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I read an interesting story from Dropsite that I'm not going to link because it's on Substack. But it was a deeper dive into the LA Fire Dept budgeting over the last few years.

I'll just say that decisions were made that look pretty stupid today in light of the destruction of entire sections of the city.

But what strikes me is the difference between the discussions of fire dept budgets vs police dept budgets.

We have a priorities problem in the USA.

#lafires #police #lafd


For the love of god people need to stop flying drones near wild fires while aerial fire fighters at work. A fire fighting plane struck a drone and now needs repairs.

The issue obviously being that these planes must fly right down to the deck below the typically allowed 400ft flight ceiling of consumer drones.

Not a wise time to be sharing your drone photos of LA, might get some unwanted attention from the FAA

#drone #LAFires #la #FAA #LAFD


This morning LA fire officials indicate that they have become aware of false evacuation orders circulating that appear to come from the official emergency management text warning system. This maybe a cyber security incident but it's not know yet exactly how these texts were sent.

#LAFires #cybersecurity #LAFD


I'm just a citizen loud mouth on mastodon but it's kinda amazing how much of the media is calling the budget cut fake news. It is not.

All the media takes such as the BET one below, point to the idea that the budget could be added to at a later date and reason that it wasn't a budget cut.

Look, its not even debatable. LAFD's budget was CUT by $17M+.

When you take budget and replace it with an IOU that is by definition a budget cut.

https://www.bet.com/article/pgykqa/la-mayor-karen-bass-palisades-fire

#KarenBass #BET #LAFD


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

#LA #LAFD #KarenBass #KristinCrowley #LAFires #acab




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.

#LA #LAFires #LAFD #KristinCrowley