Det siger sig selv at når skiftende (demokratiske) guvornører i Californien har standset rydning af brandbælter, så er de selv delvis ansvarlige for den katastrofe, der nu rammer Los Angeles … Men det er sjældent noget, du hører om i fake-news-msm, hverken i USA eller herhjemme, hvor TV2-news efter 1 dags kraftig brand pludselig har opdaget at der er andre nyheder end hvad Trump siger om Grønland og Panama …
Der ER en grund til at mange forsikringsselskaber allerede inden den nuværende kæmpebrand har opsagt brandforsikringer !
Her er 3 artikler om forrest mismanagament i Californien:
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Incompetence Is Why Fire Insurance Companies Have Fled California
Victoria Taft | 5:04 PM on January 08, 2025
When it’s all over and Los Angeles residents take stock of their losses, will they be able to build again? Will there be any insurance companies willing to write fire insurance policies in such a badly managed state as California after the Palisades fire?
Gavin Newsom became California’s governor the year after a series of devastating wildfires in 2018, including the Camp Fire in Paradise that killed 85 people and destroyed 18,000 homes. Insurance companies say eight of the 10 top wildfire-insured losses have occurred since 2017. As a result, insurance companies have fled the state faster than illegal aliens have jumped over the border on Joe Biden’s watch.
“Climate change” is the lazy excuse the Democrats have used to explain why there have been more fires and more damage from them. They claim that fires are more fiery these days. If that’s true then why?
California has always suffered from Santa Ana winds, wildfires, and hot weather. Those things haven’t changed. What has changed, however, is the state’s management of resources and its response to fires. California is a state of 40 million people and the state has roughly the same water capacity as when Willam Mulholland oversaw the construction of the 233-mile-long L.A. Aqueduct back in 1913. Read more about this in my upcoming piece on Where’s the Water, Gavin?
Related: What Started L.A.’s Firestorm? Hint: It’s Not ‘Climate Change.’
I hate to sound like a broken record as I sometimes do in my West Coast, Messed Coast™ columns on these issues, but forest and brush management on federal and state lands are nearly nonexistent. Clearing brush from under trees or salvage logging is virtually unheard of these days. Building roads for logging on public lands? Forbidden. There’s another way to describe those logging roads. They’re called fire breaks. Firefighters use those, too.
What has Gavin Newsom done about the homeless encampments responsible for so many wildfires? Nothing. He’s paid homeless people to come to California, and that population has doubled. I write about their fires here.
California has always been a state with a high risk for fire. The only thing that has changed is the Democrats’ response to it. You can’t windmill your way out of it. You need competent management, a fleet of fire tankers, and water.
An organization called Resources for the Future assessed California’s fire risk in this graphic:
Newsflash: most of California is at risk for fire. What’s changed is competent leadership and water policy that puts people first.
Here’s a list of insurance companies that have reduced their footprint in California.
- Liberty Mutual: Liberty Mutual announced that it would not renew dwelling fire insurance policies for about 17,000 customers in California.
- Tokio Marine America Insurance Company and Trans Pacific Insurance Company left California.
- Safeco to drop policies in the Bay Area (8/4/2023). Safeco Insurance announced they were dropping 950 policies in San Francisco and the East Bay.
- Farmers Insurance limits new home insurance policies (7/10/2023). Farmers Insurance announced that it was placing a cap on new policies in California.
- Allstate no longer selling new policies (6/4/2023). Allstate, California’s fourth-largest home insurer, announced they were no longer writing new policies in the state, though they will continue to renew existing policies.
- State Farm no longer selling new policies (5/26/2023). State Farm, California’s largest home insurance provider, announced it would stop writing new policies. State Farm said they will continue to issue renewals to their existing customers.
The state has stepped in to fund a program for fire insurance, but it’s frightfully expensive.
Related: BREAKING: Thousands Evacuate L.A. Firestorms
Have new fire-mitigating policies such as water repositories — tanks, pools, reservoirs — been built in neighborhoods where dangerous fires have occurred before? Not that anyone can tell. I’ll bet you environmental rules would stop them in their tracks. Even Pacific Palisades doesn’t have enough money to buy fire safety when environmentalist lawyers are using house money to fight them in court.
Why are the fire hydrants dry in Pacific Palisades, Gavin Newsom?
That’s not climate change; that’s incompetence.
Instead of paying for abortion and trans tourists, instead of paying homeless people to move there, instead of making your state a sanctuary for illegal aliens and paying their way, how about if you use the citizens’ money for the citizens and buy them some damned fire protection?
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Step Aside Starter Log, Nothing Burns Hotter Than DEI
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It’s not all bad news for the 64% of Los Angeles County who voted for Kamala Harris in the 2024 election. As they flee the brutal wildfires in terror, watching everything they own turn to toast, they can take comfort in knowing that their Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) — which is powerless to stop the inferno — overfloweth with sweet diversity, as planned.
