Posted on 11/13/2023 8:52:31 PM PST by backpacker_c
At 3:30 p.m. Monday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass participated in a press conference to discuss the blaze that has crippled the downtown commute for hundreds of thousands of Angelenos.
Newsom began the press conference by describing the fire as being set with “malice intent,” saying the fire burned within the fence line and appeared to be an act of arson.
Newsom had previously said that the area was being leased by a company that the state knew well and was involved in active litigation with, adding that the lease had recently expired.
“The structural integrity of the deck appears to be much stronger than originally assessed,” Newsom said. “That does not mean that we are moving forward without consideration of a demo[lition].
However, it’s more than just the freeway deck that needs repairing, the governor said.
More than 100 columns were damaged, “nine or 10 quite severely,” Newsom said.
(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...
And the state and city are completely avoiding mentioning the homeless encampment as a possible source of the fire..
Yep, how long before the company releases security video of a group who may live under the freeway start the fire………
And the state and city are completely avoiding mentioning the homeless encampment as a possible source of the fire..
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Mayor Bass even said that there was no reason to think the homeless had anything to do with it.
“...describing the fire as being set with ‘malice intent’...”
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What an idiot. A person his age with his education, experience and upbringing should be able to speak properly. Proper diction would be “set with ‘malicious’ intent, not malice intent.
What an embarrassing dumbass.
The Watermelon Party:
”Green” on the outside
but RED on the inside!
Newsom had previously said that the area was being leased by a company that the state knew well and was involved in active litigation with, adding that the lease had recently expired.
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So, PG&E is off the hook for this one?
Don’t worry, it was friendly fire.
I’m sure it was just a sign of “resistance”
This incident, San Francisco’s everyday chaos, rats inside the walls of the LA police headquarters spreading typhus, sacrilegious “drag queens” being honored at a Dodgers game, drug-addicted transient camps everywhere, and even the world’s premier “family entertainment” company in Anaheim busily working to invent new ways of injecting cultural sewage into the minds of innocent children. California really is just one big garbage dump.
Figures. most of the fires are arson i’m guessing. wild fires set by people.
‘Stop Oil’ people?
Will ICE vehicles be allowed to use the new bridge?
My mother would’ve cringed at that use of English.
That fire was no accident.
And this is just a modified limited hangout.
Not to worry. His constituents are too stupid to know the difference. If they could at least speak English, that’d be a start.
“group who may live under the freeway ...”
Referred to in the article as “unhoused residents”
“That fire was no accident.”
I read a report yesterday that said that numerous explosions were heard.
MAYOR BASS==BASS-ACKWARDS
She doesn’t have the IQ of a garden snail.
THIS was a problem with the HOMELESS.....
L A has been pampering them for years.
She is lucky they only damaged a freeway-—and not a high rise apartment/office building.
The guy who leased the land under the freeway was illegally sub leasing to anyone like pallet storage, truck storage, many others for $1,000 to $4,000 a month.
He never paid Caltrans the money for his lease. It was over $600,000! Caltrans response was not to boot him out but to tell those sub leasing not to him...
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