Op-Ed: LA fires -- Where is the US government?

Saturday, January 11, 2025

Miraculously, only a few people have died. That's a huge, almost impossible achievement in such a big city. LAFD is doing it all with almost nothing. The city is virtually surrounded. Some areas are literally obliterated. There's nothing left in many of the burnt-out places.

Posted by LampLighter at 01:42 AM | 4 COMMENTS | permalink

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... Lack of water isn't helping. LA like most of the southwest has had water problems for decades. Those problems are now coming back to bite.

Power outages also aren't helping. The numbers reported for power outages are chaotic, and increasing with time.

Something else isn't helping, either. America's spectator politics are as destructive as ever in a crisis. In a classic American political stupor, not much seems to be happening.

LA needed help 2 days ago.

Where is it?

Why wasn't it in the air 24 hours ago?

They need support on the ground.

Use the air force, engineers, spitballs, whatever.

They do NOT need smug little press releases.

Canada has already sent help with water bombers. Pretty nice of them, given somebody's brainless recent comments....

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#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-11 01:48 AM