Elon believes that people should hire their own private fire-fighters to stop their houses from burning... and firefighting should not be a public service supported by taxes.
Nine_Ender is one of the many Canadian fools here at ET who spends his time ragging on American's and their politics every chance he gets. I will assume he doesn't get enough sunlight and his brain is on tilt. Living in the cold north is not good for a human.
Toronto is warmer then a huge chunk of the US. My mind works circles around yours buddy come on now you just aren't an educated person. And let's be serious, American politics is a mess and Trump is going out of his way to instigate Canada in a trade war. So this is OUR business far more so than most of the military battles the US has been involved in for many years.
And all the other parts of the US that regularly have extreme weather, mass shootings etc etc they were just unlucky right ?
As I outlined earlier -- no water system in the world could have handled the LA fires. No ‘water system in the world’ could have handled the LA fires. https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/10/us/california-la-fires-emergency-prep-invs/index.html
Now suddenly the right-wing loves the LA Fire Chief. All she had to do is throw the mayor under the bus. LA fire chief says city failed residents in wildfire prep, budget cuts: 'Screaming to be properly funded' The fire chief said that staffing shortages and lack of resources have been pressing issues facing the department for years https://www.foxnews.com/us/la-fire-...re-prep-budget-cuts-screaming-properly-funded Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley said that the City of Los Angeles failed its over 100,000 displaced residents who were forced to evacuate from the ongoing wildfire siege. When asked by Fox News' affiliate, KTTV, if the City of Los Angeles, and its Mayor Karen Bass failed the city, Crowley replied: "Yes." Crowley said that pressing staffing shortages impacted the department's response time when the blaze began tearing across Los Angeles. "Any budget cut is going to impact our ability to provide service," she said. "That is a ground truth in regard to our ability. 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 said that staffing shortages and lack of resources has been a pressing issue facing the department for years. She pointed to a series of memos she sent to the city identifying in detail the needs of the department. "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 since day one," she 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." When asked about how the budget cuts, which slashed the budget by $17,553,814 from $837,191,237 to $819,637,423, Crowley said that they "did impact our ability to provide service." "On a normal day, our firefighters are running over 1,500 calls, and they're transporting 650 patients a day – let alone the last three days of what we've had," she said. The problems facing the fire department "isn't a new problem," Crowley told the local outlet. "The amount of calls that our firefighters are running today has doubled since 2010, a 55% increase with 68 fewer people. Full transparency. This isn't a new problem for us," she said. "Since the three years that I've been in the seat, I've sounded the alarm to say we need more." We are screaming to be properly funded to make sure that our firefighters can do their jobs… — Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley "This is no longer sustainable. So with that, we are now in a position to be properly funded," she said. "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 that the department has identified gaps in service and sent recommendations to the city. "We know we need 62 new fire stations. We need to double the size of our firefighters. The growth of this city since 1960 has doubled and we have less fire stations," she said. "So when you talk about sounding the alarm and asking and requesting budgets that are easily justifiable based off of the data, real data shows what the fire department needs to serve this beautiful city and the beautiful community that we swore that we would. That's what that is about," she said. Speaking from the heart, Crowley said: "None of us on the fire department are politicians." "Firefighters are here to serve them, first and foremost. Again, none of us on the fire department are politicians. We're public servants first," she said. "We took an oath to serve the public before ourselves and even before our families." "So with that, I want to focus on path forward. I want to focus on what the LAFD needs," Crowley said. "What our people need to do their jobs is to make sure that we can save lives and that we can protect property to the greatest capacity." "But we need to be funded appropriately," she said. "And that's where my head is at."
"Loves the LA Fire Chief?" Where is the evidence of that? Everything I have read indicates that the right, and some born again dems after the fire hate all the freaks who were involved. The Chief Freak there is just trying to pass it off to the mayor because she knows that the mayor and the council will be canning her/the Fire Freak before long. DEI was the number one goal for Cuba Karen Bass. Let's see how committed she is to protecting her freak buddies. Y'all don't want to race a dem to the lifeboats when the going gets rough. Karen Bass be saving her neck first. We love to watch these freaks cannibalize each other would be more like it. Just like we are enjoying the "who lost the election" shit show that we see everyday now. Some real born again dems there who suddenly are distancing themselves from failure.