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Bass, the LA City Fire Chief as well as Newsom definitely need to be in jail for their part in the mismanagement of the city resources. I’ve not heard any news outlet or talking head place blame or even question the LA City Council (who sets and authorize budgets along with departmental “goals”) or the LACO Board of Supervisors for their part in these fires. Why is that? Seems that those now in the spotlight can deflect at least some of the blame on others.
 
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Channel 4 had a one on interview with the chief earlier.
Bass and others were supposed to be at this latest 6pm update.
Bet they are trying to figure out to let the chief go for her comments and bagging ( rightfully so) on the top government.
 
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Could it be true?

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I feel for all who lost everything in this predicted event. The focus on promoting people to positions of power who are not qualified and or capable is a direct result of DEII and ideologue politics over putting the most qualified / best person in charge. This will continue to play out, I just hope the people that put ideology over qualifications pay the price and change their ways in their view on electing and or hiring people. About half of us knew this type of shit would happen with the way things were headed, now it's real for the others that have had their heads up a unicorn's ass.
 
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That’s bogus of fire chief is not fired at least not yet and I’m not sure she will be. There’s really other people that are being way beyond her and her control that should be terminated for not playing ahead.


Newsom number one number two, the diplomat one power whoever has control over the Palisades reservoir and then really the city council who didn’t spend the money to put the generators in the pumps to keep water for the palisades. That’s really the point of most of us right now.
 
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4Waters said:
They do need a toilet brush
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Most likely. I sent 2 used and 3 new from Amazon back in the day when John and Ken were on KFI bashing Villaraigosa...another looser...


Earlier this week, open borders L.A. mayor Antonio Villaraigosa gave a divisive speech on behalf of illegal alien protesters in which he declared:

"Today we say to America: We've come here to work: We clean your toilets. We clean your hotels. We build your houses. We take care of your children. We want you to help us take care of our children as well."
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Many law-abiding L.A. residents who clean their own toilets took umbrage at Villaraigosa's McCain-like contempt for self-reliant Americans and his us-vs.-them militancy. Now, there's a campaign underway to answer Villaraigosa.

With toilet brushes.

KFI's John and Ken show has details of the "Amnesty Brush-Off."

Reader Jeff M. e-mails: "So many people are sending in toilet brushes that prices have been climbing (even on Amazon where toilet brushes have been hitting the # 1 spot on their sales charts)!"
 
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rrrr said:
It's interesting how a temperature inversion is preventing the smoke from rising further. Sucks the fire is still huge.
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A "stable atmosphere" can lead to decreased nighttime fire behavior and better conditions for suppression efforts. If the inversion layer breaks though, it can cause issues for FFs on the ground due to up and down drafts in canyons and mountain terrain.
 
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You Californians need to keep the pressure on those that were responsible for this. If it's predictable and preventable, hold them accountable. I heard this on RDP's Place and it has stuck with me, "everyone wants to be the captain, until it's time to do captain shit". The leadership in your state had no idea what being a captain or responsibility of managing the agency's they were taking over, but should be held responsible for dereliction of duty now and this hopefully should force the issue moving forward for all elected positions. I live in WA State and we have the same issues, just haven't experienced the same opportunities to magnify the ineptness of our unqualified leaders yet at the same magnitude as SO Cal has...yet.
 
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The Liberal Progressive voters are well aware of the Democrats corruption.
They feel their vote will give them a piece of the graft action in some way and they aren't going to be affected by the ideology.

Maybe pick up the tab for their employee's benefits, get a relative released from prison, get a check for doing nothing.
When you see posters and ads with Vote Democrat for Y.C.M.M.S.O.Y.A! You Can Make Money Sitting On Your Ass!
 
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PDQH2O said:
I sincerely hope these events cause CA voters to dump the radical leftists in office and get back to running the state like it used to be decades ago.
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Pacific Palisades is a heavily Democratic area, and Democrats tend to win the majority of the vote in each election.

