Great question... I actually have an answer... It was Nancy Pelosi on her daughter's documentary in 2021. She was taking responsibility for the lack of security at the Capitol on "that fateful day" A fascinating admission - a fascinating "evolving story" too.
@@peterstafford4426 I know you're a bot... But how about just once.... Instead of knocking people down on their beliefs why don't you actually state what you're are... How about you give us a couple ideas of what you think is a problem and your idea of a solution for said problem
The role of a city mayor is NOT international relationship, as Karen Bass was in Africa for a diplomatic mission; it is, however, to provide ESSENTIAL SERVICES to the residents and taxpayers, such as public works, water, wastewater, firefighting and law enforcement. The rest is done by the state, the country, private businesses and charitable/ nonprofit organizations. Karen Bass is a failure!
The role of mayors in global cities can be building international relationships, actually. There is trade, there is foreign policy that, because we have dysfunctional people at the federal level undermining the city, there's a need for people to go overseas and do the job.
Correction: As a Southern California resident, I can tell you that we haven’t been in a drought status for a couple of years. The last few years of heavy rain and snowfall have replenished reservoirs to a level not seen in 20 years. This catastrophe is a result of poor brush management by the city and county of LA, a reduction in firefighting resources due to retirements and firings in a COVID-era management debacle, and reduced budgets due to poor fiscal management by a supermajority legislature.
Funnily enough, I think its the end of drought years that’s the most dangerous for wildfires. You get a burst of plant growth that just turns into extra kindling with the dry season.
Yeah Krystal just doesn’t know anything about what’s going on outside Virginia lol. Last couple of years have been good winter rain and snow in many western states, lots of floods.. this winter has been dry from la nina though and summer rainfall was low too from el nino. Frequent El Nino and La Nina conditions is where climate change comes in. People like her actually hurt the climate change argument.
Like Krystal, people keep say "no one could have seen this was going to happen" Wrong! The insurance companies saw it coming. (not that Im a fan of them) They saw the neglect and mismanagement going on and the dangers being created. Why didn't the mayor, her advisors, and many government officals see it or take steps to mitigate these dangers?
insurance companies pulling fire policies had nothing to do mismanagement - it's all risk calculations done in software that measure the frequency and severity of related events per region (fires, hurricanes, etc) and the relative cost per event, then extrapolates the trend out to forecast future cost. If the costs of covering those payouts exceeds an allowable profit margin, they pull the policy. That's literally the business of insurance.
I work for the City of LA and i’ve been telling my friends for MONTHS that the city is failing because we are run more like a country than a city! Why did mayor bass go to the inauguration of the mexican president and now Ghana?? I understand the proximity of Mexico, but even then, that’s why we have ambassadors so that FEDERAL level can meet FEDERAL level. Also, she has been HUGE on homelessness funding including establishing UNARMED response programs to deal with mental illness mostly. She has been focusing on everything else OUTSIDE essential city services! case and point, There’s about to be a 20% increase on Sewer charges because there ain’t enough money to fund our sewer system LADWP rates are so high for the lack of quality service they provide. there is a MASSIVE copper wire theft crisis, most of the streetlights here are out recently the pass few weeks there have been MASS fires , especially abandoned buildings downtown with homeless squatters. and the cherry on top is her LEAVING LA when we have all been getting notices of the upcoming wind events. California is filled with this! Incompetent leadership, high taxes for terrible service, and politicians that hide and avoid accountability.
- sewer charges are going up. as for the quality of service by LADWP... you have running water & electricity dont you? theyre not your personal plumbers. if you don't like the usual wait times of getting your electricity back on when a transformer or line goes down (2 - 6 hours) maybe you should be OK with the increased rates. - copper conductor theft, im sure it happens. its not massive, and most of the streetlights were not out prior to the fires. wtf are you on that has you convinced you dont see working lights? even in poor underfunded neighborhoods such as my own where its not unusual to see a streetlight with the wires hanging out(electricity theft, not wire theft, theyre using by homeless campers). this isnt an issue on a "MASSIVE" scale. - "MASS" fires are not in fact "mass". it does happen occasionally, yes its the homeless somehow starting these fires in or around abandoned buildings. heres how it goes> fire gets put out > the building is still standing > city workers make their best attempt at boarding and locking out entryways into the structure > after 2 weeks the homeless finally break in again > another week later, another fire erupts from the building. you work for the city yet you apparently dont live here to see that the city is still normal and functioning like any other city at least before the major fires that started on Jan. 7th, 2025. we're going to take a huge economic blow, but a month from now the overwhelming majority of LA residents will barely even notice there were major fires that threatened the ENTIRETY of Greater LA County. yes huge swaths of multimillion dollar homes along the Santa Monica Mountains are burnt down, but these areas are less dense than Metro area down to South LA.
Californian here. Lived here almost all my life. We are not in a massive drought right now. We’ve had plenty of rain. This is massive government incompetence
Exactlly, I live in LA, and the hills where these fires are happening had green on them last year for the first time in a long time. It is a drought, but not as severe as people in this thread are saying. There was a fire in the same area a month ago. They should have been better prepared. It is incompetence, not climate change, you green new desl losers are rediculous. It is a bunch of brush that never gets cleared, power lines that are never repaired. Homeless mini camps, and lack of funding for the fire department. We have fires in the same spots multiple times a years. Every year. The firemen dont have the funding they need. The water reserves should be available and plussed up during times of likely fires. The fire department has 100 fire trucks inactive for lack of funding. A study was done last year saying the city is short the necessary manpower and Equipment to respond to major fires. So you can blame climate all you want, but it just an excuse for liberal leadership and their gross negligence. But hey, isn't that what you liberals always do? Make excuse after excuse and point fingers. The city is in flames and all you liberal green new deal cucks can say is climate change. Unreal how stupid you people are.
Another Californian here. I remember my friends and I watching control burns as a kid we thought it was cool. I haven’t seen a control burn in over 20 years.
Everyone seems to forget so easily the podcast where Joe Rogan said "I talked to a fireman once and he said 'one day the wind will hit the right way in the right conditions and there will be nothing we can do.'" Then a few years later the mayor cuts LAFD funding by $17 million and this happens...
They've been told for years they need 60 new fire stations as well. Meanwhile cops got a raise and LAPD got more funding just in case any pesky do-gooders decide to occupy UCLA again 🙄
100M wouldn't have stopped this. It was raining fire, pushed by Category 1 hurricane winds. The brave men and woman trying to reach the fire had to bulldoze abandon cars off the freeway because it was moving so fast.
Well according to said statement there's nothing we can do, 17 million dollars would probably equate to saving an extra couple dozen of structures, but that still makes this an insane tragedy. Some natural disasters are completely out of our hands. I guess Californian cities can completely remove all its foliage?
Fire her, Newsom and all the democrats politicians of this state. I’m so done with them. I want to be alleviated from this nightmare the way I have been on a federal scale when Trump got elected.
In 2014, we voted for Prop 1 which allocated billions for new reservoirs. After 10 years, not a single new reservoir has been built. This is in part due to California's abysmal permitting process and partly due to NGOs fighting to stop any building. Newsom could have thrown his support behind new reservoirs, but he ignored the problem. Now Newsom is quick to reroute any discussions about shortage of reservoirs.
Democratic politicians are absolutely ruining just about every square inch of California and yet they are consistently elected or re-elected to office. And yet I'm afraid living in that state will have to become entirely impossible before the people there will vote the Republican Party into the majority.
Not that alone we had massive floods for the past 2 years proper storage of water reserves never got built and 95% off the water ran into the ocean and rivers. Protecting Delta Smelt made more sense than prepare for fires.
LA east coast burring, Midwest freezes to death, and east coast hurricanes but we have all the money to send to Ukraine and Israel but no cash for disasters at home. not to mention no money for healthcare.
There is no shortage of money. You don't have universal healthcare, which all of the other developed nations have, none of which have the massive resources of the USA, because the people who make a lot of money off of the current rapacious system don't WANT lower cost, lower PROFIT healthcare. Simple. Most of the aid to Ukraine and Israel are LOANS for military materiel. That money is mostly spent on buying US made weapons. So we.... and I mean the military-industrial complex...... get it back. Almost all of it. With interest. It's a cash transfer scheme to enrich the US arms industry.
My husband is a Firefighter in Washington state and is headed to California with a ton of other WA crews, they left this morning. This is his second trip to CA for wildfires in the last 4 months!
The Palisades fire is horrible, but the other 3 fires are also changing peoples lives forever. I have coworkers, blue collar employees of the city of Los Angeles, who have either been evacuated and told not to return to their home, or who’s homes have burned down. These gentleman are still showing up to work everyday and getting done what needs to be done to keep this city running. My hats of to them and their families in this trying time
Local here. Not everyone “owned property” in these places. There are renters, roommates, etc., that don’t have lucrative incomes that still lost everything they owned.
Crystal has to have her fake working class BS take instead of just saying what exactly is happening in confidence at a local level and a state wide level. It’s a diversion.
Many Palisades homes were owned by actors. Furthermore, the hills are known for housing wealthy folks. Even mobile homes were literally beachfront, and we are talking about 1million dollar mobile homes, where land is rented at $790+ a month. Furthermore, thenimbus shelters are typically not allowed to be built due to nimbyism. So, the poor are very few, and not found in statistically meaningful amounts.
