by WorldTribune Staff, January 10, 2025 Real World News
Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the Lord. He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace. — Genesis 19:27-28
Whether “Judgement Day,” a failure of “common sense” or something else including arson, the devastation in the “city of the Angels” is on a Biblical scale.
The wildfires burning in vast areas of Los Angeles have destroyed nearly 10,000 structures. One estimate of the damage and economic loss already caused by the fires is $135-$150 billion.
From left: LAFD Chief Kirstina Crowley and Deputy Chiefs Kristine Larson and Kristina KepnerThe medical examiner’s office said in a statement it was notified of the 10 fatalities as of 9 p.m. PST Thursday but the actual toll could be much higher. Identification could take weeks, it said, as the examiner is unable to reach the locations of the deaths due to the fires.
The Palisades Fire between Santa Monica and Malibu on the city’s western flank and the Eaton Fire in the east near Pasadena, which have destroyed some 53 square miles and engulfed entire neighborhoods, now rank as the most destructive in Los Angeles history, Reuters reported.
President-elect Donald Trump wrote in a Truth Social post: “Governor Gavin Newscum should immediately go to Northern California and open up the water main, and let the water flow into his dry, starving, burning State, instead of having it go out into the Pacific Ocean. It ought to be done right now, NO MORE EXCUSES FROM THIS INCOMPETENT GOVERNOR. IT’S ALREADY FAR TOO LATE!
“Fire is spreading rapidly for 3 days — ZERO CONTAINMENT. Nobody has ever seen such failed numbers before! Gross incompetence by Gavin Newscum and Karen Bass….And Biden’s FEMA has no money — all wasted on the Green New Scam! L.A. is a total wipeout!!!”
Then there are the DEI hires at the top of the Los Angeles Fire Department.
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk noted in a post to Telegram:
Meet the people in charge of LA’s fire response.
All of them lesbians named Kristin.
Kristina Crowley – First LGBTQ Fire Chief LAFD.
Salary: $439,722
Kristina Kepner – First Lesbian Assistant Chief LAFD.
Salary: $264,468
Kristine Larson – First black lesbian Equity Bureau Chief LAFD.
Salary: $399,000
The LAFD’s focus on diversity, equity and inclusion over actual fire protection has come under fire this week.
A resurfaced clip of Larson reveals that her priority is that residents in crisis see first responders that “look like” them and that complaints she’s heard about her ability to carry a man out of a burning building have more to do with that man being in the wrong place.
LAFD Assistant Chief Kristine Larson says “You want to see somebody that responds to your house, your emergency—whether it’s a medical call or a fire call—that looks like you. It gives that person a little bit more ease…”
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) January 9, 2025
Conservative Hollywood comedian Evan Sayet posted the following:
It’s all really very simple: when DEI is an agency’s mission, its mission is NOT what it was created for. The LAFD couldn’t fight the fires effectively because its mission is no longer to fight fires; it is “social justice.”
Further, every additional iteration of DEI only takes that agency even further away from its mission and it does so by magnitudes of order.
When DEI goes from “find me the best firefighter” to “find me the best FEMALE firefighter” and then “find me the best GAY female firefighter” and then “find me the best BLACK gay female firefighter” the firefighting agency becomes less and less capable of fighting fires at every turn.
When DEI is the mission, funding that would otherwise go to training, equipment and the retention of experienced firefighters goes, instead, to “reeducation” and “sensitivity training” with budgets cut to fund participation in “gay” and “ethnic” parades and other non-firefighting causes.
Other Woke policies, that have taken priority over fighting fires include the environmental extremism that ensured that needed water would not be available, providing sanctuary to criminal aliens and coddling those criminals who were born here and thus arson, looting and the vandalizing of fire hydrants was simply to be expected (even if it was successfully covered up until it was needed.)
Add to all of this the Woke’s politically motivated firing of nearly ten thousand of the best and most experienced firefighters for refusing to be forcibly injected with an untested drug that has nothing to do with one’s ability to fight fires, the prioritizing of Ukraine over the citizens of California (and thus the redirecting of equipment from LA’s streets to the Ukrainians) and California’s refusal to employ even the most basic of precautionary forestry and vegetation practices and just how these fires became unstoppable infernos becomes not only obvious but utterly predictable.
Add to all of that the usual incompetence, malfeasance and self-serving nature of the kind of bureaucracy we associate with Leftism wherever it exists and Wokeism is a recipe for utter disaster. These horrific fires might well be just the start as other disasters — natural and manmade; foreign-sourced or domestic — next test our world.
My heart breaks for my friends and longtime neighbors in California and my hat is off to the brave and hardworking firefighters risking everything and doing so against all odds, but, unless and until Wokeism is utterly defeated and the mission of our various institutions returns to what they were when they were created, any little spark can and likely will turn into a similar disaster. In fact, next time, it is likely to be even worse.
Today’s cover: Celebrities turn on Dems, blast LA mayor for fire response: ‘Ruined our state’ https://t.co/dCXJI7ZWqt pic.twitter.com/6HCe9HTVgb
— New York Post (@nypost) January 10, 2025
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