Wild Fires In LA

[shrubberyvaluation]

Yep, not important to be prepared for the inevitable fires, more important to be woke and let the "equity lens" equalize things by hiring non-whites.

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Flashback: LA Water chief says her work is guided by 'equity lens'​

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The LA Department of Water and Power is sticking to its narrative that all hydrants in Pacific Palisades were working just fine before the fires — even though a major reservoir was taken offline beforehand.​

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“Any assertion that fire hydrants in the Pacific Palisades were broken before the Palisades fire is misleading and false," the department said in a statement. "L.A. Department of Water & Power was required to take the Santa Ynez Reservoir out of service to meet safe drinking water regulations. To commission the support and resources to implement repairs to Santa Ynez, L.A.D.W.P is subject to the city charter’s competitive bidding process which requires time."​

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Now the organization is facing further scrutiny after the county's $750,000-a-year water chief, Janisse Quinones, said her work is guided by an "equity" lens.​

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Quinones said in a July interview with KBLA radio that the importance of putting an "equity lens" to the DWP was "the number one thing that attracted me to this role."​

No wonder they have budget problems. $750,000???? The mayor must get a billion a year...I work towns that don't have a third that for the salaries of each and every employee in the city.

Can you imagine, someone saying i put an importance on a "white lens" and it was the number one thing that attracted me to the role.

 

[Dublin ohio]

"L.A. Department of Water & Power was required to take the Santa Ynez Reservoir out of service to meet safe drinking water regulations

I heard another report where it was for repairs to the evaporation cover and I don't see how that would impact safe drinking water regs.

To commission the support and resources to implement repairs to Santa Ynez, L.A.D.W.P is subject to the city charter’s competitive bidding process which requires time."

It has been offline since Feb 2024. What kind of bidding process do they use.

The bad part is if you look at her resume she appears more than qualified and even served in the U.S.C.G. and the reserve

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

The bad part is if you look at her resume she appears more than qualified and even served in the U.S.C.G. and the reserve

I think it a problem with all government management jobs. Most time is devoted to defending your turf and playing the game to stay in favor with those above you. The problem is that it can get to a point where it distracts from the job at hand. But again, I don't see any city job or county job and frankly any state jobs that are "worth" a $750,000 pay scale. Not one.

 

[J Grant]

Yep, not important to be prepared for the inevitable fires, more important to be woke and let the "equity lens" equalize things by hiring non-whites.

Your Economy (No Politics) : Flashback: LA Water chief says her work...

al44: Flashback: LA Water chief says her work is guided by 'equity lens' The LA Department of Water and Power is sticking to its narrative that all hydra...

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Flashback: LA Water chief says her work is guided by 'equity lens'​

​

The LA Department of Water and Power is sticking to its narrative that all hydrants in Pacific Palisades were working just fine before the fires — even though a major reservoir was taken offline beforehand.​

​

“Any assertion that fire hydrants in the Pacific Palisades were broken before the Palisades fire is misleading and false," the department said in a statement. "L.A. Department of Water & Power was required to take the Santa Ynez Reservoir out of service to meet safe drinking water regulations. To commission the support and resources to implement repairs to Santa Ynez, L.A.D.W.P is subject to the city charter’s competitive bidding process which requires time."​

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Now the organization is facing further scrutiny after the county's $750,000-a-year water chief, Janisse Quinones, said her work is guided by an "equity" lens.​

​

Quinones said in a July interview with KBLA radio that the importance of putting an "equity lens" to the DWP was "the number one thing that attracted me to this role."​

No wonder they have budget problems. $750,000???? The mayor must get a billion a year...I work towns that don't have a third that for the salaries of each and every employee in the city.

Since the majority of your weird sources turn out to be false I am not even going to bother clicking on the source of this. A good way to spread computer viruses,
And you've changed the narrative, and now it is about a salary, which idk if it is true, but if it is, it still does not excuse your horrible post the other day of the video with the image of her wearing a clone nose. I defy you to truthfully tell me if you would have posted that if she were a while male - not that it would be any better is you did it to him either

 

[Sandra Koutsopoulos]

Fires in LA County have been raging for days, Pacific Palisades looks like red molten lava on night-time aerial shots. Days ago I was in Long Beach, and the white/yellow/grey skies (no blue whatsoever) reminded me of the '70s before they made serious strides in reducing pollution. Investigators have determined that the high tornadic-like winds caused electric lines to whip around, and transformers to spark, creating downed live wires which they are saying was the genesis of the fires.

