Pearl - This Is How The L.A. Fires Got WORSE With DEI Hires In Power ｜ Pearl Daily

00:00:00.000 this week has been a tough week for the city of los angeles first let me say i hope and i pray

00:00:06.960 that all the residents are safe none of us ever want anyone to lose their lives in a tragedy of

00:00:13.120 this magnitude magnitude but we have to call a spade a spade on this one los angeles response

00:00:22.400 to the fires has been a complete disaster it's an example of what happens when you put dei hires

00:00:30.320 in leadership positions the mayor of la is a woman the fire chief is also a woman and she prioritized

00:00:39.040 dei hiring of lbgtq firefighters as her biggest priority like i say on my channel all the time 0.99

00:00:48.880 men as a group are better than women at certain things they make eighty percent of the world's 0.99

00:00:54.960 stuff and when they're in leadership positions they tend to do a better job statistically that's

00:01:01.440 why they're in them and you cannot tell me that a man would not have done a better job as mayor or

00:01:08.960 somebody qualified responding to this crisis i would surely believe that a man is better able

00:01:17.280 to handle these type of situations in general but what do you think guys am i wrong now the challenge

00:01:25.760 we've had the last couple of years is we don't really we're starting to blur the lines between

00:01:31.840 dei hires and who was there because they're qualified we're getting to the point it's tough

00:01:36.800 for the average person to tell the difference now for those of you that don't know a dei hire is when

00:01:42.400 they prioritize hiring somebody based on their gender or the color of their skin rather than how

00:01:47.920 good of a job that they do i call this the ultimate simping saying that we need special

00:01:53.200 treatment because of our gender and as most of you know i have been on the front lines of the simp

00:01:57.920 epidemic for years but i need to tell you guys about a quiet weapon being ratcheted up against

00:02:02.400 men that is rarely talked about it's not just the relentless anti-masculinity propaganda and only

00:02:07.360 fans ho is causing the societal issues that we discuss on this show now i want to talk about the

00:02:12.000 key players in this karen bass was elected the mayor of la in 2022 and her priority as mayor has

00:02:19.840 been the homelessness situation diverting money from city departments to go towards this issue before the

00:02:26.480 fire she took an international trip to ghana where her city went up in flames she also slashed fire

00:02:32.080 department's budget by 17 million this past year she was as los angeles battles its worst wildfire in

00:02:39.920 history i'm definitely a critic of the mayor she was in west africa while west los angeles was burning 1.00

00:02:46.640 the city's top elected official mayor karen bass is facing criticism on a number of fronts do you owe

00:02:53.440 citizens an apology for being absent while their homes were burning do you regret cutting the fire

00:02:58.160 department budget by millions of dollars madam mayor a sky news reporter madam mayor let me ask you

00:03:03.360 just again grilling bass after she landed in los angeles wednesday returning from a diplomatic trip to

00:03:09.360 ghana bass left on saturday the national weather service issued warnings last thursday and again on

00:03:16.160 sunday about extreme fire weather conditions monday bass posted on x there is an expected destructive

00:03:23.920 and potentially life-threatening wind storm by tuesday according to the city bass was already

00:03:30.640 flying home as the palisades fire was quickly spreading since being back on the ground the mayor

00:03:35.920 has been on defense over her absence i've been in constant contact with our fire commanders with county

00:03:43.200 state and federal officials i took the fastest route back which included being on a military plane which

00:03:50.960 facilitated our communications another complaint some residents say there wasn't enough water where

00:03:57.520 and when it was needed started with the wind everything and i started waiting on the floor all the

00:04:04.400 the floor the roof the pressure of the water is one way so i started my fillet up buckets the

00:04:11.600 trash cans with water there's not water in the fire hydrants i paid for it didn't i did some hydrants run low

00:04:19.040 the short answer is yes some more context according to the department of water and power all 114 water

00:04:26.320 storage facilities were filled but heavy use of fire hydrants depleted the supply now i want to talk

00:04:32.800 about how also the ladies are going to play victim how many of these women that are complaining in this 1.00

00:04:39.520 voted for democrat policies they will vote for democrat policies on abortion until their city literally burns

00:04:47.680 to the ground literally the extreme conditions compounded by high winds keeping firefighting

