Opinion California on fire

[ShadowRun]

 

[Scerpi]

So then who is at fault for burning down Los Angeles? Climate Change? Aliens? Sponge Bob?

California got millions of dollars to fight fires and basic fire fighter stuff like having water Is not there. I am not a professional fire fighter by trade, but realize that having water in a dry climate might be a good idea. So if the money is not going to gay choir practice, where is the money going to? Because literally nothing was done. Canada and Mexico are doing more.

The fact is, every penny of that budget was wasted because California has no resources to fight these fires. Maybe you are right, only a little bit of the budget wad wasted on gay choir practice, but the entire surplus was wasted. This shows you that DEI candidates might fit well into Disney, but not the real world.

lol... you can't argue with lefties. If they're know they're wrong... there's two cards they play and jam their head in the sand

It's either
- Racism
- Climate Change

It's amazing how Climate Change is responsible for everything... lol. Like its a recent phenomenon and humans haven't been around for 10,000 years.

I live off Galveston Bay and my house should be underwater by now.... according to Al Gore and Greta... lol

 

[chardog]

No shit... My mom was visiting for the 4th this summer and when the storm started looking like it was going to hit, I got her on a early flight out of here.

We were both driving around Seabrook/Kemah/Clear Lake... noting how many trees were overhanging power lines.

Centerpoint was supposed to be trimming these trees and keeping the lines clear. If you don't keep trees trimmed around here, mother nature will do it for you. I had a neighbor where a tree took out part of the house.

I was without power for 6 days after that storm... sucked.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investigations/article/centerpoint-tree-management-budget-puc-19597392.php

I have an awesome queen palm tree that's has grown from about 15' in 2005 to almost 40' now... I've been eying it recently and debating getting it taking down. It would break my heart if i do. But I also don't want it taking out my house or a neighbor's house.

those palms are massive fire hazards

 

[Andy Capp]

here's a very interesting story:

elderly couple protect their property, however, it was a gigantic place to protect and only two people. One of the sides was naturally protected by oak trees planted by the owner. They have experience in this matter, stretching back to 78' fires, they knew what was going on and have prep work. It turns out that oak trees retain a lot of water while alive, and dont easily catch on fire, and indeed, it was the oak trees that kept their hillside safe. the video dedicated a whole 2 seconds on the oak trees, but very interesting tidbit on future prevention measures using brains and knowledge.

Well then, fuck Newsome. Why didn't he go back in time when the fires started and plant a bunch of oak trees 40 years ago? What a fucking asshole. He should be in prison.

 

[Scerpi]

those palms are massive fire hazards

lol... Dude. We have palm trees everywhere.

Do you even know how much rain we get a year in Houston? Fire isn't much of an issue here. Yes, it happens but to call palm trees a massive fire hazard here in Houston is hyperbole. We're not California where Houston can get more rain in a day than Los Angeles gets all year.

I mean... good luck climbing my palm tree to get set it on fire I guess. Not sure else it would catch on fire.

 

[AfroBanana]

How is this clown a moderator?

Has a Harvard degree in forum moderating, an internship modding on Reddit, and 8 years experience on lipstick alley forums as chief executive moderator. Is not a DEI hire as your suggesting because of blue hair and lgbtq affiliations.

 

[MacGregor]

 

[Croo67]

Liberals love to prattle on about 'climate change', but rarely do you see them taking action to combat this seemingly imminent nuclear threat - they all still drive about, go on holidays, use oil-based products etc etc.

It's almost as if this is just yet another message that their submissive, low-testosterone-fuelled selves parrot.

 

[Michaelangelo]

That billionaire couple owns a 500 billion gallon reservoir of water. What a crock of shit. Could give 5 million people water for a full year with that much access.

 

[Belaya Smert]

 

[Substance Abuse]

 

[Scerpi]

Can you fathom how stupid climate change deniers are to blame this on arson and deliberate unpreparedness?

Oh...... Here we go. This fire has Democrat failure written all over it.

The response time for the Palisade Fire was 45 minutes. And they knew the winds would cause high likelyhood of fires. How were more firetrucks and firemen not on standby. I mean, when hurricanes are incoming, the power companies stage a huge number linemen, power poles and trucks to be ready to go after the storm passes.

How in the fuck was the response time 45 minutes. It should be been minutes.

FIRE RESPONSE TIME | fems

Fire response time performance measurements evaluate “response time” by FEMS emergency vehicles to Fire (G2) Class 3 (C3) “structure fire” incidents (please click here for an explanation of FEMS call types). “Highest Priority” Fire calls (C3) are considered “very time sensitive” and “immediately...

fems.dc.gov

NFPA Standard 1710 establishes an 80 second “turnout time” and 240 second “travel time” (together, 320 seconds or 5 minutes and 20 seconds “response time”) benchmark time goal for not less than 90% of dispatched incidents (please click here and refer to Page 29 for a detailed description). The FEMS KPI measure for this benchmark time goal is the “percentage of structure fire calls when a first responding fire engine arrived in 5 minutes 20 seconds or less.”

