This is wrong and a dangerously disingenuous bid to discredit California government while minimizing climate change. DEI policies have had no effect on staffing patterns in local fire departments or the California Division of Forestry, which oversees Calfire. Firemen receive the same training no matter whsat color they are. these fires in Los Angeles are the product of 100-mph Santa Ana winds, which reverse the normal wind flow off the Pacific Ocean and instead sweep down from the north and east. that combines with unprecedented high temperatures and drought. it hasn't rained in Los Angeles for eight months. these conditions overcame the normal system of firefighting equipment and water reserves.
here is Joan Didion, California's most eloquent chronicler, on Santa Ana winds even before climate change. i recommend reading the whole thing, but here is a relevant passage..
The deeply corrupt/incompetent California government is 100% to blame for the immense scale and scope of this fiasco. They always find endless amounts of $ for their corrupt pet projects & priorities (highspeed trains to nowhere, the homeless industrial complex etc) BUT never ever seem to have $ to maintain anything - like roads (falling apart - Malaysia, not exactly great at maintaining stuff either, has better roads/infrastructure...) or state owned forest/brush land... Then they blame others (PG&N) when a disaster like a fire strikes...
Then they allow their rich developer friends to build subdivisions where there should not be subdivisions e.g. when I left to go back to university in the winter of 1996, both sides of the highway were flooded on the way to SF airport. Guess what's starting to be built in those areas now? Someone my dad worked with had bought a house in a subdivision on a delta tract that was underwater in the 1986 floods (ohh but the levee was "fixed" when they built the subdivision...) and had to evacuate (like, weren't you aware that area was underwater in previous floods?)...
In the 1996 floods, farmers, in the middle of the night, had to use bulldozers and farm equipment to do emergency repairs on a levee near the house my mother grew up in (Luckily nobody had camera phones to record them and local law enforcement looked the other way...) b/c the govt had refused to repair the levee due to some endangered bug or rodent (& was forced to release massive amounts of water from reservoirs upstream that were at full capacity - causing the flooding I saw on the way to university)... I can imagine the CA govt has a similar excuse for not maintaining their forest and brush land OR there simply is no way for their friends/donors etc to line their pockets by doing so (unlike with "solving" the homeless problems...)...
What a load of unmitigated crap? The Californian desert of Beverly Hills, Hollywood and those other regions on fire are just that. Deserts. What do these people want? a blizzard? The majority of homes destroyed are over priced tools of tax avoidance and money laundering. Many of these fires were deliberately lit. Thats according to a preliminary report by the FBI and the fire services.
In most cases these fires are lit to destroy evidence of wrong doings but done at the right time and destroy flailing businesses in what they call "Jewish Lightning". But you can use that term anymore as they call it anti semitic language. Early post war wish settlers often burned down their businesses claiming full value of their depleted and old assets then collecting the money o build bigger ones Hence the term "Jewish Lightning". They often ascribed the fire to lightning when there was none.
What's really concerning to many in the Hills is the bundles of cash stored by wealthy cocaine and other drug traffickers who he embedded themselves in the Hollywood area, the largest consumers of coke and other such niceties. Its got nothing to do with not employing White fire fighters.
Most dwellers in the big end of town like Hollywood and the surrounding suburbs are tax avoiders and rogues. They create all sorts of tax shelters to avoid their legal obligations to pay taxes. Let them now eat cake.
This is wrong and a dangerously disingenuous bid to discredit California government while minimizing climate change. DEI policies have had no effect on staffing patterns in local fire departments or the California Division of Forestry, which oversees Calfire. Firemen receive the same training no matter whsat color they are. these fires in Los Angeles are the product of 100-mph Santa Ana winds, which reverse the normal wind flow off the Pacific Ocean and instead sweep down from the north and east. that combines with unprecedented high temperatures and drought. it hasn't rained in Los Angeles for eight months. these conditions overcame the normal system of firefighting equipment and water reserves.
here is Joan Didion, California's most eloquent chronicler, on Santa Ana winds even before climate change. i recommend reading the whole thing, but here is a relevant passage..
.https://www.murrieta.k12.ca.us/cms/lib5/CA01000508/Centricity/Domain/1538/The%20Santa%20Anas.pdf
"Easterners commonly complain that there is no "weather" at all in Southern
California, that the days and the seasons slip by relentlessly, numbingly bland.
