Posted on 03/08/2025 3:18:15 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The Trump administration has shattered expectations with its very rapid response to the Los Angeles wildfire cleanup, delivering results in record time and proving critics wrong. Despite accusations of inefficiency and political grandstanding, the administration worked closely with California officials to expedite the recovery effort.
And no one is covering it.
CNN’s Scott Jennings pointed this out Friday night on “Laura Coates Live” on CNN, after Keith Boykin, a Democratic strategist and former Clinton White House aide, made a wild accusation that the Trump administration was responsible for “waste, fraud, and abuse” across various sectors, including water management and foreign aid.
“Not to mention the $400 million going to Elon Musk for his Cybertruck,” Boykin claimed. “This is the waste, fraud, and abuse in America. It's not because of the federal workers doing their jobs. It's because Donald Trump is self-dealing.”
The Cybertruck story was debunked last month, by the way.
But to the larger point that somehow Trump is causing “waste, fraud, and abuse” in America, Jennings destroyed that claim in a matter of seconds by highlighting an achievement that has gotten virtually no coverage in the media.
It turns out that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under Trump completed the hazardous materials cleanup in Los Angeles in just 29 days—far ahead of initial projections. “The estimates were it was going to take 18 months,” Jennings pointed out. “But this is the cleanup of the hazardous material that you have to do in order to start rebuilding. Twenty-nine days.”
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Given the level of gaslighting we have seen the last 4 years I have little hope the media will give credit when its due. Their sole mission is to tear down anything Trump does just like the dims did for his speech.
They will give the win to Gavin and Mayor Karen.
Wow, 29 days instead of 1.5 x 365 =548 days! That’s 29/548 = 5% of what was forecasted!! That is astonishing.
Mayor Bass held a ridiculous “One-Stop Shop Permitting Process” press conference a week or two ago and she said you could get ALL TWELVE permits you need to rebuild at one location.
TWELVE PERMITS!!! That shows exactly what is wrong with CA State bureaucracy.
“”The EPA under Trump completed the hazardous materials cleanup in Los Angeles in just 29 days””
At the direction of President Trump, EPA partnered with the U.S. military and U.S. Department of Homeland Security to develop and execute a response plan. Under EPA leadership, crews identified and cleared hazardous materials from 13,612 residential properties and 305 commercial properties, paving the way for debris removal and other stages of the recovery effort to move forward.
By the Numbers:
13,612 residential properties SURVEYED:
- 6,631 Eaton Fire
- 6,981 Palisades Fire
9,201 properties CLEARED:
- 4,852 Eaton Fire
- 4,349 Palisades Fire
4,381 properties deferred to Phase 2
1,038 Electric Vehicles and Bulk Energy Storage Systems Removed
President Donald Trump is the ultimate “Get R Done!”
Let’s see. Those that hate Trump will run with it. Those that don’t pay attention should be our real target. One problem-those tat don’t pay attention are the real problem, not the idiots on the left.
Thanks for posting and thanks to Matt Margolis. I was wondering what has been happening about the fires in LA. HOORAY President Trump and the EPA!
Even DJT didn’t crow about it. Had he mentioned it in his speech. I’m sure the “fact-checkers” would have been all over it.
"Bulk Energy Storage Systems" = Tesla "PowerWall" battery packs.
EVs and home batteries -- the gift that keeps on giving.
If you totaled up all the sources of residential toxic waste after a massive fire, I'd wager you'd find 75% of it was EVs and home energy storage systems. Homes have various cleaning and lawn care products that might be toxic. But what other toxic items would you find in a household? Maybe burned-out electronics?
I’ve also been wondering why there has been no media coverage on the recovery process. Like they never happened.
“”Under EPA leadership, crews identified and cleared hazardous materials from 13,612 residential properties and 305 commercial properties, paving the way for debris removal and other stages of the recovery effort to move forward. Administrator Zeldin traveled to Los Angeles on February 6, 2025, to survey damage and meet with EPA personnel on the ground.””
Are we talking about the same thing or two different things? Where did cleared “hazardous” materials go? Or does “cleared” mean “identified?” Where will removal of “debris” go? A site has been selected and approved?
From the link in post 5:
EPA secured temporary storage, or staging, locations for materials from each fire site. Staging areas are essential to the hazardous material removal process and will enable residents to rebuild their homes faster.
Once the staging areas are no longer needed for EPA’s Phase 1 work, EPA will sample the soil in staging areas to ensure no negative impact to the property and provide the owner with a summary report. Some staging areas may remain during Phase 2 to ensure proper handling and disposal of materials collected from deferred properties. In those cases, USACE will complete the breakdown and sampling of the staging areas when their work is complete. Please visit EPA’s staging areas for the LA wildfires (pdf) to learn more.
The public can find more information about EPA’s hazardous material removal operations at EPA’s 2025 California Wildfires website.
Ha! 12 permits but you forgot all the inspectors. If you build or remodel a shower you have to fill it with water and wait 48 hours or however long it takes for the inspector to show up and sign off that it doesn’t leak. Because, obviously, home owners want to build crappy showers that leak.
I once took out a closet wall (there was a bar inside) because we wanted to access the bar and sink from both the living room and den. Inspector just happened to see the drywall outside and stopped by. He wanted to make sure we didn’t tear out the load bearing beam. Because, yeah, I want the roof to cave in.
Our new developer neighbor bought the lake lot below us and built a HUGE house on top of the hill next to us (he also bulldozed the lake house below and is replacing that). His plans submitted for permit showed a full kitchen which code does not allow in a second home on the lot. His permit application showed it as an “Office / Shop.” The state inspectors caught his shenanigans and made him revise the drawings so he had no electrical for a full stove, no electrical for a vent hood, no electrical for an oven, and only a small “bar sink.” Permits were approved as redesigned and re-submitted.
Now that he got his occupancy permit, I’m sure he will abide by it and it would NEVER occur to him to go in and do the necessary remodeling (without permit) to put his full kitchen back in.
“Wow, 29 days instead of 1.5 x 365 =548 days! That’s 29/548 = 5% of what was forecasted!! That is astonishing.”
But wait, did they have the right number of DEI personnel?
Of course. When it comes time to sell you’re supposed to disclose it as “unpermitted”. Like anyone really cares. As long as it works and doesn’t cause problems, they will buy it. It’s just money for the city/county. A jobs program.
I hope you still get to enjoy the lake and view!
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We lived in the same house for 40 years. When we sold it, we answered yes to every question on the form the state required. We never kept any of the paperwork not vital to establishing the basis of the house and after 55 trashed everything. Was some remodeling work done without permits? I just can’t remember that we overlooked anything. Or did we?
Yes, very telling.
“I hope you still get to enjoy the lake and view!”
Thanks. We still see the lake (he didn’t block that gorgeous view and the far mountains). But he mowed down a very pretty pine and maple forest to build his house. Plus he chose and ugly “mountain modern” design and he put in a huge parking pad / turn around hard up against our neighbor’s property line. We are going to put in some mature spruce trees and some rhododendron understory this spring to block the view of it. We didn’t count on this happening!
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