I Kid You Not; PBS Really Said This

I fell asleep after dinner with the TV on. I had been watching a lady rehabilitate hummingbirds on PBS.

When I woke up, a new program was on about fighting fires and the effects of climate and weather on the frequency of wildfires.

It must have been one of their NOVA programs.

Then they said it, I kid you not, referring to the LA fire department, the host of the program referred to the LA Fire Dept as a crack fire fighting team.

You know, the ones who let all of the Palisades burn down along with half of Pasadena a year ago because the city gave all their water to help little smelt fish which aren't even around anymore.
All PBS does is express "concern" about problems while offering no solutions. If someone was drowning they would be very 'concerned' but no one would jump into the water and save the person.
 
I fell asleep after dinner with the TV on. I had been watching a lady rehabilitate hummingbirds on PBS.

When I woke up, a new program was on about fighting fires and the effects of climate and weather on the frequency of wildfires.

It must have been one of their NOVA programs.

Then they said it, I kid you not, referring to the LA fire department, the host of the program referred to the LA Fire Dept as a crack fire fighting team.

You know, the ones who let all of the Palisades burn down along with half of Pasadena a year ago because the city gave all their water to help little smelt fish which aren't even around anymore.
In that part of the world you call in massive air tanker strikes at the beginning. Then you send in the ground crews to put out what fires are left burning. They bragged about deploying 100 'water bombing' aircraft when there should have been 1000 or more exercising a TOT (time-on-target) military-like water bombing campaign.
 
I fell asleep after dinner with the TV on. I had been watching a lady rehabilitate hummingbirds on PBS.

When I woke up, a new program was on about fighting fires and the effects of climate and weather on the frequency of wildfires.

It must have been one of their NOVA programs.

Then they said it, I kid you not, referring to the LA fire department, the host of the program referred to the LA Fire Dept as a crack fire fighting team.

You know, the ones who let all of the Palisades burn down along with half of Pasadena a year ago because the city gave all their water to help little smelt fish which aren't even around anymore.
I would agree, they are a crack firefighting team. City/State management, not so much.

Firefighters ordered to leave before Palisades Fire: report
 
In that part of the world you call in massive air tanker strikes at the beginning. Then you send in the ground crews to put out what fires are left burning. They bragged about deploying 100 'water bombing' aircraft when there should have been 1000 or more exercising a TOT (time-on-target) water bombing military-like campaign.

Doesn't LA and Palisades both have massive aquifers which funnel runoff of massive amounts of fresh water rainfall from the mountain ridge behind LA (behind Burbank where Ayers Rocks are) which could be saved and funneled into putting out fires?

Hell, they should have some system of massive water canons to flood the place with sea water if necessary to wet it down from burning rather then just let it all burn to the ground.
 
Do you ever get tired of talking stupid? Do you have a link to a story about those little smelt fish?
The delta smelt is a little three-inch silvery blue fish that lives in the San Francisco Bay and the San Joaquin Delta, and its declining population numbers have incited California’s controversial water wars. Biologists warn the world that the pumps in the delta are harming the fish’s already delicate state and could cause extinction. However, efforts made to protect the delta smelt population in the San Joaquin Delta are countered by farmers, who complain about the lack of clean drinking water and freshwater for their crops.
From 2012 to 2016, California suffered yet another drought, and Northern California needed to pump more water for their cities and farms. The delta smelt population suffered as a result, to the point where only 6 smelt were found in 2015, compared to 1,673 at their peak in 1970. Currently, it is unknown how many smelt are left in the wild, and scientists are concerned that the fish are too few and too spread out to reproduce.

Water use isn’t the only force against the struggling delta smelt; the pumps that suck water from the delta are also of note. Because the smelt are poor swimmers, they can get sucked into the pumping system. There is a system in place that collects the fish and trucks them back to the delta, but the fish are exposed to stress and predators along the way, and a 2012 study found that the system was insufficient altogether. Turning down the pumps when the smelt are near them has also been tried, but the delta smelt are elusive, and no one knows exactly where they are.
 
We heated canned C-rations that way when in the field. I especially like the corned beef hash.
I used to set mine on the manifold of the jeep. Only time I touched a cutting torch was crawing under a tank, later in career to cut the center guides, in order to break track, as if it threw the track, it always threw to the inside.:mad:
 
Do you ever get tired of talking stupid? Do you have a link to a story about those little smelt fish?
It's the snail darter fish. But that wasn't the real reason for no water in the reservoir. It was closed for repair. Just no money for repair.

California is a very rich state that has no money. It has a disintegrating infrastructure. The state's money is spent on agencies, salaries and administrative costs.
 
It's the snail darter fish. But that wasn't the real reason for no water in the reservoir. It was closed for repair. Just no money for repair.

California is a very rich state that has no money. It has a disintegrating infrastructure. The state's money is spent on agencies, salaries and administrative costs.
And high-speed-rail to-nowhere.
 
And high-speed-rail to-nowhere.
They are still working on the environmental studies, the impact reports, the coastal commission reports, the administration costs, there is no money left to build anything.
 
That's how we heated ours, a Jeep or 3/4 ton. Some guys just ate them cold.
Mainly cold when I was enlisted. Though bivouac during blizzard of 78', I took a Sterno stove in my pack for heating C-rats and making coffee in canteen cup. When it is minus 11 degrees at night, 3-4 ft of snow, you get real popular, even with the Sergeants and cadre, as a PFC for already knowing how to survive, with a little style.
 
They are still working on the environmental studies, the impact reports, the coastal commission reports, the administration costs, there is no money left to build anything.
Sounds familiar.
 
We went to the field on a very cold period in Korea. When volunteers were called for mess duty I volunteered. I slept in a large, heated mess tent, had my hands in hot water most of the time, unlimited (but terrible) coffee. I wasn't too popular with my unit which had to suffer the bone-chilling Korean cold.
 
I was glad to see what a hit they took after their federal funding came to an end. I did have to laugh though about them bragging about all of their fair and unbiased news they weren't going to be able to report anymore.
I thought we were told all the time that only a very small portion of their funding came from the government so they could not be accused of colluding with the government for positive coverage.
 
I fell asleep after dinner with the TV on. I had been watching a lady rehabilitate hummingbirds on PBS.

When I woke up, a new program was on about fighting fires and the effects of climate and weather on the frequency of wildfires.

It must have been one of their NOVA programs.

Then they said it, I kid you not, referring to the LA fire department, the host of the program referred to the LA Fire Dept as a crack fire fighting team.

You know, the ones who let all of the Palisades burn down along with half of Pasadena a year ago because the city gave all their water to help little smelt fish which aren't even around anymore.
They likely are, but you can't fight fires with no water.
 
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I was glad to see what a hit they took after their federal funding came to an end. I did have to laugh though about them bragging about all of their fair and unbiased news they weren't going to be able to report anymore.
What is most disturbing is that public media actually believes that it is fair and unbiased.
 
In that part of the world you call in massive air tanker strikes at the beginning. Then you send in the ground crews to put out what fires are left burning. They bragged about deploying 100 'water bombing' aircraft when there should have been 1000 or more exercising a TOT (time-on-target) military-like water bombing campaign.
Where do you get the 1000 aircraft, dumbass?
 
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