More to the point, here's the receipts on the LA Fire Department's budget cuts.

The fire chief wrote a 20+ page report on how the cuts were real and seriously impact their ability to fight big fires. They literally had to cut pilot training hours for airborne fire fighters.

https://clkrep.lacity.org/onlinedocs/2024/24-1600_rpt_bfc_12-17-24.pdf

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LA Fire Chief Kristin Crowley said over amonth ago that the $17.6million budget cut would hamper their ability to respond to large fires. That money was directed to cops instead.

In this segment the fire chief repeats that these budget cuts were real and have real negative impacts in the quality of service they can provide.

Chief Crowley says they did what they could with what they had & suggests it wasn't possible to contain this fire at any funding level.

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