Posted on 01/14/2025 3:16:02 AM PST by TigerClaws
OS ANGELES — It took LA firefighters at least 45 minutes to respond to the Pacific Palisades blaze when it broke out last week, according to records and local homeowners.
And by that time, around 11 a.m. on Jan. 7, it was too late; what was at first a large plume of smoke had grown to a 10-acre blaze.
By 11:30 a.m., firefighters were reporting the fire was 200 acres, aided by strong winds that carried embers as far as two miles.
Firefighters battling the Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles on Jan. 7, 2025. 10 Firefighters battling the Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles on Jan. 7, 2025. AP Photo/Ethan Swope
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Making matters worse, strong winds and very dry conditions allowed the fire to grow exponentially within a matter of hours.
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The LAFD did not respond to a request for comment on Monday.
Jan. 7:
10:15 a.m.: Pacific Palisades homeowner resident Michel Valentine sees smoke near the site of the Lochman Fire. His wife calls 911 to report the fire, according to the Washington Post. 10:33 a.m.: Firefighters report seeing smoke and say they must divert resources from the two other fires, according to radio traffic.
10:45 a.m.: Valentine calls 911 again, but gets a busy signal, according to the Washington Post. 10:48 a.m.: Firefighters warn in radio traffic that the fire is moving with the wind and has the potential to spread to 10 acres.
11 a.m.: The first firefighters arrive at the blaze. 11:28 a.m.: The fire grows to 200 acres, according to radio traffic. 11:30 to 11:45: Valentine sees the first fire trucks arrive in his own neighborhood.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Were they in a DEI training class?
When they finally showed up was he at least happy the crew on the truck had at least one lesbian?
Clearing brush. Fire lanes. Working hydrants. Those are just minor details. #1 priority = diversity. Gotta keep the eye on that ball.
And 15% of LAFD’s major equipment (fire engines, ladder trucks, ambulances) is down for maintenance. Massive deferred maintenance in the system per local TV news guy.
Re fire response taking 45 minutes:
Kamala to wildfire victims: “It’s critically important that, to the extent you can find anything that gives you an ability to be patient in this extremely dangerous and unprecedented crisis, that you do.”
https://x.com/RNCResearch/status/1878975875443749320
According to the story, the ATF is investigating the cause of the fire.
Can Trump ‘federalize’ fire management in California through an emergency proclamation? Get in there, clear the brush, save the billions of gallons in rainwater, fill up the reservoirs, and say, “Okay, you guys take it from here.”
This is like when you have a kid that’s 8 or 9 and you’re out for, say, a boat ride and the kid wants to drive. “I wanna drive, daddy!” And you say, “Sure, son, daughter, or too early to determine your 72 genders child. You drive. And they’re heading straight and touching the wheel keeping it going.
But then you see choppy waters, or another boat, or some danger and you say, “Now daddy’s got it.” And move them aside because you don’t want a child to kill you all.
We need to take the wheel and push these mental children aside to handle this.
The lesbians in charge of L.A. sort of did this - calling in Canada, Oregon, Mexico (all male) firefighters. The DEI training out the window. Let’s just get the job done.
So that’s what we as a nation need to do - just get the job done. Get some people who actually know what they’re doing and get the job done, please. Or the boat’s gonna crash.
/r
Still More #ComDem_Insanity!
Never try and catch a falling knife. Let Communist/sexual freakshow CA hit rock bottom first, then see how the surviving population deals with the Democrats. They may do nothing. If so, let them be.
And that’s after they sent all those hoses, etc., to Ukraine.
Hoses, turnout sets, you name it, lots of gear.
“Hit rock bottom” is right.
This is some bizarre addiction at play here with the native population. They’re addicted to saying, “My (fill in blank) is so diverse. My nanny is a transgender Guatemalan” for bonus points within their social circle they think that ‘checking the box stuff’ is what matters.
“My mayor is a black lesbian and we supported her... and the police chief is a lesbian, so aren’t I great?”
All fine and dandy until your house is on fire.