Check out the Los Angeles Fire Department’s website:
The Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Bureau will focus on building and fostering a Department committed to engaging the voices and respecting the humanity of all its members, reflected in how it handles recruitment and hiring, workplace conduct, retention, and promotion. The DEI Bureau will be up and running and fully staffed by January 2023. It will be led by Deputy Chief Stephen Gutierrez, the Department’s first Chief Equity Officer.
Thank God. I’m sure Californians would hate to be pulled out of a burning house by a fire department rife with filthy “toxic masculinity” and sorely lacking men in panties.
FACT-O-RAMA! Los Angeles may not have the
manperson-power, or water, to stop the tragic wildfires sweeping through the City of Angels, but at least the new DEI crew won’t be “deadnaming” the charred bodies they find.
Marxism hates many things, including beauty, private property, success, self-sufficient people, and that “racist” meritocracy.
If nothing else, LA can burn with pride knowing the feckless fire chief checks a box:
The fire engulfing L.A. shouldn’t be a surprise. Every institution, whether it’s our airlines, a basketball team, or a fire department, will crumble once the DEI animals spread through them like cancer. And the LAFD is one of those institutions taken over by Marxists.
The hoofprints of progressive clowns are all over these fires.
No one seems to know why the mayor of L.A., Karen Bass, is off attending an inauguration in Ghana as her city burns, especially since January is the beginning of “fire season” and Los Angeles — located on the Pacific Ocean — is somehow out of water. Also, Mayor Bass cut roughly $17 million out of the LAFD budget — likely to host and feed those illegal immigrants flooding into California. What could go wrong? Nothing, if you’re a vile communist.
PINKO-RAMA! DEI is nothing more than a destructive, Marxist plan to place untalented yet obedient “useful idiots” into positions of power and then direct them to destroy everything in their purview.
Marxists benefit from such firestorms. They revel in the destruction. The L.A. fire destruction is the literal interpretation of the commie battle cry of “burn it all down and rebuild it fairly.” Bonus points: Many of the houses being torched are mansions owned by those who dared to work hard and succeed, many of whom can’t purchase fire insurance due to California being a woke pile of kindling. Also, the pinkos get to point an accusing finger at their god, “klymatt change.”
FACT-O-RAMA! If I didn’t misspell those last two words. Big
BrotherNon-binary Sibling would demonetize this article.
California’s klymatt clowns have been down this fiery but mostly Marxist road many times before, but, despite the “science,” they are trained to blame the fire (and all the world’s woes) on bad clouds or something.
PJ Media’s very own Victoria Taft tells it like it is;
Blaming these fires on “climate change” when there’s little to no fire mitigation (clearing brush, trimming undergrowth, managing forests) and allowing millions of acre-feet of water to be washed out to sea are also really dumb ideas. Maybe these dumb ideas are what they mean by “man-made” climate change.
It’s hard to ignore the record.
Fire officials say that homeless camp wildfires doubled from 2020 to 2023 to 13,909. There were 24 “homeless related” fires in LA County responded to every day of 2021.
According to NBC 4 in L.A., some of the homeless campfires started from campers illegally hooking up to underground electricity outlets. That’s what caused a fire in Hollywood.
It may be hard for thinking people to ignore the facts, but it’s not for the brain-dead dogsbodies who long for nothing more than to feel they are better than YOU because they obey their masters, even as their homes burn.
LETTERKENNY-O-RAMA! Let us not forget the poutine-sucking, beaver-tale chomping, cloud-hugging Canadian “degen” who blamed the Canadian government for starting 14 fires he later copped to setting himself.
For those who still don’t believe that DEI is a tool of destruction for the communist stains looking to destroy America and enslave We the People, here is a reminder that the first fire commissioner of NYC, Laura Kavanagh, apologized to NYS’s apparatchik attorney general, Letitia James, for failing to “fix” the FDNY, and by “fix” she meant to turn New York’s Bravest into a bunch of freedom-hating tovarishes.
Like New York City, Los Angeles canned city workers — including firefighters — for refusing to bend their knees and raise their sleeves for the impotent “clot shot” that lefty stooges laughingly called a “vaccine.”
YOU CAN’T BE SERIOUS-O-RAMA! In what one of America’s most astute – and attractive – political pundits considers to be a vulgar lack of gratitude, then-NYC Mayor Bill DeBlasio threw a “canyon of heroes” ticker-tape parade for New York City’s first responders in July 2021 during the “scamdemic.” Two weeks later, those who didn’t get the COVID “vaccine” were summarily fired.
RELATED: While Los Angeles Burns, Mayor Bass Parties in Ghana, Fire Chief Fiddles With DEI
Watch as L.A. Mayor Bass will not — or can not — answer one question posited by a reporter. At least she is the first black, female mayor of Los Angeles.
