re: Major wildfire in Los Angeles (and Pasadena)

I've been going through and piecing together the timeline of the Palisades fire thanks to a couple of scanner tracking accounts.

This bit, well after the fire started, caught my attention:

The fire approached Malibu generally from the ENE in the early morning hours on Wednesday the 8th. The ground it had to cross to threaten Malibu was very recently burned over by the Franklin Fire. The Franklin Fire is the fire that threatened Pepperdine back in December during the last Santa Ana Wind event (I shared a video taken from the Pepperdine library during that fire somewhere in this thread).

It is interesting that it ran through that burned over ground in short order.

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James Woods: for someone who’s been affiliated with shooting movies for decades, you are pretty shitty at shooting this video.

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Dike infighting

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Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley is clinging onto her job by a thread sources say, after she hugged staff goodbye and entered a meeting with the mayor.

Crowley told staff in her office she was getting fired by Mayor Karen Bass at a meeting 4pm on Friday.

But she emerged from the meeting saying she was still in her job - for now.

‘She was going into the meeting, telling everybody goodbye, because she was told the whole purpose of the meeting was to fire her,’ a source close to Crowley's office said.

‘When she was summoned into the meeting, it was with the direct purpose to fire her.

‘Whatever happened in that meeting, minds got changed.

‘Either Bass realized it would be suicide to fire her, and came to her senses, or Crowley talked her out of it.

‘She came back in the office briefly, told her staff “I’m not fired yet” and went into a meeting with all her chiefs.

… The meeting came after Crowley lashed out against the Mayor's cuts to her department, in an interview with a local Fox TV station around 12pm Friday.

'My message is the fire department needs to be properly funded,' the Chief said. 'It's not.'

'Did they fail you?' Fox LA's Gigi Graciette asked. 'Yes,' Crowley replied.

…A retired senior LAFD official told DailyMail.com that he was shocked by Crowley's comments in her TV interview.

'In my entire career, a fire chief has never thrown a mayor under the bus. It's unbelievable, for her to go on the offensive like that,' he said.

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The $750,000-a-year LA water czar is responsible for a raft of failures that contributed to the devastating Palisades Fire, fire department insiders told DailyMail.com.

On Mayor Karen Bass's orders, the city maxed out its budget to 'attract private-sector talent', hiring Department of Water and Power (LADWP) CEO Janisse Quiñones on a $750,000 salary in May – almost double that of her predecessor.

Now, Quiñones is being blamed by LA Fire Department (LAFD) insiders for leaving a nearby reservoir disconnected and fire hydrants broken for months, DailyMail.com can reveal, leading to firefighters running out of water as they battled the devastating Palisades Fire this week.

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Yeah, firing a member of the LGBTQIA+ is going way too far and homophobic/transphobic.

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Bass is black, she can operate with impunity and we all know it. This is all based on what we have visibly seen on our televisions over the last decade. All of us.

Nothing will happen, she might resign but she isn’t losing any wealth and she isnt getting into any legal trouble.

These are facts.

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The $750,000-a-year LA water czar is responsible for a raft of failures that contributed to the devastating Palisades Fire, fire department insiders told DailyMail.com. On Mayor Karen Bass's orders, the city maxed out its budget to 'attract private-sector talent', hiring Department of Water and Power (LADWP) CEO Janisse Quiñon

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These are the things people should be livid about.

750k salary, double her predecessor and is a complete failure.

These people they have on staff are so bad they were better off getting their salaries in 100s and lighting it on fire. Same outcome.

If California don’t fix a lot of shite those neighborhoods are going to be ghost towns