The fire didn’t start spontaneously! Someone or something started the first spark or flame as it didn’t come from lightening. It also didn’t start accidentally from an unattended campfire, fallen electrical line, or a car backfiring on dry grass during a heatwave. A cigarette? Who is smoking at the top of a mountain? The power had been shut off due to high winds. This is January! Weather temperatures are on the cool side. We’re supposed to be out of the fire danger season. And Santa Ana winds were forecasted and quite normal for Los Angeles.
The residents of Pacific Palisades did not see this fire coming and had little warning as evidenced by their cars being left on the road and fleeing on foot. And the fire department were unprepared as well evidenced by no helicopters dropping water on the hillside before it came down to the homes. These homeowners lost a lifetime of memories in a matter of minutes. Most of them were probably seniors living there most of their lives like Billy Crystal. It was one of the most prized areas of Los Angeles to live in, more exclusive than Malibu where Paris Hilton lost her “vacation” home. It was L.A.’s best kept secret, but not any longer.
They say the embers from this fire blew to other areas of Los Angeles and sparked five more fires and mandatory evacuations. Fire officials say embers can only travel 100 yards so there’s that to consider. Altadena, an urban community of upscale homes, is almost completely wiped out as shown on aerial photographs as well as Malibu beach homes.
It has come to our attention that the firefighters were understaffed for the number of fires occurring at the same time. Newsom even stupidly said that fire hydrants are typically there for individual home fires not fires to this magnitude. But doesn’t Newsom realize that California has experienced fires of this magnitude since the 2017 Tubbs Fire of Fountain Grove Santa Rosa which came in the wee hours of the night taking out 5600 upscale golf course homes and killing 22 people that couldn’t escape in time? Shouldn’t he have had time to rectify the failures of this 2017 hillside fire that spread as fast as a freight train coming due to high winds? Apparently not. The Tubbs Fire was the first of these firestorm fires in California and folks that rebuilt are still struggling to acquire home insurance. And the claims on this fire have still not been paid in full by PG&E eight years later. They blame covid, stock losses, and inflation for the delays in payment.
Instead Newsom blames the local government for not having enough water and manpower to put out the fire. That is rich since Newsom dismantled four dams in California to release water for the American Indians to fish and the salmon to swim further or something like that. (The road to hell is paved with good intentions.) He diverts snow runoff water into the ocean to protect the smelt fish. Ahh, how nice. He doesn’t thin the forest underbrush probably to protect some grub worms, endangered mice, or bird nests. Who knows? And he is against forest management or fire breaks cut into the hills which they had in the past but discontinued due to protecting some rodents.
All these measures would have reduced the amount of fuel as well as provided access to the areas for firefighters. Far left environmentalists are running California and have Newsom in their pocket. He needs to go ASAP! He’s made California almost unrecognizable when I go there once a month. People are grabby, some wearing masks, some are in homeless tents near shopping centers or mobile trailers parked by the wetlands, and all are darn right unhappy. But I digress.
Now, Los Angeles has their own problems with hiring firefighters. It was said that they only hired black, hispanic and women for seven years telling qualified, white, experienced male firefighters to get on their waiting list. Currently the female fire chief of Los Angeles County is seeking LBGTQ hires so they can have a place to work. Seriously? This is the criteria to put out fires? No, it is to make all folks feel welcome at the fire department.
In the past, you had to pass excruciating physical tests to even be considered for this job. But this is DEI run amuck. The current fire chief of Los Angeles needs to resign in shame as well as the Mayor of Los Angeles who was on vacation in Africa before the Santa Ana winds came. What does Africa have to do with Los Angeles? Nothing. She also shouldn’t have cut the budget of the firefighters by 17 million, diverted the funds to homeless programs, nor sent firefighting supplies to Ukraine. Turns out the homeless nonprofits that receive millions from our government are giving themselves a salary of $800 thousand a year but the homeless problem gets worse by the day with all the illegals they allow to come in.
