LA fires reveal Democrat-run Californias ridiculous number of catastrophes

When it comes to the horrific LA fires, every new day brings more hideous evidence of just how much blame California’s progressive political culture bears for what’s now projected to be the most expensive natural disaster in US history at over $250 billion in damage.Start with Wednesday’s revelation that the LAFD brass deployed only five trucks out of an available 40 and held back some 1,000 available firefighters from the Palisades Fire.Embattled Fire Chief Kristin Crowley and her flunkeys are defending the call, but to the rightly outraged citizens of LA, those words will ring hollow. Especially given the fire department’s already severe problems.Like a response time that had grown to nearly double what’s recommended by the National Fire Protection Association.Plus budget cuts that left a shortage of life-saving equipment and a huge number of trucks out of service, per a whistleblower speaking to investigative journalist Michael Shellenberger.The same whistleblower also cites LA’s DEI requirements as a huge driver of LAFD failure, alleging that it prompts overspending on DEI-compliant vendors and the lowering of standards to meet quotas on the force itself.Can the people running the City of Angels do anything right?Don’t forget the green-freak envirocrats at the California Coastal Commission, who stopped the LA Department of Water and Power’s efforts to fire-harden the Pacific Palisades area in order to .

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save an endangered shrub.Yes, the CCC (it’s just missing a P) really prevented LA from replacing wooden power poles with steel, enlarging fire-access lanes and installing wind- and fire-resistant power lines over the presence of about 200 Braunton’s milkvetch plants.The agency even fined LADWP for having the audacity to think of doing fire prevention.  Then came the fires, one starting right by the “milkvetch protection area.” Dozens are dead, thousands of structures are gone, tens of thousands of acres burned and the city remai...