I'm also a local. I live about 2 miles from the Palisades fire. The main problem is that due to all the rain the past few years, there has been a lot of plant growth. We're not in any drought. Though this season, thus far, we haven't had much rain. So now all that plant growth has dried out and become additional fine fuels and fuels that easily ladder in the local and state parks adjacent to the homes that have gone up in flames. I hike frequently through these parks, and due to all the plant litter are time bombs that have finally gone off. It's also very difficult to due prescribed burns in these areas to reduce the fine fuel loads. The best way to reduce the loads are with large herds of goats (over 500 goats). The LA County Fire Department actually started using goats and had plans to use them more extensively. I know this because I'm friends with one of the goat shepherds doing this work. Some of the areas that went up in flames were areas that my friend was discussing with LA County Fire to graze. These areas are part of a fire ecosystem, and First Nations routinely used prescribed burns to reduce fine fuel loads so that these sorts of large fire when high winds are blowing don't occur. Climate change isn't the main factor in why these fires occur, poor land management is the main issue. So, Krystal doesn't know what she's talking about.....though that's not unusual. Oh, and as for Saeger, due to Prop 13 passed way back in 1978, property taxes on based on the last resale value of the house. So, if a home was last sold in 1982, its taxes are based on that 1982 value. There aren't ongoing reassessments. Thus, not all of the properties in this area are taxed at high rates...that is unless the properties more recently changed ownership.
So it sounds like… The insurance companies knew there was a huge fire risk… yet the billion dollar government in LA didn’t pick up on that and take the right measures?
@@DanielGarcia-rx3ktOr the Government knew, but it's cheaper to save money on mitigation whe you can just blame the weather. Added benefits: you can charge extra taxes when you blame the weather rather then poor planning.
Because short sighted goobers, mostly Reichwingnutters, don't ever want to pay a nickel more in taxes or to accommodate new stricter building codes if they can avoid it. They pressure the city and state governments to ignore the problems, delay, deny, obfuscate and lie. The result is inaction, or at best, inadequate action.
This is all a direct result of people like Krystal. Rich progressives with the most insane policies who can’t actually govern or lead. And they NEVER face any accountability!
Southern California is a Chaparral environment. It's a terrain evolved to burn off every couple of years. Don't be shocked when there are wildfires. It's like building a house below sea level and being shocked when it floods....
Not to mention that they've been suppressing fire to protect property for the last hundred years, so when a fire happens it's like a bomb going off with all the tinder fuel that's on the ground.
The growth created by the recent rain, created a lot lot of Tinder for these fires. This is something that is just common sense and should have been managed accordingly. Controlled burns, etc..
Yes, climate change has some effect on what has happened in LA, but the degree of destruction is totally due to mismanagement and ignorance and incompetence on the part of the local government. Period. They need to be held accountable.
Also, climate change is creating unstable weather cycles. We've had no rain this season a year after an atmospheric river. That's exactly what climate change looks like.
Save money by not doing mitigation, collect extra taxes by blaming the weather..... Save money on mitigation, collect extra taxes by blaming the weather.... This is the PROBLEM. Their is 0 incentives for the problem to be fixed. Especially when the same people causing it keep getting voted back in.
Save money by not doing mitigation, collect extra taxes by blaming the weather..... Save money on mitigation, collect extra taxes by blaming the weather.... This is the PROBLEM.
95% of California wildfires are MANMADE its not climate change....its not a natural disaster. They dont clean up the brush and have stopped controlled burns.
@@Skoomz That's also called wet and dry years which has been a feature of weather and California for centuries. But knowing that is a thing and failing to prepare for it in ANY way is incompetence. Texas gets hit with a once in a century winter storm and it's all "Republicans are incompetent, they should have prepared!" And justifiably so. California gets hit with predictable wildfires that happen all the time and they're blameless, nothing they could have possibly done. Ridiculous.
Imagine living in a state that’s always having water supply problems AND fire problems AND not having any contingencies for either and instead cut fire department funding.
@@davidl5119 yep I’m definitely sitting in my totally unpowered, cold colddd house commenting on the internet 😂😭 we can’t afford any more Californian refugees here lol may I recommend Oklahoma?
Probably taking a core sample of something, like the ground. Kind of like counting tree rings, or looking at them width and shape of said rings to see if the tree could have been stressed at a given point to have been in drought.
@@Iloveswedesit’s not 100% fact thu and it’s misleading just like when then media says bs like ‘record high’ temp or rainfall but then leave out the fact we’ve only been keeping a record of weather since like 1850 and the earth is prob 4.5 billion years old…… so 1200 years isn’t even a minute in earth years. saying something like ‘worst drought in 1200 years’ its almost like a 60 year old not drinking water for a full day and saying they’ve never been so thirsty in their life. but yes your prob right on how they measure that
I live on Hollywood blvd, a mile from the sunset fire. Yesterday evening was madness, most of my complex evacuated as soon as the order was given. Luckily they had 6 choppers and a wall of firefighting trucks as a barrier to contain the fire. Everyone was super nice and neighborly last night. People that have never said a word to each other, all of the sudden were helping each other in any way possible. It was both heartbreaking and gave us hope. Back home today, looks like things are going back to normal, as normal as can be
She needs to check with her handler before she speaks.....another puppet or grifter whatever they want to call it. She got to go....oh the homeless project was an failure . Money went to waste... ......LA collect so much from money from ppty tax it all went to hell.... ..
If you build homes and businesses in an arid hilly area prone to high winds and never let nature burn off dead organics as a normal occurance this is what happens. The only climate issue here is the climate of ignorance displayed by urban planning
Southern California is a Chaparral environment. It's a terrain evolved to burn off every couple of years. Don't be shocked when there are wildfires. It's like building a house below sea level and being shocked when it floods....
The madness is local government focussing on global issues (climate change) rather than its purpose: solving chronic, every day issues. It's like a dying drug addict constantly worrying about the Sun exploding in 5 billion years instead of his health.
Imagine looking at a vast expanse of rocky desert hills and thinking, "Hmm, I bet the only reason there's no green here is because no one's planted parks and lawns yet. Let's build neighborhoods!"
The airport clip with Karen Bass is insane 💀 even just considering her own political interests, why would she not throw out some generic "right now I'm focused on helping my city" type lines when given the opportunity??
To be fair she is doing a good job with homelessness and catalytic converter theft. I was impressed last time I was there. Still bad but better than rock bottom
I know people who worked in prison fire crews and became firefighters when they got out. Regardless it’s on of the best gigs you can get In prison. The prisoners would still volunteer to go into that program whether it had any impact on when they get out or not. It’s just the best option if you’re gonna be doing a few years anyways
"i really wanted to weigh in while on vacation but my wife didn't want me to." You made the correct decision, Saagar. Your wife is right; vacations are not for working.
No dude. She got back really quick, especially if you consider what continent she was on at the time. She was scheduled to still be out of country right now but she's Stateside. You need to gather the facts before you make baseless claims about people. Do you know what defamation is?
Remember when Ted Cruz went to Cancun during the Texas ice storm and everyone crucified him, despite that he's not a local political with any local power? Will Karen Bass get the same treatment?
Cruz left BECAUSE of the ice storms then tried to blame it on his daughters (both minors). This mayor was already out of country long before the fires started. Nuance and context matter and they're not hard to understand. You just look f00lish, but you did that all by yourself.
Ted Cruz is despised by people on all sides and on the public stage in a more visible position, so no she probably won't get the SAME treatment... but she she definitely deserves that smoke.
Oh it's serious, but the majority of liberals in power pay it lip service or use it as a control mechanism. They have infinite energy sources available now but the entire westerm power structure is based on energy market dominance. So it gets suppressed and obfuscated
There are - we have politicians elected in Australia whose main policy is climate change and how to deal with it, Sorry you don’t have any (although I know you had a Greens candidate.
Climate change is what caused the conditions that led to the rampant spread of this fire. That's how one can say climate change at all. It's an accelerant. Very dry conditions and heat itself can ignite a fire. It's not out of the question that there could be arson at play for the first fire or two, really. Either way, once it starts, all of the tinder created by drier conditions and high winds from the same cause (and even higher winds once the blaze grows), it's pretty silly to ignore the effects of climate change. There may be other things California or LA or any other municipality could do to mitigate fires, but when you have millions of acres of forested mountains, and people at the federal level who are against paying for anything like this, and states and local governments being told to cut budgets and cut taxes, well, you get what you pay for. They're using prisoners for manpower to put this blaze out. They're running out of water. I doubt you can have hundreds or thousands of firefighters on standby, just in case of wildfires, unless you want a reserve force. How much will THAT cost? It's really easy to say something should've been done, but the main issue is a lack of conservation and a bunch of people in California and neighboring states who didn't care about climate change for decades. This is what happens when the nation doesn't do its part.
@ To expand on my previous point, it’s silly to even mention climate change when everything the state could have been doing to prevent fires, they failed to do that. Im not saying climate change isn’t real, but it’s on the bottom of the list in this case. Just in 2023 LA spend $427 million of its $854 million budget on homeless-related fires. Despite the mayor receiving letters from fire chiefs and knowing high winds were coming, there was a 117 million gallon reservoir in Palisades that was offline for this month. Then you have the issue where California is dumping billions of gallons of water into the ocean for “the environment” as if that’s our best and only option for the water coming down from the north. To top everything I just said off, CA doesn’t do any cleaning/ fire mitigation in our forests, also for “the environment”. Don’t tell me it’s a money issue when they spends $24 billion on homelessness only to have it get worse. We are the 5th largest economy in the world, people pay taxes up the ass here. This entire thing is an incompetence issue.
@@Iloveswedes Did climate change give the Resnicks control over most of the State water so they could limit SoCal to less than 10% of what they should be getting? They should rename the Wonderful Company to the Climate Change Company!
Our mayor on Maui disappeared during and after the fires too. Nothing but bully attitude and defensiveness and making the underlings take the fall for higher level failures. Krystal, if you think Ms. Bass had the worst response, PLEASE go watch clips of Mayor Bissen and Governor Green. They weren’t just silent, they were aggressive- the mayor reminding a reporter that he’s just a reporter and that the Governor is the Governor and to stop asking questions, sit down and listen.
I think Bass was wise to not respond to the reporter. She was out of the Country when it started, cut her visit short, was probably briefed on the flight, but felt she needed more information. It wasn't a good look, but let's see what she does next.
@@TheFilteredLightwise?!! Put yourself into the position of her constituents how does this come off to them? They don’t care if she saves PR face they care if they’re being hung out to dry. A simple were hear for you a 6yr old would know to do.
