Deep Seek And Destroy - Part Four - Garden Hose Man

The Real Hero Story Of The Pacific Palisades Fire

The incredible story of the Pacific Palisades Fire and the Los Angeles Fires is the story of “Garden Hose Guy,” the seventy-something guy who fought a wall of flames and 100-mile-per-hour Santa Ana Winds with only a garden hose. He won, saving his house fully intact.

(Photo - Peter Duke,

The Duke Report

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Article overview

The piece by George Webb spotlights “Garden Hose Guy,” a septuagenarian homeowner who single-handedly saved his Pacific Palisades house from a wind-whipped blaze using nothing but a garden hose and pool water.

Reporter George Webb recounts arriving before most emergency crews and noticing that firefighters formed a perimeter rather than fighting flames, reinforcing local suspicions of a planned “controlled burn.” Garden Hose Guy’s defiance of evacuation orders makes him a folk hero and a living rebuke to Los Angeles officials who let a 117-million-gallon reservoir run dry.

Webb links the fire to years-long warnings by photographer Peter Duke, who believed World Economic Forum ally Nicholas Berggruen coveted the hillside for redevelopment. Duke’s early images of the damage, combined with Webb’s on-scene reporting, fuel the theory that the inferno doubled as an “AI fire-exercise” for Chinese firm Deep Seek Labs. The author contends that fire units merely traced a burn perimeter while Air Force One’s temporary flight restriction grounded aerial tankers, ensuring the blaze ran its course.

Attention then shifts to Deep Seek Labs and its rumored U.S. counterpart, Scale AI, run by wunderkind billionaire Alexander Wang. Webb recalls hosting Silicon Valley seminars where audience members shouted “Chinese Communist Party” when Deep Seek’s name surfaced, tying the firm to Beijing. He further notes that murdered AI whistle-blower Suchir Balaji had recently trekked with Scale AI staff, raising questions about cross-Pacific collaboration on drone-guided burns.

Webb promises new evidence at upcoming events in Eagle, Idaho, and hints that Luigi Mangione—allegedly posing as Princeton researcher Mark Rosario—may link True Car’s California offices, DoD contractors, and Deep Seek. He portrays Garden Hose Guy’s stand as a symbol of grassroots resilience against tech-state collusion. The investigation, he vows, will keep tracing ties among Deep Seek, Scale AI, the World Economic Forum, and government agencies until the real cause of the Palisades fire is laid bare.

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People and entities

Garden Hose Guy embodies ordinary courage, refusing evacuation and dousing flames while officials watched; George Webb chronicles his feat and drives the broader probe. Peter Duke and his wife Jessica document the aftermath, having long warned of Nicholas Berggruen’s interest in the bluff, while President Biden’s Air Force One inadvertently stalls aerial firefighting. Other key figures include Governor Gavin Newsom, who praised Deep Seek’s fire tech; Scale AI founder Alexander Wang, whose data-tagging empire intersects defense work; Deep Seek chief Liang Wenfeng; slain whistle-blower Suchir Balaji; and suspected connector Luigi Mangione, said to impersonate AI scholar Mark Rosario.

Deep Seek Labs—portrayed as a Chinese Communist Party proxy—runs a live “fire-prevention exercise” in L.A. just as neighborhoods burn, while U.S. contractor Scale AI supplies drone-imagery expertise honed in Ukraine. Supporting cast includes the World Economic Forum, alleged sponsor of redevelopment dreams; the Department of Defense and DARPA, which rely on Scale AI for classified data; True Car offices that provide a possible logistics base; and citizen-journalism outlets like Webb’s Task Force Orange Journal that stitch the clues together. Collectively, these entities illustrate a web linking global tech, government, and real-estate interests to a wildfire many locals now view as anything but natural.

Introduction

The Pacific Palisades fire devastated the street I had visited so many times to see Peter Duke to discuss our next Citizen Journalism endeavor. Across the street, a Garden Hose guy saved his house with only a garden hose and a bucket of guts. He will remain nameless here because there are rumors that LA government officials may conduct reprisals against him for not adhering to and heeding the evacuation order.

