Jim Hoft – The Gateway Pundit Jan 16, 2025
The catastrophic fires raging across Los Angeles have exposed a harsh reality: years of Democrat mismanagement and budgetary neglect have left the city’s fire department woefully unequipped to handle the crisis.
Freddy Escobar, president of the United Firefighters of Los Angeles and a 35-year veteran of the LA Fire Department, broke down in tears recounting his futile attempts to warn city leaders of the inevitable disaster.
A particularly heartbreaking moment occurred when a CNN reporter reminded Escobar of his chilling warning just one month ago: “Someone will die” due to the fire department’s underfunding and understaffing.
His prediction has proven tragically accurate, with 24 deaths reported so far—and counting.
Kyung Lah: “You said it’s dire. Someone will die.”
Freddy Escobar:“It’s eerie listening to your words because that’s what occurred. So, its… let me just take a minute. Sorry… You’re not supposed to make me cry.”
At a budget hearing last May, Escobar warned, “If we cut one position, if we close one station, if we close one resource, the residents of Los Angeles are going to pay the ultimate sacrifice, and someone will die.”
For years, Escobar and other first responders begged the city council to rethink its budget. Yet those pleas fell on deaf ears.
Instead, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and her Democrat cronies focused on bloated social programs, green initiatives, and virtue-signaling policies, leaving critical public services to crumble.
The department now has fewer firefighters and medics than it did 15 years ago, despite emergency calls surging by over 50% during the same period.
“This is a woefully understaffed fire department,” Escobar told CNN. “We’re either going to have a fire department that’s going to reflect 2025, or we’re going to have a fire department that’s going to reflect the 1960s.”
Even as the fire department requested nearly $100 million to replace its aging fleet, the city’s leaders failed to act. Vehicles far past their service life sit sidelined, and 16 critical maintenance positions were eliminated in last year’s budget, according to CNN.
Mayor Karen Bass has come under fire for slashing the Los Angeles Fire Department’s (LAFD) budget by $17.6 million for the fiscal year 2024-2025.
This reduction included a $7 million cut in overtime pay, funds that were crucial for training and helicopter coordination essential in wildfire situations.
LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley had previously warned that these budget cuts would “adversely affect the Department’s ability to maintain core operations” and severely limit its capacity to respond to large-scale emergencies.
Bass also demanded an additional $49 million in budget cuts to the already cash-strapped Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) just days before wildfires ravaged the city.
This ill-timed decision, revealed in a leaked internal memo obtained by the Daily Mail, has sparked outrage among current and former fire officials who say the move left the department woefully unprepared for disaster.
The memo, dated January 6—merely a day before the Palisades Fire ravaged the region—proposed shutting down 16 fire stations across the city, slashing resources critical for combating wildfires and responding to emergencies.
Incompetent Governor Gavin Newsom has not escaped scrutiny either. Newsweek on Friday uncovered explosive evidence that just months before devastating wildfires, Newsom approved at least $101 million worth of cuts from seven “wildfire and forest resilience” programs.
The reductions, which were part of last year’s state budget and signed by Newsom in June, included a $5 million decrease for CalFire on fuel reduction teams.
These included revenue used to fund vegetation management work by the California National Guard.
Firefighters, already stretched thin due to budget constraints, have struggled with inadequate resources, including reports of dry fire hydrants in critical areas like Pacific Palisades. The lack of preparedness and resource allocation has not only hampered firefighting efforts but also endangered lives and property across Los Angeles.
Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass must resign in the wake of these devastating wildfires.
“Freddy Escobar:“It’s eerie listening to your words because that’s what occurred. So, its… let me just take a minute. Sorry… You’re not supposed to make me cry.” ”
Freddy Escobar is a typical left wing whiny faggot happy to work for that freak Bass. It deserves all it gets.
As president of the FF union, Freddy Escobar is almost guaranteed to be a Masonic stooge following his script. One would never get that type of position unless part of the Judeo-Masonic machinery. Another fake whistleblower coming forth after the fact to sell us on incompetence, budget cuts, and unpreparedness as the culprits, similar to the Covid hand wringing that’s gone on post scamdemic regarding the ‘unexpected’ harm caused by the J Jab.
