AJUMP23
Parody of actual AJUMP23
These are Biden fires or Newsome fires, not Bush.
If you have to evacuate stay safe.
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Santa Monica issuing evacuation order
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These are Biden fires or Newsome fires, not Bush.
If you have to evacuate stay safe.
Ownage
Member
Insurance companies pulled out of the area. Folks are having to self insure.
Antifa is being stated as one cause of the fires. Curious that DTLA fire popped off at the same time as Palisades. Diverting resources from one area to another while main event is staged. But, who knows until we know.
Lack of water from hydrants in Palisades fire is hurting firefighting efforts, reports say
'The hydrants are down,' said one firefighter battling the Palisades Fire, as crews contend with diminished flows from hydrants.
www.latimes.com
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Pimpollo818
Member
Yes, but also, that is a gorgeous kitchen
Depending on the material of the house, it may not burn and he has concrete all around the perimeter. So they might live, however, suffocation could definitely be an issue with how much fire there is. Most die from oxygen deprivation in a fire instead of the actual fire.
Nydius
Member
Doesn’t surprise me in the least. They’ve been doing the same shit in hurricane prone areas for many years. Either raising rates so high that people can’t afford it or leaving all together with minimal or no warning.
Back on track though: How the fuck does an entire community simply have no water going to their fire hydrants?!? Especially knowing how fire prone Southern California is? Heads need to roll for this. If any of these bureaucrats try to shift blame to the firefighters for not showing up (what’s the point if they have no water!), they need to be tarred and feathered publicly.
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Ownage
Member
Meanwhile...Doesn’t surprise me in the least. They’ve been doing the same shit in hurricane prone areas for many years. Either raising rates so high that people can’t afford it or leaving all together with minimal or no warning.
Back on track though: How the fuck does an entire community simply have no water going to their fire hydrants?!? Especially knowing how fire prone Southern California is? Heads need to roll for this. If any of these bureaucrats try to shift blame to the firefighters for not showing up (what’s the point if they have no water!), they need to be tarred and feathered publicly.
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DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Ever see "electricians" in some places in India and the like? Same energy.Jesus Christ. Just what you need in an area that’s had no rainfall: bums doing science projects with electricity
ManaByte
Member
LA is having massive buyer’s remorse right now. The DEI hire they were forced to elect is out of the country while they burn to the ground and the guy who lost is there trying to save the city.
Pagusas
Elden Member
Getting Ted Cruz vibes from this. Being a shitty/horrible Politian and person is for sure not limited anything.
DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
Looking at some of the devastation today it's just really heartbreaking.
California is a beautiful state, but it has so many things you have to be willing to put up with to get the great weather, and depending on the area, the beautiful homes. Wildfires, droughts, super expensive to live in with their taxes, earthquakes, rationing water, power outages, massive homeless encampments, terrible traffic(in the LA area).
It's wild seeing oceanfront homes all destroyed. It's almost like mother nature's taunting. "The water is right there, but it can't save you from the flames." Wish them all a speedy recovery in putting their lives back together, this is going to be a bad one.
California is a beautiful state, but it has so many things you have to be willing to put up with to get the great weather, and depending on the area, the beautiful homes. Wildfires, droughts, super expensive to live in with their taxes, earthquakes, rationing water, power outages, massive homeless encampments, terrible traffic(in the LA area).
It's wild seeing oceanfront homes all destroyed. It's almost like mother nature's taunting. "The water is right there, but it can't save you from the flames." Wish them all a speedy recovery in putting their lives back together, this is going to be a bad one.
Good lord. That looks like something out of a movie...
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
The most important issues for them.
The sad part about all of this? These people will face zero repercussions that they deserve to face.
The sad part about all of this? These people will face zero repercussions that they deserve to face.
DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
That stuff is toxic, but in fairness, we don't know if it had anything to do with this situation. I'm all for opposing DEI, I just don't like when people overuse it as an agenda in situations where it doesn't merit it. It hurts good faith reasons to abolish it.
It pissed me off the other day when after the terrorist attack, they had the FBI woman speaking and everyone was immediately like "DEI candidate" just because she was black. For all they know she could've been a 15 year veteran of the bureau.
It pissed me off the other day when after the terrorist attack, they had the FBI woman speaking and everyone was immediately like "DEI candidate" just because she was black. For all they know she could've been a 15 year veteran of the bureau.
I’m not understanding the fire chief issue. The fire department is literally fighting the fires as best they can and the fire department does not control the supply of water. Hydrants rely on the same infrastructure that supply our tap water.The most important issues for them.
The sad part about all of this? These people will face zero repercussions that they deserve to face.
Madflavor
Member
I truly don't think that it's worth living out there anymore. All for what, good weather? Mother nature has been telling humans to migrate out of there for many years now, and we're not listening.
Nydius
Member
I’ve been watching this lengthy press conference and, if I heard and understood correctly, the lack of water in Pacific Palisades is supposedly because they have two large tanks that supply water to the fire hydrant trunk lines and they ran through it so fast that they lost the pressure needed to move the remaining water through the system. She went on to say that they can’t refill it fast enough to restore pressure so that water is effectively “stuck” in the trunk lines.