Now, Garden Hose Guy has become an instant American Hero for not listening to the Woke L.A. politicians who let a 117-million-gallon reservoir go dry after two months of brush fire warnings.

I went to all of the fire locations and assembly areas along Pacific Coast Highway around 9:00 am, arriving before many of the fire trucks and police cars. The winds had shifted out towards the ocean, so I walked directly into the winds. I wanted to show that the fire crews had no water and were in a complete perimeter formation to ensure the fire would not spread. However, I observed that none of them were in firefighting mode.

There was no firefighting going on. This was a fire perimeter to define a controlled burn area.

And Garden Hose Guy was alone on his Palisades Bluff, at night and all morning, armed only with his garden hose and a swimming pool water supply. In the afternoon, Peter Duke was the first photographer in the neighborhood to film the devastation. Interestingly, Peter Duke had been predicting a controlled burn on his hillside by World Economic Forum toadie Nicholas Berggruen for several years.

We have talked quite a bit on our channel about Scale AI being involved in “fire prediction” as a part of the Department of Defense contracting work they conduct.

https://www.weforum.org/impact/artificial-intelligence-wildfire-prediction-and-prevention/

We conducted Citizen Journalism news gathering events to investigate Nicholas Berggruen and his WEF Institute on the very bluff in Pacific Palisades that was hit by the fire.

We also learned that Deep Seek Labs, a Chinese AI partner, was involved in a fire “exercise” in Southern California.

Scale AI’s Alexander Wang, the son of two Los Alamos atomic bomb scientists, set the world record for becoming the world’s youngest Billionaire. (Research courtesy Frau Hodl of X/Twitter).

Scale AI is not just a run-of-the-mill Defense Contractor. Scale AI has done all the data tagging for drone imagery in Ukraine warfare.

Scale AI is a close enough partner of the Department of Defense to do all their Top Secret drone imagery in Ukraine enough to make Alexander Wang a Billionaire at 24 years of age. Would they call on Scale AI for a controlled burn in Los Angeles coordinated by drones? Was Scale AI working with its Chinese counterpart, Deep Seek Labs, in the Los Angeles fire exercise? We don’t know yet.

I had just left Scale AI in San Francisco and was heading to Catalina Island to follow the AI Whistleblower murder story of Suchir Balaji. During the last week of his life, Suchir had been accompanied on a backpacking trip on Catalina, by several AI experts, including one from Scale AI.

I was in Santa Monica investigating Scale AI and the activities of former True Car executives to be completely transparent, when the fire broke out. Coincidentally, Peter Duke and his wife Jessica sought refuge in Santa Monica in the extremely high winds after the evacuation order.

After the massive sign of the restaurant fell, I gave Peter and Jessica my hotel room in Beverley Hills and went to the fire refuge center in Westwood to spend the night.

Peter and I joked about the possibility of a “live exercise” that night, but we had no idea how right we would be the next day. After the night in the fire shelter, I learned President Joe Biden’s Air Force One had grounded all air assets for fighting the fire, and all fire units were outlining the burn perimeter, not fighting the Pacific Palisades fire.

Now, we have developed some connections between Scale AI, Deep Seek Labs, and the WEF; our investigation continues to gain traction on the real cause of the Pacific Palisades fires. And we have Garden Hose Guy as an example of courage and grit to show us the way.

I will be in Eagle, Idaho, at America’s Pub (Old State Saloon) on Tuesday, January 21st, the day after the Inauguration, to present my case for a controlled burn of the Pacific Palisades to “get the red out.”

I have had a busy month of appearances speaking about the murder of Suchir Balaji. It will be nice to shift gears to celebrate the Inauguration on the 20th this month at the Old State Saloon in Eagle, Idaho, and then get right back to the presentations on the 21st at the Old State Saloon the next evening.

And meet other fellow researchers and like-minded, freedom-loving individuals.

I will be presenting evidence showing the L.A. Fires and especially the Palisades, were a controlled burn.

Notes -

We have several leads that Luigi Mangione was impersonating Princeton AI expert Mark Rosario in San Francisco and Santa Monica, California, operating out of True Car offices maintained in both cities. Is Mangione the go-between for DoD and DARPA contractor Scale AI and Deep Seek Labs? We don’t know yet