Posted on 01/12/2025 12:54:42 PM PST by george76
The reservoir has been empty as of February of last year and no one told the fire department?
And the woman they promoted and pay 750,000 dollars per year to handle that has a job?
How?
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One of California's biggest scandals (among many) is the way, way overpaid State public employees and CalPERS.
It's outrageous and (related) why even FDR had a major issue with public employee unions.
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The Santa Ynez Reservoir for Pacific Palisades was dry since 2009...
How is this possible?
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Well, she is on her 4th job since 2018 so she’s hardly excelling at any of them. Seems her focus is always on diversity instead of her actual jobs.
The Sierra Club stopped it from coming on line.
When the fire hydrants were going dry the year before the fire department did not bother to figure out why? This is criminal negligence.
They need to move the responsibility for fire hydrant maintenance and the piping infrastructure that supports them to the fire department. One throat to choke. In fact the fire department should own and maintain its own reservoirs feeding the fire hydrants.
Criminal negligence. That’s what I posted yesterday. Someone or several someones need to be charged with it, and go to prison.
That salary + perks is obscene. Especially considering the less than stellar performance.
Maybe this is why State Farm insurance stopped insuring that area a few months ago. They knew there was no water in the reservoir and the fire hydrants were in disrepair.
LA water chief knew about empty reservoir, broken hydrants months before fires: Report
The National Desk ^ | 1/11/25
Posted on 1/11/2025, 6:25:27 PM by EBH
Los Angeles’ water chief reportedly knew about an empty reservoir and broken fire hydrants months before the deadly wildfires now spreading across the city that have left some communities in ashes.
The Daily Mail reports the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP) CEO Janisse Quiñones was hired by Mayor Karen Bass on a $750,000 salary in May.
Now, LA Fire Department insiders are blaming Quiñones for a nearby reservoir disconnection and broken fire hydrants, the outlet reports, claiming this has led to firefighters running out of water.
The Mail reports that Quiñones’ past employer was linked to fire scandals. Quiñones previously held a top executive role at electric company PG&E. The company previously went bankrupt over liability for several California wildfires, the outlet reports.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenationaldesk.com ...
Newscum has already started lying about this.
Financed by taxpayers, hired by Bass, Water Chief Janisse Quinones gets a $750,000 yearly salary the highest govt payout.
Probably also includes:
<><>bonuses, stipends, honorariums, gratuities
<><>incentive pay
<><>expense and charge accounts,
<><>discounted gift cards,
<><>paid transportation,
<><>housing allowance,
<><>Cadillac healthcare, life insurance,
<><>dental and vision insurance,
<><>paid sick days,
<><>paid time off
<><>paid vacation time
<><>paid holidays
<><>paid student tuition
<><>401(k) employer contributions
<><>startup pensions,
<><>retirement plans with city-paid rollovers, IRA transfers.
The nice thing about single-party rule is that those in it can get away with anything.
Plus huge back-up generators and fuel storage for pump power, and also large storage tanks up high in the hills for gravity feed.
But all this would never be allowed in Commiefornica.
Trump should give California the relief package Biden gave to North Carolina, and give Biden’s California package to North Carolina.
Seems only fair.
Well, nothing new in CA.
During 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, many fire hydrants turned out dry.
They were never connected to the water! The contractors just cheated a place dummy hydrants there.
this is a perfect example of the hatred of our country that our government produced through indoctrination in our education system in the disguise of “diversity equality inclusion”... aka “dei”...
trump made a brilliant move when he recruited musk to help make america great again...
Does the FD never do tests to check the hydrants for water and pressure levels? The fire chief should have had a regular schedule for every single hydrant to be checked for operability. From one end of the city to the other there should have been a data sheet that could be pulled up to tell when the last hydrant check occurred and the pressure level at that time. If the reservoir had been out of operation since last February, the FD should have known.
This is a total failure of leadership from the top down in every infrastructure and disaster related department. If they hadn’t been so focused on DIE and making sure a lesbian was in every job position, maybe someone could have created and performed such a systems check.
ONCE AGAIN I WILL ASK THE RELEVANT QUESTIONS:
Why the }{€££ are they not pumping water out of the PACIFIC OCEAN !?!?!?!?!? They have to have a spare pump or 10 and piping available (if not then why not ?) that can be connected to the existing water mains and use the salt water to put out the fires !!! If there’s any thing left to pump potable water to after the fires are put out then flush and “Burn” the Distribution System out and go back to normal supply of water. I don’t understand why they are not doing this OTHER THAN THE IDIOTS (NOT) IN CHARGE OF THE SITUATION ARE STUPIDER THAN STUPID...
DailyMail.com
Mayor Karen Bass ordered the city to max out its budget to ‘attract private-sector talent’
<><>Dept of Water and Power CEO Janisse Quiñones got a $750,000 salary and perks
<><>Quiñones pocketed almost double that of her predecessor.
<><>Quiñones, an engineer, left a nearby reservoir disconnected, and fire hydrants broken for months,
<><>Quinones’ left firefighters out of water as they battled the devastating Palisades Fire.
<><>Quinones’ serial failures abetted the inferno, fire dept insiders say.
No one should have to tell the firefighters (presuming they didn't know). The hallmark of being a firefighter is not to put your fate in the hands of others and unquestionably trust that other people outside your department are doing their job. You don't want lives or property lost because you depended on some incompetent person or agency. If they weren't already doing so, they should have sent someone to check the reservoir on a regular basis and if it was found to be unacceptably low, to squeal like a stuck pig to whoever is responsible for maintaining adequate levels and to keep records of all this.
.....did I mention that Orin Saunders, who is majoring in Cinema Studies “represents”
the Fire Chief at City Council meetings, and is paid a salary of $576,000 per annum?”.......
Ain’t DEI great? 750k The salaries are unbelievable.
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