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2025-01-10 Government Corruption

LA's $750k-a-year water boss struggles to explain why fire hydrants ran dry in bumbling video about inferno response

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-01-10 01:41|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11138 views ] Top

#1 Biden lets slip real reason LA fire hydrants were dry when flames began as Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass cling to their jobs

Posted by Skidmark 2025-01-10 01:44|| 2025-01-10 01:44|| Front Page Top

#2 LA mayor Karen Bass breaks silence on growing calls for her to resign over shocking fire mismanagement

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Maui's chief of emergency management resigns amid criticism

Posted by Skidmark 2025-01-10 02:05|| 2025-01-10 02:05|| Front Page Top

#3 #2 Let me guess - without clicking the link: racism & sexism cards.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2025-01-10 02:09|| 2025-01-10 02:09|| Front Page Top

#4
Given, LA is next to Ocean.
Why hasn't it already installed piping to use seawater instead of mainly using fresh/ treated Colorado River water to fight fires?

Posted by NN2N1 2025-01-10 05:27|| 2025-01-10 05:27|| Front Page Top

#5 This 'tard came from PG&E. Figures.

Hmmmm

Posted by DooDahMan 2025-01-10 05:41|| 2025-01-10 05:41|| Front Page Top

#6

Wonder why the CAL DOT decided 60 LA Fire Trucks needed immediate inspection and at a location 400 miles away?

Posted by NN2N1 2025-01-10 06:48|| 2025-01-10 06:48|| Front Page Top

#7 Hydrants are just valves that tap into the existing potable water system. A full seawater system would require separate piping everywhere. You could design a system that could be connected and isolated for emergency use with seawater and/or untreated water use. Setting that up would require a lot of planning, technical competence and political will that isn’t available in the location of the disaster. It is not an alteration that can’t be done on the fly. Spending money on a firefighting project in LA could only happen if 90% of the money could be syphoned off through corruption. Look for that to be proposed by Newsom in the aftermath.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-01-10 08:17|| 2025-01-10 08:17|| Front Page Top

#8
If you ever wonder why CAL is so hosed?

There are Media reports indicating LA Mayor is or was in Africa when the LA area fires were in full bloom.

LA Mayor Bass was a frequent traveler, to Communist Cuba.

There are reports she trained alongside future members of M19 and the Weather Underground, two domestic terror groups, in terrorist tactics.

Posted by NN2N1 2025-01-10 08:50|| 2025-01-10 08:50|| Front Page Top

#9 #4 they're getting around to it.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-01-10 08:59|| 2025-01-10 08:59|| Front Page Top

#10 There's an antisemitic conspiracy theory about how a single family bought up all the water bearing land in LA. It's bullshit, like all antisemitic conspiracy theories.

Posted by Angulet Glomoper3773 2025-01-10 09:22|| 2025-01-10 09:22|| Front Page Top

#11 Next Time, L.A., Don't Elect a Commie Who Hates You. Here's How!

Posted by Frank G 2025-01-10 09:40|| 2025-01-10 09:40|| Front Page Top

#12 From what I've heard, she wasn't elected mayor until after midnight IYKWIM.

Getting bene trips to Africa as celebrity ambassador, I believe it.

And absolutely pulling a Kathleen Sebelius, as predicted.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-01-10 10:13|| 2025-01-10 10:13|| Front Page Top

#13 Re #7: There are lots of good reasons NOT to use sea water for firefighting. Sea water is corrosive, so pipes and fittings would need to be hardened against it. Also, spreading salt water around the ground can contaminate it.
Ships can use seawater for firefighting because the firefighting pipes are separate.

Posted by Rambler 2025-01-10 10:15|| 2025-01-10 10:15|| Front Page Top

#14 ^ Scooper planes were dropping seawater

Posted by Frank G 2025-01-10 10:17|| 2025-01-10 10:17|| Front Page Top

#15 Los Angeles' water boss who makes $750,000 a year couldn't quite explain why fire hydrants have run dry

DEI appointment? POTUS only makes $400K/or +50K for expenses. This does not count Bidet's administration. CF city and CF state.

