
The wildfires in Los Angeles, California are estimated to have done more than $50 billion worth of damage so far, and now records show that it was all INTENTIONAL!
Of course, we know that Governor Gavin Newsom (D) practically went out of his way to ensure that there was no water in the area to put out wildfires.
We also know that Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) slashed millions of dollars in funding from the city’s firefighter’s budget just a year before which severely handicapped their equipment and readiness to put out fires.
But that’s only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to this MASSIVE scandal. What I’m about to tell you makes this disaster so much worse…
The fires started in the Pacific Palisades, and the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) had a chance to put out the blaze, preventing it from spreading and wreaking havoc across the state. However, they had a limited time window to extinguish the flames because of severe winds leading to an increased risk of the fire spreading.
But instead of letting firefighters have a real shot of putting out the fires, leadership decided to send JUST FIVE FIRE TRUCKS to deal with the growing fire. LAFD leaders REFUSED to approve the use of another 40 trucks to help them, forcing 1,000 active firefighters to sit on their hands as the flames grew out of control.
The Los Angeles Times obtained a series of disturbing documents exposing this.
These docs show that city fire officials “chose NOT to order the firefighters to remain on duty for a second shift last Tuesday as the winds were building — which would have doubled the personnel on hand — and staffed just five of more than 40 engines that are available to aid in battling wildfires, according to the records obtained by The Times,”
The outlet also cited interviews with LAFD officials and former chiefs who blew the whistle on what they suspect may have been foul play by the higher-ups who wanted to guarantee that those on-scene would FAIL to put the fires out.
LAFD leaders only made the call to dispatch additional firefighters to the Palisades once the fires were already “burning out of control” and hundreds of homes had already been destroyed.
“Officials said they moved more engines ‘first thing in the morning’ to also cover northeast L.A.,” The Times reported, adding, “They only acknowledged their decisions not to assign more firefighters or pre-position more of the available engines after The Times presented them with internal documents describing the department’s actions,” which suggests they wanted to hide what they had done.
Former LAFD Battalion Chief Rick Crawford told The Times that LAFD should immediately have dispatched every resource available to combat the fires.
“The plan you’re using now for the fire you should have used before the fire,” Crawford said, adding he would have issued a “limited recall” for outgoing firefighters keeping 1,000 on duty. “It’s a known staffing tactic — a deployment model.”
“You would have had a better chance to get a better result if you deployed those engines,” Crawford said. “You give yourself the best chance to minimize how big the fire could get. … If you do that, you have the ability to say, ‘I threw everything at it at the outset’…That didn’t happen here.”
It’s almost as if the Democrats calling the shots in the state, city, and even in the fire department, intentionally kneecapped efforts to fight the fires because they WANTED the city to burn down.
Now they get to rebuild Los Angeles as a tyrannical tech-driven “smart city” like they’ve been dreaming of doing… all while using federal tax payer dollars to do so…
Too many things went wrong for this to be written off as merely another natural disaster.
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