I previously posted part of this comment, but here’s my best attempt at an analytical summary in one paragraph:
Obviously the L.A. destruction, a real holocaust, is another case of eminent domain – JWO style. A deliberately induced CONflagration masquerading as a wildfire. Arson used to ignite fires in multiple locations, followed by mandatory evacuations, and under the cover of fires and smoke, bring in DEWs to eliminate ‘undesirable’ structures. Then queue up the MSM bobbleheads and their ‘expert’ guests for the marketing phase of the operation, claiming incompetence, DEI policies, budget cuts, partisan politics and climate change as the cause/cover story, while simultaneously working to elicit maximum sympathy from the public via emotional ‘interviews’ with crisis actors and celebs. Finally, adding insult to injury, shamelessly beg for relief donations destined to be pilfered by the perps themselves and as usual, gaslight those who question the absurd official narrative by labeling them as purveyors of conspiracy theories and misinformation.
Call it incompetence but it’s really Deep State’s program to destroy America bit by bit.
sonia poulton does daily real news prog
this one has some good stuff on the sky trails
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZiGL_Soiqs
Would they do it? Deliberately set the fires though weather wars making land areas tinder boxes? They deliberately released the Covid bioweapon on us, suppressed the known treatment cures, and then injected us with their “experimental” toxic vaccines – didn’t they?
The evidence is that aluminum and other metal particles being dropped over us virtually non-stop are ostensibly for weather control, also called “weather wars”, and that the adverse effects on us and the environment are not being disclosed to us by our governments. However, the official narrative other than the lie that chemtrails don’t exist, is that they are for weather modifications and to protect us from global warming and harmful radiations from the Sun. Authorities involved say that chemtrails are to cause a dimming effect from the sun because of the alleged global warming from alleged human CO2 production, and the depletion of the ozone layers from aerosols (and perhaps cow farts), but all of that has been proven to be total bullshit (once again).
We, in fact, are being bombarded with substances adversely affecting our heath, and it has also been proven that aluminum and other particulate particles are being dropped to ionize the atmosphere for electromagnetic charging of those particles by weapons such as HAARP and by other electromagnetic transmission sources for geoengineering and weather wars. They are screwing us us with their experiments to see what will happen, and with with they already know, they are trying to get rid of us either by herding us out of certain areas, or just poisoning us with different toxic substances.
The effect of the aluminum particles, in particular, on plants and trees is to make them much more combustible. That is a know fact. Then you take the fact that the dryness in California is a direct and intended result of the military altering weather patterns, through chemtrails and electromatic charging, over areas that the establishment is intent on removing the people from, for perhaps their land clearance plans for their 15 minute cities, or some that other cockamamie idea such as depopulating areas for vast wilderness corridors, and you then have the very planned fires burning the people out of residential areas.
All of the superpower nations are playing with this stuff. In 2008 the Chinese for the Olympic Games in Beijing showed off their “weather war” prowess by exactly controlling the weather over the city, claiming to the public it was from “cloud seeding” when in fact it was from chemtrails and electromagnetic controlling of the charged particles to control the weather for such a very tiny location, keeping the rain out compared to the surrounding countryside. That was in 2008 and the military in the US even back then was far more advanced than the Chinese.
With their controls over the weather, and with the government monsters in not taking any responsibility for the fires, or disclosing the sordid facts, is very much like the Jews who say they own and control the US on one hand, and then on the other, denying any and all responsibility for any of the evils coming from that nation being inflicted on people everywhere both inside and outside of the US.
“Chemtrails Exposed By Pilots, Doctors, & Scientists. Soil & Water Tested High In Aluminum & Barium”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89WammWN9p8
Here are two books worth having if you want to learn more:
“Chemtrails, HAARP and the Full Spectrum Dominance of Planet Earth”
by Elana Freeland, 2014
“Under an Ionized Sky” , by Elana Freeland, 2018
Although I have bought the books you can read them if you Google “Google Scholar” and then do a search with the name “Elana Freeland”.