That is quite misleading. In fact the climate is characterized by infrequent but
violent extremes: two periods of torrential subtropical rains which continue for
weeks and wash out the hills and send subdivisions sliding toward the sea; about
twenty scattered days a year of the Santa Ana, which, with its incendiary dryness,
invariably means fire. At the first prediction of a Santa Ana, the Forest Service
flies men and equipment from northern California into the southern forests, and
the Los Angeles Fire Department cancels its ordinary non-firefighting routines.
The Santa Ana caused Malibu to burn as it did in 1956, and Bel Air in 1961, and
Santa Barbara in 1964. In the winter of 1966-67 eleven men were killed fighting a
Santa Ana fire that spread through the San Gabriel Mountains.
Just to watch the front-page news out of Los Angeles during a Santa Ana is to get
very close to what it is about the place. The longest single Santa Ana period in
recent years was in 1957, and it lasted not the usual three or four days but
fourteen days, from November 21 until December 4. On the first day 25,000 acres
of the San Gabriel Mountains were burning, with gusts reaching 100 miles an
hour. In town, the wind reached Force 12, or hurricane force, on the Beaufort
Scale; oil derricks were toppled and people ordered off the downtown streets to
avoid injury from flying objects. On November 22 the fire in the San Gabriels
was out of control. On November 24 six people were killed in automobile
accidents, and by the end of the week the Los Angeles Times was keeping a box
score of traffic deaths. On November 26 a prominent Pasadena attorney,
depressed about money, shot and killed his wife, their two sons and himself. On
November 27 a South Gate divorcée, twenty-two, was murdered and thrown from
a moving car. On November 30 the San Gabriel fire was still out of control, and
the wind in town was blowing eighty miles an hour. On the first day of December
four people died violently, and on the third the wind began to break.
It is hard for people who have not lived in Los Angeles to realize how radically
the Santa Ana figures in the local imagination."
The deeply corrupt/incompetent California government is 100% to blame for the immense scale and scope of this fiasco. They always find endless amounts of $ for their corrupt pet projects & priorities (highspeed trains to nowhere, the homeless industrial complex etc) BUT never ever seem to have $ to maintain anything - like roads (falling apart - Malaysia, not exactly great at maintaining stuff either, has better roads/infrastructure...) or state owned forest/brush land... Then they blame others (PG&N) when a disaster like a fire strikes...
Then they allow their rich developer friends to build subdivisions where there should not be subdivisions e.g. when I left to go back to university in the winter of 1996, both sides of the highway were flooded on the way to SF airport. Guess what's starting to be built in those areas now? Someone my dad worked with had bought a house in a subdivision on a delta tract that was underwater in the 1986 floods (ohh but the levee was "fixed" when they built the subdivision...) and had to evacuate (like, weren't you aware that area was underwater in previous floods?)...
In the 1996 floods, farmers, in the middle of the night, had to use bulldozers and farm equipment to do emergency repairs on a levee near the house my mother grew up in (Luckily nobody had camera phones to record them and local law enforcement looked the other way...) b/c the govt had refused to repair the levee due to some endangered bug or rodent (& was forced to release massive amounts of water from reservoirs upstream that were at full capacity - causing the flooding I saw on the way to university)... I can imagine the CA govt has a similar excuse for not maintaining their forest and brush land OR there simply is no way for their friends/donors etc to line their pockets by doing so (unlike with "solving" the homeless problems...)...
What a load of unmitigated crap? The Californian desert of Beverly Hills, Hollywood and those other regions on fire are just that. Deserts. What do these people want? a blizzard? The majority of homes destroyed are over priced tools of tax avoidance and money laundering. Many of these fires were deliberately lit. Thats according to a preliminary report by the FBI and the fire services.
In most cases these fires are lit to destroy evidence of wrong doings but done at the right time and destroy flailing businesses in what they call "Jewish Lightning". But you can use that term anymore as they call it anti semitic language. Early post war wish settlers often burned down their businesses claiming full value of their depleted and old assets then collecting the money o build bigger ones Hence the term "Jewish Lightning". They often ascribed the fire to lightning when there was none.
What's really concerning to many in the Hills is the bundles of cash stored by wealthy cocaine and other drug traffickers who he embedded themselves in the Hollywood area, the largest consumers of coke and other such niceties. Its got nothing to do with not employing White fire fighters.
Most dwellers in the big end of town like Hollywood and the surrounding suburbs are tax avoiders and rogues. They create all sorts of tax shelters to avoid their legal obligations to pay taxes. Let them now eat cake.