In the 2024 presidential election, of the 11,151 votes cast from the five voting precincts that largely constitute the Palisades (9005918A, 9005919A, 9005929A, 9001382A, 9007693D), 71.17% went for Kamala Harris, while Donald Trump and RFK Jr. received just 27.75% and 1.08% of the Palisadian vote, respectively.
They'll never learn;)
 
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Andy B. said:
They all need to go especially city manager as well as all the city council that eventually approve the budget!!!!
My wife works for the city of Henderson and that's how the chain of approval goes, it starts with the city manager. I don't know for a fact but I assume it's similar in Los Angeles.
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One of my old partners at AMR works fir Henderson Fire. I don't have his current number but was wondering if he was out here.
 
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Andy B. said:
They all need to go especially city manager as well as all the city council that eventually approve the budget!!!!
My wife works for the city of Henderson and that's how the chain of approval goes, it starts with the city manager. I don't know for a fact but I assume it's similar in Los Angeles.
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I have been messaging my local councilman constantly. Every day lighting the fire under him. Trying to get the city manager on the phone is a challenge. Every day the councilman says he will call. He is in charge of the sheriff's dept budget and major decisions i am told. Imagine Same for fire. They cut the sheriff's budget so we have 1 on duty at night. Crime has gone crazy here. And I swear they let it happen hoping they will get the citizens so fed up they cause a stir with the council. Which I have been doing.
 
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boatpi said:
LA city does not have a city manager, just city council members, then the mayor. They with the mayor work on a yearly budget, mayor puts it out. then it is discussed and voted upon by July 1 each year.
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Thanks for clarification.
 
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Cray Paper said:
I feel for all who lost everything in this predicted event. The focus on promoting people to positions of power who are not qualified and or capable is a direct result of DEII and ideologue politics over putting the most qualified / best person in charge. This will continue to play out, I just hope the people that put ideology over qualifications pay the price and change their ways in their view on electing and or hiring people. About half of us knew this type of shit would happen with the way things were headed, now it's real for the others that have had their heads up a unicorn's ass.
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Part of what made it easier to retire. My Dept went that way. Bay area hires.
 
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Cray Paper said:
You Californians need to keep the pressure on those that were responsible for this. If it's predictable and preventable, hold them accountable. I heard this on RDP's Place and it has stuck with me, "everyone wants to be the captain, until it's time to do captain shit". The leadership in your state had no idea what being a captain or responsibility of managing the agency's they were taking over, but should be held responsible for dereliction of duty now and this hopefully should force the issue moving forward for all elected positions. I live in WA State and we have the same issues, just haven't experienced the same opportunities to magnify the ineptness of our unqualified leaders yet at the same magnitude as SO Cal has...yet.
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They should rename the PP fire the DEI Fire...
 
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FROGMAN524 said:
This press conference is abhorrent. Talk about slime ball politicians covering their ass and deflecting blame. LA County Fire Chief sounds like a total douche.
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LACo Chief did it right in how he recalled his personnel before and during the event because he was watching the weather reports and made decisions based on what was being reported. There is a definite blame game going on right now and he just excused himself from that
 
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Firefighters wife just posted this on her feed. Cut the budget. We need to cut there jobs for cutting the budget.
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There is plenty of room for all of them in the responsibilty area, but, the failures start at the top, and that is where people are focused now.
Responsibilty is the product of authority, and they both bring accountability...when everything works.
I am confident the mayor and the fire chief and probably several others who know this disaster is going to land right on their heads have already hired private counsel and are begining to carefully craft their words and actions to cover their own asses as priority #1.
The first crack was the LA fire chief laying it on th mayor's doorstep yesterday when she blamed budget cuts.

I hope the anger and frustration that is just now forming rises to the roof as people run in to the democrat permitting process as they try to rebuild, and then, focus their anger on the mid term elections. I suspect you may see a 3rd effort at recalling newsom.
 
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