LA Fires: What They Don't Want You To Know

this is LA's fire chief Christine Crowley and around 3 weeks ago she wrote a detailed report to the city's mayor Karen bass saying that her fire department was facing and I quote unprecedented operational challenges due to the millions of dollars in budget cuts Karen had approved 6 months earlier fast forward to today and the fire department is being overwhelmed and La is being scorched by what's become the most destructive natural disaster ever experienced in La after and this is important just 2 days that's it more than 10 people have lost their lives almost 200,000 have been told to leave their homes and evacuate and the damages and remember on 2 days and the damages and remember on Just 2 days are thought to be in the realm of around 50 billion and this is all while there's been complaints from firefighters that hydrants have run out of water or are broken delays in response times dry Bush not being cleared appropriately and shockingly all of those issues and more we specifically outlined in this report only a few weeks ago and they were predicted to be a problem oh and that is just the beginning so let's stop the Yap stop the crack and let's get cracking okay let's jump into this report which was filed last month because it is genuinely shocking once you have hindsight it is 22 pages long and they even did a little simplified presentation at the end with um visuals in case brain rot had spread all the way to the government offices nice fun touch I think so the total budget cut from the Los Angeles Fire Department was around 17 million but specifically the problem that was highlighted in this report was the 7 million in reductions in overtime Staffing hours which they refer to in this report as V hours and listen to this quote directly right in the summary the reduction in vours has severely yes they used that word severely severely limited the Department's Capac capacity to prepare for train for and respond to large scale emergencies including wild fires I mean they literally said it themselves the this is their words let me continue cuz this just gets worse they said that stuffing restrictions in their fire prevention Bureau is causing the inability to complete required Bush clearance inspections which are crucial for mitigating fire risks in high Hazard areas I mean that is one of the key points that a lot of people have brought up about this fire because yes this fire spread so fast because it was exacerbated by really high winds but also overgrown dry Bush that hasn't been cleared properly is what really spreads the fire so quickly and also if it isn't cleared around structures then it goes straight from the bush to the structures and you've seen the before and afters entire neighborhoods wiped out for their Emergency Medical Services Bureau they said without vours the lfd cannot deploy qualified Personnel to these resources which impacts emergency response and Public Safety oh they keep on going because for their Disaster Response section they said the cut will also affect the teams making Fire Control lines around Wildfire lens manage Wildland fire road maintenance and postfire demolition their specialized operation units they said that the cuts would impact their ambulance and water dropping helicopter operations limiting the Department's ability to respond effectively to emergency and ensure Public Safety for large-scale public events for their firefighter training and emergency preparedness and response they said that these Cuts would hinder firefighter training and safety planning and that the fire department's response to large scale emergencies like wildfires they specifically say that is significantly there's that word again uh diminished increasing the risk of both public and firefighter safety now obviously these even though it felt like a lot to me reading this out these are just bullet points this is 2 two pages of specifically saying all the things that are happening now specifically warning of all of the things that are happening now so the question becomes was this all true because either way you look at it it's pretty bad on the one hand if she was telling the truth last month in this report then those cuts from the mayor significantly impacted the firefighters ability to respond and control these fires and if that was actually the case then California's public will be pissed because they are paying some of the highest taxes in the entire country and they are paying that specifically so you can have well-funded public sectors for emergencies like this but then you have the other scenario on the other hand if she was overstating you know how much these budget cuts would impact it and she was just trying to get back the funding that they lost and when she was asked exactly this whether she was telling the truth or not in an interview yesterday she said this would that $17 million that had been cut from your budget have made a difference in this fight I would say with The Lean Forward posture that we took knowing that a $17 million cut we had to take from somewhere and that was from the non-essential duties and responsibilities we predeployment that shows the Departments which had the biggest operation cuts and increases in 2024 and 2025 you'll see right down there uh the second biggest cut only above street services is fire and that is wild when you see that that is now costing $50 billion not saying that it could be completely prevented but 50 billion the biggest three increases were police library and housing now in addition to these Cuts there's been a lot of CR criticism from Californians and locals talking about the fact that the fire department's budget is only 65% of the amount set aside for homelessness which they have a budget of around $1.3 billion I me just to make that budget worse an analysis from LA's City comproller found that last year roughly half the budget for homelessness went unspent and I mean to be fair it's not like a disaster like this especially in LA and around California couldn't be predicted one of the craziest clips that I saw about it was uh of Joe when he spoke about it at sometime last year and he spoke to a firefighter Alex play them the clip I talked to this guy who was a fire guy uh for the fire department he said it's just going to be a matter of time there's going to be one day where a fire hits LA and the wind is the right way and we're not going to be able to stop it it's just going to burn right through to the ocean he goes it's just a matter of time we all know it I was like what the dude I go the whole city he goes the whole city so now you've got this huge crisis and so many people have been affected all of this is kind of channeling into huge anger towards those who are in control when the fireus first broke out the mayor of La came back from a trip in Ghana to uh this waiting for her at the airport do you owe citizens an apology for being absent while their homes were burning do you regret cutting the fire department budget by millions of dollars Madame mayor have you nothing to say today back up app it have you absolutely no nothing to say to the citizens today Elon Musk says that you're utterly incompetent are you considering your position Madame mayor have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today who are dealing with this disaster I would also today the governor of California Gavin Newsome was confronted by a woman in the streets asking why there was no water in the hydrant that was my daughter's school Governor please tell me what you're going to do I'm not going to hurt him my I'm literally talking to the president right now don't believe it I'm sorry there's literally I tried five times that's why I'm walking around to make the call why is the president not taking your call because it's not going through why was there no water in the hydrant all being that's all literally is it going to be different next time it has to be has to be of course what are you going to do I'm to fill the hydrants I would fill them up personally you know that I literally have I would fill up the hydrants myself now the latest from the fires in La is that California's National Guard has had to be deployed not only to help support LA but also and this is just H this one's unbelievable but also to deter the people that are using this fire as an opportunity to loot people's houses that have been evacuated I mean just imagine that you would lose all your faith in humanity you're forced to evacuate your home and maybe you come back and it's a miracle and your house is still intact you go inside and it's just been looted everything robbed that is crazy there's also been a suspect arrested by citizens may I add for arson and he is suspected to have started the Kenneth fire which has burnt roughly 1,000 Acres so far oh and also don't even get me started on this insurance crisis that is looming after the fires and it's going to be one like California has never seen before and if you want to watch a whole breakdown on that situation which is crazy I posted about a full video Instagram Tik Tok go see it there because I do want to keep this video short quick to the point because this whole situation with the fires is developing so quickly good to be back uh there's also going to be a full news Roundup of everything on Monday because today we're finding out if Tik Tok is going to be B we're finding out what Trump sentence is going to be and also just so much else has been going on I need a full breakdown to get you guys in the loop I love you guys good to be back in the land of Freedom somewhat freedom I Love You by [Music] wo it is so cold in here I can hear I can can you see my breath can you see my breath can you see that now that's how cold it is in here to