@@lolitsajoke77 you're right. Politically she's going to get torched, but substantively I don't think it means anything. It just sucks that we live in this gotcha society where substance matters less than appearance. I think she is a hard working, pragmatic leader who is doing her best in a tough situation.
I can’t be the only person who thinks it’s weird the LA hydrants we’re empty and so were the Maui hydrants…. Either it’s intentional or there’s serious government mismanagement.. it’s also real estate wise two of the wealthiest places in the country, no? ……
Yeah, maui's water was hijacked by all the big businesses who paid to take it from their locals. L a has too many people... The tanks were full, but they were empty because of the severity of the fire and it doesn't quickly refill. The l a mayor totally sucks, but this is some big s***Don't make it a simplistic reduction.
Municipal water systems aren’t designed to handle fires that are this widespread. Usually fire flow requirements are set, and storage is sized, based on the type of land use and being able to maintain a certain flow rate and pressure for a set amount of time. It’s not really intended to deal with something this widespread.
The inspectors probably got bribed to look the other way. Since morals don't exist and only money matters in America they took the bribe no questions of course!
Everyone _thinking_ it was all about climate change actually made it worse. The greenwashers who planted grove upon grove of ladder trees across the west and tried to stop natural wildfires to save the precious brush have doomed it.
From the top down, this was a failure in leadership. Such a lack of preparedness on issues that have been known for a long time. They should all be held accountable. Newsome and Bass should resign effective immediately.
I don’t have to imagine what this is like, I went through it in 2020. A fire was started in the beautiful mountain town of Ashland, Oregon on a hot, dry day with winds up to 50 mph. I’ve worked on fires before so I knew immediately it was going to be bad. The hydrants ran out of water, the fire grew so quickly our fire departments were understaffed and ill equipped for a fire of that speed and magnitude. People weren’t even being evacuated until the fire was on their doorstep. Somehow only 3 lives were lost but 2800 homes were destroyed in 24 hours, including mine. Of course nobody covered our fire the way this one is getting coverage but I get very irritated to hear all the know it alls.
For decades, I have followed disasters closely (being a disaster preparedness specialist) and the reaction of LA"s mayor to questions left my jaw on the floor. Not even a, "I'll address those questions later at a press conference."
Californian here. From one of the "founding families" of California. We've been here since before California was a state and this isn't the "worst drought" it's not even the second worst drought. Most people don't know about the Great Water Wars that started in 1886 and created the largest water project in the history of the world. This stretched from the North to South of California, created areas like the Delta (which I know most people think was naturally created but was actually part of a massive water diversion project). The project changed how water flowed in the state and eliminated one of the largest lakes in the United States. Most of California's water problems stem from this massive project and how it has been abused since then.
"Founding Family". So, you cherry picked 1 or 2 people out of the hundreds of ancestors you had from that generation. I'm also related to Charlemagne. He's my great x37 Grandpa. Funny fact, he's also YOUR great ~37x grand daddy.
There is a legitimate crisis of government competency. Afghanistan withdrawal, Ohio train derailment, North Carolina hurricane aftermath, and now this.
Krystal says this is a climate-fueled disaster. It probably would help Californians if they had water in their fire hydrants, used deforestation methods to maintain their forests and stopped listening to the environmentalists who want to return to the ways of the good ol' 1800s!
What would help is people not building homes in risky areas and expecting everyone else to come to their rescue and foot the bill for their recklessness
@@venicebeachsportsnetwork6677 Doesn't matter if somebody repeats the words of a capitalist or a hippie when the words are correct. Californian politicians that believe the world is warming should be ACTING like it. Take action to prevent fires by clearing high-risk flammable areas and reserving emergency water instead of pocketing money and crying it was inevitable. Japan had fires that literally killed hundreds of thousands until they took fire prevention and preparation seriously.
Water is measured in Acre Feet. A single acre foot of water is 325,851 gallons of water. So a tank that's a 1 million gallons is only 3 acre feet of water. That's an absolute JOKE for a city of that size.
You're not talking about a farm..... but anyway, that sounds like a lot of water, but do you blame the mayor for what somebody else designed and built? How many gallons do you think they should conserve? How much does the average fire require? The truth is, if any sizable city (of LA, not just Pacific Palisades) started to burn like this, here wouldn't be enough water to put it out. No city is storing tons of water that can be drawn easily and be replenished easily for firefighting. Find an example elsewhere that would be able to do what you're thinking LA could do here.
@@Iloveswedes A perfect example would be Cedar Rapids, IA, where I used to work for the DWP... in the late 90's had a 10 acrefeet of water in reserve for a city of 100,000 people. A literal postage stamp compared to LA had 3 times the reserve, 30 years ago. For context an olympic swimming pool holds about 2 Acre Feet of water. An average sized water tower for a small town holds 3 or (1,000,000 gallons). LA a Metropolis only had 3 1,000,000 tanks for the water reserve, and a population of what? 10-20 MILLION?
@@Iloveswedes You absolutely blame the mayor, this isnt the first wildfire they'd have water issues with, and I am certain their DWP and fire department has known about this problem and askeed for funding to increase capacity, and been denied by all the moronic mayors including the idiot there now.
The Palisades has 3 x 3 acre foot tanks, plus a 360 acre foot reservoir. The DWP drained the Santa Ynez reservoir last February and only now are they working on the $130k repairs. I think that Quiñones should have expedited the repairs, don't you?
Yep. She cut LAFD funding by $17 million and LAFD spent limited resources on diversity training rather than …you know , fire equipment and training for actually fighting fires. Total clown show .
@@insightdeluxe2it’s about incompetence, she doesn’t owe the people that voter for her any response?? Just a silent treatment ? Might as well be a 5 yr old running the show
Some protesters might decide to occupy UCLA again so naturally we need to give the cops a raise, even though they did sweet fuckall when the zios showed up and put several people in hospital, threw fireworks, tear gas etc.
No police departments has funding cuts, in fact, they all had their funding increased. In LA, they cut the fire budget $27 million and gave it to the police budget. This is all public record so you don't have to allow yourself to be lied to by online influencers who are just trying to grift you into outrage for their own political agendas. Do better.
The money to israel is at thhe federal level, and the entire federal government is run by AIPAC. The local governments especially in California are corrupt, and they will remain corrupt until republican or libertarians win election
@@anthonytwohill9726- still shouldn’t have pulled funding from the fire dept. OP’s point was general rule for some cities, not specific to LA. Mismanagement on water exacerbated the damage, just bad all around.
It’s not about how long she’s been mayor. It’s that she is the leader of a city that’s experiencing a historically horrific tragedy and she can’t even utter a sentence to the millions she represents. That small clip should demonstrate that she is not capable of handling this crisis.
@@alexrusu9040 she had a press conference. answering some british ambush journalists questions coming out your office doesnt = addressing constituents. the mayor doesnt owe skyy news sht
What makes this worse is I vaguely remember hearing we dumped 100 million gallons of water into the oceans a few months back because we didn’t have enough reservoirs to hold the water or some bullshit like that.
For some reason the cities and states that are ran further to the left in this country are responsible for the massive majority of GDP in this country. Republicans ran cities create little to nothing.
@@petefraser3013 a lot of water they get in south comes from the north The state receives 75% of its rain and snow in the north, but 80% of its water demand comes from the south
The loss of Pacific Palisades is a real one. Not that any but a small percentage of people could afford to live there, but just driving through as an outsider ... it was an absolutely beautiful neighborhood. One of the most beautiful I've ever seen. I liked it a lot better than Beverly Hills.
If insurance cancels and pulls out of your region, you should get a full refund of what you have put in. Absurd these companies can take money and run.
It seems somewhat unfair, but just because you have insurance that should not mean you get to take on whatever risk you like. The moral hazard issues in the situation are abundant.
These rich homeowners probably didn't want to pay the price hike. Regular starter home premiums went up from 2k to up to around 10k annually. That means, these 5M to 10M dollar homes had to have 30 to 50k insurance premiums, vs 5 or 10k in the early 2010s.
The Free Press had a reporter talking to LA folks whose homes burned and their fire insurance was limited to $300k, certainly not enough to rebuild in LA country. So no, they can’t just rebuild on their land.
The police and fire fighting companies both need more funding. So many ridiculous spending projects that could be done away with in the state and city.
Guys...wtf. She cut only 2% of the budget for the fire department because they had a budget surplus, according to them. The FD chief has a salary of like 170k, he raked in 900k from overtime last year, they could have used that money to hire another chief and another 2 firefighters. They could have hired another few firefighters instead of having a surplus as well if theyre so concerned about staffing. How about figuring out who is responsible for that. Not only that she has nothing to do with the fire department in the areas that were initially affected. Thats an entirely different government body. Why are you following what MSM is telling you. I watch you specifically because you're not supposed to be parroting MSM but you didnt even do this much? This is state gov issue not a municipal one.
This doesn’t excuse the lack of water to put out the fires, or the fact that old infrastructure mixed with high winds are the cause. You’re only sticking up for the budget, not the actual cause of the fires.
@@nicholemetz6094 alright sure, you know how fire hydrants work? They work like faucets. Its pressurized and so if you open one it'll push out. But if you open all of them then the whole system depressurizes and none of them have water. Now maybe there was legitimately no water? Idk, I'm not a reporter but it's not exactly the immediate cause I would think of for a spontaneous natural disaster. You want to know what would have legitimately been an infrastructure solution they should have been pushing out? Not build houses out of wood, keeping vegetation low, soaking high risk areas, buying millions of dollars of water specifically for something like this instead of funneling it into the police, etc. this is not exactly a municipal level of effort though, this is state to fed level responsibilities for a lot of it. Not to mention the guy this lady ran against is a fucking Muppet who might have done and even worse job.
The mayor not even saying she’s devastated for her city and to offer sympathy to those who lost their homes is a complete derelict of duty… that was the absolute bare minimum and she failed. Damn
Our mayor on Maui disappeared during and after the fires too. Nothing but bully attitude and defensiveness and making the underlings take the fall for higher level failures.
