Newsome's name is now mud....

[martybegan]

When hot winds are over fifty miles an hour and it hasn't rained in nine months there are going to be wildfires. It happens in California. It happens in Texas. It happens in Nevada and Utah and Kansas and Kentucky. Nothing on earth stops that. I have seen it with my own eyes on the Gulf Coast of Texas.

The problem is in California the urban areas have been pushing up right to the edge, and sometimes into the mountains surrounding the flat areas more and more over the past 2-3 decades. There isn't a barrier anymore between the hard wilderness and the denser suburban tracts that used to be there due to agriculture, less dense rural housing, or open land.

Look at google maps shots of LA and you see dense housing jutted right up against open areas that then go for miles.

 

[Lisa558]

I will not get started on Newsome. I am no fan of Governor French Laundry. *
I just have seen Wildfire Elephant a couple of times here - driven through more than one. You cannot stop a wildfire in dry country driven by high winds. More than one fire has even caused by crews trying to clear brush starting a spark and BOOM there it goes.


*We took a trip to the wine country and actually passed by the restaurant. Noice!

There were things the Dems could have done to make it less horrible: like thin out the dry brush and have water available to put out house fires.

Did you see how the mayor - why are black females so disproptionately represented in leftist areas? - refused to even say a word when asked why she went to Africa as her city was about to burn down? She’s a LOCAL representative.

 

[marvin martian]

When hot winds are over fifty miles an hour and it hasn't rained in nine months there are going to be wildfires. It happens in California. It happens in Texas. It happens in Nevada and Utah and Kansas and Kentucky. Nothing on earth stops that. I have seen it with my own eyes on the Gulf Coast of Texas.

Cool story, bro. Did the fire hydrants work?

 

[marvin martian]

There were things the Dems could have done to make it less horrible: like thin out the dry brush and have water available to put out house fires.

Did you see how the mayor - why are black females so disproptionately represented in leftist areas? - refused to even say a word when asked why she went to Africa as her city was about to burn down? She’s a LOCAL representative.

No, they laughed when Trump and others (like firefighters) suggested that brush clearing may reduce the risk of wildfire, and the resulting damage. It was totally hilarious, Trump is so dumb, right?

 

[Nostra]

‘Make America Rake Again’: Confusion in Finland over Trump’s wildfire comments​

Finnish President Sauli Niinistö said in an interview published Sunday that although President Donald Trump claimed the European leader told him Finns rarely have forest fires because they “spend a lot of time raking,” he doesn’t recall discussing that with Trump when they met last weekend in Paris.

Niinistö told the Finnish newspaper Ilta-Sanomat, a CNN affiliate, that the subject of raking was never brought up in his conversations with Trump. He said that they did discuss the California wildfires when they met, and that he told Trump “we take care of our forests.”

The Finnish President told the newspaper that he intended to convey that although Finland is covered by forests, the nation has a good monitoring system which has helped to prevent catastrophic wildfires. He added that he only sees raking in his own yard, and surmised that raking perhaps came to Trump’s mind after he saw firefighters raking some of the burned areas in California.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/18/politics/finnish-president-trump-raking-forest-fires/index.html

I'm going with dementia.

TRUMPTRUMPTRUMPTRUMP 24/7/365

Seek help soon.

 

[martybegan]

The problem is in California the urban areas have been pushing up right to the edge, and sometimes into the mountains surrounding the flat areas more and more over the past 2-3 decades. There isn't a barrier anymore between the hard wilderness and the denser suburban tracts that used to be there due to agriculture, less dense rural housing, or open land.

Look at google maps shots of LA and you see dense housing jutted right up against open areas that then go for miles.

I'm also seeing conflicting articles about Sierra Club influence on proscribed burns, with some articles calling for more of them, but others stating Sierra club lawsuit threats made approving said burns very difficult.

 

[martybegan]

The problem is in California the urban areas have been pushing up right to the edge, and sometimes into the mountains surrounding the flat areas more and more over the past 2-3 decades. There isn't a barrier anymore between the hard wilderness and the denser suburban tracts that used to be there due to agriculture, less dense rural housing, or open land.

Look at google maps shots of LA and you see dense housing jutted right up against open areas that then go for miles.

I'm also seeing conflicting articles about Sierra Club influence on proscribed burns, with some articles calling for more of them, but others stating Sierra club lawsuit threats made approving said burns very difficult.

 

[marvin martian]

I'm also seeing conflicting articles about Sierra Club influence on proscribed burns, with some articles calling for more of them, but others stating Sierra club lawsuit threats made approving said burns very difficult.

It's ok, the fire chief is "getting it done"!

 

[john doe 101]

But the Smelt is Ok folks! Oh and let's make sure that the right percentage of trannies are putting out fires! And what about the rainbow paint jobs on those fire trucks?

Remember how they mocked Trump for suggesting that California do preemptive fire prep? It was laughed at all over...listen....can you hear it? No?
Try the seashell thing....I'm sure someone is still laughing somewhere.

So what's this I hear about fire insurance? Got canceled in those areas months ago? Tsk tsk tsk.
Maybe people will buy tickets to see the Smelt?
Whatcha think?

