LA Firefighters Warned That People Would Die Due to Staffing Crises And Were Ignored

Los Angeles is literally burning down before our eyes, but the metaphorical fire started long ago as politicians and bureaucrats proved that their commitment to their employees and their citizens was dwarfed by their commitment to pillaging the city budget, enacting their social engineering dreams, and spending their days virtue signaling.

Every day, we learn more and more, and it's by now clear that it was not simply incompetence that led to this Biblical-style disaster, but indifference. -- More...

A fire union chief in Los Angeles breaks down in tears on @CNN as the staffing shortfalls, he had been warning about for years, is mentioned.

We all know about the budget cuts by @MayorOfLA Karen bASS & @GavinNewsom. Budget cuts to essential services in order for Newsom and the… pic.twitter.com/pIG3YAMnWO

— C-Reason???????? (@CreasonJana) January 16, 2025

“The firefighters themselves have been demoralized with what’s going on. They know how to do their job, and they haven't been allowed to do it. They should have been mobilized as early as January 3rd."

"Karen Bass flew to Ghana on the third. The National Guard should have been called out then. They should have stationed fire engines in strategic places around Los Angeles. Jesse, there's a hundred fire engines that are in the shops or repair at this moment that should have been repaired and should have been stationed around LA. They've been demoralized."

"Their funding has been cut. They've had twice as many calls per day for the fire department. Half of them to put out fires by the homeless. And their staffing is down by a third."

"They were demoralized before this crisis. These are the people that we should be raising up and celebrating. They've just been demoralized by the terrible governance and lack of leadership at the state and local level."

"The whistleblower that I spoke to was very frustrated. They said you really should be stationing the fire trucks. Get them in position before there's any fire. Get those planes circling overhead to drop water and fire retardant. So you put the fires out before they can spiral out of control."

????.@shellenberger reports that LA firefighters have been demoralized by their disastrous leadership:

“The firefighters themselves have been demoralized with what’s going on. They know how to do their job, and they haven't been allowed to do it. They should have been mobilized as… pic.twitter.com/aZz2w6Vvz8

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) January 15, 2025