I am certain people in the comments will attack me for this, but, if the skin color of a brave firefighter risking his life to save yours — or that of your kids — isn’t to your liking, burn.
Whether you agree or disagree, let me hear it in the comments.
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The Los Angeles Wildfires Prove That Democrats Should Listen to Trump
Det skriver Matt Margolis her:
The ongoing wildfire crisis in Los Angeles serves as a stark reminder of both the challenges that California continues to face when it comes to managing natural disasters and the fact that these disasters are completely preventable.
As the flames rage and spread without containment, the situation has become dire, as Los Angeles firefighters ran out of water early Wednesday morning while battling the blaze.
It’s a striking example of the dysfunction that has plagued California’s wildfire and water management policies for years. In fact, President-elect Donald Trump had long called for changes to the way California handles its wildfires, particularly regarding the management of flammable brush and water supply. His suggestions, which the press and Democrats often dismissed as overly simplistic, may have been exactly what the state needed.
“Governor Gavin Newscum refused to sign the water restoration declaration put before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water, from excess rain and snow melt from the North, to flow daily into many parts of California, including the areas that are currently burning in a virtually apocalyptic way,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Wednesday.
This is not the first time Trump has criticized California’s poor wildfire and forest management. Back in 2020, he blamed California’s inept leadership for its wildfire struggles, pointing to the lack of proper forest management and the state’s inability to store and manage water resources.
“I see again the forest fires are starting,” Trump said. “They’re starting again in California. I said, you gotta clean your floors, you gotta clean your forests — there are many, many years of leaves and broken trees and they’re like, like, so flammable, you touch them and it goes up.”
“Maybe we’re just going to have to make them pay for it because they don’t listen to us,” he added.
Here’s how Politico covered Trump’s remarks:
Those broadsides have drawn fierce criticism from opponents who accuse Trump of politicizing natural disasters that claim lives and incinerate homes. An uncharacteristically hot and thunderous weather system hovering over California in previous days caused hundreds of lightning-sparked fires across the parched state. Already, hundreds of thousands of acres have burned and forced evacuations, while a helicopter pilot died fighting a blaze in Fresno County.
Trump’s suggestions have prompted head-scratching from experts who say his prescriptions — more raking, less water released into the ocean for environmental purposes — suggest he does not understand the science of wildfires. Critics also point out that most of California’s wildlands are federally managed.
Critics mocked Trump’s calls for cleaning up California’s forests — removing dry leaves, fallen trees, and other flammable materials — claiming that he didn’t understand wildfire science.
Perhaps they should have listened. Is it not obvious at this point that California’s approach has been ineffective? While the state has invested money in forest management, it has faced setbacks due to federal policies. The Biden administration has been of no help either.
In October, the U.S. Forest Service issued a directive to its employees in California to halt planned controlled burns “for the foreseeable future.” Officials explained that the decision was made to prioritize the preservation of staff and equipment for potential wildfire response, should the need arise.
I guess they’d rather save their resources for responding to wildfires rather than preventing them.
Meanwhile, the state’s water management system continues to falter. Despite years of droughts and increasingly severe wildfires, California has not built a new reservoir for 45 years. Instead, valuable water continues to flow into the ocean due to insufficient reservoir capacity.
Related: Guess Who Is Already Talking About Impeaching Trump Again
State officials and environmental groups blocked Trump’s efforts to divert more water into California’s reservoirs during his first term, even though the need for more water is clear, especially during wildfire seasons. The failure to take proactive measures in forest management and water storage has led to a predictable crisis that now threatens the safety of millions.
At this juncture, it’s clear that Trump’s common-sense suggestions about forest management and water retention were not just viable — they were necessary. As California continues to struggle with the consequences of its decisions, it’s time for the Democrats running the state to consider that maybe they should have listened to Trump rather than their cadre of climate change activists who have been steering them wrong for so many years.
While Los Angeles burns, the political elites seem more focused on holding to their preferred narrative than the lives and homes of their constituents. Democrats would do well to listen to the voices of reason — before the next disaster strikes.
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Som de siger : selvgjort er velgjort – men det siger demokraterne i Californien måske ikke lige nu …
Det er skam ikke alt vand, der får lov til at flyde ud i havet. Meget af det der skulle være brugt af landmænd til at dyrke grøntsager, havner i stedet i swimmingpools, og til at holde golfbaner og haver flotte.
Californien stod tidligere for op mod 80% af USA forbrug af grøntsager, men i dag importeres 70%-80% fra Mexico.
Californien er staten med det dårligste vand-management system i USA, langt værre end Nevada og Colorado, hvor de også har store problemer, så de ofte må rationere vandet.
Det må sgu da snart gå op for de med en smule hjerne, at kvindernes (med meget få undtagelser) plads er i hjemmet og mændenes uden for.