Ex-Skydance Executive Pleads Guilty To “Recklessly” Operating Drone That Crashed Into Super Scooper During L.A. Wildfires – Update
#Legal #News #DavidEllison #DOJ #LALocal #LAWildfires #LAFD #Skydance
https://deadline.com/2025/02/drone-crash-wildfires-guilty-plea-1236274899/
LAFD: Grass Fire. 3 acres of light brush burning on a steep slope east of the 405, now contained. Firefighters remain on scene to perform mop up. https://lafd.org/alert/grass-fire-contained-01202025-inc1181 #GrassFire #Rinaldi #LAFD
LAFD: Red Flag Parking Restrictions NOW IN EFFECT; 08:00AM;Red Flag Parking Restrictions NOW IN EFFECT until further notice. It is important that fire apparatus have room to respond quickly to a fast-moving brush fire while simultaneously allowing residents to evacuate, if necessary. https://lafd.org/alert/red-flag-parking-restrictions-now-effect-01202025 #CAwx #LAFD #wildfires #FireWx
Logan Paul and KSI donate $6.25M in Prime to California wildfire victims – Celebrity News – Entertainment https://www.inbella.com/858903/logan-paul-and-ksi-donate-6-25m-in-prime-to-california-wildfire-victims-celebrity-news-entertainment/ #CaliforniaWildfires #CelebritiesTopics #EnergyDrink #ksi #LAFires #LAFD #LoganPaul #Prime #PrimeHydration
https://www.europesays.com/1766104/ What’s Next, How To Help One Another, More #Abc #america #Interview #L.A.Local #L.A.Wildfires #LAFD #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USNews #USTopics #USA #USANews
Apparently, yes, #karenbass' administration DID in fact propose cuts to the #LAFD budget. She actually proposed an even larger cut, $23M, than what was approved. Tell your fave youtubers to stick to celeb news and gossip if this isn't what they normally do.
#politics #losangelesfires #californiawildfires
I smell a rat somewhere! 
The #farright uses people's inculcated 'biases'; LYING abt local/state govt officials bc of identity/identities.
IMO, I'd urge everyone to be on the watch for #corporatemedia idiots who pseudolib-wash far right narratives and dogwhistle bigoted bullshit.
A mayor giving $$ to pigs 
& cutting money to the #LAFD is a bad decision. There are many knobhead politicians from all identities all over the world who chummy-up to pigs .
Also #fossilfuel, #climatechange #capitalism collectively play a role (see #DemocracyNow last week about LA fires).
So many knobs to choose from but here's one: #Partygate during the #COVID crisis. Last I checked, #BoorishJohnson was not from a marginalised group.
So, the 'rat' , to me, is the #rightwing/#extremeright repeating their bigotry over and over, hoping to have an effect on the psyche of the public which they hope result in support for #racist #sexist & #antiLGBTQIAplus far right policies, laws, etc.
It's the right who kvetched abt taxes, immigrants & being 'replaced', 'welfare queens', etc. which brainwashed voters (of various backgrounds).
When winning a wet t-shirt contest is a good thing:
I read an interesting story from Dropsite that I'm not going to link because it's on Substack. But it was a deeper dive into the LA Fire Dept budgeting over the last few years.
I'll just say that decisions were made that look pretty stupid today in light of the destruction of entire sections of the city.
But what strikes me is the difference between the discussions of fire dept budgets vs police dept budgets.
We have a priorities problem in the USA.
REPORT: #LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley was called into a meeting with LA Mayor Karen Bass expecting to be fired but ended up not being fired, according to new reports.
Total sh*t show.
According to CNN, Crowley still has a job.
“The City Council approved the firefighter raises in November, adding more than $53 million in additional salary costs. By then, the council had also signed off on $58 million for new firetrucks and other department purchases.
Once those two line items were added, the fire department’s operating budget actually grew by more than 7% compared to the prior fiscal year, according to the city’s financial analysts.”
“Did Mayor Karen Bass really cut the fire department budget? The answer gets tricky”
BREAKING: LA Mayor #KarenBass has fired #LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley just hours after Crowley said city leadership “failed” the fire department.
https://x.com/collinrugg/status/1877900492992651300?s=46
(Ed : Oy a serious #ClimateChange related day of reckoning coming for Mayor Bass #LA fires 
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“Unbelievable Devastation”: Disney Donates $15M To Help LA Recover Rebuild From Wildfires
#News #Politics #BobIger #Disney #LALocal #LAWildfires #LAFD
https://deadline.com/2025/01/los-angeles-fires-disney-donation-relief-effort-1236254147/
For the love of god people need to stop flying drones near wild fires while aerial fire fighters at work. A fire fighting plane struck a drone and now needs repairs.
The issue obviously being that these planes must fly right down to the deck below the typically allowed 400ft flight ceiling of consumer drones.
Not a wise time to be sharing your drone photos of LA, might get some unwanted attention from the FAA
This morning LA fire officials indicate that they have become aware of false evacuation orders circulating that appear to come from the official emergency management text warning system. This maybe a cyber security incident but it's not know yet exactly how these texts were sent.
I'm just a citizen loud mouth on mastodon but it's kinda amazing how much of the media is calling the budget cut fake news. It is not.
All the media takes such as the BET one below, point to the idea that the budget could be added to at a later date and reason that it wasn't a budget cut.
Look, its not even debatable. LAFD's budget was CUT by $17M+.
When you take budget and replace it with an IOU that is by definition a budget cut.
https://www.bet.com/article/pgykqa/la-mayor-karen-bass-palisades-fire
More to the point, here's the receipts on the LA Fire Department's budget cuts.
The fire chief wrote a 20+ page report on how the cuts were real and seriously impact their ability to fight big fires. They literally had to cut pilot training hours for airborne fire fighters.
https://clkrep.lacity.org/onlinedocs/2024/24-1600_rpt_bfc_12-17-24.pdf
LA Fire Chief Kristin Crowley said over amonth ago that the $17.6million budget cut would hamper their ability to respond to large fires. That money was directed to cops instead.
In this segment the fire chief repeats that these budget cuts were real and have real negative impacts in the quality of service they can provide.
Chief Crowley says they did what they could with what they had & suggests it wasn't possible to contain this fire at any funding level.
The closed section of the #SunsetFire, area North of Franklin, is OPEN and all evacuation orders LIFTED as of 7:30. #LAFD still have companies working in the area and ask you to be careful while returning to your homes.
https://lafd.org/alert/730am-order-lifted-brush-fire-01092025-inc2526