Tell me what you think could be done to stop a fire like this. I'll wait for the guy who voted with HIS emotions, explains. I think I'll be waiting a long time for a non clown answer.
LA is actually one of the worst cities in the US. I used to live there. Horrible taxes, fake people, sleazy people, terrible sprawl, terrible traffic, homeless people everywhere.
Californian here. LA is in a perpetual drought since forever. In LA high winds cause fire to spread. The incompetence was building a city in a desert and not covering the hilltops with gravel. No trees should be allowed in LA.
Krystal and Saagar, I have a request (and like this is you agree): Given this situation, one story I’ve always wanted to hear you guys report on is about the difference of old growth forest vs new growth forest in fire resistance, disease resistance, and drought resistance and how that’s affecting the spread of these fires. Not even from a “climate change” aspect, but as a way to pin point our irresponsible and unscientific way of managing our resources and how it’s contributing to these crisis.
Defunding the fire department in a area that has multiple large fires every year is deplorable. Priorities have shifted and standard services are put on a back burner.
No they haven't. Newsome will blame it all on Trump and democrats will nod their heads and repeat in unison "IT'S ALL ORANGE MAN'S FAULT. ORANGE MAN BAD" and then line up to vote for Newsome from president.
Saager makes assumptions rather than checking the facts. Notwithstanding the tax situation, the wealth gap increased in California during the pandemic, leaving rich residents even richer. The fact that many choose to leave for lower taxes elsewhere does NOT mean they're being taxed unfairly..
Not only that but they also inflate the property values all over LA. The lower income people wouldn’t be so reliant on their taxes if their rents, mortgages, utilities, food prices, etc. weren’t so high from all of the rich people concentrating in LA.
Jfc. Krystal just can't help herself by trying to make this a class war. It's gross mismanagement at the end of the day. California's taxes are the highest in the country. If that government cant make those taxes work then the problem is on them.
She literally mentioned it being a unifying event because everyone is affected. I cannot fathom fake outrage in these comments when a city is currently burning to the ground, it's wild.
1. No federal subsidizing for these people's insurance rates, let the rich take the risk. 2. Ban all private beaches, and make all beaches public property.
In order to help the victims in LA , we should send $50 billion dollars to Ukraine.
They are both the same as far as I'm concerned.
LMAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAO OMG SO FUNNY almost as funny as the 999999999999999999th time it was said
Or 50 Billion to Israel?
and Israel
Let’s give it to the church and we can pray the fires away
Not trolling, serious question: when was the last time you can remember a major American political figure say "I take responsibility"?
This ^
Never. They are incapable of admitting failure & that's one of the main reason why sensible people find them so loathsome.
Great question... I actually have an answer...
It was Nancy Pelosi on her daughter's documentary in 2021. She was taking responsibility for the lack of security at the Capitol on "that fateful day"
A fascinating admission - a fascinating "evolving story" too.
They had to cut that out from the media training to invest in Nancy Pelosi trustfunds
It’s hard to find a regular person that will take accountability for their actions
Politicians would rather rule over the pile of ashes than help the people that lived in it.
You eem to know nothing - and BP is taking advantage of that.
@@peterstafford4426 I know you're a bot... But how about just once.... Instead of knocking people down on their beliefs why don't you actually state what you're are...
How about you give us a couple ideas of what you think is a problem and your idea of a solution for said problem
@@peterstafford4426nice non-argument dork. How pointless.
Maybe these rich folks if they dont benefit from destruction will join the fight with the poor
omg what a statement!!!!!!!
The role of a city mayor is NOT international relationship, as Karen Bass was in Africa for a diplomatic mission; it is, however, to provide ESSENTIAL SERVICES to the residents and taxpayers, such as public works, water, wastewater, firefighting and law enforcement. The rest is done by the state, the country, private businesses and charitable/ nonprofit organizations. Karen Bass is a failure!
Dude, just dude.
The role of mayors in global cities can be building international relationships, actually. There is trade, there is foreign policy that, because we have dysfunctional people at the federal level undermining the city, there's a need for people to go overseas and do the job.
How is she supposed to feel important though?
@@Iloveswedes😂 Ghana is not a mecca of commerce. Try again, she went to the homeland for a vacation on the taxpayers.
@@Iloveswedesnot if your city is burning.
Correction: As a Southern California resident, I can tell you that we haven’t been in a drought status for a couple of years. The last few years of heavy rain and snowfall have replenished reservoirs to a level not seen in 20 years.
This catastrophe is a result of poor brush management by the city and county of LA, a reduction in firefighting resources due to retirements and firings in a COVID-era management debacle, and reduced budgets due to poor fiscal management by a supermajority legislature.
Absolute negligence!
Funnily enough, I think its the end of drought years that’s the most dangerous for wildfires. You get a burst of plant growth that just turns into extra kindling with the dry season.
Yeah Krystal just doesn’t know anything about what’s going on outside Virginia lol. Last couple of years have been good winter rain and snow in many western states, lots of floods.. this winter has been dry from la nina though and summer rainfall was low too from el nino. Frequent El Nino and La Nina conditions is where climate change comes in. People like her actually hurt the climate change argument.
One party state is the probably cause
I think it is important to mention that all of the money it’s going to the police department
Like Krystal, people keep say "no one could have seen this was going to happen" Wrong! The insurance companies saw it coming. (not that Im a fan of them) They saw the neglect and mismanagement going on and the dangers being created. Why didn't the mayor, her advisors, and many government officals see it or take steps to mitigate these dangers?
Because generally speaking good policy doesn’t line the pockets of the “correct” people.
Weird how the professionals with the most money on the line were right
DEI hires
insurance companies pulling fire policies had nothing to do mismanagement - it's all risk calculations done in software that measure the frequency and severity of related events per region (fires, hurricanes, etc) and the relative cost per event, then extrapolates the trend out to forecast future cost. If the costs of covering those payouts exceeds an allowable profit margin, they pull the policy. That's literally the business of insurance.
@@tabronholloway5821 wonder how many government watch lists you just made?
I recorded my friends and myself singing Imagine, so everyone there should be feeling better soon.
😂
Imagine is a beatles song. I will feel better after putting on a rollinng stones or zep song
@@davidanalyst671 went over your head
LOLOLOL
You legend
I work for the City of LA and i’ve been telling my friends for MONTHS that the city is failing because we are run more like a country than a city! Why did mayor bass go to the inauguration of the mexican president and now Ghana?? I understand the proximity of Mexico, but even then, that’s why we have ambassadors so that FEDERAL level can meet FEDERAL level. Also, she has been HUGE on homelessness funding including establishing UNARMED response programs to deal with mental illness mostly. She has been focusing on everything else OUTSIDE essential city services! case and point,
There’s about to be a 20% increase on Sewer charges because there ain’t enough money to fund our sewer system
LADWP rates are so high for the lack of quality service they provide.
there is a MASSIVE copper wire theft crisis, most of the streetlights here are out
recently the pass few weeks there have been MASS fires , especially abandoned buildings downtown with homeless squatters.
and the cherry on top is her LEAVING LA when we have all been getting notices of the upcoming wind events.
California is filled with this! Incompetent leadership, high taxes for terrible service, and politicians that hide and avoid accountability.
Its horrible. I'm so sad for the citizens of LA❤. It's an incredible place (I lived there for 2 years), the mismanagement is disgusting.
- sewer charges are going up. as for the quality of service by LADWP... you have running water & electricity dont you? theyre not your personal plumbers. if you don't like the usual wait times of getting your electricity back on when a transformer or line goes down (2 - 6 hours) maybe you should be OK with the increased rates.
- copper conductor theft, im sure it happens. its not massive, and most of the streetlights were not out prior to the fires. wtf are you on that has you convinced you dont see working lights? even in poor underfunded neighborhoods such as my own where its not unusual to see a streetlight with the wires hanging out(electricity theft, not wire theft, theyre using by homeless campers). this isnt an issue on a "MASSIVE" scale.
- "MASS" fires are not in fact "mass". it does happen occasionally, yes its the homeless somehow starting these fires in or around abandoned buildings. heres how it goes> fire gets put out > the building is still standing > city workers make their best attempt at boarding and locking out entryways into the structure > after 2 weeks the homeless finally break in again > another week later, another fire erupts from the building.
you work for the city yet you apparently dont live here to see that the city is still normal and functioning like any other city at least before the major fires that started on Jan. 7th, 2025.
we're going to take a huge economic blow, but a month from now the overwhelming majority of LA residents will barely even notice there were major fires that threatened the ENTIRETY of Greater LA County. yes huge swaths of multimillion dollar homes along the Santa Monica Mountains are burnt down, but these areas are less dense than Metro area down to South LA.
Wow, thank you for your informing insight.
please also add that girls in LA feel they are celebrities entitled to date milionaires😅
@@elclaudiosanchez That's girls everywhere now in the instagram age.
Californian here. Lived here almost all my life. We are not in a massive drought right now. We’ve had plenty of rain. This is massive government incompetence
That is what happens when the Rich are allowed to buy politicians.
Exactlly, I live in LA, and the hills where these fires are happening had green on them last year for the first time in a long time. It is a drought, but not as severe as people in this thread are saying. There was a fire in the same area a month ago. They should have been better prepared. It is incompetence, not climate change, you green new desl losers are rediculous. It is a bunch of brush that never gets cleared, power lines that are never repaired. Homeless mini camps, and lack of funding for the fire department. We have fires in the same spots multiple times a years. Every year. The firemen dont have the funding they need. The water reserves should be available and plussed up during times of likely fires. The fire department has 100 fire trucks inactive for lack of funding. A study was done last year saying the city is short the necessary manpower and Equipment to respond to major fires. So you can blame climate all you want, but it just an excuse for liberal leadership and their gross negligence. But hey, isn't that what you liberals always do? Make excuse after excuse and point fingers. The city is in flames and all you liberal green new deal cucks can say is climate change. Unreal how stupid you people are.
