California wildfires

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

I don't think anybody is saying the fires wouldn't have happened but could it have slowed it down allowing those killed an opportunity to escape? 


It's difficult to believe the Fire Chief would be so adamant about being under-budgeted if she were wrong, she brought all of this up a month ago if not longer, how many fire trucks can be fixed in a few weeks for 17 million dollars?

Hell didn't a Palisades Shopping area get saved because the owner hired a private firefighter team and a few tankers full of water?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nati...584894007/
 

If only everyone could afford private firefighters to focus solely on their property and nothing else.

I'm sure if the LAFD had a ratio of one committed team for every property; schools, churches, libraries, and the lot could have all been saved.

But that's exactly what's needed to save a property. A committed team with unlimited water to focus solely on that one property. Even 500 firefighters protecting 500 houses with all the water they can use isn't enough.

Still says more about the violence of the fire to me.

I think the fire chief is so adamant because she is right (about the underfunding), but also using it to make sure no FD heads roll in the obligatory aftermath.