‘Lack of Leadership’: L.A. Fire Vet Says No One Prepared Even After Extreme Wind Warnings

It didn’t have to be this terrible.

The region is still battling the three remaining Los Angeles flames, which are expected to hit the region again on Tuesday at 45 to 70 mph. Due to this new Santa Ana hurricane, the Auto Fire, a new fire in Ventura County, has been added to the list, and it is expected to grow far beyond its existing 56 acres. Ventura and L.A. regions are home to paramedics all over the state in order to combat these firestorms. Thousands of homes have been incinerated. People are dead. And it didn’t have to happen this way, according to a long-time LAFD fire. &nbsp,

People in L.A. have been given an training about what their leaders have done or, more accurately, what they have not done to prepare to prevent fires and battle fires in the week since these Santa Ana wind-driven firestorms started, despite catastrophists who blame climate change. &nbsp,

And then L.A. and Ventura Counties are being hit by yet another army of strong winds. &nbsp,

Connected: &nbsp, Stunner: Why Was Pacific Palisades Reservoir EMPTY? It Gets Worse.

The governor left town a few days ago for a different continent, Gavin Newsom was perhaps measuring for curtains in his fresh$ 9 million home, and the LAFD did no planning for what turned out to be the most expensive storm in California history, according to an insider.

When you first learned this estimates, what would you do as the LAFD order? &nbsp,

Here’s what I reported last month:

The governor, who was a congressman who made a very common point of no attending Donald Trump’s opening, was informed by the National Weather Service that there were remarkable weather events taking place in Ghana the day before Bass left for Ghana to watch the swearing-in of the new president. &nbsp,

It looked something like this: &nbsp,

… RED FLAG WARNINGS IN EFFECT FOR LOS ANGELES COUNTY AND MUCH OF VENTURA Region– SEE TIMINGS IN HEADLINES BELOW…. LIFE THREATENING, DESTRUCTIVE, WIDESPREAD WINDSTORM TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR Components OF LOS ANGELES AND EASTERN VENTURA Confidence is great for a living threatening, harmful, popular storm with dangerous fire weather conditions Tuesday afternoon through Wednesday morning, mainly focused on the San Gabriel mountains and foothills, San Gabriel Valley, San Fernando Valley, Hollywood/Beverly Hills, maritime areas opposite to the Sepulveda Pass, Simi Valley, and Santa Monica mountains into Malibu. Strong mountain wave wind activity will likely impact many of these areas, resulting in very strong, erratic, and damaging wind gusts, capable of widespread downed trees/powerlines, as well as widespread power outages. The windstorm’s destructiveness is likely to be comparable to that of the windstorm that affected Pasadena and the nearby San Gabriel Valley foothills in 2011. This is a high-end Red Flag event. Any new fires will have a high risk for very rapid fire spread and large fire growth, extreme fire behavior, and long range spotting.

A swath of land that is the size of Atlanta has been destroyed by these fires. Put another way, the burned area is three times the size of Manhattan, just shy of the acreage of Washington, D. C., and eclipses the size of Paris. &nbsp,

The 40-year veteran told independent journalist Michael Schellenberger that the LAFD should have performed a gut check, inventory their equipment, and mobilize men, women, and gear around the large area because it is so large. Perhaps even double-checking to make sure there was enough water to fill the fire hydrants. Since there have been so many fires in these areas, they know where to pre-deploy. &nbsp,

Related: &nbsp, Shock Video: Newsom’s ‘ Answer’ to Hard L. A. Fire Questions Are Being Solved by Censors.

The unnamed fire department veteran told Schellenberger’s Public Substack,” We don’t have enough engines, and 100 were in the shop” He also said that” Lack of leadership is the problem”.

But as fires continue to rage out of control, it’s increasingly clear that the response to the fires by California’s leaders was inadequate. The County or City Fire Department were not informed that the city’s second-largest reservoir of water, which was close to the Palisades fire, had been drained by the LA Department of Water and Power. Mayor Bass flew to Ghana in any case despite receiving an alert from the National Weather Service ( NWS ) on January 2, NWS-Los Angeles holding a briefing on January 3, and the NWS’s ( NWS ) had already given an “extreme fire risk” warning on January 2. Prior to Friday, Newsom did not call out the National Guard and didn’t mobilize any local and international assistance until now.

Schellenberger also reported that an aide to Gavin Newsom told him the governor knew” the mayor’s office couldn’t adequately manage the situation” and” Newsom should have immediately traveled to L. A. to backstop the mayor’s office”.

The fires hit Tuesday, January 7. On Friday, Newsom called the National Guard in. Prior to the firestorm, Newsom should have done much more, such as managing forests, preventing burns, and providing enough reservoir water for openers. According to what I wrote in my piece on Monday, California:” Santa Fe” for” Flaming Stones” or Citizens? He has issued an open invitation to Illegal aliens who have been caught setting fires. and spent untold billions on drug-tourists, who account for the majority of the county’s homeless population and started half the fires.

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