LA Budgeted Money For Cop Jobs While Cutting Fire Department Positions. Now the City Is Burning.
theintercept.com
“Defunding of other city programs in order to give the LAPD billions a year has consequences,” according to a local activist.
    • badbytes@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      You don’t understand wildland fire mitigation very much, do you. Every penny helps you troll. And by the way, I have my red card, and a minor in forest fire management.

    • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      The main problem is that the houses are made from wood and cardbord, and are placed in and/or surrounded by dry-as-a-fart forests and brushwork. Which is a stupid idea in an area that is known to regularly hve forest and brushwork fires. More now with global warming, which makes the plants even dryer.

        • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          Nonetheless, all the houses I have seen burning in the news were surrounded by dry trees and shrubs. And those houses burned as well as any other American cardboard houses. Somehow, I see no difference between them and houses with not as strict building codes. So either they only show homes that have been grandfathered in, or those building codes make no serious difference.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    At least a bunch of rich fucks in Malibu and Pacific Palisades are paying the price for it.

    Doesn’t help the lungs and bronchial passages of people with asthma and other breathing issues though. A lot of people will die who were nowhere near the fires.