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One Possible Explanation For The Ineffectual Lafd?
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Fire fighting seems to way down the list of their skill priorities.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.//Here are just some of the most glaring examples of the misgovernance of California which contributed to the catastrophe, in case your source of news brushes past them with feature stories of loss and nonsense about climate change. (Average annual rainfall in California has remained unchanged since the late 19th century and California has not been in drought conditions since 2022. Sometimes it does rain in California. Sometimes it does not. Therefore, particularly wise management of water resources is necessary and that has been ignored.) It has not created or maintained existing water reservoirs, it has not created fire breaks, it has forbidden the removal of dry brush in its forests. The people holding elective office have demonstrated indifference and incompetence to the citizens of the state. A week before the fires broke out, a fire weather watch was declared. The mayor of Los Angeles Karen Bass (a long time Castro fan) left anyway for a junket in Ghana which hardly ranks among her job duties. Her deputy mayor for public safety was on leave after the FBI raided his home “allegedly for making a bomb threat against City Hall earlier this year.” On her very first day in office, the mayor allocated $1.3 billion to address homelessness and cut $17.6 million from the fire department. DEI has been a greater priority for her and her three female fire chiefs than preventing and responding to fires. The openly-stated philosophy motivating her priorities were that there were too many white male firefighters, and great efforts were made to force them out and not rehire any more of them (even though firefighters normally need the kind of upper body strength few females possess). In Pacific Palisades where the fire first broke out there is a reservoir capable of holding 117 million gallons of water. The LA Times first reported it was empty for repairs, but it has been empty since 2009. The generously paid water chief, ($750,000 p.a.) Janisse Quinones knew months before the fires that the reservoir was empty. She had to know as well that many of the fire hydrants were missing or empty.//
Clarice Feldman. American Thinker.
Now tell me ... If you were the Chief Exec. of an insurance company with liabilities heading into the $billions and $billions, would you be in a hurry to pay out? All these people in California voted for their "leaders" and willingly left themselves exposed to unreasonable risk. Now it is someone elses fault of course.
Here's the good bit TTT. In Cal.State they pay ongoing taxes based on the property value when the house is built. These rates remain the same rovided you rebuild your home within 2 years in the event of a fire destroying it. (They have always had fires in the area. Even when it was only inhabited by the Red Indian tribes) Now some of those properties have risen in value by 5 or 6 times over in the last few decades. To rebuild them will cost more than they paid originally if they can get the buildrers, and if they are rebuilt after the 2 year limit they will pay tavxes on the new value. Haha the luvvies out there are screaming blue murder.... but they voted for it.
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