Record for most days over 100 degrees per year in San Antonio

[GAustex]

I meant, draining off LA county's homeless budget doesn't even begin to solve the wildfire preparedness issue.

What then?

The discussion was raises for LAPD
Move the goal posts much?

[SnakeBoy]

Supposedly what started the Eaton fire, but wouldn't be surprised to see arson for at least one of the others.

Which one got started by climate change?

[SnakeBoy]

And go where?

Some other place that coddles ticks and leeches

[baseline bum]

Which one got started by climate change?

Ask the insurance companies

[Winehole23]

The discussion was raises for LAPD
Move the goal posts much?

the discussion was the noisy, incoherent Republican reaction to catastrophic wildfires

[ChumpDumper]

Which one got started by climate change?

Are you really this stupid?

[Winehole23]

Some other place that coddles ticks and leeches

homeless removal doesn't work on ticks and leeches either

[Winehole23]

[Blake]

Some other place that coddles ticks and leeches

D.C.?

[TSA]

LAFD's budget was cut by 17.5 million.

https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-...unding-2011568

LAFD chief flagged budget cut impact on wildfire response last month

With fires raging across Los Angeles County, news that the Los Angeles Fire Department chief pushed back on recent fire department budget cuts is resurfacing online.

LAFD Fire Chief Kristin Crowley wrote in a memo Dec. 4, 2024, that “the reduction ... has severely limited the department’s capacity to prepare for, train for, and respond to large-scale emergencies, including wildfires.”

Crowley’s memo followed news of a nearly $18 million fire department budget reduction, which was approved by Mayor Karen Bass. According to NBC Los Angeles, “the budget reduction was mostly absorbed by leaving many administrative jobs at the fire department unfilled, but that left about $7 million that had to be cut from its overtime budget – which was earmarked for training, fire prevention, and other key functions.”

With discussion about the budget cuts heating up amid the current emergencies unfolding across the county, Mayor Bass responded on Wednesday evening, stating the budget cuts did not impact the LAFD’s response to these particular fires, including the 15,000-acre Palisades Fire.

Crowley’s memo was presented last month to a panel of mayoral appointees who oversee management of the fire department. The memo reads, in part: “Without this funding, pilot compliance and readiness are jeopardized, and aerial firefighting capabilities are diminished. Changes to the Air Operations Section impact the Department’s ability to adhere to current automatic and mutual aid agreements, provide air ambulance service, and quickly respond to woodland fires with water dropping helicopters.”

NBC Los Angeles reported that the memo “also highlighted other programs that would suffer under the cuts, including the Disaster Response Section, which funds the bulldozer teams that cut breaks and control lines around wildfires, and the Critical Incident Planning and Training Section, which develops plans for major emergencies.”

https://www.firerescue1.com/wildfire...e-month-before

[SnakeBoy]

Honestly, nothing you could do once the fire started with the winds that were blowing.

Nothing could be done except cry climate change

[SnakeBoy]

That's a lot of space freed up for future homeless encampments

[TSA]

Water in hydrants would have helped

[SnakeBoy]

Jamie Lee Curtis faces backlash for ‘atrocious comparison’ of Palisades fire to Gaza
https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/new...ei=28#comments

Stupid comparison from her, Joe Biden didn't fund this destruction

[TSA]

all 114 LA Country reservoirs were full before the fire, 15x normal water usage after the fire broke out lowered water pressure for the whole system

[TSA]

Reinsurance prices skyrocketed. Not just California, Florida too. We have much larger amount of catastrophic climate events, and it ain't because of missing rakes or DEI departments, tbh...

This also impact house affordability, since you have to have an insurance to sustain mortgages. We'll see where this goes, but something is going to have to give.

[Blake]

You don't have the full information on what happened with the fire hydrants.

[Winehole23]

yeah, that's not good.

definitely that's better info than was initially reported, that's one the hazards of immediate aftermath posting.

[ChumpDumper]

Nothing could be done except cry climate change

You hate it when you're so clearly wrong, don't you?

[ChumpDumper]

How would hydrant testing have helped the unprecedented demand on the water systems' tanks?

[ChumpDumper]

So the entire community had no water at all?

Seriously, how do you think water gets to hydrants and homes?

[Blake]

Are they never supposed to do maintenence on the reservoirs? Jesus, where were you guys in attacking the president when Covid exploded?

[SnakeBoy]

Are they never supposed to do maintenence on the reservoirs? Jesus, where were you guys in attacking the president when Covid exploded?

Fire season is the best time to do maintenance, amirite?

[ChumpDumper]

Fire season is the best time to do maintenance, amirite?

January fire season, amirite?

[Blake]

Fire season is the best time to do maintenance, amirite?

Alright I'll fill you in to help move this along. This is literally the middle of California's wet season.

https://www.drought.gov/dews/california-nevada

Or is their wet season the new fire season? What changed?