And what’s with all these women running departments in blue states? Even their city council is all women. What’s next an all women football team? As a woman myself, I hate to say this but only hire a woman if she has the qualities, fitness, and experience to hold a formerly male position. Don’t just look at her degree in Women’s Studies which is worthless. Merit based hiring is what they need to get back to. That’s where we are going wrong in my opinion. The equal rights movement for women (women’s lib) has gone overboard and this is the result.
So who started this fire and why? Was it terror-related like some celebrities have alluded to? Simple way to take out half a county with arson and let the Santa Ana winds do the rest after choosing the location of your choice. Today a video shows the Palisades fire started at a barren mountain top. Who or what the hell was at the top of that mountain? A broken piece of glass, a magnifying glass, or a fire starting drone? Something the fire investigators need to look into once Trump gets into office. I don’t trust Newsom or Biden. They lie.
And where is FEMA? Are they going to ignore these homeless victims like they are doing in North Carolina if they had a Trump sign? I would think not as it is a predominantly blue state; in fact, Biden has already promised 100% reimbursement to Los Angeles government but not the people themselves. That’s a problem. The authorities will all get raises and the victims will be left out in the cold. Trump needs to divert that money to the folks somehow.
If Newsom had been focused on fire prevention rather than Trump-proofing California, we wouldn’t be in this mess. If I were governor of California, I’d waive their property taxes until their homes are rebuilt, provide free mobile homes on each lot to stay at while they are rebuilding, cover their architect fees to design their new home, expedite free building permits and debris clean up, bring in mobile buildings where the schools burned so their children aren’t missing class, have all electrical wires installed underground in this area, allow for food trucks and supplies to drive by daily, waive all utility costs until they are made whole, and have many tamper proof fire hydrants installed as well as water tanks. Same for victims of Hurricane Helene.
Coincidentally Joe Biden was in L.A. when the fires started. Is he bad luck or what? This gives new meaning to the Scorched Earth Mission Joe is on. He was there for some conservation efforts but realized it was ironic, so said he was there to “meet his great granddaughter…um, I mean grandson” (freudian slip by him. He loves little girls.) Then went onto say his son Hunter may have lost his home. Seriously? Then where were you visiting? What a liar. Everything has to be about him so he can garner sympathy or appear poor. For instance: Beau died in the Iraq war, Joe had oil cancer, his uncle was eaten by cannibals, used to drive a big rig, dodged bullets in a war zone, was arrested during civil unrest, house burned down from a kitchen fire, on and on. All lies. Biden was raised as a privileged child whose father ran a Chevy dealership, and Joe drove a new Chevy each year of high school. Spoiled!
The Sierra Mountain fires were started by eco terrorists we believe, but not one has been arrested. What are the chances they or some even more nefarious are at it again? There are reports of arson in other areas of L.A. like Calabasas. These arsonists or homeless know that California is all about electric cars, solar panels, windmills, and vegan food and against cows, gasoline, gas appliances, gas furnaces, storing water, lush large lawns, and are most likely taking advantage of authorities that are more preoccupied with the aforementioned issues. California doesn’t like wasting water yet they pour it into the ocean when the reservoirs overflow. It’s an oxymoron.
And lastly, it has been reported that L.A. homeless are using fire hydrants to give themselves sponge baths and wash whatever they want cleaned. That is not the purpose of a FIRE hydrant yet the police turn a blind eye and now we know why the water tanks are low. The water pumps probably need servicing, be put on separate power from homes, and more water tanks need constructing; but our property taxes are being wasted on pet projects like transgender issues. If anything good comes out of this manmade disaster, it is that Newsom and Bass are done, DEI is done, woke is done, and that California may now realize that they need a conservative governor if they ever want to get back to normal. They voted for these clowns.
If I hear one more news anchor call this disaster in L.A. “a natural disaster,” or the first of its kind, I don’t know what I’ll do. There is nothing natural about what is going on in Los Angeles just like the fire in Lahaina wasn’t normal or natural or the Tubbs Fire. Something else is going on and it’s not climate change. We have evil, angry people running around or have let evil into our country, and we have far left environmentals controlling our tax dollars. This may just be the beginning of more to come. But I pray not, and hope Trump can help.
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