This is not accurate, LA is currently in a moderate to severe drought
100% we’ve had a few years of pretty decent rain for LA. This is totally incompetence and cuts in the wrong areas
Another Californian here. I remember my friends and I watching control burns as a kid we thought it was cool. I haven’t seen a control burn in over 20 years.
Everyone seems to forget so easily the podcast where Joe Rogan said "I talked to a fireman once and he said 'one day the wind will hit the right way in the right conditions and there will be nothing we can do.'" Then a few years later the mayor cuts LAFD funding by $17 million and this happens...
They've been told for years they need 60 new fire stations as well. Meanwhile cops got a raise and LAPD got more funding just in case any pesky do-gooders decide to occupy UCLA again 🙄
Who do you think is pushing to "shrink" government? MAGATs and Consurvaturds. Always.
100M wouldn't have stopped this. It was raining fire, pushed by Category 1 hurricane winds. The brave men and woman trying to reach the fire had to bulldoze abandon cars off the freeway because it was moving so fast.
Kinda odd to assume everyone forgets that rather than not everyone watches every single JRE episode
Well according to said statement there's nothing we can do, 17 million dollars would probably equate to saving an extra couple dozen of structures, but that still makes this an insane tragedy. Some natural disasters are completely out of our hands. I guess Californian cities can completely remove all its foliage?
2:06 the fire story starts
Thank you. It’s so annoying that the first thing I do when clicking on BP is check the comments section for the time the story starts.
Slam flash , f yea , ur a time saver
BP, take note. Cut to the chase
Thank you for your service.
based
The mayor can’t even open the door to get out of the building… Nothing funny about the situation, but she is something else 🤡
Fire her, Newsom and all the democrats politicians of this state. I’m so done with them. I want to be alleviated from this nightmare the way I have been on a federal scale when Trump got elected.
She thought that the door used for carry-on bags would be her private exit.
In 2014, we voted for Prop 1 which allocated billions for new reservoirs. After 10 years, not a single new reservoir has been built. This is in part due to California's abysmal permitting process and partly due to NGOs fighting to stop any building. Newsom could have thrown his support behind new reservoirs, but he ignored the problem. Now Newsom is quick to reroute any discussions about shortage of reservoirs.
Democratic politicians are absolutely ruining just about every square inch of California and yet they are consistently elected or re-elected to office.
And yet I'm afraid living in that state will have to become entirely impossible before the people there will vote the Republican Party into the majority.
I believe the California government is in the process of decommissioning dams that hold water in resavores and not actually creating new ones!
Great call back for me to look into. Thanks for sharing. Such a damn shame.
You have a reservoir of water right next to you. It's called the Pacific ocean.
Not that alone we had massive floods for the past 2 years proper storage of water reserves never got built and 95% off the water ran into the ocean and rivers. Protecting Delta Smelt made more sense than prepare for fires.
LA east coast burring, Midwest freezes to death, and east coast hurricanes but we have all the money to send to Ukraine and Israel but no cash for disasters at home. not to mention no money for healthcare.
There is no shortage of money. You don't have universal healthcare, which all of the other developed nations have, none of which have the massive resources of the USA, because the people who make a lot of money off of the current rapacious system don't WANT lower cost, lower PROFIT healthcare. Simple. Most of the aid to Ukraine and Israel are LOANS for military materiel. That money is mostly spent on buying US made weapons. So we.... and I mean the military-industrial complex...... get it back. Almost all of it. With interest. It's a cash transfer scheme to enrich the US arms industry.
Zelenskyy thanks you for your contribution
And billions of dollars to hand out to 30+ million illegals flooding across the border too.
@wizeguy2388 Lockheed and Boeing thank you for your tax money.
So does Netanyahu
My husband is a Firefighter in Washington state and is headed to California with a ton of other WA crews, they left this morning. This is his second trip to CA for wildfires in the last 4 months!
🙏
Thank you to him. No thank you to this shitty state government or federal government
Hopefully they're bringing water
Love from SoCal
Not great news.
The Palisades fire is horrible, but the other 3 fires are also changing peoples lives forever. I have coworkers, blue collar employees of the city of Los Angeles, who have either been evacuated and told not to return to their home, or who’s homes have burned down. These gentleman are still showing up to work everyday and getting done what needs to be done to keep this city running. My hats of to them and their families in this trying time
Local here. Not everyone “owned property” in these places. There are renters, roommates, etc., that don’t have lucrative incomes that still lost everything they owned.
Krystal say they can just easily pick up and leave.. how wonderful of her...
"Act of God" is how insurance companies dodge responsibility during "natural disaters". Rinse and repeat, the cycle continues :(
Crystal has to have her fake working class BS take instead of just saying what exactly is happening in confidence at a local level and a state wide level. It’s a diversion.
Many Palisades homes were owned by actors. Furthermore, the hills are known for housing wealthy folks. Even mobile homes were literally beachfront, and we are talking about 1million dollar mobile homes, where land is rented at $790+ a month. Furthermore, thenimbus shelters are typically not allowed to be built due to nimbyism. So, the poor are very few, and not found in statistically meaningful amounts.
I'm also a local. I live about 2 miles from the Palisades fire.
The main problem is that due to all the rain the past few years, there has been a lot of plant growth. We're not in any drought. Though this season, thus far, we haven't had much rain. So now all that plant growth has dried out and become additional fine fuels and fuels that easily ladder in the local and state parks adjacent to the homes that have gone up in flames. I hike frequently through these parks, and due to all the plant litter are time bombs that have finally gone off.
It's also very difficult to due prescribed burns in these areas to reduce the fine fuel loads. The best way to reduce the loads are with large herds of goats (over 500 goats). The LA County Fire Department actually started using goats and had plans to use them more extensively. I know this because I'm friends with one of the goat shepherds doing this work. Some of the areas that went up in flames were areas that my friend was discussing with LA County Fire to graze.
These areas are part of a fire ecosystem, and First Nations routinely used prescribed burns to reduce fine fuel loads so that these sorts of large fire when high winds are blowing don't occur. Climate change isn't the main factor in why these fires occur, poor land management is the main issue. So, Krystal doesn't know what she's talking about.....though that's not unusual.
Oh, and as for Saeger, due to Prop 13 passed way back in 1978, property taxes on based on the last resale value of the house. So, if a home was last sold in 1982, its taxes are based on that 1982 value. There aren't ongoing reassessments. Thus, not all of the properties in this area are taxed at high rates...that is unless the properties more recently changed ownership.
So it sounds like… The insurance companies knew there was a huge fire risk… yet the billion dollar government in LA didn’t pick up on that and take the right measures?
they felt militarizing their police force was more important for some reason
Why would they care? The insurance companies took action to keep their money. LA government wasn't lobbied into doing anything. Simple as that.
@@DanielGarcia-rx3ktOr the Government knew, but it's cheaper to save money on mitigation whe you can just blame the weather. Added benefits: you can charge extra taxes when you blame the weather rather then poor planning.
Climate change 😀😀😀😀😀
Because short sighted goobers, mostly Reichwingnutters, don't ever want to pay a nickel more in taxes or to accommodate new stricter building codes if they can avoid it. They pressure the city and state governments to ignore the problems, delay, deny, obfuscate and lie. The result is inaction, or at best, inadequate action.
“What do you have to say to victims right now”
(Stares into space, walks away)
Great job, mayor!
Can't believe that is what they voted for. If she is gonna be that useless, why not just stay in Ghana permanently?
She's mad her trip to Ghana (taxpayer funded for no reason whatsoever) got cut short.
What do you expect from DEI hires?
This is all a direct result of people like Krystal. Rich progressives with the most insane policies who can’t actually govern or lead. And they NEVER face any accountability!
Her face told us more than whatever words she could have said. She is overwhelmed by more than the destruction of her political career.
I can't shed a tear for rich people.
Southern California is a
Chaparral environment. It's a terrain evolved to burn off every couple of years. Don't be shocked when there are wildfires. It's like building a house below sea level and being shocked when it floods....
Yeah, you either commit to extraordinary efforts to hold back nature, or you surrender the land back to nature.
@@payleryder45👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
This
Not to mention that they've been suppressing fire to protect property for the last hundred years, so when a fire happens it's like a bomb going off with all the tinder fuel that's on the ground.
It’s not just the palisades fire- the Eaton fire is affecting PRIMARILY middle class and working class families. It’s awful.
100% I used to live in that area.
Yeah, broke ass points. Don’t know they’re so removed from all this. They have no idea what’s actually going on.
The last two winters in LA produced a record 54 inches of rain. This year was bone dry but last two were not dry at all
Still over 500 inches in the red since 2014.
Choosing to build homes on top of one another in these tight canyons; you’re gonna roll the dice unfortunately
The growth created by the recent rain, created a lot lot of Tinder for these fires. This is something that is just common sense and should have been managed accordingly. Controlled burns, etc..
and that is why there is "fuel" everywhere.. which is what a normal, competent government would've been taking care of for months.
The wet years allow for more undergrowth that becomes fuel during dry years
Anyone get a count on how many times Krystal mentioned “climate?” How is this different from MSNBC?
Yes, climate change has some effect on what has happened in LA, but the degree of destruction is totally due to mismanagement and ignorance and incompetence on the part of the local government. Period. They need to be held accountable.
Also, climate change is creating unstable weather cycles. We've had no rain this season a year after an atmospheric river. That's exactly what climate change looks like.
Save money by not doing mitigation, collect extra taxes by blaming the weather..... Save money on mitigation, collect extra taxes by blaming the weather....
This is the PROBLEM. Their is 0 incentives for the problem to be fixed. Especially when the same people causing it keep getting voted back in.
Save money by not doing mitigation, collect extra taxes by blaming the weather..... Save money on mitigation, collect extra taxes by blaming the weather....
This is the PROBLEM.
