots of explosions.)
(Galactica - Adama is in his quarters reading. The intercom buzzes.)
Gaeta: CIC to commanding officer.
Adama: (picking up the phone) Go ahead.
Gaeta: I'm sorry to disturb you, sir, but we have a Priority 1 alert message from Fleet Headquarters. It was transmitted in the clear.
Adama: In the clear? What does it say?
Gaeta: "Attention all Colonial units. Cylon attack underway. This is no drill."
https://time.com/archive/6807678/milestones-aug-17-1962/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiting_Willauer
https://findingaids.princeton.edu/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/posted-videos-start-palisades-fire-215039369.html
Yahoo! News
Los Angeles Times
He posted videos of the start of the Palisades fire. Then the internet blamed him
Noah Goldberg
Tue, January 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM PST
The five men were meditating off a trail near Skull Rock in the hills above Pacific Palisades on the morning of Jan. 7.
With their eyes closed, they spoke about how they were feeling, what they were sensing.
One said, "I feel my breath slowing down." Another said, "I feel gravity increasing."
Then, all at once, four of them said the same thing: "I smell fire."
The five men, including Beni Oren, a 24-year-old who runs a glamping business, were the first to spot the Palisades fire in its earliest stages, around 10:15 a.m., sources told The Times. Video recorded by the trail runners shows them dashing down the hillside away from the flames and smoke.
But what started as a traumatic, near-death experience turned into what he said was a longer-term nightmare after Oren posted his video of the experience on social media.
With so little information about the origin of the deadly fires that are still burning in Los Angeles, people on the internet began casting suspicion on the men who were so close to the ignition point of the fire.
"I’ve been feeling a mix of emotions. It’s definitely kind of infuriating that people are blaming us," Oren said in an interview with The Times. "Also it’s scary. Just knowing as a matter of fact of our experience that we didn't do it but then seeing the amount of people that have different theories is overwhelming."
Read more: What sparked the Palisades fire? A beloved hiking trail may hold the grim answers
The Palisades fire has burned more than 23,000 acres as of Tuesday morning. It was 18% contained as of Tuesday night. At least nine people have been killed.
Oren said he and his friends decided to go for a trail run that morning and summited Skull Rock around 10 a.m. before going off trail to meditate on another nearby rock. When they smelled smoke, the men opened their eyes and saw flames cresting over the ridge of the mountain. Oren said he could not see exactly where the fire started, just that it was coming over the ridge. The flames seemed about 10 feet high. The fire was about 100 feet away.
"We quickly went into emergency mode," Oren recalled.
The group had to run uphill, almost toward the fire, in order to get back to the main trail that could take them away from the fire. They caught the main trail and ran as fast as they could away from the fire, which was growing rapidly.
"Once we ran out of there and made it down past Skull Rock we felt we had dodged death," he said. "It was a thrilling experience making it out close like that."
The group also ran into two older women farther down the mountain, he said.
Over the course of the day last Tuesday, Oren said his shock grew as the cloud of smoke billowed and he realized the scope of the fire.
The next day he posted the videos on X and TikTok. They quickly went viral, and over the next few days, Oren and his friends became the targets of internet detectives who found it suspicious that the men carrying backpacks were so close to the origin of the fire.
"Investigate these kids who were right near the fires starting point," wrote one X user, whose post got nearly 5,000 likes. The actor Rob Schneider quoted the post and wrote "PLEASE HELP IDENTIFY," including stills of the men from the video. Schneider did not immediately respond to a request for comment through his manager.
After a few days, Oren said, he deleted his X account because he was afraid of all the people claiming he and his friends might have had something to do with the fire.
"I knew people would interpret that as suspicious," he said. "Keeping the video up just felt kind of dangerous at the time."
Read more: A week after L.A. firestorms began, winds still pose danger as scale of loss becomes clearer
It was especially frustrating for Oren because he is from Malibu. One of the houses he grew up in burned down, though he no longer lives there. His brother's best friend's house burned down.
"I literally grew up in Malibu. Why would I start this fire?" he said. "If we did it, why would we post it? It really doesn’t line up once you know all the details."
Oren said that authorities had not reached out to him. But sources told The Times that investigators were aware of the video.
All the questions that have been asked of Oren and his friends have made it hard for him to start to process how close they came to one of the worst fires in Los Angeles history.
"We actually almost died and it was fairly traumatic. Going through that and then have people try to blame us pretty ruthlessly. It sucks," he said.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 02:02 AM Pacific-timezone USA Wednesday 01/15/2025
