Yes, Los Angeles cut $17.6 million from the fire department’s budget

https://www.9news.com/article/news/verify/money-verify/yes-los-angeles-cut-176-million-from-the-lafd-fire-departments-budget/536-4b902910-08f5-42d5-bc5e-bdfad1cb0560

by ColorMonochrome

17 comments

  1. How does that regions fire departments operate though. Is it regional or city by city. I don’t think the fire has actually reached the city of Los Angeles itself. It also appears there’s a lack of fire mitigation efforts not really firefighting.

  2. So what? It would not have changed a thing especially since it was just a few months ago.  Conservatives talking out of their selectuve socialist mouths again trying to establish that it is the government’s job to protect your house from fire.   Yay socialism!

  4. The problem is homes at not hardened for fires. Modern building codes are only now incorporating defensive spaces, hardening of homes to fire, etc

  5. “This budget serves as a reset, in part by continuing to hire for critical positions including police officers and firefighters while eliminating some of the department’s vacant positions, thereby prioritizing our City family over empty desks,” said Bass in a statement.”

    Here’s what OP left out.

    And here is OP’s maga agenda:

    “The LA fire was the result of green psychosis not the use of fossil fuels. Instead of spending on DEI, California should’ve been spending on forest management and their fire departments. Instead you idiots want the fire department to spend 10 times the money on an EV fire truck that a conventional fire truck would cost.

    You are literally the problem.”

  6. And added tens of millions to their police department.

  9. I live in Texas and hundreds of people died in 2021 over snow, and 4 years later they still haven’t fixed the grid. The government is going to government.

  10. To give context to this number 17.6 million is 2% of the 837 million of their total budget

  11. It would seem to tie in with those wealthy residents who didn’t want taxes for certain things, I have to find the article but did anyone else read how some rich guy stopped paying taxes and was asking for private fire fighters “any price!!” to go save his property? Are there a lot of choads who are like that guy? Who think taxes are a waste of money *until they need services those tax revenues afford*. The old It doesn’t matter until it happens to me crowd. But I don’t know enough about the budget info, but what this article reads, and that it sounded like the mayor cut out the dead weight, which wouldn’t factor in to this firefighter equation?

    Also saw that the county is using prison labor as fire fighters who will make $5-10 a day (and be taxed on that income).

    Also read that when you turn on e dry hydrant in the known area water pressure will drop to zero.

    The awful crux of this situation is warming climate has dried out soil and we will see a lot more if time if we don’t stop everything and reassess life on earth and capitalism killing everything so a few people can feel fancy.

  12. From the article

    >The LAFD’s total budget was $819,637,423

    So in other terms, 2.147%.

  13. If you read the article, it was a 2% decrease, and money was shifted to the police department.

  14. Pfft. Rookie numbers. Remember when Canadian forest fire smoke was polluting cities all over Canada and the northern US? Yea the premier of Ontario Doug Ford’s government decided to slash the forest firefighting budget by a 67 per cent ($142.2 million according to 2019 Ontario Budget).

    Who could have possibly known that massive forest fires would be an outcome of climate change.

  15. This is shallow reporting, but it seems a small part of the firefighter budget (2%) was shifted to the police dept, and it’s reasonable to think some responsibilities were transferred to the police as well.

  16. I mean…

    People do NOT want to pay more taxes.

    Voter priority has been “stopping crime”, especially when you see LA-related discussions on how residents are annoyed at petty crime/theft/looting being under-punished.

    So budget gets diverted that direction….

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