95% of California wildfires are MANMADE its not climate change....its not a natural disaster. They dont clean up the brush and have stopped controlled burns.
@@Skoomz That's also called wet and dry years which has been a feature of weather and California for centuries. But knowing that is a thing and failing to prepare for it in ANY way is incompetence. Texas gets hit with a once in a century winter storm and it's all "Republicans are incompetent, they should have prepared!" And justifiably so. California gets hit with predictable wildfires that happen all the time and they're blameless, nothing they could have possibly done. Ridiculous.
Incompetent mayor and governor
Put one of the red state idiots in charge and watch them cut the budget to nothing. Problem solved. Climate change isn't real, remember?
For the past 4 years all we have seen is gross incompetence.
lobbied by capitalists...
@@TheEricFlu
You have not been living the Cali very long. The problems go back to the late 1990's.
@@jeffreyblack6611
The Resnicks are the problem. Look them up!
Imagine living in a state that’s always having water supply problems AND fire problems AND not having any contingencies for either and instead cut fire department funding.
Its a gigantic natural disaster. You are falling for BP's right wing Trump fascist BS. The folks at BP are despicable.
And move to Florida? Texas? Where they can’t even keep the heaters on during severe cold?
Ya it's because they raised the funding for the cops due to the high crime narrative. Ridiculous
*city and county; not my CA…
@@davidl5119 yep I’m definitely sitting in my totally unpowered, cold colddd house commenting on the internet 😂😭 we can’t afford any more Californian refugees here lol may I recommend Oklahoma?
How do you measure the worst drought in 1200 years?
Probably taking a core sample of something, like the ground. Kind of like counting tree rings, or looking at them width and shape of said rings to see if the tree could have been stressed at a given point to have been in drought.
@ there are no records for 1100 years. There are no core samples that will tell you this. It’s just untrue and hyperbole.
@@Iloveswedesit’s not 100% fact thu and it’s misleading just like when then media says bs like ‘record high’ temp or rainfall but then leave out the fact we’ve only been keeping a record of weather since like 1850 and the earth is prob 4.5 billion years old…… so 1200 years isn’t even a minute in earth years.
saying something like ‘worst drought in 1200 years’ its almost like a 60 year old not drinking water for a full day and saying they’ve never been so thirsty in their life.
but yes your prob right on how they measure that
Where was the worst drought in 1200 years? Not in the LA Basin. The previous 2 rainy seasons were the wettest of the past Century.
I live on Hollywood blvd, a mile from the sunset fire. Yesterday evening was madness, most of my complex evacuated as soon as the order was given. Luckily they had 6 choppers and a wall of firefighting trucks as a barrier to contain the fire.
Everyone was super nice and neighborly last night. People that have never said a word to each other, all of the sudden were helping each other in any way possible. It was both heartbreaking and gave us hope.
Back home today, looks like things are going back to normal, as normal as can be
Nice to see everyday people coming together to help one another. Wishing you the best.
Wait till WW3 starts
They saved the Hollywood sign!
Glad you're safe, hope your friends and family are as well!
I thought kimmels studio would have burnt, guess it survives another day
As LA burns she stands there silent. A perfect political ad for her opponent
Unfortunately Los Angeles is full of awful liberals who will vote for her anyway
She needs to check with her handler before she speaks.....another puppet or grifter whatever they want to call it. She got to go....oh the homeless project was an failure . Money went to waste... ......LA collect so much from money from ppty tax it all went to hell.... ..
she’s gonna regret that reaction for the rest of her life
If you build homes and businesses in an arid hilly area prone to high winds and never let nature burn off dead organics as a normal occurance this is what happens.
The only climate issue here is the climate of ignorance displayed by urban planning
Southern California is a
Chaparral environment. It's a terrain evolved to burn off every couple of years. Don't be shocked when there are wildfires. It's like building a house below sea level and being shocked when it floods....
The madness is local government focussing on global issues (climate change) rather than its purpose: solving chronic, every day issues. It's like a dying drug addict constantly worrying about the Sun exploding in 5 billion years instead of his health.
Exactly 💯
Imagine looking at a vast expanse of rocky desert hills and thinking, "Hmm, I bet the only reason there's no green here is because no one's planted parks and lawns yet. Let's build neighborhoods!"
@@SomeTH-camTraveler
Lack of water limits parks.
Which drought? I live in Pasadena: we had two years of record rain, where are the reservoirs?
Exactly!
The airport clip with Karen Bass is insane 💀 even just considering her own political interests, why would she not throw out some generic "right now I'm focused on helping my city" type lines when given the opportunity??
Because she knows she dosen't have to. Will be re-elected anyways.
To be fair she is doing a good job with homelessness and catalytic converter theft. I was impressed last time I was there. Still bad but better than rock bottom
Because DEI has made even the politicians incompetent at politicianing
Or because the politicians of today have become so incompetent that they don't even know how to lie anymore.
@@Raphinater how does that explain all the old, white incompetent politicians? I'm looking for real answers, not "everything is woke" complaints.
Clarissa ward will stage a fake evacuation in segment on CNN 😂😂
Hire those Convicts they trained to fight forest fires but then would not let them gain employment for the very job they trained them for
Yeah i was thinking about this
I know people who worked in prison fire crews and became firefighters when they got out. Regardless it’s on of the best gigs you can get In prison. The prisoners would still volunteer to go into that program whether it had any impact on when they get out or not. It’s just the best option if you’re gonna be doing a few years anyways
Even just temporally... how can the city government not think of it.
it is not incompetency it is negligent criminality
it would make a great movie...
@Peacenik23-oh1xe
Watch "Chinatown"
Worst drought in 1200 years ? Where did you get that statistic.
no idea. I remember the 80s when the drought was "the end of the world." sounds like convenience.
Krystal is always getting things wrong and with utter arrogance
Lol!!!!!! 🤣😂🤣😂 You really think we can do exactly what we're doing now with no consequences?! Cognitive dissonance is one helluva drug.
she so ignorant, guessing gavin gave her that gem of info
I thought the same. How is that even possible for them to go back that far? 😂
Krystal’s right it is nice to have Saagar back
I'm looking forward for the day he gets deported.
@@jbalien20 me too.
The show was better without him
Glad Krystal is right sometimes
Lol
"i really wanted to weigh in while on vacation but my wife didn't want me to."
You made the correct decision, Saagar. Your wife is right; vacations are not for working.
mayor Bass's husband probably said the same.
No dude. She got back really quick, especially if you consider what continent she was on at the time. She was scheduled to still be out of country right now but she's Stateside.
You need to gather the facts before you make baseless claims about people. Do you know what defamation is?
And to add:
The first day of the fires were not in her jurisdiction.
@@anthonytwohill9726 But she's a DEI person, so it's her fault, apparently.
I hate when women make men not work, just let the dude work when wants to, we aren't animals to control. Literally 1984 , 😡
Krystal: "no one could have seen this was going to happen"
Joe Rogan 4 moths ago: "this IS going to happen"
Krystal didn't say that
Rogan is a shill
Trump cultists come here just to lie about Krystal. Go watch Joe. Bye
Lifelong California here this fire was a metaphor for our one party system in LA and CA.
AINT THAT THE TRUTH!
Remember when Ted Cruz went to Cancun during the Texas ice storm and everyone crucified him, despite that he's not a local political with any local power? Will Karen Bass get the same treatment?
Broo she was already there way before the fire happened. She came back right away
Other than some static, Cruz is still in office, so not a great analogy...
Probably
Cruz left BECAUSE of the ice storms then tried to blame it on his daughters (both minors). This mayor was already out of country long before the fires started.
Nuance and context matter and they're not hard to understand. You just look f00lish, but you did that all by yourself.
Ted Cruz is despised by people on all sides and on the public stage in a more visible position, so no she probably won't get the SAME treatment... but she she definitely deserves that smoke.
Kinda hard to take the climate extremism argument seriously when the most climate extremism state doesn’t seem to take it too seriously.
Oh it's serious, but the majority of liberals in power pay it lip service or use it as a control mechanism. They have infinite energy sources available now but the entire westerm power structure is based on energy market dominance. So it gets suppressed and obfuscated
There’s literally no state or country anywhere taking it seriously.
Also it's a global issue so there's no point one country enacting policy when the rest of the world doesn't/
There are - we have politicians elected in Australia whose main policy is climate change and how to deal with it, Sorry you don’t have any (although I know you had a Greens candidate.
Even Californian politicians don't believe in the "solutions" they push on others. That's why the mayor had nothing to say.
How can you say climate change at all when there’s tons of things CA should’ve done in order to mitigate fires?
Climate change is what caused the conditions that led to the rampant spread of this fire. That's how one can say climate change at all. It's an accelerant. Very dry conditions and heat itself can ignite a fire. It's not out of the question that there could be arson at play for the first fire or two, really. Either way, once it starts, all of the tinder created by drier conditions and high winds from the same cause (and even higher winds once the blaze grows), it's pretty silly to ignore the effects of climate change.
There may be other things California or LA or any other municipality could do to mitigate fires, but when you have millions of acres of forested mountains, and people at the federal level who are against paying for anything like this, and states and local governments being told to cut budgets and cut taxes, well, you get what you pay for. They're using prisoners for manpower to put this blaze out. They're running out of water. I doubt you can have hundreds or thousands of firefighters on standby, just in case of wildfires, unless you want a reserve force. How much will THAT cost?
It's really easy to say something should've been done, but the main issue is a lack of conservation and a bunch of people in California and neighboring states who didn't care about climate change for decades. This is what happens when the nation doesn't do its part.
@ To expand on my previous point, it’s silly to even mention climate change when everything the state could have been doing to prevent fires, they failed to do that.
Im not saying climate change isn’t real, but it’s on the bottom of the list in this case. Just in 2023 LA spend $427 million of its $854 million budget on homeless-related fires. Despite the mayor receiving letters from fire chiefs and knowing high winds were coming, there was a 117 million gallon reservoir in Palisades that was offline for this month.
