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[Dirk Benedict]

Here is her second in charge, yep, another lesbian, but it’s her comments that are INSANE

LAFD deputy chief faces backlash for past remarks on fire victims

A resurfaced clip appears to show LAFD's Kristine Larson blaming victims of fires for getting into a position where they would need help.

www.newsweek.com

The whole damned city is a show.

All that weight isn't even mass that supports strength. It's just bloat, apparently.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

This has criminally few views

 

[Kacho]

 

[Dirk Benedict]

She needs to go. Anyone talking like this needs to go, if they are filling jobs of detrimental importance.

Kacho Dead serious, man.
She doesn't sound like she is a part of a leadership team at all. She sounds like a liability. Also, finding out that the Chief didn't understand how Fire Hydrants functioned...

 

[Kacho]

She doesn't sound like she is a part of a leadership team at all. She sounds like a liability. Also, finding out that the Chief didn't understand how Fire Hydrants functioned...

Yeah, this disaster exposed a lot people. Heads are going to roll.

 

[rkofan87]

and this is sadly why ass holes liked that ceo getting murdered

 

[ManaByte]

The jokes write themselves

The power companies have 50 year old equipment that sparks. The power companies can't replace the 50 year old equipment due to state regulations. So the power company shuts off the power so the state doesn't sue them if the 50 year old equipment that the state prevents them from replacing starts a fire. This 50 year old equipment that the state prevents them from replacing with regulations is often located in rural or forested areas that are overgrown that the state won't allow to be cleared.

Who runs the state of California?

 

[ManaByte]

 

[Hookshot]

So the evil bigot James Woods didn't lose his house despite people celebrating that fact?

 

[Jinzo Prime]

So the evil bigot James Woods didn't lose his house despite people celebrating that fact?

You should have seen the amount of hate that man was getting. Cool to see his house still standing, fuck the haters.

 

[ManaByte]

 

[Ownage]

You should have seen the amount of hate that man was getting. Cool to see his house still standing, fuck the haters.

Hope he didn't broadcast his address.

 

[ManaByte]

Hope he didn't broadcast his address.

He didn't. All he said was he thought his house had burned down and the usual tolerant ones said he deserved it.

 

[ManaByte]

 

[ManaByte]

 

[Kacho]

“The point of insurance is to be there at the time of claim, and if that’s going to bankrupt them, they’re going to pull out of the state.”

 

[Pegasus Actual]

During George Floyd's Summer of Love, it became clear that some people thought insurance was magic. Doesn't matter what burns down, "insurance" takes care of it! Who cares if I steal a TV, "insurance" takes care of it!

 

[Kacho]

During George Floyd's Summer of Love, it became clear that some people thought insurance was magic. Doesn't matter what burns down, "insurance" takes care of it! Who cares if I steal a TV, "insurance" takes care of it!

They’ll just write it off

 

[DeepEnigma]

I lost it at the slip & slide

 

[ManaByte]

They’ll just write it off

 

[ManaByte]

 

[ManaByte]

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

 

[DeepEnigma]

Dude is evil. He looks evil, he talks evil, he could literally play as Satan in human form in any film or show.

 

[12Goblins]

Some excellent sourcing in this thread.

 

[ManaByte]

Dude is evil. He looks evil, he talks evil, he could literally play as Satan in human form in any film or show.

 

[DeepEnigma]

 

[ManaByte]

 

[ManaByte]

 

[nush]

Oh no, not Dennis Quaid!

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Various celebs have come out of the woodwork criticizing the gov. Funny how views change when friends and fam have to evacuate or their own house burns down in order to see things differently.

The latest celeb bashing is Justine Bateman (ya, Mallory).

 

[Mr Reasonable]

Oh no, not Dennis Quaid!

If you're lucky it'll just be a punctuation problem and they meant to type this:

"the Brentwood neighborhood where actors, like Dennis Quaid, live"

 

[ManaByte]

 

[DeafTourette]

Just read the majority black town of Altadena is ashes and a disabled father refused to leave his son who has cerebral palsy.

Some folks are acting so gleefully because celebrities have lost their homes but COMPLETELY forgetting that regular people live out there too!

