Wild Fires In LA

[Mike Ault]

I think it is called frustration; reality doesn't conform to a individual"s world view.

I know it. We've had multiple wildfires racing through the Texas Panhandle during high wind storms recently, taking lives and property, with helpless firefighters forced to simply watch them burn out. If it wasn't for those damn environmentalists & DEI hires… Oh, wait…

 

[Dublin ohio]

with helpless firefighters forced to simply watch them burn out

I am not familiar, Why?

 

[Charles West]

I am not familiar, Why?

Mike is in deranged mode; no doubt JG's double in the unhinged/frustration department after my irrefutable takedown of his revisionistic take on the Jan. 6 committee nonsense and the parallel Merrick/Luman fiasco. Chuckie 1-0.

 

[Charles West]

As Wildfires Rage, California Dems Want $50 Million to Protect Illegals From Deportation​

Matt Margolis | 12:39 PM on January 13, 2025

AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli
Over the past week, the raging wildfires tearing through Los Angeles County have starkly revealed the profound ineptitude and misguided priorities of California’s leadership, from the statehouse to local government. Yet, as the state faces one of the most expensive wildfire disasters in history, California Democrats are proposing to allocate $50 million from the state budget to fund litigation against the incoming Trump administration and protect illegal migrants from deportation.

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“The $50 million proposal comes as California Governor Gavin Newsom’s special legislative session to ‘Trump-proof’ the state’s left-wing laws began convening Thursday,” reports the Daily Caller. “Lawmakers are reportedly planning to allocate $25 million to the state Department of Justice to provide additional funding to sue the incoming Trump administration and another $25 million in grants to immigration advocacy nonprofits seeking to shield illegal migrants from detention and deportation.”

Related: Newsom Slashed $100M in Fire Prevention Funds Ahead of Deadly Wildfires

This decision from California Democrats comes just days after an illegal migrant was accused of attempting to start fires with a flamethrower near the Kenneth Fire on Thursday.

Lawmakers’ decision to allocate $25 million in grants to left-wing immigration advocacy nonprofits comes just days after an illegal migrant was accused of attempting to start fires with a flamethrower near the Kenneth Fire on Thursday.

California Senate Budget Committee Chair Scott Wiener defended the proposal.

“This funding agreement cements California’s readiness to serve as a bulwark against Trump’s extremist agenda,” Wiener said in a statement.

Weiner is a radical leftist Democrat who introduced the so-called pro-pedophile bill back in 2019 that sought to end automatic sex-offender registry rules for some adults who commit sex acts with minors. The purpose of the bill was to end “discrimination against LGBTQ young people on the sex offender registry.” He reportedly is interested in Nancy Pelosi’s seat in Congress whenever she retires.

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The insanity of the Democrats’ recent proposal in California is hard to overstate. As the state grapples with devastating wildfires that have already destroyed over 10,000 structures and are projected to cause $20 billion in insured losses, lawmakers in Sacramento are more focused on an anti-Trump agenda than on addressing the urgent needs of residents and first responders.

When Democrat leaders at all levels of government in California are being criticized for mismanagement, one might think that California Democrats would realize this is their moment to prove they’re taking the problem seriously.

Apparently not.

In fact, Gov. Gavin Newsom convened a special legislative session with the specific goal of creating laws that would stand in defiance of the Trump administration, not to address wildfire prevention or containment.

Related: Bombshell Memo Spells Disaster for Karen Bass Amid California Wildfires

This bizarre focus on legal maneuvering is an insult to the thousands of Californians whose homes and businesses have been destroyed in the current fires.

The hypocrisy here is glaring. While Republicans, including Assembly leader James Gallagher and Senate leader Brian Jones, have pushed for the $50 million to go toward wildfire relief and prevention, California Democrats have doubled down on their political agenda. Gallagher rightly points out that prioritizing legal battles and fighting for sanctuary policies over fire relief is a gross misallocation of resources. Republicans are calling for Newsom and the Democrats to focus on fire-proofing California, not “Trump-proofing” it.

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[Mike Ault]

I am not familiar, Why?

There is no way to establish fire breaks during high winds like that. Every time they tried to hold the line at a major highway they would see jackrabbits on fire running across the other side of the road behind them. And once your tanker truck runs dry, it's a long ways to another water resource. They actually closed a major reservoir (Lake Meredith) to the public so tanker planes could scoop up water and do what they could, however. I was appraising a property in Fritch during the last one and got to witness that in person. Every time we have a high wind storm here in the Panhandle, we run a high risk of having another major fire.

 

[Charles West]

I've been looking at the construction techniques in Mexico and it seems to me the folks in LA could learn a few things from our Latin brothers. They use 8" cinderblock reinforced with rebar with a smooth concrete finish on the exterior. The ceilings are also concrete. There isn't a single piece of anything flammable in the entire structure and no way for embers to enter the structure as with ventilated attic spaces and the required soffits.

 

[Dublin ohio]

There is no way to establish fire breaks during high winds like that. Every time they tried to hold the line at a major highway they would see jackrabbits on fire running across the other side of the road behind them. And once your tanker truck runs dry, it's a long ways to another water resource. They actually closed a major reservoir (Lake Meredith) to the public so tanker planes could scoop up water and do what they could, however. I was appraising a property in Fritch during the last one and got to witness that in person. Every time we have a high wind storm here in the Panhandle, we run a high risk of having another major fire.

Makes perfect sense. But don't conflate situations like you described with the lack of preparedness demonstrated in CA. CA has wildfire season every year and having a major reservoir offline for almost a year makes one ask did they think ahead for even one minute

 

[Carnivore]

I see plenty of images mocking Newsom.

Well there is one image of Newsom you probably won't see Newsom visiting the fire disaster area. To risky, It will only take one tiny ember to land on His slicked back hair gel head for it to burst into flames,

 

[TerryRohrer]

Well there is one image of Newsom you probably won't see Newsom visiting the fire disaster area. To risky, It will only take one tiny ember to land on His slicked back hair gel head for it to burst into flames,

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Mel Gibson requested that Newsome spend less on hair gel and invest the savings in fire fighting endeavors.

 

[Bobby Bucks]

Every time we have a high wind storm here in the Panhandle, we run a high risk of having another major fire.

You have an advantage in the panhandle, firefighters don’t have to produce lGBGQ documents every time they enter a new neighborhood like they’re required to in lala land.