Major wildfires hit Los Angeles

Add Chula Vista (east of San Diego near the Tijuana border crossing) to the list. Largely strawberry fields serviced by thousands of illegals who of course are entitled to nothing. To the northwest, the Gilman Fire caused the evacuation of the beautiful (and pricey) beachside community of La Jolla where my friend Jane lives.

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Add Chula Vista (east of San Diego near the Tijuana border crossing)

California banks and credit unions offer mortgage relief to fire victims, Newsom announces

 
In my experience living in Southern California for the last 58 years, rain after a major fire equals mudslides. All of the fire department assets get reassigned pulling cars out of ditches and the highways get shut down by multi-car pileups of vehicles sliding out of control on the newly dampened dirt and debris that the fires blew all over the pavement. Happens every year: people get so excited to be driving again that they forget the roads are slicker than snot. Every time. But we’ll see.
 
It's worth a look on a long thread on the current Newsom Follies by Andrew Kerr.

Type II handcrews.

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Trump to a reporter before flying out to L.A. to assess the fire damage and response:


"I don't want to say what it looks like, but you know what I'm gonna say: it looks like something hit it. Now we won't talk about what hit it..."

Trump is basically saying that he knows the L.A. fires were started deliberately by those who are really in control and about whom we must not speak.
 



Our colleagues Andrew Kerr and Susannah Luthi published a deeply sourced report on Friday about California governor Gavin Newsom’s decision last year to disband a highly trained volunteer firefighting force known as Team Blaze.

As a result, the California National Guard wasn’t able to get a complete firefighting force to Los Angeles—meaning one that included both firefighters putting out the active blaze and others following in their footsteps to prevent the fires from spreading—until 10 days after the L.A. fires began reducing homes to cinders. We’re not the only news outlet that seems to be on to the story.

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The governor’s response to our report was telling. With Newsom’s approval rating hovering at 44 percent among California voters before the fires broke out, and 6 in 10 Californians saying the state was heading in the wrong direction, Newsom’s flacks have their jobs cut out for them. So we can almost sympathize with their pathetic, ad hominem response to our report, which they say was written by a "pizzagate peddler"—that’s Kerr, an award-winning reporter whose scrutiny of nonprofits has earned accolades across the political spectrum. It’s a shame Newsom can’t call on the Meta fact checkers to flag this toxic piece of "misinformation."

The governor’s team also argued that the firefighting unit was "inadequately trained."

That’s weird, because the Newsom administration tapped the group to help fight the 2021 Dixie Fire, the largest single-source wildfire in California state history, according to the transcript of a September 2021 National Guard press briefing, and the volunteer unit, which was funded by generous donors, met federal standards for combating wildfires set by a little-known federal agency known as the National Wildfire Coordinating Group.

Far from being "inadequately trained," it wasn’t long ago when the Newsom administration praised Team Blaze as an integral part of California’s ability to respond to the type of out-of-control wildfires that destroyed the Palisades earlier in January.

Back then, members of the Newsom administration praised Team Blaze as a "strike team" that "builds upon the state’s response efforts during times of need." Former Newsom spokesman Brian Ferguson hailed the unit as a "creative way to increase our firefighting capacity & ability to protect communities." Were they lying then or are they lying now?

Read the report and decide for yourself

 
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