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Los Angeles County Failed to Test Hydrants Days Ago Citing Budget Concerns
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Posted on 01/09/2025 5:29:24 PM PST by TigerClaws

Holy cr*p. LAFD reportedly canceled their annual fire hydrant testing a few weeks ago citing “fiscal challenges.”

But they have enough money for an LAFD DEI Bureau and DEI chief.

Unbelievable. Quote

Max Bonilla @outragedteen_ · 9h Any reason why Los Angeles County failed to test their fire hydrants a week before this fire started?

The Notice:

TEMPORARY SUSPENSION OF ANNUAL HYDRANT TESTING FOR FISCAL YEAR 2024/2025

Tuesday, December 24, 2024 - 08:30:00 In consideration of the Department's current operational and fiscal challenges, the annual hydrant testing scheduled for the beginning of this year will be temporarily suspended. This decision reflects the need to prioritize safety, resource allocation, and emergency response


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; cawildfires; firehydrants; hydrants; lafail; lafd; travesty; water
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1 posted on 01/09/2025 5:29:24 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

So when does someone get indicted?

Or, who will be first?


2 posted on 01/09/2025 5:31:36 PM PST by OKSooner (Always remember to say "After the fair trial".)
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To: TigerClaws

Fiscal challenges. That’s what happens when Bass cuts the fire department budget by 17 million dollars and at the same time pays 3/4 of a million dollars for a fat lesbian fire cheif.


3 posted on 01/09/2025 5:34:09 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Climate Change is Real. Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall.)
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4 posted on 01/09/2025 5:37:09 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: TigerClaws

Not all hydrants are equal.

Color indicates flow and pressure. Water main size has a huge influence on a hydrant’s capacity. Where a hydrant is located also affects its flow.

When there is a huge demand like this, there is always reduced flow and pressure and some hydrants won’t be functional.

Add to that people leaving sprinklers on to protect their property and there may be no pressure or flow.

Add on top of that hundreds of homes burned and their water systems open and it’s game over for water supply.

There doesn’t have to be anything nefarious or negligent for there to be no water. It happens on a lot of fires.


5 posted on 01/09/2025 5:41:15 PM PST by rey
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To: TigerClaws

Always trust Democrats to competently fill elected officials’ slots!


6 posted on 01/09/2025 5:42:46 PM PST by ABStrauss (I miss Rush!)
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To: OKSooner

Maybe I’m toocynical, but if the hydrants were tested and failed, they wouldn’t be fixed anyway. California is broken.


7 posted on 01/09/2025 5:45:07 PM PST by cornfedcowboy ( )
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Meanwhile, Weather Channel shows an apparent corpse.

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8 posted on 01/09/2025 5:46:08 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: rey

They mentioned that 4 millions gallons of water were filled in the tanks to prepare for the fires. It could be 500 million gallons, and it would have made very little difference.


9 posted on 01/09/2025 5:47:54 PM PST by cornfedcowboy ( )
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To: rey

That being common knowledge, you’d think someone would have contingencies.


10 posted on 01/09/2025 5:48:49 PM PST by griswold3 (Truth Beauty and Goodness)
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To: TigerClaws
Get used to it.

We are going to find a lot more burned alive people before this is all said and done.

And it's going to be LOT harder to cover up than it was in Hawaii fire were a huge number of people “went on vacation” just before the fire and never heard from again. .

11 posted on 01/09/2025 5:50:16 PM PST by rdcbn1 (TV )
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Weather Channel now says that wasn’t a person.

!!

Unless it was a Halloween decoration … sure looked like a human skeleton to me.


12 posted on 01/09/2025 5:52:10 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

Of course that’s what they’re going to say.


13 posted on 01/09/2025 5:53:57 PM PST by OKSooner (Always remember to say "After the fair trial".)
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To: TigerClaws

Cost of testing hydrants -—a few tens of thousands or so, probably.

Current updated insured losses of the fire damage: $50 Billion and going higher.


14 posted on 01/09/2025 5:57:09 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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We had a firefighter using a purse yesterday to put out fires.

Now this!

Gunz
@TheGunzShow
We have people dumping almond milk to help fight the fires because there’s not enough water available in Los Angeles.

(By the way it takes 1.1 gallons of water to create a single almond and 3 gallons of water for an 8 ounce glass of almond milk.

https://x.com/TheGunzShow/status/1877393631373328421


15 posted on 01/09/2025 5:58:41 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

Maybe if TPTB hadn’t fired 100 firemen for refusing the vax, this task might’ve been handled. Just sayin’...


16 posted on 01/09/2025 5:59:35 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: cornfedcowboy

Agree.

City of Detroit had many square miles of total darkness outside. Thieves had stolen the copper wiring from many hundreds of streetlight poles and transformers and the city didn’t spend the money to replace them. Years later they made projects of doing it and patted themselves on the back for it.


17 posted on 01/09/2025 6:00:00 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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Wow! Biden let slip what happened.

No plan to have, say, generators? Are wildfires not expected??

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14268623/biden-reveals-reason-la-fire-hydrants-dry-gavin-newsom-karen-bass-criticism.html

Amid furore from critics saying that water was unavailable to fire crews, Biden explained that the problems were self-inflicted to avoid further fanning the flames.

‘What I know from talking to the governor, there are concerns out there that there’s also been a water shortage,’ he said in a press briefing Thursday.

‘The fact is the utilities, understandably, shut off power because they are worried the lines that carried energy were going to be blown down and spark additional fires.

‘When it did that, it cut off the ability to generate pumping the water, that’s what caused the lack of water in these hydrants.


18 posted on 01/09/2025 6:01:39 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: rey

Yes. I posted similar information yesterday. There are lots of factors that affect water distribution systems in general, but demand beyond the peak system design capacity has never been a consideration in any comprehensive water system plans I have been involved with.

Its not practical or financially feasible


19 posted on 01/09/2025 6:05:50 PM PST by shotgun
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To: TigerClaws

The rib cage was definitely human.


20 posted on 01/09/2025 6:08:08 PM PST by doc maverick
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