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Dozens of fire trucks waiting for repair while fires ravage LA
msn.com ^ | Perkin Amalaraj

Posted on 01/16/2025 6:54:23 AM PST by V_TWIN

Staggering images appears to show around 100 fire trucks sitting idly in a Los Angeles repair lot as fires ravage the city.

LA's fire chief Kristin Crowley told Jake Tapper on CNN: 'Over the last 3 years, we have been clear that the fire department needs help.'

She added that she has emphasized how 'understaffed, under-resourced, and underfunded the LAFD is', adding: 'I rang the bell that these additional cuts could be very very devastating for our ability to provide public safety.'


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To: subterfuge

Actually , under Current California Laws they would have to decline because it would be displacing a Public Employee Union Member.

This is why you must PAY to do community Service, to offset the Union Members Job you are doing.


21 posted on 01/16/2025 7:27:08 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: V_TWIN

This typical of all government run facilities so nothing new. Throwing money at it solves nothing if nothing changes.

You need leadership not overweight government managerial woke DEI lesbians in this particular case... or any leftist which in reality is the same thing in one form or another.

Anyone in a successful business would use the government as a model of what not to do.


22 posted on 01/16/2025 7:39:16 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: V_TWIN

I’m not buying the underfunded argument. Even with the cuts she made, she still had 819 million dollars at her disposal. I’m thinking there are too many people who are overpaid. Starting with the Fire Chiefs.


23 posted on 01/16/2025 7:41:13 AM PST by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves, and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: V_TWIN
Conservatives MAGA.

I just figured out the looney left equivalent...

MIGA = MAKE INCOMPETENCE GREAT AGAIN

24 posted on 01/16/2025 7:47:25 AM PST by anonsquared
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To: eyeamok

That figures. Unions suck btw.


25 posted on 01/16/2025 7:51:00 AM PST by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: V_TWIN
ive been pondering why dyed in the world libtard start being logical and real.

figured it out.

they are chameleons that change their color

so when their side gets a massive rejection

some of them change colors and side

so their breed can survive the purge

then they can start breeding ?( infiltrating) again

to survive and reinfect

so while i welcome their acts of penitence of constructive action

they are just lying in wait to screw everything up again

i still advocate giving them the ol left boot of fellowship out the never come back ever door.

fire her NOW.

put someone who can get the job done
cuz she hasnt .

. .

26 posted on 01/16/2025 7:52:01 AM PST by cuz1961
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To: V_TWIN

Is it a hundred, or dozens or a dozen that I see in the picture? How many firetrucks does LA have? There is always going to be a percent in the shop.


27 posted on 01/16/2025 7:52:25 AM PST by bgill
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To: bgill

They’re in for maintenance but they aren’t doing any maintenance on them......it’s just a place to park ‘em because the money for maintenance was redirected to the homeless.

Unbelievable right?


28 posted on 01/16/2025 7:56:45 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!ly)
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To: BipolarBob

Evidently LS doesn’t have enough butch dykes who know how to repair firetrucks.
I think the fire hoses are intimidating to them!


29 posted on 01/16/2025 7:59:08 AM PST by RedMonqey (!Trump, the once and future president!)
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To: V_TWIN

Many millennials are seeing these fires as democrat eco terrorism. Believe me the dry western states are taking notice.


30 posted on 01/16/2025 8:08:26 AM PST by cnsmom
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To: V_TWIN
Reminds one of the buses in the lot after Katrina. Of course, that was different...the Union drivers said "rescue" was not in their contract.

What's the real story about these trucks??

31 posted on 01/16/2025 8:08:28 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

See post 28


32 posted on 01/16/2025 8:15:14 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!ly)
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To: BipolarBob

And more lesbians named Kristin(en?) in administrative offices since thay can’t carry a victim from a burning building.


33 posted on 01/16/2025 8:18:08 AM PST by skr (1 Peter 1:15 - But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation)
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To: desertsolitaire

FIX THE FIRE TRUCKS NOW! Hire the men, get her done—use National Guard mechanics if you must. Buy more too. Need a plan to make sure this NEVER happens again. Get Fema in and tax breaks for the reconstruction NOW!


34 posted on 01/16/2025 8:21:44 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (. War is Hell, War IS a Crime.)
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To: V_TWIN

New Orleans school buses, anyone ?

< /sixtieth FReeper to make that connection .. lol >


35 posted on 01/16/2025 9:17:22 AM PST by tomkat
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To: tomkat

Still relevant! 😁


36 posted on 01/16/2025 9:25:08 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!ly)
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To: subterfuge

Unions suck btw.

***************

Some times a little sucking can feel good............


37 posted on 01/16/2025 9:33:03 AM PST by deport
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To: V_TWIN

Awaiting repairs ‘cause lesbians don’t go in for being a mechanic. Mechanics were let go preferentially because of sexual preferences; and ‘cause they refused to take the vax.

This is what hate and racism get for you. And, yes, DEI is all about racial hatred.


38 posted on 01/16/2025 12:03:13 PM PST by bobbo666
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To: BigFreakinToad

All the mechanics were white guys. Their waiting for the gays,trans, necrophiliacs to apply.


39 posted on 01/16/2025 2:24:16 PM PST by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: BigFreakinToad
Can’t find mechanics

Whitey need not apply.

40 posted on 01/16/2025 2:29:42 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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