Then you have the issue where California is dumping billions of gallons of water into the ocean for “the environment” as if that’s our best and only option for the water coming down from the north. To top everything I just said off, CA doesn’t do any cleaning/ fire mitigation in our forests, also for “the environment”.
Don’t tell me it’s a money issue when they spends $24 billion on homelessness only to have it get worse. We are the 5th largest economy in the world, people pay taxes up the ass here. This entire thing is an incompetence issue.
@@Iloveswedes
Did climate change give the Resnicks control over most of the State water so they could limit SoCal to less than 10% of what they should be getting?
They should rename the Wonderful Company to the Climate Change Company!
Our mayor on Maui disappeared during and after the fires too. Nothing but bully attitude and defensiveness and making the underlings take the fall for higher level failures.
Krystal, if you think Ms. Bass had the worst response, PLEASE go watch clips of Mayor Bissen and Governor Green. They weren’t just silent, they were aggressive- the mayor reminding a reporter that he’s just a reporter and that the Governor is the Governor and to stop asking questions, sit down and listen.
I think Bass was wise to not respond to the reporter. She was out of the Country when it started, cut her visit short, was probably briefed on the flight, but felt she needed more information. It wasn't a good look, but let's see what she does next.
Did they get crushed tho?
@@TheFilteredLightwise?!! Put yourself into the position of her constituents how does this come off to them? They don’t care if she saves PR face they care if they’re being hung out to dry. A simple were hear for you a 6yr old would know to do.
Yes, this fire is reminding me a lot of Maui. Its horrific and soooo frustrating.
@@lolitsajoke77 you're right. Politically she's going to get torched, but substantively I don't think it means anything. It just sucks that we live in this gotcha society where substance matters less than appearance. I think she is a hard working, pragmatic leader who is doing her best in a tough situation.
I can’t be the only person who thinks it’s weird the LA hydrants we’re empty and so were the Maui hydrants…. Either it’s intentional or there’s serious government mismanagement.. it’s also real estate wise two of the wealthiest places in the country, no? ……
Any mismanagment that sever should be treated as intentional. There are no accidents when it comes to professional responsibility.
Yeah, maui's water was hijacked by all the big businesses who paid to take it from their locals. L a has too many people... The tanks were full, but they were empty because of the severity of the fire and it doesn't quickly refill. The l a mayor totally sucks, but this is some big s***Don't make it a simplistic reduction.
I'll bet the government paid for it and paid well. It's the corporate leeches that feed off the government that cut corners
Municipal water systems aren’t designed to handle fires that are this widespread. Usually fire flow requirements are set, and storage is sized, based on the type of land use and being able to maintain a certain flow rate and pressure for a set amount of time. It’s not really intended to deal with something this widespread.
The inspectors probably got bribed to look the other way. Since morals don't exist and only money matters in America they took the bribe no questions of course!
Keep going down the rabbit hole. This is NOT just about climate change.
Everyone _thinking_ it was all about climate change actually made it worse.
The greenwashers who planted grove upon grove of ladder trees across the west and tried to stop natural wildfires to save the precious brush have doomed it.
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If they will do this just for an Olympic stadium imagine what they do to you when your house is built on top on a uranium deposit
Preventable with the right management, even with an increase of 3 more degrees.
From the top down, this was a failure in leadership. Such a lack of preparedness on issues that have been known for a long time. They should all be held accountable. Newsome and Bass should resign effective immediately.
CORRECTION: This was a failure of liberal democrat leadership.
@@NickFromDetroit correct
I would add LASWP CEO Quiñones to your list.
@ , Thank you, for mentioning her. I haven’t heard her name mentioned with the other incompetents involved in this mostly man-made disaster. 👍
I don’t have to imagine what this is like, I went through it in 2020. A fire was started in the beautiful mountain town of Ashland, Oregon on a hot, dry day with winds up to 50 mph. I’ve worked on fires before so I knew immediately it was going to be bad. The hydrants ran out of water, the fire grew so quickly our fire departments were understaffed and ill equipped for a fire of that speed and magnitude. People weren’t even being evacuated until the fire was on their doorstep.
Somehow only 3 lives were lost but 2800 homes were destroyed in 24 hours, including mine. Of course nobody covered our fire the way this one is getting coverage but I get very irritated to hear all the know it alls.
For decades, I have followed disasters closely (being a disaster preparedness specialist) and the reaction of LA"s mayor to questions left my jaw on the floor. Not even a, "I'll address those questions later at a press conference."
I’d love to see the clip of her standing there catatonic with that song by Toto playing over it. “I blessed the rains down in Aaaafrica.”
Californian here. From one of the "founding families" of California. We've been here since before California was a state and this isn't the "worst drought" it's not even the second worst drought. Most people don't know about the Great Water Wars that started in 1886 and created the largest water project in the history of the world. This stretched from the North to South of California, created areas like the Delta (which I know most people think was naturally created but was actually part of a massive water diversion project). The project changed how water flowed in the state and eliminated one of the largest lakes in the United States. Most of California's water problems stem from this massive project and how it has been abused since then.
This is excellent information. Thanks.
"Founding Family".
So, you cherry picked 1 or 2 people out of the hundreds of ancestors you had from that generation.
I'm also related to Charlemagne. He's my great x37 Grandpa. Funny fact, he's also YOUR great ~37x grand daddy.
Interesting
My vote for the biggest abusers are the Wonderful Company and related companies.
There is a legitimate crisis of government competency. Afghanistan withdrawal, Ohio train derailment, North Carolina hurricane aftermath, and now this.
Plus Maui!
Krystal says this is a climate-fueled disaster. It probably would help Californians if they had water in their fire hydrants, used deforestation methods to maintain their forests and stopped listening to the environmentalists who want to return to the ways of the good ol' 1800s!
That is so dumb bro. Don't repeat talking points of capitalists not a good look
What would help is people not building homes in risky areas and expecting everyone else to come to their rescue and foot the bill for their recklessness
@@venicebeachsportsnetwork6677 Doesn't matter if somebody repeats the words of a capitalist or a hippie when the words are correct. Californian politicians that believe the world is warming should be ACTING like it. Take action to prevent fires by clearing high-risk flammable areas and reserving emergency water instead of pocketing money and crying it was inevitable.
Japan had fires that literally killed hundreds of thousands until they took fire prevention and preparation seriously.
Why don't they have water, bro?
@@mojrimibnharb4584 They have water its 100% mismanaged by the State for almost 50 years.
Water is measured in Acre Feet. A single acre foot of water is 325,851 gallons of water. So a tank that's a 1 million gallons is only 3 acre feet of water. That's an absolute JOKE for a city of that size.
You're not talking about a farm..... but anyway, that sounds like a lot of water, but do you blame the mayor for what somebody else designed and built? How many gallons do you think they should conserve? How much does the average fire require? The truth is, if any sizable city (of LA, not just Pacific Palisades) started to burn like this, here wouldn't be enough water to put it out. No city is storing tons of water that can be drawn easily and be replenished easily for firefighting. Find an example elsewhere that would be able to do what you're thinking LA could do here.
@@Iloveswedes A perfect example would be Cedar Rapids, IA, where I used to work for the DWP... in the late 90's had a 10 acrefeet of water in reserve for a city of 100,000 people.
A literal postage stamp compared to LA had 3 times the reserve, 30 years ago.
For context an olympic swimming pool holds about 2 Acre Feet of water. An average sized water tower for a small town holds 3 or (1,000,000 gallons).
LA a Metropolis only had 3 1,000,000 tanks for the water reserve, and a population of what? 10-20 MILLION?
@@Iloveswedes You absolutely blame the mayor, this isnt the first wildfire they'd have water issues with, and I am certain their DWP and fire department has known about this problem and askeed for funding to increase capacity, and been denied by all the moronic mayors including the idiot there now.
The Palisades has 3 x 3 acre foot tanks, plus a 360 acre foot reservoir. The DWP drained the Santa Ynez reservoir last February and only now are they working on the $130k repairs. I think that Quiñones should have expedited the repairs, don't you?
My house was destroyed in a flood, and it changes you forever. My heart goes out to LA and praying for mercy.
they will continue voting for the same corrupt incompetent democrats who they trusted to protect them from basic city functions
Mostly peaceful fire if you ask me
Black rock coming to the rescue
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oh buy up these land on the cheap and rebuild Black Rock has another win in the books.
It's too bad that all these homeowners didn't sell their homes to black rock a few months ago.
The Question we're all waiting for the answer.... how is The View gonna blame Trump
The new lori lightfoot
Yep. She cut LAFD funding by $17 million and LAFD spent limited resources on diversity training rather than …you know , fire equipment and training for actually fighting fires. Total clown show .
did chicago have a natural disaster? or do you just associate one black female mayor to another?
@@insightdeluxe2it’s about incompetence, she doesn’t owe the people that voter for her any response?? Just a silent treatment ? Might as well be a 5 yr old running the show
@@MMAGodzz
it wasnt a voter. it was a brit reporter from sky news ambushing her.
name a white male mayor who is incompetent then.
Don’t you dare disgrace the GOAT like that lol
Trillions spent abroad. Not enough for the homeland.
Is it too late to ask for some of it back?
@@davideanes3425 yeah. All that money is in billionaires pockets
They would have enough but decided to spend elsewhere…
Send money to Israel but defund our fire departments and Police departments (not to mention education system etc ….)
Some protesters might decide to occupy UCLA again so naturally we need to give the cops a raise, even though they did sweet fuckall when the zios showed up and put several people in hospital, threw fireworks, tear gas etc.
No police departments has funding cuts, in fact, they all had their funding increased. In LA, they cut the fire budget $27 million and gave it to the police budget.
This is all public record so you don't have to allow yourself to be lied to by online influencers who are just trying to grift you into outrage for their own political agendas.
Do better.
