I'd like the see the majority of Dems of Cali feel that way too
So you're for raising taxes? Or do you have another means of adding additional funding for the fire dept?
The Republican pivot on government spending and taxation has been impressive.
Meanwhile, debate about the level of funding for firefighters continues. In press conferences this week, Crowley was pressed about the budget, but seemed unwilling to confirm if LAFD’s stretched resources have indeed hampered its ability to fight fires.
On Friday though, she was more forthright, telling Fox11’s Gigi Graciette that “the fire department needs to be properly funded,” and she said it isn’t.
“This is more than a job to us, this is who we are, this our duty,” she said. “And when you don’t have that ability, when people don’t listen, that’s why I’m talking to you right now. The fire department needs to be funded – appropriately.”
Crowley told Graciette that she is unable to look “any community member in the eye and say, ‘The LAFD has got your back.’”
When Graciette asked Crowley, ‘Did they fail you?’ and after getting pressed several times, Crowley finally responded, ‘Yes.’
She raised similar worries in December about her department’s capacity to do its job. Asked by a commissioner at a Dec. 17 Fire Commissioner’s meeting whether she believed the department was sorely understaffed, she said yes.
“The LAFD is extremely understaffed and under-resourced,” Crowley told the fire commissioners.
She pointed to data from a two-year deployment analysis conducted for 2018 to 2020 that found the department only had half the staffing it needed compared to other departments across the country.
In a report talking about that analysis, Crowley wrote that her department has fewer fire stations than it did in the 1960s, even as the population of the city has grown.
“We’re going to have a robust conversation about where we need to take LAFD from now and into the future,” she also said. “We can no longer operate this way.”
Crowley was responding to a question by Fire Commissioner Genethia Hudley Hayes, who remarked in astonishment to the findings of the deployment report.
The deployment analysis is being discussed at the same time that the firefighters’ union is raising the idea of a new bond measure. United Firefighters of Los Angeles President Freddy Escobar remarked in public comment at the Dec. 17 meeting that there may be a need for another funding ballot measure, similar to the Prop. F bond measure that was approved in 2000 to open fire stations.
“We know the city is headed into tough financial times, but when it’s your home that is on fire, or when it’s your loved one himself in a heart attack, you know, we can’t wait,” Escobar said.
This was the same meeting where the fire commissioners also took up another report in which Crowley warned that the $819 million budget that city leaders adopted for the department in fiscal year 2024-25 – reducing the budget by $17.6 million from the previous year – would hinder services to support fighting wildfires, responding to major events and other needs.
And some Los Angeles city leaders are in the process of trying to claw back positions that were removed in the recent budget. That would include positions that support the maintenance of firefighting rigs. Right now, only 78% of the department’s fleet is operational, but its goal should be 90%, according to a report from Crowley seeking restoration of those positions.
https://boyleheightsbeat.com/los-ang...get-cuts-city/
Worked amazing for Uvalde blowing all that money on bird police
amazing
DEI never works
What do you mean in this instance?
works great for y'all as an excuse to deflect from the mediocrity of men and white people
It's a damn fact that US women as a cohort are more educated and competent than men
Same idiots posting on here denying climate change for years (decades?) always looking for different to blame to the point that they support they were against before. Some of you have kids and you're leaving a world literally on fire to them because you were too stupid to listen to experts and instead wanted to be middle aged men acting like edge lords on a sports forum on the internet. Good job.
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conditions have changed over time
Democrats are obviously to blame for the increase in the area burned
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2...the-thousands/A 2024 study, Mortality attributable to PM2.5 from wildland fires in California from 2008 to 2018, found that in 2018, the year the town of Paradise and several other communities burned, wildfire smoke may have killed as many as 12,000 Californians prematurely.
And over the 11 years from 2008 to 2018, wildfire smoke likely contributed to more than 52,000 premature deaths across California nearly 5,000 deaths per year with an economic impactfrom the deaths of more than $430 billion, the study found.
Its a problem beyond California. A 2024 paper, Long-term exposure to wildland fire smoke PM2.5 and mortality in the contiguous United States, found that long-term exposure to wildfire smoke was likely responsible for over 11,000 deaths per year between 2007 and 2020. Globally, 46,000-99,000 people die yearly from inhaling PM2.5 released by wildfires
Just another plot to make our children die from wearing masks.
incurable spiritual damage is done by hiding their smiles from the world
Over the last few decades, air in the U.S. has undergone a remarkable transformation: pollution levels of health-damaging tiny particles have dropped by roughly 40% since 2000, primarily thanks to the country's decades-long effort to improve air quality through the Clean Air Act, a landmark environmental law.
Smoke from wildfires fueled by human-driven climate change, however, has erased roughly 25% of those air quality gains, according to a new study published Wednesday in Nature. "We've seen really remarkable improvements in air quality," says Marissa Childs, one of the authors of the study and a researcher at Harvard's Center for the Environment. "But wildfire smoke is undoing that progress in many states."
