You will read countless times today that the LA mayor cut the LA Fire Department's budget by $23 million.
That is a lie.
The budget was actually *increased* by $50 million.
That is a lie.
The budget was actually *increased* by $50 million.
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Maybe they can turn it into a thing where they can advocate for more money.
Why is their communication so bad!!
I love good independent investigative journalism.
LA Fire Chief warned weeks before the fires that the cuts of nearly $18 million would wreak havoc. "Bass said Wed the budget cuts did not have an impact on the LAFD's response." 🧐 https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/california-wildfires/la-widlfires-budget-cuts-palisades-fire/3598438/
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-playbook/2025/01/09/where-in-the-world-was-karen-bass-00197243
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/08/wildfire-threatens-karen-bass-extended-honeymoon-00197228
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/01/pacific-palisades-fire-altadena-santa-monica-los-angeles-donald-trump-elon-musk-misinformation-disinformation-lies-conspiracy-theories/
$23 million is virtually a rounding error anyway.
https://www.firerescue1.com/wildfire-and-wildland-urban-interface/lafd-chief-flagged-budget-cut-impact-on-wildfire-response-month-before
also, "firerescue1.com" is a commercial website that sells sponsored products and online guides. maybe not the most trustworthy source lol
https://www.foxla.com/news/lafd-budget-cut-karen-bass-2025
tRump sheds hate, fear, and blaming like a feral virulent pig on speed.
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Lies, lies and more damned lies.
Conspiracy theories that have no beginning and no end without culmination.
A place where the biggest and "be best" liars are rewarded.
Sad to watch the US self-destruct.
Seems like bait to me…
The mayor also defended the $17.8 million reduction in the fire department's budget. In a Dec. 4 memo, LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley said the cuts have "severely limited the department's capacity to prepare for, train for, and respond to large-scale emergencies, including wildfires."
In 6font … a retraction - the owner of the newspaper issues the following statement.. then to 2font …
My bad
https://youtu.be/GAYqqyxKlmQ?si=wVRO7SOpyBDLB0I7
Anyway, I hope you're able to stay safe!
For those complaining that the source wasn't included, this is a workaround you can add, too.👍
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/08/wildfire-threatens-karen-bass-extended-honeymoon-00197228
Can we all stop trusting screenshots that don't have a link to the source?
Besides how easy it is to fake something, you lose context when you don't check out the whole thing.
I can't change other people, but I can certainly try to be helpful.
Perhaps it will trend, and that may catch on even with the OP's from the start in the future.
We used to have real journalists in this country.
Luckily somebody else has posted what seems to be the piece the politicians are refusing to say out loud. FIrefighter union negotiated a raise, and that was finalized after the city budget, adding $76 mil. https://www.theeastsiderla.com/news/fire-departments-new-contract-is-approved-by-city-council/article_cb4d0d7c-9bcb-11ef-ac73-378fcf6c021b.html
I wish I was joking, they are literally not naming the person who gave them the information, nor do they link to a real source. Just "according to a council member's office".
https://nypost.com/2025/01/09/us-news/los-angeles-fire-chief-warned-mayor-karen-bass-that-budget-cuts-would-impact-departments-ability-to-fight-wildfires/?utm_campaign=iphone_nyp&utm_source=pasteboard_app
What happened ?
https://bondaccountability.resources.ca.gov/p1.aspx
Regional Water Security, Climate, and Drought Preparedness
RIP
It was a long tortuous death that started with Fox News spreading the illness.
Every aspect of life has now been contaminated.
"Newscum should have used the windmills to blow out the fires. Newscum has too much wind as we can see by all the dead whales. Did anyone see the ones wearing fish on their head? That reminds me..."
That’s roughly only a 2% decrease from the previous year’s budget.
In June 2024, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass signed the City of Los Angeles’ budget for the 2024-2025 fiscal year. The LAFD’s total budget was $819,637,423
Where is the money, supposedly set aside for the LAFD?
Bet you cannot find it....
Or, the fact that the 2024 LAFD budget reduction was the greatest department reduction except for sanitation.
The question should be, what is needed to properly staff these kind of disaster events.
Fire codes, brush clearing codes, building codes, and more are needed. Maybe the rebuilding effort will start a renaissance, who knows?
Money that is "put aside" often ends up funding deficits in the general fund.
Bond measures to protect "wilderness areas" raise hundreds of million dollars, but has a public audit been performed on where that money goes?
All of them.
With extreme prejudice.
Is this a lie?
Fire is a natural part of most forest life cycles, especially ours out west. Douglas fir, Sequoia, redwood, need fire for reproduction.
Letting ground fuel accumulate allows fires to spread farther and burn hotter.
But there is more to the story; extended drought and summer heat can dry out the topsoil so much that it will smoulder even throughout the Canadian winter.
Fires in the Adirondacks have spread underground, some in the BC interior didn't go out over winter...
When the ground is dry, the winds intense, and the temps don't drop, wildfires can leap rivers on the wind.
The same soil that enables plants to grow can burn when they're dry enough.
They are a result of an ongoing mega drought, fueled by people's homes and the Santa Ana gales.
Have they released the what started the fires? I know winds, droughts, etc are contributors. I mean the exact ignition? Was it lightening, electrical lines, arson?
But they probably will not try to figure out what caused the fire until it's under control. Priorities.
We are contributing to the mega drought. We're making it worse.
More thermal energy in the atmosphere means a bigger thermocline and therefore stronger wind -- so human stupidity is also enhancing the Santa Ana.
Sick of the last decade of being courteous to those who are horrible to now be fed the biggest lies from the worst wealthy folks
Use as you wish.
LAPD 2024 payouts: > $59.4M
$24.5M to mom of Jesse Murillo, killed by LAPD in 2017; $11.5M to Mark Sauvao, a former K9 Trainer, for retaliation/discrimination after reporting LAPD violations;
$9.5M to the family of Melyda Corado, killed by LAPD
Not that full funding would have mattered, but facts always do.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/los-angeles-mayor-karen-bass-pushes-back-criticism/story?id=117512817
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/national-international/la-widlfires-budget-cuts-palisades-fire-2/3809144/
And every Democrat should be pointing to Trump as a cause of this fire, and every weather related disaster in the next four years.
That’s a fact. It’s not a partisan message.
If that makes you angry, then we can fight to increase funding of social services.. social services when funded tend to work to people’s benefit 👍🤗
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1. https://t.co/N4tm0QcG9y
2. https://t.co/seP2ltjrIb
3. A warning from one of their own:
Tell someone 6 times & they'll believe you
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I'm attractive and sexy....
Is it working yet? 😁😁
The party of the working class, indeed.
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We need some class action lawsuits that are so painful, factchecking is mandatory before breathing.
Drive global warming exponential
Reporting all the disinformation . Lies need to be called what they are. Errors need to have contributing facts researched and included to keep the news actually factual in lieu of destructive blame.
But maybe that doesn’t create clicks?!?😐
Why aren't they defending Newsome & California Dems?
Profiles in cowardice.
Nothing else but PRISON this criminal deserves!
They lie about reservoir levels that are easily verifiable on the CDEC reservoir site.
They lie about it not being climate change related.
They about the LA Fire Dept budget.
They lie.
And it is one persons experience it was more of a LAPD vs LAFD funding issue
Should be concerning to Democrats presumably
If LAFD so well funded then why use the financial loophole prison labor for firefighting
Did you see @teenvogue.bsky.social piece on this?
The core value of faschists everywhere.
Soon-Shiong join Jeff Bezos in the garbage can of history.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/report-reveals-over-130-organizations-103005052.html