Joo shouldn't be questioning your overlords. Joo might get yourself in trouble
The money to israel is at thhe federal level, and the entire federal government is run by AIPAC. The local governments especially in California are corrupt, and they will remain corrupt until republican or libertarians win election
@@anthonytwohill9726- still shouldn’t have pulled funding from the fire dept. OP’s point was general rule for some cities, not specific to LA. Mismanagement on water exacerbated the damage, just bad all around.
Not enough WATER ! Probably short on equipment and firemen (budget cuts).
The Mayor has three options: 1) - Impeachment. 2) - Recalled. And lastly 3) - Primary. Choose wisely Los Angeles.
Bass has been Mayor barely 2 years. How in the hell is this her fault?
@@MrStCyrXwhen was the fire budget cut?
It’s not about how long she’s been mayor. It’s that she is the leader of a city that’s experiencing a historically horrific tragedy and she can’t even utter a sentence to the millions she represents. That small clip should demonstrate that she is not capable of handling this crisis.
@@alexrusu9040
she had a press conference.
answering some british ambush journalists questions coming out your office doesnt = addressing constituents.
the mayor doesnt owe skyy news sht
Bass cut the fire budget, and could have begun fuel removal, clearing, and prepped for higher water pressure
Newsome should resign just like Trudeau. Their time is come and gone.
What makes this worse is I vaguely remember hearing we dumped 100 million gallons of water into the oceans a few months back because we didn’t have enough reservoirs to hold the water or some bullshit like that.
Trump actually talked about it and was laughed at by Crystal
yeah, you really can't call these fires anything but deliberate
Insurance companies pulled fire insurance like they pulled Hurricane/flooding insurance in Florida
They'll still elect the liberal Dems though!
We don’t have fair elections here.
For some reason the cities and states that are ran further to the left in this country are responsible for the massive majority of GDP in this country. Republicans ran cities create little to nothing.
Yeah, we really need to stop electing liberals and start electing Socialists who care about people.
as opposed to conservatives like ted cruz? theyre ALL cowards
@@ReuvenGoldstein1lolll the liberals are the socialists
California is not in drought. The last two years have been the rainiest since I’ve been born.
Big difference between SoCal and NorCal
@@petefraser3013 a lot of water they get in south comes from the north
The state receives 75% of its rain and snow in the north, but 80% of its water demand comes from the south
Dude, it hasn't rained in LA since February. We're in a drought
@@bosnianlady10 that water comes from aqueducts not rain
@@bosnianlady10 sounds like you're not from here, shut up please :)
At least they saved the Smelt fish...right?
Actually they didn't. The fish are still declining.
No shit
The loss of Pacific Palisades is a real one. Not that any but a small percentage of people could afford to live there, but just driving through as an outsider ... it was an absolutely beautiful neighborhood. One of the most beautiful I've ever seen. I liked it a lot better than Beverly Hills.
I wish we could get a story about the current state of the Colorado river negotiations.
If insurance cancels and pulls out of your region, you should get a full refund of what you have put in. Absurd these companies can take money and run.
Agreed
It seems somewhat unfair, but just because you have insurance that should not mean you get to take on whatever risk you like. The moral hazard issues in the situation are abundant.
They knew the system was broken and bailed.
Looks like it was very smart on their... part.
Insurance has INCENTIVE to make good decisions. Government doesn't. Hence, the flames, but no insurance.
These rich homeowners probably didn't want to pay the price hike. Regular starter home premiums went up from 2k to up to around 10k annually. That means, these 5M to 10M dollar homes had to have 30 to 50k insurance premiums, vs 5 or 10k in the early 2010s.
Wow, that mayor appeared completely wrapped up in the thought, ‘Nothing I say can fix how bad this is actually and I know I will lose the election.’
The Free Press had a reporter talking to LA folks whose homes burned and their fire insurance was limited to $300k, certainly not enough to rebuild in LA country. So no, they can’t just rebuild on their land.
Can we please talk more about who started it or how it started.
Probably some vet from Ft. Bragg
@david
We are not at LIBERTY to discuss that issue.
Homeless like to start camp fires .....that is why some mentally ill can't be housed in hotels they throw up stuff and make a fire in hotel room.
Why do californians elect such inept officials?
Stupid is as stupid does. They get the government they deserve.
a bunch of people like Krystal and Kyle live there
It's called failing up.
Because all the competent people are out chasing money and public service is for losers.
As a Canadian, from what I can see, guys do it in every state lol
Fire department had huge cuts, but the Police had massive raises.
The police and fire fighting companies both need more funding. So many ridiculous spending projects that could be done away with in the state and city.
@MikePSU the fire department needed more funding, but the police department needs a major massive reduction in funding.
Like a good neighbor State Farm is there. Unless of course your house is burning or flooded.
Oooooof….. this is one is rough
Guys...wtf. She cut only 2% of the budget for the fire department because they had a budget surplus, according to them. The FD chief has a salary of like 170k, he raked in 900k from overtime last year, they could have used that money to hire another chief and another 2 firefighters. They could have hired another few firefighters instead of having a surplus as well if theyre so concerned about staffing. How about figuring out who is responsible for that. Not only that she has nothing to do with the fire department in the areas that were initially affected. Thats an entirely different government body. Why are you following what MSM is telling you. I watch you specifically because you're not supposed to be parroting MSM but you didnt even do this much? This is state gov issue not a municipal one.
Louder please, for all those in the back.
They just read other people's reporting.
California overtime is a scam
This doesn’t excuse the lack of water to put out the fires, or the fact that old infrastructure mixed with high winds are the cause. You’re only sticking up for the budget, not the actual cause of the fires.
@@nicholemetz6094 alright sure, you know how fire hydrants work? They work like faucets. Its pressurized and so if you open one it'll push out. But if you open all of them then the whole system depressurizes and none of them have water. Now maybe there was legitimately no water? Idk, I'm not a reporter but it's not exactly the immediate cause I would think of for a spontaneous natural disaster. You want to know what would have legitimately been an infrastructure solution they should have been pushing out? Not build houses out of wood, keeping vegetation low, soaking high risk areas, buying millions of dollars of water specifically for something like this instead of funneling it into the police, etc. this is not exactly a municipal level of effort though, this is state to fed level responsibilities for a lot of it. Not to mention the guy this lady ran against is a fucking Muppet who might have done and even worse job.
The mayor not even saying she’s devastated for her city and to offer sympathy to those who lost their homes is a complete derelict of duty… that was the absolute bare minimum and she failed. Damn
Our mayor on Maui disappeared during and after the fires too. Nothing but bully attitude and defensiveness and making the underlings take the fall for higher level failures.
dont forget poor forest management and not properly having enough water...
The decision of California leaders not to make water reservoirs is just tragic
They literally have the money from taxes to build a new reservoir but choose not to. 😢
they did, the Wonderful Company bought or through the Reznik's positions in local leadership, acquired 60% of it.
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They have reservoirs but no rain collecting system for the torrential downpours they usually get. Almost all that rain gets washed out to sea.
building resovoiurs aint that easy. especiallly in a city as big as LA.
you just dont decide to build a resoivoir in a day.
ARE THEY EVACUATING THE JUVENILE DETENTION CENTRE YET?!?! BECAUSE THEY WEREN'T LAST NIGHT.
As I get older I realize that if you vote with your emotions, you get leaders who think using their emotions.
Tell me what you think could be done to stop a fire like this.
I'll wait for the guy who voted with HIS emotions, explains.
I think I'll be waiting a long time for a non clown answer.
LA is actually one of the worst cities in the US. I used to live there. Horrible taxes, fake people, sleazy people, terrible sprawl, terrible traffic, homeless people everywhere.
People forget the biggest issue: from a resource perspective, LA is a population center that shouldn't exist.
That entire area of central California for that matter. They plant avocado farms in a desert.
Californian here. LA is in a perpetual drought since forever. In LA high winds cause fire to spread. The incompetence was building a city in a desert and not covering the hilltops with gravel. No trees should be allowed in LA.
Krystal and Saagar, I have a request (and like this is you agree):
Given this situation, one story I’ve always wanted to hear you guys report on is about the difference of old growth forest vs new growth forest in fire resistance, disease resistance, and drought resistance and how that’s affecting the spread of these fires. Not even from a “climate change” aspect, but as a way to pin point our irresponsible and unscientific way of managing our resources and how it’s contributing to these crisis.
Defunding the fire department in a area that has multiple large fires every year is deplorable. Priorities have shifted and standard services are put on a back burner.
Any presidential aspirations Gavin Newsome had, have just gone up in flames.
No they haven't. Newsome will blame it all on Trump and democrats will nod their heads and repeat in unison "IT'S ALL ORANGE MAN'S FAULT. ORANGE MAN BAD" and then line up to vote for Newsome from president.
Saager makes assumptions rather than checking the facts. Notwithstanding the tax situation, the wealth gap increased in California during the pandemic, leaving rich residents even richer. The fact that many choose to leave for lower taxes elsewhere does NOT mean they're being taxed unfairly..
Not only that but they also inflate the property values all over LA. The lower income people wouldn’t be so reliant on their taxes if their rents, mortgages, utilities, food prices, etc. weren’t so high from all of the rich people concentrating in LA.
Let’s not forget the mayor’s $750,000 salary. Go DEI!!! The dem dream is working!
We can blame a lot of government organizations on this one.
Jfc. Krystal just can't help herself by trying to make this a class war.
It's gross mismanagement at the end of the day. California's taxes are the highest in the country. If that government cant make those taxes work then the problem is on them.
She literally mentioned it being a unifying event because everyone is affected. I cannot fathom fake outrage in these comments when a city is currently burning to the ground, it's wild.
1. No federal subsidizing for these people's insurance rates, let the rich take the risk.
2. Ban all private beaches, and make all beaches public property.
Breaking Points with Saagar and Kyle
Insurance dropping coverage leading up to hurricane season, fire season, etc should be criminal.
This reminded me of when Ted Cruz bailed on his people as well
Ted wasn't a mayor 😂
Keep deflecting with whataboutism.