The effects are more pronounced in Western states, where smoke-laden days have become an annual fact of life. Schools keep kids inside during recess; emergency rooms know to prepare when wildfires break out nearby. The study found that since 2016, in states like California, Washington and Oregon, wildfire smoke has added enough pollution to the air to wipe out nearly half of the total air quality gains made from 2000 onward.
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/20/12001...p-americas-air
Western states really need to be given the ok to start managing forests like Indigenous communities used to.
Then stop voting for conservative schmucks that only have the industrial communities' best financial interests at heart
Sounds like you know a little more about that than I do, but the appeal of removing fuel with controlled burns is intuitive.
"Smokes from wildfires fueled by human-driven climate change"
You're an idiot. The fuel for these wildfires isn't caused by climate change it's caused by forests not being managed properly by the states.
Are these Trump actions going to help or hurt air quality?
1. Weakened Obama-era fuel economy and greenhouse gas standards for passenger cars and light trucks.
2. Revoked California’s ability to set stricter tailpipe emissions standards than the federal government.
3. Withdrew the legal justification for an Obama-era rule that limited mercury emissions from coal power plants.
4. Formally withdrew the United States from the Paris climate agreement, an international plan to avert catastrophic climate change adopted by nearly 200 counties.
5. Changed the way cost-benefit analyses are conducted under the Clean Air Act, potentially making it harder to issue new public health and climate protections.
6. Canceled a requirement for oil and gas companies to report methane emissions.
7. Revised and partially repealed an Obama-era rule limiting methane emissions on public lands, including intentional venting and flaring from drilling operations. A federal court struck down the revision in July 2020, calling the Trump administration’s reasoning “wholly inadequate” and mandating enforcement of the original rule. However, the Obama-era rule was later partially struck down in a separate court case, during which the Trump administration declined to defend it.
8. Eliminated Obama-era methane emissions standards for oil and gas facilities and narrowed standards limiting the release of other polluting chemicals known as “volatile organic compounds” to only certain facilities.
9. Withdrew a Clinton-era rule designed to limit toxic emissions from major industrial polluters, and later proposed codifying the looser standards.
10. Revised a program designed to safeguard communities from increases in pollution from new power plants to make it easier for facilities to avoid emissions regulations.
11. Amended rules that govern how refineries monitor pollution in surrounding communities.
12. Overturned Obama-era guidance meant to reduce emissions during power plant start-ups, shutdowns and malfunctions. As part of the process, the E.P.A. also reversed a requirement that Texas follow emissions rules during certain malfunction events.
13. Weakened an Obama-era rule meant to reduce air pollution in national parks and wilderness areas.
14. Weakened oversight of some state plans for reducing air pollution in national parks.
15. Established a minimum pollution threshold at which the E.P.A. can regulate greenhouse gas emissions from stationary sources: 3 percent of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. (Power plants meet this threshold, but oil and gas production facilities fall just below it.)
16. Relaxed air pollution regulations for a handful of plants that burn waste coal for electricity.
17. Repealed rules meant to reduce leaking and venting of powerful greenhouse gases known as hydrofluorocarbons from large refrigeration and air conditioning systems.
18. Directed agencies to stop using an Obama-era calculation of the social cost of carbon, which rulemakers used to estimate the long-term economic benefits of reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
19. Released new guidance that allows upwind states to contribute more ozone pollution to downwind states than during the Obama-era. (The E.P.A. under Mr. Trump also rejected pe ions from a handful of states over failure to address upwind states’ pollution.)
20. Withdrew guidance directing federal agencies to include greenhouse gas emissions in environmental reviews. But several district courts have ruled that emissions must be included in such reviews.
21. Revoked an Obama executive order that set a goal of cutting the federal government’s greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent over 10 years.
22. Repealed a requirement that state and regional authorities track tailpipe emissions from vehicles on federal highways.
23. Lifted a summertime ban on the use of E15, a gasoline blend made of 15 percent ethanol. (Burning gasoline with a higher concentration of ethanol in hot conditions increases smog.)
24. Changed rules to allow states and the E.P.A. to take longer to develop and approve plans aimed at cutting methane emissions from existing landfills.
25. Withdrew a proposed rule aimed at reducing pollutants, including air pollution, at sewage treatment plants.
26. Threw out most of a proposed policy that would have tightened pollution standards for offshore oil and gas operations and required them to use improved pollution controls.
27. Amended Obama-era emissions standards for clay ceramics manufacturers.
28. Relaxed some Obama-era requirements for companies to monitor and repair leaks at oil and gas facilities, including exempting certain low-production wells – a significant source of methane emissions – from the requirements altogether. (Other leak regulations were eliminated.)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...acks-list.html
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