The ‘man did California authorities screw the pooch’ thread
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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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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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@George-K said in The ‘man did California authorities screw the pooch’ thread:
Is Newsom trying out for a sign language interpreter job? I've never see someone use their hands so much when speaking.
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I saw a story that Biden has approved a $777 one-time disbursement to the victims.
Sweet!
"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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"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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I saw a story that Biden has approved a $777 one-time disbursement to the victims.
Sweet!
@George-K said in The ‘man did California authorities screw the pooch’ thread:
I saw a story that Biden has approved a $777 one-time disbursement to the victims.
Sweet!
Again, I’m going to go back to something I said during the hurricanes… It’s not FEMA or the Federal Government’s role to replace insurance.
Now, evidently it is California’s government’s place to replace insurance with the FAIR plan, and while I am sure that it will get bailed out by the Federal Government, at least the optics are correct. That’s all I can hope for these days.
The Brad
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I saw a story that Biden has approved a $777 one-time disbursement to the victims.
Sweet!
@George-K said in The ‘man did California authorities screw the pooch’ thread:
I saw a story that Biden has approved a $777 one-time disbursement to the victims.
Sweet!
North Carolina or Florida?
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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@George-K said in The ‘man did California authorities screw the pooch’ thread:
I saw a story that Biden has approved a $777 one-time disbursement to the victims.
Sweet!
North Carolina or Florida?
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@George-K said in The ‘man did California authorities screw the pooch’ thread:
I saw a story that Biden has approved a $777 one-time disbursement to the victims.
Sweet!
Again, I’m going to go back to something I said during the hurricanes… It’s not FEMA or the Federal Government’s role to replace insurance.
Now, evidently it is California’s government’s place to replace insurance with the FAIR plan, and while I am sure that it will get bailed out by the Federal Government, at least the optics are correct. That’s all I can hope for these days.
@LuFins-Dad said in The ‘man did California authorities screw the pooch’ thread:
@George-K said in The ‘man did California authorities screw the pooch’ thread:
I saw a story that Biden has approved a $777 one-time disbursement to the victims.
Sweet!
Again, I’m going to go back to something I said during the hurricanes… It’s not FEMA or the Federal Government’s role to replace insurance.
Now, evidently it is California’s government’s place to replace insurance with the FAIR plan, and while I am sure that it will get bailed out by the Federal Government, at least the optics are correct. That’s all I can hope for these days.
In my lifetime...
Used to be, if you were living on the Gulf Coast water's edge, it was a camp, or if in a place with nice beaches, it was single story cinderblock motel or a cheaper bungalow home. Then, came
. And really nice homes. And condos. Even with the crappy beaches, you started to see $100k and then $200k camps.Because insurance companies would write the policies.
Some of this insurance problem is a problem of our own making.
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@George-K said in The ‘man did California authorities screw the pooch’ thread:
Didn't click link but, based on the tweet, I'm guessing they burned to death is what happened.