Unfortunately, this fire is a series of multiple Democrat fuck ups that are going to lead to the worst fire in terms of damage in US history.

Insufficent staffing, late response time, inadequate water supply... Uncontrolled fire






Prison time isn't too much to ask for some of these Government Officials.

These people earn $300k on the low end... and almost $1 million on the high end.

And what the fuck are they doing? DEI initiatives?

L.A. fire officials could have put engines in the Palisades before the fire broke out. They didn’t​

L.A. fire officials could have put engines in the Palisades before the fire broke out. They didn't

Fire officials made the critical decision to forgo calling in scores of extra firefighters and equipment in the hours before the fire, according to internal documents reviewed by The Times.

www.latimes.com

LAFD bosses sent just 5 fire engines to Palisades Fire — while holding back 1,000 firefighters and 35 trucks in critical first hours​

LAFD bosses sent just 5 fire engines to Palisades Fire — while holding back 1,000 firefighters and 35 trucks in critical first hours

Los Angeles fire bosses deployed a just fraction of its firefighters and trucks to the deadly Palisades Fire until it was already out of control — sending just five the 40 available fire engines an…

nypost.com

Los Angeles fire bosses deployed just a fraction of its firefighters and trucks to the deadly Palisades Fire until it was already out of control — sending just five of the 40 available fire engines and holding back 1,000 firefighters, according to a damning new report.

The critical decisions — blasted by experts and ex-fire chiefs as a spate of “missteps” — were made even as extreme warnings were coming in about life-threatening winds that turned the blaze into the most destructive in Los Angeles history.

“You would have had a better chance to get a better result if you deployed those engines,” former LAFD Battalion Chief Rick Crawford told the Los Angeles Times.

“You give yourself the best chance to minimize how big the fire could get. … If you do that, you have the ability to say, ‘I threw everything at it at the outset.’”

That didn’t happen here,” he continued, adding the choices were part of a “domino effect of missteps” by officials.

 

[Scerpi]

Man... Old Bill sure has drank the LA Cool Aid

Just wait a bit, his fans on the MMP will barrage him with emails after this. I still like him... always have. Don't like his politics at times, but still like him anyway.

He had to fight off the emails during COVID... He was a double mask advocate. lol

And he'll be fighting them off for the fires for a couples months after this.

 

[Croo67]

Yeah, the organisation which put out 'content' in which firewomen - dressed as men - said that people shouldn't worry whether or not they have the physical capability to lift a man out of a burning building, because it's the man's fault for being in a burning building in the first place.

 

[LeonardoBjj]

The libs are tying to turn these fires into an anti-Trump campain. It’s always so predictable with the left.

yup

- I dont see how Trump has anything to do with that. Thjose fires were the theme of a 2000 Weezer song!
Were the theme of a 1997 action movie.

 

[LeonardoBjj]

My god, do progressives live in the real world?



I know of at least one poster who would agree with her… Starts with a L

- Dude. I've met several prisioners in my life. And i can see the evil on the eyes of that thing. That souless that i've thankfully never had to deal with!

 

[avenue94]

So then who is at fault for burning down Los Angeles? Climate Change? Aliens? Sponge Bob?

California got millions of dollars to fight fires and basic fire fighter stuff like having water Is not there. I am not a professional fire fighter by trade, but realize that having water in a dry climate might be a good idea. So if the money is not going to gay choir practice, where is the money going to? Because literally nothing was done. Canada and Mexico are doing more.

The fact is, every penny of that budget was wasted because California has no resources to fight these fires. Maybe you are right, only a little bit of the budget wad wasted on gay choir practice, but the entire surplus was wasted. This shows you that DEI candidates might fit well into Disney, but not the real world.

Climate change, decades long underfundeing of firefighting and infrastructure, people living in areas that are disaster prone, etc. There's no one easy answer or cause.

You don't seem to understand, there was no stopping water pressure from dropping in the Palisades, it's impossible for that kind of infrastructure to sustain during that bad of a wildfire.

 

[SRN]

Yeah, the organisation which put out 'content' in which firewomen - dressed as men - said that people shouldn't worry whether or not they have the physical capability to lift a man out of a burning building, because it's the man's fault for being in a burning building in the first place.

It’s the third time I’ve heard this mentioned today, and I still can’t believe she actually said that. I mean, I heard it with my own ears, saw it with my own eyes but I still can’t fucking believe it. It really is a clown world.

 

[LeonardoBjj]

Come on cd, the benefit from dei hiring has been recently seen in the LA Fire Department.

BTW, that's only if ya think benefit means "detriment to functional performance"

- Put four of those firefighter on a Agusta Westland CH-149 Cormorant , and the chopper wondt left the ground!

 

[Osculater]