LA Fire Department's DEI Obsession Comes to Light as Devastating Wildfire Rages

Western Journal via MSN ^ | 1/8/25 | Michael Schwarz

[DallasBiff]

The woke left's coordinated assault on merit stems from a nihilistic desire -- metaphorically speaking -- to watch the world burn.

Thus, ironically, the wildfires raging in southern California might represent that desire's literal realization.

Wednesday on the social media platform X, "Libs of TikTok," a prominent conservative account with more than 3.9 million followers, called attention to the Los Angeles Fire Department's "racial equity plan," part of the department's broader obsession with diversity, equity, and inclusion policies that, by definition, de-emphasize job-related competence

[DallasBiff]

To the radical democrat leaders, it's DEI uber alles, even while LA burns.

[No name given]

That’s how depraved they are.

[Angelino97]

Mayor Garcetti Announces Launch of the First-Ever LAFD Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Bureau .

[Texas Eagle]

Go woke. Go up in smoke.

copyright!

[coloradan]

I was just thinking: Go woke, Get smoked.

[Ikeon]

DeI, Darkest, Entity, imaginable

[grey_whiskers]

You have seen that the firefighters are now reduced to filling purses up with water to throw on the fire?

[gundog]

[rottweiller_inc]

What they are missing is a group of self-proclaimed witches chanting at the fire.

[TalBlack]

Hey, they get to declare an emergency and claim all sorts of Kingly powers. Their ability to dictate is now absolute.

[wildcard_redneck]

"You have seen that the firefighters are now reduced to filling purses up with water to throw on the fire?"

I saw it. It was tragic and ludicrous at the same time.

[No name given]

Indeed.

[Frank Drebin]

Here ya go...

[rottweiller_inc]

Scare the fire! good strategy.

[jeffersondem]

Fire now contained on south by Mexico; on the west by the Pacific; on the east largely by the continental USA; on the north by the entire state of Canada.

[Billthedrill]

Nor would anyone suggest that additional white male firefighters, on account of their whiteness and maleness, would extinguish these fires.

Whiteness, no. Maleness, yes. But the crucial part is "additional" no matter what they look like.

[faucetman]

Why all the obsession with the California wild fires?

Its not like its a “natural” disaster. Its MAN MADE by omission, all the things they DIDN”T DO to prevent/minimize their impact.

It would be like not cleaning your chimney and freaking out over a chimney fire that burned your house down.

CLEAR THE UNDERBRUSH. BUILD FIRE ROADS. BUILD FIRE BREAKS (Log portions of land to create them). MAKE SURE YOU HAVE WATER AT ALL FIRE HYDRANTS.

But we can’t afford it! Why are you building the $310 billion high-speed rail project? And all the other Liberal NONSENSE you WASTE all your money on. DEI?

Fighting wildfires without these things being done is a JOKE! Risking lives, equipment, planes helicopters, chemicals by the planeload.

Don’t “FEEL” sorry for the rich people who lost their homes. What did they do to PREVENT this? VOTE DEMOCRAT? Yep.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

It's a Lefty obsession, but money plays an enormous part of this ---

Notice the salaries,"other pay," and benefits for these "public servants."

LA County "public servants" and their "servant" total pay and benefits, topping out to $1,355,367.00 a year.....

2023 salaries for Los Angeles County

Then a peek to the Fire Captain category and its total pay and benefits, with the champ being $906,160.84 a year --

"Fire Captain" search results

LA Fire & Police Pensions managers, to sit on a board tops out at $515,355.03 a year....

Pension managers

The problem is FAR BIGGER than merely a historic, devastating fire. It is the three-alarm fiscal fire of politics gone wild.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Those lesbian bureaucrats are laughing all the way to the bank,

Screw the taxpayers....

[Pollard]

The pride pervs think this thing did just fine.