Look Left, Look Right-all burned down
Imagine there's no government, I wonder if you can really think life worse
Posted on 1/10/2025, 7:29:24 AM by TigerClaws
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass demanded her Fire Department make an extra $49million of budget cuts last week, a leaked memo revealed.
This cut is already on top of $17.6million of cuts in her latest budget.
The extra cuts, requested just days before fires broke out and devastated swathes of Los Angeles, would have shut down 16 fire stations and crippled the department's ability to respond to emergencies, sources said.
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We have fire engines we can't get parts for. When one breaks down we strip it of parts to put on other fire engines because we can't buy any more parts.
'If you shut down 16 stations, that's about 750 personnel. Then they expect us to take the same call volume. And yesterday we did 3,800 calls, almost twice of what our daily call volume usually is.
'We're already shy 200 paramedics, and we're on the verge of another 200 quitting because we can't do this any more.
'If we don't work overtime, they suspend and threaten to terminate us. It's untenable.' Chief Crowley had already warned Bass last month that $17.6million of cuts had 'severely limited the department's capacity to prepare for, train for and respond to large-scale emergencies, including wildfires'
Chief Crowley had already warned Bass last month that $17.6million of cuts had 'severely limited the department's capacity to prepare for, train for and respond to large-scale emergencies, including wildfires'
The sources briefed on the memo said Bass first made the demand for tens of millions from the cash-strapped department in a meeting with Chief Crowley on Friday.
'Bass wanted to cut even more,' one source briefed on the meeting said. 'They asked for $49million more on Friday last week. The Chief said "We don't have it". The Mayor said "Find it".'
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Would it have been worse with $49M less? Maybe you could hire twice as many H-1B firefighters from Guatemala for $49M less? Nah! Guatemalan firefighters are all manly men. They would never do.
They drive very nice cars, though. Or, did, I guess.
Devastations
The jabs, the air, the food, the fires, the quakes
Obfuscation, thick smoke and fakes
Honey don't this really take the cakes?
There's still gold in them thar' hills,
Hot tongues of gold
Money to make, a future sold
Crawling fast from blackened ground
Fill the freeway southern bound