Posted by JohnQC 2025-01-10 10:44|| 2025-01-10 10:44|| Front Page Top

#16 Leaked memo reveals LA Mayor Karen Bass demanded her fire department cut an extra $49 million just ONE WEEK before wildfires broke out

Posted by Skidmark 2025-01-10 10:53|| 2025-01-10 10:53|| Front Page Top

#17 PG&E says it all!

Posted by RJ45ACP 2025-01-10 10:57|| 2025-01-10 10:57|| Front Page Top

#18 Scooper planes were dropping seawater

Somebody will complain about that for damaging the golf courses, although those are mostly located north of the Santa Monica range.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2025-01-10 11:14|| 2025-01-10 11:14|| Front Page Top

#19 spreading salt water around the ground can contaminate it.

The pictures I've seen it appears you couldn't contaminate it much more other than dropping nuclear waste on it.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-01-10 13:54|| 2025-01-10 13:54|| Front Page Top

#20 #1, Skidmark, who authorized Biden to tell the truth? Maybe he thought the need to cut off power was a good excuse for having no water for the fire hydrants but it's not. Those power lines should have been buried over a hundred years ago. If you have to cut off electricity when Santa Ana winds blow, then you will not have electricity at a time when it is absolutely critical that you do. Newsom knows that and did nothing about it so he must bear responsibility for this tragedy.

California is a big, highly complex enterprise. You can't just sit back, sip wine, put Dipity-Do in your hair and run for president if you want to avoid major disasters. You can't just put it on auto-pilot. If you're not paying attention, things like fire hydrants running dry during a fire will happen. It's like talking on a cell phone while driving a car. You need to be serious, responsible, realistic and pro-active. Newsom isn't.

Newsom has prioritized all the wrong things during his time in office. He's working to keep Trump from deporting illegal aliens. He's making sure illegal aliens are registered to vote and getting health care at the taxpayers' expense. He squanders billions of dollars on housing for hobos and high speed rail. But he will not bury power lines. There is no forest management. There are no fire breaks or green belts to minimize the impact of fires when they start, which they always will. He won't spend a dime to thin the brush in the canyons where the fires start. He will not incarcerate the hobos who camp in that brush and start fires to cook their beans.

Instead of doing an honest day's work, he'd rather blame climate change for all the problems that result from his incompetence and lack of integrity.

He pays attention to all the wrong things like being woke, hip, good looking and DEI. Meanwhile the state is going to hell.

Trump is right. Newsom should resign in disgrace.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-01-10 13:56|| 2025-01-10 13:56|| Front Page Top

#21 Scooper planes were dropping seawater

Cool planes! Once the wind died down, the air assets could go to work.

But how can you drop a thousand gallons of chloride and microplastics without filing an Environmental Impact Statement? It may be a life or death situation, but we cannot have our bureaucrats sitting around with nothing to do.

In other news, I don't have a link, but I saw a report that Oregon had sent firefighters and equipment to help out, but the Cali Dept. of Transportation was holding up the show by insisting the trucks be inspected before they would let them into the state.

Posted by SteveS 2025-01-10 15:02|| 2025-01-10 15:02|| Front Page Top

#22 In other news, I don't have a link

The missing link ....

Posted by Skidmark 2025-01-10 15:37|| 2025-01-10 15:37|| Front Page Top

#23 Apparently 1 of the 2 planes scooped a drone and is out of action at the moment.

Me the other day:
The single best thing the can do now is ease travel restrictions for emergency and relief traffic.

Newsome:
ja ja ja ja ja suck it.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-01-10 16:04|| 2025-01-10 16:04|| Front Page Top

#24 Three million gallons. Pish. The 117 million gallon tank was out of service for an unknown time due to a tear in the liner.

Posted by KBK 2025-01-10 18:20|| 2025-01-10 18:20|| Front Page Top

#25 The missing link ....

Thank you, sir! My google fu is weak

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