the cause of the fire doesn't matter. there's fires all the time and with winds and dry weather a fire was bound to happen. homeless people start fires all the time and they don't spread like this. this is a competency crisis, not a natural disaster: > la fire giving away firefighting equipment to ukraine when the department is most at risk for wildfires > diverting water from the county to save a fish species > la mayor cut fire budget by 20 million > a large reservoir in pacific palisades that is part of the los angeles water supply system was out of use > because the reservoir was out of use, they ran out of water during the firefight, literally no water in fire hydrants > fire chief wasn't informed that there was no water in the hydrants so they sent firefighters to areas with no water and therefore nothing to do > emergency services mass spamming false evacuation orders to the entire county, then sent emergency notifications saying it was a mistake, then followed up with more false evacuation orders, blamed on a "technical glitch" > panic bulldozing fire roads right next to an active fire instead of part of fire prevention plan > not having firefighting planes on standby but instead borrowing both of them from canada
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