Sacramento bureaucrats held up a fire department strike team of 60 firetrucks from Oregon. The truck teams were sent to help contain the Los Angeles fires and stopped for emissions testing since they didn’t have smog certificates.
Therefore, as LA burned, the fire trucks went through smog testing.
“Update from our EF&R strike team leader – crews are going through inspection in Davis, California. They have been assigned to the #PalisadeFire, which is currently 6% contained. Safe travels to our team! #CaliforniaWildfires #wafirefighters”
Meanwhile, according to the Bend Bulletin, the strike teams were stopped in the Sacramento area before arriving in Southern California to complete mandatory vehicle safety checks. Oregon State Fire Marshal agency administrator Ian Yocum described the safety checks as a “critical” part of the mission.
Yocum said, “With moving this amount of equipment and firefighters, safety has to be our highest priority.”
They didn’t have smog certificates. However, LA was burning down.
Only eleven of them got going on Friday.
It seems dangerous to set emissions testing as a priority when the country is going through one of the worst disasters in its history.
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Therefore, as LA burned, the fire trucks went through smog testing.
Santa Monica Observer posted:
“I just heard from my brother,” tweets Parker Caldwell, “a firefighter in Central Oregon, that the 60 firetrucks the state sent to support the LA fires are being held up in Sacramento for ’emissions testing.’ They likely won’t pass inspection and won’t be able to help… What a joke.”“Update from our EF&R strike team leader – crews are going through inspection in Davis, California. They have been assigned to the #PalisadeFire, which is currently 6% contained. Safe travels to our team! #CaliforniaWildfires #wafirefighters”
Meanwhile, according to the Bend Bulletin, the strike teams were stopped in the Sacramento area before arriving in Southern California to complete mandatory vehicle safety checks. Oregon State Fire Marshal agency administrator Ian Yocum described the safety checks as a “critical” part of the mission.
Yocum said, “With moving this amount of equipment and firefighters, safety has to be our highest priority.”
They didn’t have smog certificates. However, LA was burning down.
Only eleven of them got going on Friday.
It seems dangerous to set emissions testing as a priority when the country is going through one of the worst disasters in its history.
Fire Trucks Held Up for Smog Tests as LA Burns
A fire Department strike team of 60 firetrucks from Oregon to help contain the Los Angeles fires were held up in Sacramento for emissions
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