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After Breitbart News Inquiry, Israel Sends Firefighting Experts to L.A.
Breitbart ^ | 01/15/2025 | Joel B. Pollak

Posted on 01/15/2025 5:55:32 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Israel announced Wednesday that it is sending a team of firefighting experts to Los Angeles, following an inquiry on Tuesday by Breitbart News during a press briefing by the Office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The Los Angeles area has been devastated over the past week by the intense destruction of the Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire, among other, smaller blazes. Tens of thousands of homes have been lost, and many families displaced.

The Times of Israel reported:

The Fire and Rescue Authority will send a team of five fire protection experts to the United States this evening, to help responders combat the blazes now sweeping southern California, says the agency’s spokeswoman.

“We have had wildfires already in Israel, perhaps not of the size over there [in California] but still, we have had quite big ones,” says spokeswoman Tal Volvovitch. “We are now seeing, outside Israel, the sheer damage that fire can cause and the power it has.”

Earlier this week, Fire and Rescue Authority spokespeople told The Times of Israel it intended to send a symbolic team of a few dozen firefighters to the US West Coast, but the proposal has since been shelved in favor of the current plan.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: breitbart; experts; firefighting; inquiry; israel; la; news; sends
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Will Mayor Bass send them away?
1 posted on 01/15/2025 5:55:32 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The world can see what Bass and Gavin really are... Iran wants to send a team too. Is that embarrassing or what?

LA’s pathetic - and the people who elected Bass and Gavin are stupid but they still don’t deserve these fires. Prayers for the people in live in LA.


2 posted on 01/15/2025 6:01:01 AM PST by GOPJ (AMERICA FOR AMERICANS if anyone wants to live in an overpopulated hellhole they can MOVE there..)
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To: GOPJ

Amen


3 posted on 01/15/2025 6:02:47 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Please send desalination engineers also!


4 posted on 01/15/2025 6:05:35 AM PST by muglywump (Seven days without laughter makes one weak.)
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“Please send desalination engineers also!”

Israel needs to send in people who engage in slightly more ‘direct action’ if they want their desalinization companies to build more plants.


5 posted on 01/15/2025 6:15:37 AM PST by BobL
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To: GOPJ; BobL

[Iran wants to send a team too. Is that embarrassing or what?]

Iran is probably just trying to figure out why L.A. has lesbian firefighters / mayor in charge...

Apparently an excellent and efficient way of destroying American cities. Unfortunately.


6 posted on 01/15/2025 6:36:37 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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The fires are started by showers of burning embers. I suspect they are mainly from palm trees with lots of easily ignited dead matter.

It’s like throwing hundreds of pounds of burning coals at a neighborhood of houses.

The houses and their landscaping need to be made fire resistant.


7 posted on 01/15/2025 6:45:54 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: SaveFerris

“Iran”

LA is a favored place of residence for Iranians living in the USA.

There’s probably thousands living in the vulnerable areas of LA.


8 posted on 01/15/2025 6:48:18 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin

Interesting


9 posted on 01/15/2025 6:49:42 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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“desalination”

Reclaimed water is probably available in the area.

Pipes of sufficient size should have been routed so hoses can be run to fire engines to protect all vulnerable houses.

Service of reclaimed water to residences should be turned off so firefighters have maximum water access.


10 posted on 01/15/2025 6:54:55 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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I wonder if the Iranians in LA are dual citizens with an automatic right of return to Iran?


11 posted on 01/15/2025 6:56:37 AM PST by nitzy (See my about page for a comment that was deemed unacceptable by the FR mods)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Will they have to undergo a “safety” check first?


12 posted on 01/15/2025 7:07:13 AM PST by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Will they have to undergo a “safety” check first?


13 posted on 01/15/2025 7:07:24 AM PST by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: Socon-Econ

Israel better send big fat sexually confused women or they don’t get off the C-130 in LA.


14 posted on 01/15/2025 7:44:34 AM PST by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If she’s smart, she’ll let them help.


15 posted on 01/15/2025 8:16:52 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: GOPJ

Well said.


16 posted on 01/15/2025 8:17:08 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Socon-Econ

Maybe.


17 posted on 01/15/2025 8:17:59 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: nitzy

Perhaps.


18 posted on 01/15/2025 8:18:09 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Gee will they have to go through DEI screening?


19 posted on 01/15/2025 10:06:45 AM PST by The Great RJ
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Thanks No name.


20 posted on 01/15/2025 1:19:44 PM PST by GOPJ (AMERICA FOR AMERICANS if anyone wants to live in an overpopulated hellhole they can MOVE there..)
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