But these folks are stuck on stupid. That knife is gonna hit the floor and cut someone (24 already dead and dozens missing) and they’re blaming.... Climate Change!
Go check out Blue Sky (the place the real loons who left X have landed) and it’s climate change.
In a week everything — fires, famine, the sun shining too hot that day = Trump’s fault.
There’s no capacity to learn with leftists. They’re stuck on stupid and NYT, CNN, BBC, etc. will all push “The Narrative” predetermined by Media Matters and spin it all.
“You pay $50,000 a year in property tax in the Palisades. You expect a firetruck to show up within five minutes. You expect water in the hydrant. Well, we’re going to do a study...”
“It was 100 mile-an-hour winds. Yes, we’ve had those forever but you can’t expect...”
“When you criticize our black lesbian mayor and lesbian fire chief... isn’t this really about you being racist, sexist, and homophobic?” (You know that card is coming.)
I don’t think there is a rock bottom for people dumb as rocks.
“Can Trump ‘federalize’ fire management in California through an emergency proclamation?”
The EPA knows how to deal with polluters.
Lessons for Newsom and Bass will begin in days.
Agree with this, right here. What’s coming is they’re going to lose the land. The communities are now uninhabitable. They will all have to relocate and the tax base has gone up in flames. It’s as if these areas have been wiped off the map. They already came up with knee jerk responses as to cause and want only to deflect blame. Nothing will change except now they have to leave. The issue is they will migrate like locusts elsewhere and find a way to destroy their new homes.
Hope so.
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1879003401343918553
Meanwhile, here’s the mugshots of the looters. I’m concerned at the lack of female-identifying looters.
Can we get an initiative going here?
Because when people get looted, they feel more comfortable with looters that look like them.
Kamala is starting a bail fund for the perps like she did in the BLM riots. No? Not when they rob HER house? “Lock ‘em up,” she said. Got it.
According to witnesses: the LA Fire Dept was “busy”
when the Palisades Fire erupted. “No one came,”they complained
Course not, the lesbos were bar-hopping looking for some action
and the girly-firemen were busy applying eyeliner and lip gloss.
applause
OMG, these people watching their homes and everything
they own burn to a crisp `are so damned unreasonable.
What else do they want?
<><>they got a latino water chief making $750,000 plus a year.
<><>the LA Water Dept chief looks at fires thru an “equity lens.”
<><>they got a lesbian fire chief making an equitable $550,000 per year salary plus perks
<><>they got a fire company staffed with the best DEI hires money can buy
<><>they got knowledgeable DEI’s who know pronouns like nobody’s business
<><>they got a globe-trotting mayor who is an honorary citizen of a Third World hellhole
<><>they got a governor who says 23 dead, 10,000 bldgs in ashes is just “disinformation.”
And still they complain.
“The LAFD did not respond to a request for comment on Monday.”
Public Employee failure is the SOP, every day, at every opportunity.
And they publicly praise each other at every chance.
Watch the News Conferences.
No mention of the failures to protect the people.
Just excuses.
Public Employees are not your heroes.
Don’t fall for the propaganda.
And when in trouble what did the lesbians in charge do?
They called in real men from other states and countries. How many women and how ‘diverse’ are those Mexican firefighters?
Typical California. “Just hire a Mexican to do it.”
Then, be sure, once the fires are put out by the 99% white and Hispanic dudes the ladies will be doing a press conference to take a victory lap.
Implicit in the article is the thought that the fire department could have stopped the fire. The fact is, it was never possible.
The desert asserted a presence that the fire department was incapable of over coming
Busy checking to see if those people who need rescue look similar to them and would feel comfortable knowing we may understand them better because we are the same color, lesbian, transgender or gay
No, it was global warming.
Never mind not clearing brush, fire lines, fire road, dikes (not the kind running the department), live webcam feeds (UC Davis has this), hot spot monitors.
$800 per year for the LAFD. That buys a whole lotta diversity training.
Maybe a drone system that fights fire immediately using the drones before the firetrucks can even get there?
But... here comes L.A. 2.0!
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