Posted on 01/10/2025 3:13:34 PM PST by Morgana
The $750,000-a-year LA water czar is responsible for a raft of failures that contributed to the devastating Palisades Fire, fire department insiders told DailyMail.com.
On Mayor Karen Bass's orders, the city maxed out its budget to 'attract private-sector talent', hiring Department of Water and Power (LADWP) CEO Janisse Quiñones on a $750,000 salary in May – almost double that of her predecessor.
Now, Quiñones is being blamed by LA Fire Department (LAFD) insiders for leaving a nearby reservoir disconnected and fire hydrants broken for months, DailyMail.com can reveal, leading to firefighters running out of water as they battled the devastating Palisades Fire this week.
And, Daily Mail.com has learned, Quiñones past employer is also linked to fire scandals. She was previously a top executive at electricity company PG&E, which went bankrupt over liability for several massive wildfires in California.
She served as senior vice president at Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) from 2021 to 2023.
The utility company's power lines sparked the second-largest wildfire in California history, Dixie, in 2021. Its involvement in the 2018 Camp Fire cost PG&E a $13.5billion legal settlement.
The firm's liability for allegedly causing fires was estimated at $30billion when it filed for bankruptcy in 2018. It exited bankruptcy in 2020.
Quiñones joined PG&E in April 2021 as Senior Vice President of Gas Engineering, switched to Senior Vice President of Electric Operations in July 2022, and left the firm in December 2023.
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She won’t be fired. They’ll win from this. More federal funding. More taxes.
The reasonable voters -35% for Trump in that area - will take their insurance money and run. Win for them.
The President of the United States makes 400,000 a year in salary. If we want lousy government, we should at least not overpay for it.
Government as we enjoy it today, only rewards failure and ineptitude. Big rewards are coming to the area bureaucrats and officials. High fives all around.
Well private industry salaries should also include private industry liability to suit for gross negligence.
Damned incompetent and totally useless DEI hires. Quiñones was at PG&E for only 30 MONTHS, one year in gas and and 18 months in electricity which she grossly fouled up. Then she got bumped up to the CEO job at LADWP at $750 thou per year, DOUBLE her predecessor.
Well, the chickens came home to the DEI coop to roost. Now they are crapping everywhere, laying eggs all the time, and there is nobody competent to fix the messed up coop. Then the coop caught on fire.
bttt
She was making $15,000. a week. Twice what the President makes.
Involuntary Manslaughter
Yeah, but she probably doesn’t make nearly as much in graft as Biden does.
She worked for the power company before this that was found st fault for another one of the wildfires. Failure to maintain lines.
dykes hold water at bay...
She would run for President but she cannot afford the paycut.
I see hollywood didn’t have to travel far to get inspiration for The Alien movie franchise.
> She won’t be fired. <
None of them will be fired. And none of them will resign. If anything, once things settle down performance bonuses will be quietly handed out.
Oh, wait. Maybe a low-level peon will be fired for turning in a fire hydrant report one day late. After all, someone must pay for this disaster.
do these fires seems sort of premeditated, like the fires in Lahaina or am I just imagining some level of conspiracy? You decide.
I swear, if it wasn’t for UK daily mail… I probably wouldn’t know 70% of the stuff that goes on in our own country (or at least until days later)
I don't think so (at least, I hope not).
I think the LA fires might be the straws that break the DEI camal's back.
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