Serious question. What is wrong with you?

 

[martybegan]

It's ok, the fire chief is "getting it done"!

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Focus on things outside of what you are supposed to be fucking doing is another issue.

Failure isn't usually caused by one thing going wrong, it's usually a cascade of things going wrong.

Look at Pearl Harbor as an example. First, the lack of clear communication of the issue from Washington to Pearl. Then the idiotic alert against sabotage lining all the planes out in the open, then the general state of the fleet with all ammo locked away, then the use of radar but the failure to understand what it was showing, finally the mistake of having most scouting patrols assume any Japanese approach would be from the south or southwest.

Something going right for the Americans in ANY of those spots might not have stopped the attack, but it would have mitigated it to a degree.

 

[Zincwarrior]

The problem is in California the urban areas have been pushing up right to the edge, and sometimes into the mountains surrounding the flat areas more and more over the past 2-3 decades. There isn't a barrier anymore between the hard wilderness and the denser suburban tracts that used to be there due to agriculture, less dense rural housing, or open land.

Look at google maps shots of LA and you see dense housing jutted right up against open areas that then go for miles.

It has been like that since the beginning. Just pushing out East. My college was surrounded by miles of concrete, but there was a mount (big hill vs. a mountain mountain ) which was primarily open. Can't building on them because of well they are mountains and landslides. We used to drive by inner city drive by country twenty minutes up to Mount Baldy.

The Palisades portion is where wealthy live. Those are probably $5MM+ to $50MM homes.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

But the Smelt is Ok folks! Oh and let's make sure that the right percentage of trannies are putting out fires! And what about the rainbow paint jobs on those fire trucks?

Remember how they mocked Trump for suggesting that California do preemptive fire prep? It was laughed at all over...listen....can you hear it? No?
Try the seashell thing....I'm sure someone is still laughing somewhere.

So what's this I hear about fire insurance? Got canceled in those areas months ago? Tsk tsk tsk.
Maybe people will buy tickets to see the Smelt?
Whatcha think?

You need water to make mud, so more accurate to say that his name is dirt

 

[Zincwarrior]

Cool story, bro. Did the fire hydrants work?

There aren't fire hydrants in the mountains idiot.

I am not defending the governments of LA, Cali or well anyone. I am noting you can't stop a literal firestorm until the winds abate.

 

[Nostra]

 

[Nostra]

 

[Nostra]

With $18 million in Dimwinger budget cuts to the LA Fire Department, and a fire chief more interested in DEI than being able to put out fires, it's not surprising they are completely unprepared to deal with Newsome's wildfires.


L.A. Fire Chief Kristin Crowley warned L.A. Mayor Karen Bass (D) last month that her budgets to the department were putting the city at serious risk for wildfires because the cuts limited the department’s ability to respond.

In a memo dated December 4, 2024, Crowley wrote that the nearly $18 million in cuts “severely limited the department’s capacity to prepare for, train for, and respond to large-scale emergencies, including wildfires.”


“Without this funding, pilot compliance and readiness are jeopardized, and aerial firefighting capabilities are diminished,” Crowley wrote in the memo that was presented last month to the Board of Fire Commissioners, a panel of mayoral appointees who oversee the management of the Department, according to a local NBC News affiliate.

Crowley said that the overtime hours funded “Heavy Equipment Operators (HEOs) who make fire control lines around wildland fires, manage firefighting robotics, wildland fire road maintenance, post-fire demolition services, and other allhazard emergency services.”

“Ultimately, loss of funding impairs the Department’s ability to mitigate wildland fires and other hazards effectively,” she wrote.

L.A. Fire Chief Warned Democrat Mayor Bass Budget Cuts ‘Severely Limited’ Fire Response

L.A. Fire Chief Kristin Crowley warned L.A. Mayor Karen Bass (D) last month that her budgets to the department were putting the city at serious risk for wildfires because the cuts limited the department’s ability to respond. In a memo dated December 4, 2024, Crowley wrote that the nearly $18...

www.dailywire.com

 

[Independent thinker]

But the Smelt is Ok folks! Oh and let's make sure that the right percentage of trannies are putting out fires! And what about the rainbow paint jobs on those fire trucks?

Remember how they mocked Trump for suggesting that California do preemptive fire prep? It was laughed at all over...listen....can you hear it? No?
Try the seashell thing....I'm sure someone is still laughing somewhere.

So what's this I hear about fire insurance? Got canceled in those areas months ago? Tsk tsk tsk.
Maybe people will buy tickets to see the Smelt?
Whatcha think?

Here's what I think: The leftists will try to get taxpayers to pay for any homes not covered by insurance.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Remember folks, DEI is the most important thing. Those fires are just ancillary stuff. Burn burn burn.

 

[marvin martian]

There aren't fire hydrants in the mountains idiot.

I am not defending the governments of LA, Cali or well anyone. I am noting you can't stop a literal firestorm until the winds abate.

The mountains of coastal TX?

LOL, good one, Ivan. The Russian troll farm where you work needs to spring for the paid version of Google maps so you can be a little more convincing.

I have seen it with my own eyes on the Gulf Coast of Texas.