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Fact Check: No, California Didn't Turn Away Fire Trucks From Oregon Over Smog Certification
Snopes ^ | January 13, 2025 | Nur Ibrahim Mon,

Posted on 01/14/2025 11:46:57 AM PST by cuz1961

"There is misinformation spreading on social media and from news outlets claiming our equipment had to pass emissions tests and our equipment and firefighters were turned away or delayed. TO BE CLEAR: THIS IS FALSE."

The statement added that trucks and strike teams traveled to Sacramento where they stayed over night, and on the morning of Jan. 9, they went through a routine safety check to make sure their........ engines were mechanically sound.

(Excerpt) Read more at snopes.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: california; chat; fakenews; firetruckslafire; snopes
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https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/programs/truck-and-bus-regulation

.....The Truck and Bus regulation has been in effect since December 2008, as of January 1, 2023, all diesel-powered vehicles operating in California, with a gross vehicle weight rating over 14,000 lbs. must have a 2010 or newer engine . .... .. .and emission system ( smog)..........

so...were those out of state fire trucks california emission compliant ? ( ca. smog compliant )

someone isnt being clear and its snopes imho.

beleive snopes over ca.gov ?

bwa ha ha ha.

1 posted on 01/14/2025 11:46:57 AM PST by cuz1961
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To: cuz1961

sac is hundreds of miles away from l.a.

and they WERE delayed a whole night.

id call that delayed.


2 posted on 01/14/2025 11:48:23 AM PST by cuz1961 (Isaiah 53:3)
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Even if not true, it is emblematic of the belief that the California government is actually a Dunciad


3 posted on 01/14/2025 11:50:01 AM PST by Fai Mao (The US government is run by pedophiles and Perverts for pedophiles and perverts.)
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To: cuz1961

In other words, yes, yes they did.


4 posted on 01/14/2025 11:52:38 AM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: cuz1961

Like a lot of stories that Snopes wants to shit-can, they are quibbling. The trucks had to go through some sort of “safety inspection,” which likely included an emissions inspection (even if just a visual). But because officials used the word “safety” and not “emissions” they get to call the whole story false.

They have more “Sea Lawyers” working at Snopes than the Navy has JAG officers.


5 posted on 01/14/2025 11:52:40 AM PST by Tallguy
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To: cuz1961

“they went through a routine safety check to make sure their........ engines were mechanically sound.”
Firemen would have done this before they took off from Oregon.
Snopes is BS.


6 posted on 01/14/2025 11:55:14 AM PST by doc maverick
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>> to make sure their... engines were mechanically sound

total BS — they were unnecessarily delayed despite making the journey from Oregon — same bureaucratic BS that led to the fires

“no he wasn’t shot in the back... total misinformation... he was shot in the front, jeez...”


7 posted on 01/14/2025 11:56:47 AM PST by Gene Eric
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To: cuz1961

Snopes is about as reliable as A California Water Reservoir...


8 posted on 01/14/2025 11:57:15 AM PST by EC Washington
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To: cuz1961

It wasn’t smog check it was safety (brake related) checks.


9 posted on 01/14/2025 11:58:22 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: cuz1961

Typical snopes double speak. The trucks were stopped and held pending Ca required inspections. How many houses burned while the trucks were stuck waiting for approval?


10 posted on 01/14/2025 11:58:45 AM PST by iamgalt
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To: doc maverick
They just drove ire tricks several hundred miles to fight the L.A Fires, they hit Sacramento.

California- hold my wine..

11 posted on 01/14/2025 11:58:51 AM PST by Ikeon ( Why don't they, do what they say? Say what they mean? One thing leads to another. )
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To: cuz1961
"they went through a routine safety check to make sure their........ engines were mechanically sound."

Oregon fire trucks are well known for their poor safety and mechanical issues and always have to be checked out when in California.


12 posted on 01/14/2025 12:00:08 PM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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snopes is still around???wonder if the ow ner ever divorced thatg prostitute he married.


13 posted on 01/14/2025 12:01:30 PM PST by Baladas
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To: cuz1961

Welcome to California
equity but no water.


14 posted on 01/14/2025 12:04:04 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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“According to Oregon and California’s fire departments, trucks were stopped in Davis, California, just outside Sacramento, for maintenance and safety checks, and those trucks continued onward. “

Ok... so it’s true. Anyone who stops a fire truck ON IT’S WAY to a fire is a Soviet Style A-hole.


15 posted on 01/14/2025 12:07:19 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Switzerland is not neutralEmpire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI..)
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To: cuz1961

Snopes has shown itself to be a lousy fact checker that often supports democrat positions on subjects while sayingrepublican posit ions are false.


16 posted on 01/14/2025 12:13:29 PM PST by falcon99 ( )
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To: cuz1961

And we would believe Snopes...because???


17 posted on 01/14/2025 12:14:54 PM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH! )
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To: cuz1961

And we would believe Snopes...because???


18 posted on 01/14/2025 12:14:54 PM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH! )
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To: cuz1961

Fact is they stopped out of state fire trucks for maintenance and safety checks while hundreds of homes burned.

No?


19 posted on 01/14/2025 12:17:57 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: cuz1961

Job 1 for Snopes is to cover for Democrats.
It’s also Jobs 2 through 100.

I recall how they would twist and turn when Hillary Clinton got caught in an obvious lie. Hillary didn’t really lie there, dontcha know? She just confused something that happened to her with something she read in a book when she was 12.

It was almost comical.


20 posted on 01/14/2025 12:20:01 PM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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