Still seems like a ridiculous oversight to not have some redundancy for the system, but my knowledge of city engineering is limited to video game sims.
Still seems like a ridiculous oversight to not have some redundancy for the system, but my knowledge of city engineering is limited to video game sims.
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DeepEnigma
Gold Member
They inspect the hydrants often (at least they're supposed to) especially going into the wildfire dry season, and report that to the proper utilities.
That should be the number one issue in the mission statement, not dIvErSiTy.
If they're dry, make a stink about it. Post it as your mission statement. How many more examples do we need before we wake up to all these systems everywhere breaking down the past 4 to 6 years since meritocracy took a backseat?
That, and the federal oversight controlled burns and pruning have been either denied or not been done at all the past 4 years as well. It's like they want us to suffer.
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Judge Death
Member
Godspeed my Californian brethren. At the end of the day there are few things worse than a wall of flame advancing towards your home. My thoughts are with you.
ManaByte
Member
That was shut down for environmental reasons. You can’t intentionally burn a tree in CA, it’s literally first degree murder there.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Whelp
Fire hydrants are tested all the time, but you generally don’t test all of them at the same time. The issue is of pressurization, like how in some homes if you flush your toilet, suddenly the flow rate of your faucet slows down. Folks would be hollering if they opened their taps and couldn’t get running water because the fire department had all the fire hydrants simultaneously blasting for routine testing.
It is entirely appropriate to be angry at the mayor as the buck ultimately stops with her. But I am not seeing an adequate rationale as to how the fire department chief has failed in her duties, based on a mission statement. Is she incompetent? She might be, but an infrastructure limitation that apparently every fire chief that has filled that role prior to the current one has missed? That’s not it.
If they haven’t been doing adequate controlled burns and she didn’t push back, then yes, that would be an appropriate rationale.
Cyberpunkd
Member
What a terrible human being.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Good way for them to dole out lobbied kick-back contracts for their buddies (and maybe China) to rebuild.
Jinzo Prime
Member
Insurance companies pulled out of the area. Folks are having to self insure.
Antifa is being stated as one cause of the fires. Curious that DTLA fire popped off at the same time as Palisades. Diverting resources from one area to another while main event is staged. But, who knows until we know.
Lack of water from hydrants in Palisades fire is hurting firefighting efforts, reports say
'The hydrants are down,' said one firefighter battling the Palisades Fire, as crews contend with diminished flows from hydrants.
Deeply disturbing.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Looks like a warzone or post-apocalyptic.
ReBurn
Gold Member
She's part of the Biden administration delegation to the Ghanaian inauguration.
Ownage
Member
Silent protest by DEI administration? Or simply flat out incompetence and negligence. My bet is on the latter, caused by the former.I’ve been watching this lengthy press conference and, if I heard and understood correctly, the lack of water in Pacific Palisades is supposedly because they have two large tanks that supply water to the fire hydrant trunk lines and they ran through it so fast that they lost the pressure needed to move the remaining water through the system. She went on to say that they can’t refill it fast enough to restore pressure so that water is effectively “stuck” in the trunk lines.
Still seems like a ridiculous oversight to not have some redundancy for the system, but my knowledge of city engineering is limited to video game sims.
The optics from the Mayor's Office certainly is not helping soothe fears or concerns at all. Her Fire Chief seems to be competent, but what about the tanks and lack of water. You'd imagine beating the drums loud and proud (subtle pun intended) until they filled the reservoirs. It's not like this is the first fire in the region.
Bad timing for her then. Re election probably doomed because someone else sent you away before a disaster hit.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
The Fartist
Gold Member
Dude, you're a boxer, knock his ass out like you did to Anthony Joshua!
Edit: I confused this guy with Andy Ruiz Jr.
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The Pleasure
Member
Wasn't he on the Loveboat and The Man Show?
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Wheeljack539
Member
Whelp, my sister in Monrovia got the alert to leave.
The problem is that in order to increase pressure to fill those tanks fast enough to meet demand, you have to cut off water being used elsewhere that shares the same infrastructure. If that were a viable solution, they’d have done it. That water is still needed elsewhere given the sheer scale of what is happening.
Gutting the fire department’s funding at such a scale is unacceptable in any circumstance, and I hope she sees jail time for what she has done. I’d love to see where she redirected those funds.
JayK47
Member
Looks like Hiroshima. Horrible destruction. Dropping a match is as bad as a bomb? With so many fires lately, I feel that many are being started intentionally. Selfishly, I fear my insurance rates will go up because of this. I hope most are able to get to safety. The winds are crazy. And insurance cancelling a week ago? Did they know something?
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
These people are never held accountable with how they should be, sadly.
It’s infuriating because I’d bet dollars to donuts she didn’t gut diversity programs in LA. I’m all for diversity and shit but for fuck’s sake, you don’t prioritize social services over basic fundamental needs like fire protection.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Insurance company thing is suspect af, no matter how you twist it.
ManaByte
Member
Greusom alerted insurance companies to his planned arson to get rid of the rich houses to make room for more homeless encampments.
