California Burning

Peloni: Unbelievable tragedy strikes as fires spread consuming homes, businesses and lives.  Mass evacuations creating impassable traffick jams, no water pressure to fight the fires paint the landscape of this ensuing disaster.

January 9, 2025 | 9 Comments »

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  3. Los Angeles fire chief says city failed department with budget cuts

    Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and other officials at a news conference.

    Mayor Bass is a progressive career politician, who budgeted and wasted money on illegals plus homeless. Homeless budget was 50% more than Fire Department and half of it was not spent.

    Elections have consequences, Rick Caruso a very outstanding experienced business person who also was on the Police Board ran against Bass but lost. Caruso’s trouble was he was white and had previously been a Republican.

    Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley criticized the city’s decision to cut more than $17 million in funding for the department, saying firefighters were let down.

    “It’s my job to stand up as the chief and exactly say, justifiably, what the fire department needs to operate, to meet the demands of the community,” Crowley told FOX 11 Los Angeles when asked if the City of Los Angeles fail the department.

  4. The State of California over the past few years destroyed five dams in Southern California that by themselves could easily have provided enough water to avert this catastrophe. But the dams were apparently built on land belonging to American Indian tribes (now called the “First Nations” rather than “Indians” by the woke crowd) without the consent of the Indians who owned the land, and they were and still are angry about that. However, the tribal lands contain large areas that are not affected by the dams, and the Indians have been able to continue their traditional hunting, fishing, and pre-industrial farming practices in these areas. Although the Indians did ask the state to remove the dams, there was no need, certainly no urgent need, to do this. A responsible governor, concerned that the people of southern Californiawould have called a meeting of all the “stakeholders”–the tribal elders and representatives of the Southern California communities that drew their water from the dams–to work out a mutually acceptable compromise solution that would preserve tribal lands, compensate the tribes for the illegal confiscation of their lands by earlier Calfifornia governments in order to build the dams, while preserving and modernizing and repairing the dams so that they could continue to provide badly needed water to communities in southern California.

    That is what a competent, honest and caring governor of California would have done. However, Gavin Newsome is not such a governor. All he cares about is pleasing his “woke” supporters at the expense of the majority of Californians,

  5. The situation is almost incredibly bad as a result of massive corruption, incompetence and misplaced priorities by the State of California, Los Angeles County and the City of Los Angeles and the Federal government agencies documentifour governments corrupt and incompetent. YouTube is full of podcasts detailing this toxic mixture of corruption, incompetence and false values.

    Donald Trump describes the state’s rejection of his proposal to build a water carrier or aqueduct to carry the snow melt that occurs every year in the mountains of northern California to southern California. The state government as well as several Federal agencies rejected the plan on the grounds that it would endanger fish (Salmon and Spelt) that lived and spawned on the north Florida coast. Everyone ignored the fact that it was possible to design a system of locks that would enable the spawning fish to migrate upstream during the spawning season, while only very rarely halting the flow of water to human communities, such as the city of LOs Angeles, The state of Washington has already built a water carrier with a built-in slamon protection system to carry water from the extremely well-watered coastal region of Washington to the very dry areas of the states of Oregon and Idaho, which were in desperate need of water. This lock system works. Why did no one ever suggesting building a similar water-carrier system to provide water to Southern California?

  8. I’m there right now. My son and his family are living just on the edge of the flames, and we don’t know if their home will succumb…

    It seems to me the the California “authorities” are big on talk but are clueless – or worse – about creating the conditions that would help the people avoid this total disaster. Ensuring that all the fire hydrants are operational (hint: when you open them, water should come out at high pressure… if indeed it comes out) would be a good start, but the state appears to be about ten years behind on this… Still they talk…