 

[Ownage]

Lessons are going to be learned from this event, including the notion that there's a limit to liberal politics that works for society before it becomes a clown show.

It's tragic that people have to lose their lives and property to negligence.

 

[EviLore]

Hope he made it.

 

[Dirk Benedict]

I’m starting to despise my species. It makes me sick to my stomach to see and hear these kinds of things…

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

I’ve been watching this live for the last hour, insane watching these 4 helicopters saving (I think) Brentwood. There’s a reservoir right next to it and they’ve been dumping water on it nonstop, it looks like they might’ve halted the fire just barely before it reached the homes. Amazing

 

[Roll Fizzlebeef]

Mandeville Canyon, Ive been watching that to, those choppers really made the difference there.. Not far away Its getting closer to CountryGate Coutry club, and then the 405.

 

[DragoonKain]

I can't imagine even the families who had their homes spared in some of these neighborhoods that were ravaged will be even able to move back into their homes any time soon. The areas will probably be without power, water, gas for a while. And with all the upcoming construction it's probably going to be unlivable with all the cleanup and rebuilding work that will be going on in the months and years ahead. And also it would be depressing as hell. Imagine living in an area where all your neighbors houses were destroyed and you come home from work everyday and you're just surrounded by charred wreckages all around you on all sides.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Hope he made it.

Beautiful cars. As a car guy, I feel the pain in his passion.

 

[EviLore]

RIP. Didn’t allow his mom to die trying to save him.

 

[Topher]

RIP. Didn’t allow his mom to die trying to save him.

Ugh....brave, but horrible.

 

[ManaByte]

 

[Dirk Benedict]

He is a total failure. I mean that from the bottom to the top of my still beating heart. This man does whatever the fuck he wants with our tax dollars, even if it’s not the general consensus opinion. An absolute incompetent baboon. I need to stop. Every time I think of this person my head fills with insane negativity.

 

[Mr Reasonable]

RIP. Didn’t allow his mom to die trying to save him.

Goddamn there are some shitty replies to that tweet. Poor woman.

 

[DeepEnigma]

He is a total failure. I mean that from the bottom to the top of my still beating heart. This man does whatever the fuck he wants with our tax dollars, even if it’s not the general consensus opinion. An absolute incompetent baboon. I need to stop. Every time I think of this person my head fills with insane negativity.

They embezzle our tax dollars and justice is never served to them.

 

[Ownage]

 

[0neAnd0nly]

Just read the majority black town of Altadena is ashes and a disabled father refused to leave his son who has cerebral palsy.

Some folks are acting so gleefully because celebrities have lost their homes but COMPLETELY forgetting that regular people live out there too!

All due respect, but why does race matter? A ton of people are losing their lives and livelihood in this, of all different creeds. Just not understanding the emphasis here, I guess.

Also, just to note, Altadena is not majority black, but there are communities inside of it that are. Altadena as a whole is majority white IIRC, not that it matters as I don't think fire has a prejudice.

Edit to add a bit more: Partially because I don't want DeafTourette to think I am solely trying to call him out or be a jerk and also because I just feel like talking a bit more about it...

Truly heart breaking for all involved, including this story and others that have been shared. Continued prayers for all.

It might be hard for some who have never been to LA to understand, but I was there a little over a year ago standing at the Griffith Observatory and looking around. It is, obliviously at the time, pretty obvious how something like this could take off in the hills easily. It's also hard to fathom how large LA and it's "pockets" as I refer to them are. Every part of the town is almost like a major city elsewhere. So many variables at play here.

By the way, if you put the politics fighting aside and the fact that it's a huge place with quite a few problems, I feel like a lot of people may not know that there are plenty of great, normal people there, regardless of what you hear in the media and social media. Some truly chill people, honestly similar to the east coast coastal mid to south towns, most of the not-celebrity people there are nice and chill. You wouldn't expect it, but it is true for a large portion of the every-day person populace. I have certainly been in worse and unfriendlier places. Lot of people in LA ( and surrounding areas) are willing to talk and help when you are visiting. Not every block is a crap hole, at all.

God bless LA, hope and prayers for defeating this and healing.

 

[ManaByte]

He’s a Batman villain at this point.