The ‘man did California authorities screw the pooch’ thread
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City Journal (Manhattan Institute) article worth the read.
“A recent analysis by my colleagues at the Property and Environment Research Center underscores just how cumbersome NEPA-related delays can be for the projects most needed to reduce fire risks. On average, it takes 3.6 years to begin a mechanical thinning project and 4.7 years to implement a prescribed burn after the U.S. Forest Service initiates the environmental review process. For large projects requiring environmental impact statements, the timeline stretches even longer, averaging 5.3 years for mechanical treatments and 7.2 years for prescribed burns.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/la-wildfires-forest-management-regulatory-reform
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Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
My favorite Jesse Jackson term... The paralysis of analysis.
Sums things up in four words.
Always remember, Operation Valkyrie was an act of sedition.
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Here’s your broken clock. You might recognize some names.
When you shake someone's deep sense of self-worth, leaving a scar in their ego, they will persistently try to diminish you through petty arguments & obsessive captious criticism of your actions, just to soothe the wound.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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@jon-nyc said in The ‘man did California authorities screw the pooch’ thread:
Here’s your broken clock. You might recognize some names.
Recognize some of them. But I knew they were mostly conservatives, since most of the women are attractive.
Always remember, Operation Valkyrie was an act of sedition.
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@George-K said in The ‘man did California authorities screw the pooch’ thread:
I saw a story that firefighters and equipment are leaving Oregon to help out in California.
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/01/08/oregon-sending-crews-help-battle-los-angeles-area-wildfires/
However, an unverified claim states until they are certified by the DOT in Sacramento, they can't proceed. Story doesn't address that.
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Compare and contrast DeSantis and the management of multiple hurricanes during his time as Governor with Newsome’s management of the fire…
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Though in fairness, the hurricanes have been Cat 3s and 4s, similar to most years in FL. These LA fires are pretty historic in their scope. Also you see the hurricanes coming with advanced notice including a good idea of their path.
Not that I disagree with the point that CA sucks at this. But still its not a fair comparison.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Los Angeles fire chief Kristin Crowley warned city officials in November that her department had about half as many firefighters as it needed. When deadly wildfires struck the city two months later, Mayor Karen Bass's administration pulled Crowley's memo from its website.
Crowley wrote to the city's fire commissioners—a five-person board appointed by Bass—on Nov. 18 and asked them to transmit the message to Bass and the city council. The fire department's size, she said, hadn't increased in decades despite significant population growth.
"In many ways, the current staffing, deployment model, and size of the LAFD have not changed since the 1960s," wrote Crowley, who also complained that a spike in emergency calls and a shortage of fire stations had led to longer response times. In 2022, Crowley said, 61 percent of the department's firefighters failed to meet the 4-minute first response time, a national firefighting standard. The National Fire Protection Association, meanwhile, recommends that cities like Los Angeles employ some 1.51 to 1.81 firefighters per 1,000 residents. But Los Angeles, Crowley wrote, only staffs 0.91 firefighters per 1,000 people.
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