Same thing was responsible for the Paradise Fire a few years ago--above-ground power lines, which leveled that alpine village. In my area, traffic lights were mostly out as they shut off power in various neighbors of Lake Elsinore, Menifee, Wildomar, Canyon Lake & Sun City. No fires here-yet-, but they're trying to minimize active power lines as a precaution. It seems that the higher elevations in Pacific Palisades were so devastated because although the reservoirs of millions of gallons of water were filled and emptied more than 3 times the first day, they weren't able to get the pump pressure high enough, strong enough, with enough volume to have enough power to quell the uppermost reaches of that mountainy area, and so when those fires grew, the cinders lit everything else on fire locally & below so that firefighters were out-done with the fury and speed of the leaping flames.

Today is Sunday. I'm 70+ miles southeast of Pacific Palisades, Brentwood, Altadena and the other hotspots. We have fine ash on the cars for the past few days, and I'm constantly smelling the acrid smoke clear over here, though our skies have remained blue. Even so, the fine powdery particulates have many of us clear over here coughing and wheezing, with sore burning eyes, despite the distance.

 

[Elliott]

NY Post 1/12/25:

"Another resident told a Washington Post reporter that the whole wildfire was “started by idiots” on New Year’s Eve. He said that people light off fireworks late at night to celebrate the New Year when they’re not supposed to every year without fail. He also said that he and his family heard the supposed fireworks and saw the fire shortly after midnight.

“We know that fires rekindle and transition from smoldering to flaming. It’s certainly possible that something from that previous fire, within a week, had rekindled and caused the ignition,” Michael Gollner, a professor of mechanical engineering and fire scientist at the University of California at Berkeley, told the Washington Post.

Satellite imagery obtained by the newspaper taken about 20 minutes after the Palisades Fire began indicates that the origin of the smoke overlapped with the burn scar from the New Year’s Eve fire in the Temescal Ridge in the Santa Monica Mountains. "

 

[Tom D]

NY Post 1/12/25:

"Another resident told a Washington Post reporter that the whole wildfire was “started by idiots” on New Year’s Eve. He said that people light off fireworks late at night to celebrate the New Year when they’re not supposed to every year without fail. He also said that he and his family heard the supposed fireworks and saw the fire shortly after midnight.

Well dah,.. Can't cure stupid.

 

[Charles West]

NY Post 1/12/25:

"Another resident told a Washington Post reporter that the whole wildfire was “started by idiots” on New Year’s Eve. He said that people light off fireworks late at night to celebrate the New Year when they’re not supposed to every year without fail. He also said that he and his family heard the supposed fireworks and saw the fire shortly after midnight.

“We know that fires rekindle and transition from smoldering to flaming. It’s certainly possible that something from that previous fire, within a week, had rekindled and caused the ignition,” Michael Gollner, a professor of mechanical engineering and fire scientist at the University of California at Berkeley, told the Washington Post.

Satellite imagery obtained by the newspaper taken about 20 minutes after the Palisades Fire began indicates that the origin of the smoke overlapped with the burn scar from the New Year’s Eve fire in the Temescal Ridge in the Santa Monica Mountains. "

Another benefit of the immigration migration. Sacramento's skyline on the 4th is filled with illegal bottle rockets and other illegal pyrotechnics, something that didn't occur 20 years ago. This state needs to get it together.

 

[J Grant]

Another benefit of the immigration migration. Sacramento's skyline on the 4th is filled with illegal bottle rockets and other illegal pyrotechnics, something that didn't occur 20 years ago. This state needs to get it together.

Immigration - what if the idiots who sold or set off the fireworks were MAGA folks or their kids - since they hate regulations and being told what to do -

I am not saying they did it, but neither can you say that immigrants were responsible. But here you are, posting the aspersion.

The knee-jerk assumption or allegation of the blame of either immigrants or DEI is a drumbeat 24/7 from MAGA or whatever you want to be called -and even if it turns out to be false, they don't care, teh message got it out here ana took on a life of its own.

 

[Charles West]

Immigration - what if the idiots who sold or set off the fireworks were MAGA folks or their kids - since they hate regulations and being told what to do -

I am not saying they did it, but neither can you say that immigrants were responsible. But here you are, posting the aspersion.

The knee-jerk assumption or allegation of the blame of either immigrants or DEI is a drumbeat 24/7 from MAGA or whatever you want to be called -and even if it turns out to be false, they don't care, teh message got it out here ana took on a life of its own.

It's primarily immigrants from the south that access the illegal fireworks market. Demand has created an vast underground smuggling market which is easily demonstrable with law enforcement records, hardly knee-jerk reaction such as yours.