For the last four years, this is what the LAFD has been focused on and not preparing for its mission. You're seeing the tragic results....but Trump >
Los Angeles On Fire
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Look, you actually need to provide evidence of poor decision making by the department, by the lesbian fire chief. That she had a resume unsuited for the job. That she was an unqualified hire. You have to provide evidence for all this.Absolutely incompetent and totally unprepared to fulfill its mission:
The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) committed significant resources to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives before the outbreak of massive fires that devastated the Los Angeles area overnight.
The LAFD has implemented an internal “racial equity plan,” subjected employees to diversity training and is currently led by Chief Kristin Crowley, “the first female and LGBTQ Fire Chief in the LAFD” and a staunch supporter of the initiatives. As strong winds fed the wildfires on Tuesday evening, former Republican Los Angeles mayoral candidate Rick Caruso reported that some fire hydrants were running low on water as the department scrambled to mobilize firefighters.
The department’s racial equity plan, adopted in 2021, asserts that the LAFD is a better firefighting organization for focusing on the demographic characteristics of its personnel.
“The strength of any organization rests in its greatest resource—its people; and LAFD leadership cannot accomplish any of the racial equity and inclusion goals without the employees to accomplish the work and embrace the vision while being guided by competent leadership,” the LAFD racial equity plan states. “It has been concluded and realized that the more talent, skills, perspectives, insight, knowledge, and abilities acquired through racial equity and inclusion, the stronger and more effective and competitive the organization has become.”
The LAFD evidently did not have adequate personnel on hand to mount an immediate and sufficient response to the devastating fires, indicated by the rare Tuesday night call to off-duty firefighters to report their availability. Some forecasts, including those issued by the National Interagency Fire Center and the California Office for Emergency Services, warned that Southern California was at high risk for serious fires before Tuesday’s events.
L.A. Fire Dept emphasized equity and now city burns under first female-LGBTQ command
By NICK POPE | DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) committed significant resources to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives before the outbreak of massive fires that devastated the Los Angeles area overnight. The LAFD has implemented an internal...mustreadalaska.com
The mere existence of DEI + bad fire doesn't prove anything. That's ****ing weak sauce my friend.
DEI at its worst could lead to a raft of incompetent hires, but it can also -- and often only is -- a meaningless bit of training and preaching that doesn't amount to anything. (just an annoyance or bit of stupidity for some people)
What evidence do you have that LA hasn't been preparing for fires or doing what you might normally expect a fire department to do?
Again, if you're phucking around with the bullshit in that document, you're not training for the mission and you are also defeating the morale of those who don't want to be forced into buying into that bullshit!
Guy, quit trying to have a real conversation with him.
Oh come on. How much time does that shit really require? Corporations and governments regularly have stupid bits of training and initiatives that eat up an hour or two of your time every 6 months or whatever. Do I think they're useful a lot of times? No. But they're not giant time eaters and minor annoyances.
I'm going to criticize the LA fire department when I see that it failed to do what it usually did, what fire departments usually do in general, to stay ready to fight fires.
That they had spend some time on DEI training BS doesn't move the needle for me.
The bigger issue is that there simply isn’t a reinsurance market for these areas. Same with Forida.
This was less of a problem in the past because low interest rates allowed for a robust Insurance-Linked Securities market. That’s no longer the case.
I’ll add that big data has absolutely screwed people by helping insurers drop customers based on conditions.
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Rs, and especially Trump, need to stfu right now. This is a massive wildfire. Pretending that a few more hydrants could stop it is insane. This is why Trump is bad for us. Natural disasters hit and he is out trolling dead Americans.
Regardless, I doubt +50 million or -17 million onto a budget of approx 830million for the fire department really affected the outcome that much.
Red meat for his brain dead base is more important than using his charismatic gifts to be a statesman and leader. He is a POS like the people who support him.
Gotta be honest. I place the blame on his supporters. He's just one criminal POS who decided to run for president. Rs could have chosen anyone else. But they chose him. By himself Trump is just one elderly man with limited intelligence and severe impulse control problems. It's only because people put up with his bullshit that he has any power.
I really do feel for CA. Like I said, I believe devastating fires are going to become more common everywhere.
I recall a few afternoons last fall in eastern Iowa with the winds really whipping and a red flag warning even out for one of them…as civilization encroaches further into agriculture…someday we will have an extreme event where a field catches, and it jumps into the subdivision too quickly and half the town goes up.
I recall a few afternoons last fall in eastern Iowa with the winds really whipping and a red flag warning even out for one of them…as civilization encroaches further into agriculture…someday we will have an extreme event where a field catches, and it jumps into the subdivision too quickly and half the town goes up.
UNPOSSIBLE
Trad informed us that these "re-insurers" were just price gouging...
(I de-pants'd him in whatever previous thread on FL hurricanes that was months - or years - ago)
With 100 mph winds?
Not gonna happen. Embers blow too far, too fast.
Again: I lived in San Diego during their major fires. Had those come into the canyon connected to my neighborhood, our whole neighborhood was going to go up in smoke.
I currently live in Colorado close to where the Marshall Fire took out an entire neighborhood with 80-100 mph winds; I have a friend who worked for the City of Louisville and she shared videos of what they were dealing with as those fires swept into the city.
You are a colossal idiot in not understanding how any of this works.
Trump will be your daddy for 4 years starting on 20 January!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kewl.
But that does not alter the fact that the City of Los Angeles has no jurisdiction over the surrounding cities in LA County, nor any of their FDs.
Re-insurance itself is a terrible business. The value is almost entirely in the data. That’s why large insurance brokerages have bought up Re’s recently.
Twenty-year study confirms California forests are healthier when burned — or thinned - Berkeley News
UC Berkeley researchers found that prescribed burning, restoration thinning can reduce wildfire risk and boost a forest’s resilience to climate change. And, using any combination of these treatments is far better than doing nothing.
news.berkeley.edu
Twenty-year study confirms California forests are healthier when burned — or thinned - Berkeley News
UC Berkeley researchers found that prescribed burning, restoration thinning can reduce wildfire risk and boost a forest’s resilience to climate change. And, using any combination of these treatments is far better than doing nothing.
news.berkeley.edu
California: Let’s Stop Making Wildfire History
Fires in California continue to set new records for the “largest,” “most damaging,” “worst air quality” and “most costly” we’ve ever seen.
www.nature.org
Unfortunately California still hasn’t fully implemented the recommended remedy’s
Adam Corolla could have stopped them.
JFC........no wonder you've been divorced 18 times! 🤡
Yet again taking no responsibility. Shocking.
I haven't been this pissed off at Trump in quite a while. Fires are consuming entire neighborhoods. Cali looks like a hellscape. The videos are shocking in their magnitude.
And Trump spreads lies and plays politics in the most juvenile way possible. It's sickening what he's doing.
And Trump spreads lies and plays politics in the most juvenile way possible. It's sickening what he's doing.
The opposite of presidential. If he wants to be respected as a president by everyone he ought to act like one.
honestly huey, quantitatively, how could you possible tell?>
I just can't understand watching thousands of houses burn and deciding to call the governor of the state on fire "scum."
He's an incredibly small person emotionally. That was clear as soon as we saw him on stage amongst other republican candidates in 2016.
Depends what water storage refers to. If it's larger capacity tanks (that wouldn't have to be refilled so often) then that's the infrastructure issue.
It's an issue that, presumably, they've had forever.
Katy Tur in tears as she reports on the scene from Pacific Palisades.
It’s just not fair when celebrities have to suffer! 😢😢😢
It’s just not fair when celebrities have to suffer! 😢😢😢
Look who it's from.
