[Macho MAGA Man]

DIEversity kills!

[butlerweave]

diversity = incompetence

[Delta 21]

Completely lost due to incompetence.

[HereInTheHeartland]

I don’t know the area , but why is it the Austin FD’s job to deploy recourses to rural areas?

[V_TWIN]

“The Austin Firefighters Association intends to hold a vote of no confidence on Fire Chief Joel G. Baker over his failure to deploy advance teams to flood ravaged Kerr County ahead of the destruction.”

Best of luck getting this moron to step down, it’ll never happen.....and if by some miracle he is removed, the howls of racism will of course be deafening.

[ridesthemiles]

HE HAS ADVANCED TO CHIEF & HE CANNOT FIGURE OUT WHY NOT MANY AFRICAN-AMERICANS (BLACK) ARE QUALIFIED TO BE FIREFIGHTERS???

HE IS BEYOND TEACHING.

[lee martell]

He’s been needing The Boot pretty much since he was hired.
Now, they have an opportunity to weed him and all his DEI / BS
out of that fire department.

[daku]

Troubling article but I’ll need to know if this dope actually had the authority to neglect help to what are predominately White lives.

[Agatsu77]

RACIST POS!!!

[GOPJ]

...I believe the youth of Austin and our youth in general, you will be what you see those young African American, young Latinos, people in the Asian community or LGBT community, if they see more firefighter that look like them, they will want to choose the Austin Fire Department as a career as well."

What about all those democrats who were happy the children 'got what they deserved' because their parents were white Christians who 'probably voted for Trump'? Maybe that's his REAL REASON for not sending help when it was called for. Lucky for him the corrupt 'press' will buy the excuse that he wasn't reimbursed money from the state and was 'getting even'... I think he didn't send help because the campers and children were white. He knows the srea.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

"Yowsa. We is be movin' on up!"

[GOPJ]

...I believe the youth of Austin and our youth in general, you will be what you see those young African American, young Latinos, people in the Asian community or LGBT community, if they see more firefighter that look like them, they will want to choose the Austin Fire Department as a career as well."

What about all those democrats who were happy the children 'got what they deserved' because their parents are white Christians who 'probably voted for Trump'? Maybe that's his REAL REASON for not sending help when it was called for. Lucky for him the corrupt 'press' will buy the excuse that he wasn't reimbursed money from the state and was 'getting even'... Or maybe he's just a jerk.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Yeah, we should’ve known that rather than being “Trump’s fault it would be the liberals fault

It always is

[Petrosius]

Now, it has been revealed that Baker, the first black fire chief in Austin, prioritized diversity goals tribal discrimination shortly after coming onto the job.

[Miami Rebel]

“He’s been accused of not deploying Austin’s specialized teams ahead of the destruction, despite having been asked by the state to do so, because Texas was delayed in reimbursing the department for $800,000 in past deployments.”

What does that have to do with DEI?

[ten18]

Is every mayor, police chief or fire chief of a major city now black? It seems to be an amazing trend for such a “racist” country.

[vivenne]

Does their job exist to have them excel at being Asian or LGBTQ? They only thing they need to be good at is putting out FIRES!

[hanamizu]

A stupid question, I know, but do people whose house is burning down or whose children are being swept away by floods really care all that much that the people coming to save them “reflect more of the community we serve”?

[Rio]

[boomop1]

Austin, Southeast San Francisco.