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They're in a drought, it's fire season.
Woke on woke violenceLos Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley was fired by Mayor Karen Bass on Friday afternoon, a source close to the chief’s office told DailyMail.com.
‘Kristin was summoned by Bass this afternoon, about 4pm. She came back from that meeting, hugged her staff goodbye and left. She said she was fired,’ the source said.
The alleged booting follows Crowley lashing out against the Mayor’s cuts to her department, in an interview with a local Fox TV station around 12pm Friday.
‘My message is the fire department needs to be properly funded,’ the Chief said. ‘It’s not.’
‘Did they fail you?’ Fox LA’s Gigi Graciette asked. ‘Yes,’ Crowley replied.
Ya hate to see it
They're in a drought, it's fire season.
The lesbian blames the gubmint
'Since day one, we've identified huge gaps in regard to our service delivery and our ability of our firefighters' boots on the ground to do their jobs,' Crowley said.
'This is my third budget as we're going into 2025-2026, and what I can tell you is we are still understaffed, we're still under-resourced, and we're still underfunded.'
Crowley painted a grim picture of the department's daily operations, revealing that firefighters are handling more than 1,500 calls and transporting 650 patients every day under normal conditions. The wildfires have only exacerbated these challenges.
'We are screaming to be properly funded to make sure that our firefighters can do their jobs so that we can serve the community,' Crowley said.
'This isn't a new problem. It's been a problem for years. And it's time for it to be fixed.'
Despite her repeated warnings and detailed memos outlining the department's needs, the city slashed the LAFD's budget by over $17 million in recent years.
The result, Crowley said, was predictable: slower response times and a diminished capacity to combat the growing frequency and intensity of fires.
'Any budget cut is going to impact our ability to provide service,' she explained. 'If there's a budget cut, we had to pull from somewhere else. What does that mean? That doesn't get done or that there are delays.'
Crowley's criticism extends beyond the immediate crisis, pointing to a systemic failure to scale the fire department's capabilities alongside the city's explosive growth.
'We know we need 62 new fire stations. We need to double the size of our firefighters,' she said. 'The growth of this city since 1960 has doubled, and we have less fire stations.'
Mayor Crowley???
Droughts can last for years, professor.
Your team needs to decide if they want less government or not
Then every season during the drought is a fire season
you think water goes directly from reservoirs to hydrants
woke means little here besides "I see two women and one of them is black"
https://www.msn.com/en-us/public-saf...im/ar-BB1rcs8rHowever, the homeless man had so-far only been arrested on a felony parole violation because “there was not enough probable cause to arrest this person on arson or su ion on arson,” Choi said.
ooga booga
climate change is making certain places uninsurable, but it's probably fair to say some of them -- lots of fingers pointed at Malibu -- probably shouldn't have been developed in the first place, and shouldn't be rebuilt.
Like many other insurers of last resort in the 33 other states with this type of system, the California FAIR Plan is buckling under the weight of natural disasters worsened by climate change. “I’m concerned that we’re one bad fire season away from complete insolvency,” said Jim Wood, then a California Assemblyman, at a March hearing in which CA Fair Plan President Victoria Roach explained that it had just $200 million of cash on hand, with $450 billion of exposure in the state.https://time.com/7205849/los-angeles-fires-insurance/That bad fire season is now here. As infernos burn across Los Angeles County, torching at least 28,000 acres, analysts at Accuweather estimate losses could reach $52 to $57 billion. It is a blow to the hundreds of insurers operating in California, but a particular challenge for the state’s insurer of last resort. And its predicament highlights the precarity of the home insurance market, in California and nationally. Due to an increased risk of fires, floods, convective storms, hurricanes, and other national disasters, it doesn’t make financial sense for insurers to offer plans to some people. In 2023, insurers lost money on homeowner coverage in 18 states, up from 12 states five years ago, according to an analysis by the New York Times.
other people pay the extra cost of insuring my Malibu beach house?
killer!
The fate of the California FAIR Plan affects everyone in the nation’s most populous state. If it doesn’t have enough money to cover its claims, every policyholder in the state ends up paying more. Insurers are responsible for covering the first billion dollars of claims in California, but then the responsibility goes to every insurance policyholder in the state—who are responsible for additional assessed charges. Essentially, everyone has to pay to reimburse people whose homes lie in high-risk areas.
Florida is a case in point: when Citizens, the state-run insurer of last resort, can’t pay out claims, policyholders must pay the bill, which added up to a “Hurricane Tax” of hundreds of dollars per household after Hurricane Ian hit the Atlantic Coast near Cape Canaveral in 2022, causing $113 billion in damages.
And if the reservoir had cracks or wasn't operating correctly, you'd still be pointing fingers. It's what you and your team does.
... even when it's your team's fault lol.
Karma loves James Woods
After the tears will come the tweet storm blaming teh libs
News , feeling the heat, cries about misinformation
Wtf goats? A Mexican with a weed eater will knock that out in an hour. White boy with a weed eater knocks it out in 8 hours. Black guy with a weed eater maybe a week. All faster and cheaper than an army of goats.
Truth bomb
EVERYONE has been predicting worse wildfires.
climate change deniers pretending to be prophets
What's the climate of Los Angeles? For foreverEVERYONE has been predicting worse wildfires.
What month is it, Darrin?
Please answer truthfully.
Its ing dry there. I lived there. Have you?
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