
Lewis Kamb
Investigative Reporter at U.S. Right to Know
Nat’l #FOIA Reporter @NBCNews Past: @axios, @seattletimes, Seattle P-I, @thenewstribune, @phillyinquirer I ❤ the #PNW🏂 + public records 📑
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2 weeks ago |
usrtk.org | Lewis Kamb
By Karolina Corin and Lewis KambAn analysis by the U.S. Defense Department’s intelligence agency concluded five years ago that the virus that caused COVID-19 could have been engineered in a Chinese laboratory and later escaped to spawn the pandemic that eventually killed millions of people, recently released documents obtained by US Right to Know show.
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Jan 21, 2025 |
rsn.org | Evan Bush |Lewis Kamb
Why firefighting was no match for a California disaster decades in the making. There’s a hard math behind the Los Angeles-area firestorm: When a two-story house is on fire under normal circumstances, three engines and a minimum of 16 crew members are generally dispatched. But as Pacific Palisades homes began to catch fire on Jan.
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Jan 19, 2025 |
telemundo52.com | Evan Bush |Lewis Kamb
Hay una matemática complicada detrás de la tormenta de fuego en el área de Los Ángeles: cuando una casa de dos pisos se incendia en circunstancias normales, generalmente se envían tres motores y un mínimo de 16 miembros de la tripulación.
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Jan 19, 2025 |
nbcnews.com | Evan Bush |Lewis Kamb
There’s a hard math behind the Los Angeles-area firestorm: When a two-story house is on fire under normal circumstances, three engines and a minimum of 16 crew members are generally dispatched. But as Pacific Palisades homes began to catch fire on Jan. 7, “there were probably at least, within the first two hours, 100 structures fully involved,” said Jack Cohen, a research scientist who spent decades studying fire dynamics with the U.S. Forest Service.
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Jan 14, 2025 |
rsn.org | Evan Bush |Lewis Kamb |Adiel Kaplan
The blazes are the result of a combination of suburban sprawl in fire-prone areas, fierce Santa Ana winds, dry conditions fueled by climate change and the limits of firefighting. For the Los Angeles area, the recent string of wildfires represents a worst-case scenario — unusually powerful and prolonged Santa Ana winds struck after months without significant rain.
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Always nice to see State Department staffers discuss how the documents we’ve #FOIA’d have been “redacted into oblivion…” https://t.co/Rvsf596sYl

Scoop: Via a #FOIA lawsuit, we obtained the US Defense Intelligence Agency’s classified analysis from 2020 about how COVID pandemic started The scientific assessment breaks down how the virus could’ve been engineered at the Wuhan’s Institute of Virology https://t.co/5VjgqQqpMl

RT @garyruskin: US intelligence agency’s classified analysis offers detailed scientific view that COVID-19 may have come from Wuhan lab Via…