00:04:54.720 aircraft grounded we all know that this has been an unprecedented event we also know that fire hydrants

00:05:02.400 are not constructed to deal with this type of massive devastation and that the number one problem

00:05:09.840 especially on wednesday was the fact that we weren't able to do the air support because of the winds

00:05:17.680 bass now also having to defend the decision to reduce the fire department's 2024-2025 budget last

00:05:24.800 summer she approved cutting more than 17 million dollars from it last month la's fire chief raised

00:05:31.360 concerns with the mayor and city council saying in a memo these budgetary reductions have adversely affected

00:05:38.400 the department's ability to maintain core operations bass says the cuts did not impact fighting these

00:05:46.080 fires there were no reductions that were made that would have impacted the situation that we were

00:05:52.640 dealing with over the last couple of days do you see this guy and erin the total budget do you see this

00:05:58.480 guy in the background he does not agree oh shoot he does not agree he does not this guy here he is like

00:06:05.520 this is this woman is on some bs and you could just tell you know even gavin newson who also does a

00:06:12.640 terrible job you can at least tell he would have pre-scripted answers right this woman is clearly not 0.96

00:06:21.200 qualified for the job this is a disaster i know people are saying it's man-made look i don't know if

00:06:28.320 it was or it wasn't i haven't seen evidence that it was at this point it's possible but i'm not one that's

00:06:34.560 going to jump to the conspiracy theories i know there's this idea that like the rich do it on 0.80

00:06:40.640 purpose to make money or something okay let me last summer she approved cutting more than 17 million

00:06:48.320 dollars from it last month la's fire chief raised concerns with the mayor and city council saying in

00:06:55.120 a memo these budgetary reductions have adversely affected the department's ability to maintain core

00:07:01.840 operations bass says the cuts did not impact fighting these fires there were no reductions

00:07:09.120 that were made that would have impacted the situation that we were dealing with over the

00:07:14.320 last couple of days and aaron the total budget for the los angeles fire department is a little more

00:07:20.320 than 800 million bass has said in the past that that budget included money for things like hiring new

00:07:27.840 firefighters but again her critics and there are many of them on the ground there being very vocal

00:07:34.480 saying that her judgment is in question now i want to clarify my position on things i am not against

00:07:42.240 women being in positions that they deserve if we complete and are able to do a job at the same 1.00

00:07:48.800 quality that the men are able to do a job you know i don't see anything wrong with them doing that job

00:07:54.480 if they can do it to the same quality the issue i have is when they start lowering the requirements

00:07:59.840 to give us special preferential treatment and now people are losing their homes that's where i have

00:08:06.960 an issue or you put someone in a position that shouldn't be there people lose their lives how far

00:08:12.400 are we gonna go to make us feel better and feel like we're competing as a group it's getting to the

00:08:18.880 point it's ridiculous where i don't know if i hire somebody any female in any job if they're there 1.00

00:08:26.640 because they deserve it and they're good or because there's some practice that allowed them to be there

00:08:32.320 some special privilege that's where we're at los angeles mayor slashed fire budget last year and

00:08:40.720 prioritized the homeless population los angeles budget is in the spotlight as multiple wildfires rage around

00:08:47.280 the city amid amid revelations that mayor karen bass slashed the fire department's budget last year

00:08:54.000 while prior while prioritizing spending on the city's homeless for the 2023 to 2024 fiscal year la budgeted

00:09:01.760 837 million for the la fire department which was roughly 65 percent of the homeless budget of 1.3 billion

00:09:09.840 an analysis by la city's controller last year found that roughly half of the budget for homelessness went

00:09:16.960 unspent from 2023 to 2024 the 2024 to 2025 to the 2024 to 2025 budgets the la fd budget was reduced by over

00:09:28.960 17 million from 837 000 to 819 oh mil oh sorry 837 million to 819 million bass had proposed a larger budget

00:09:42.240 to cut the la fd to about 23 million but it was not adopted fox business has reached out to bass's office

00:09:49.600 for comment and the reasoning behind the cuts the budget for homelessness was also reduced in 2024 to 2025

00:09:57.440 but remained larger than the la fd budget la is currently the center of four ongoing wildfires the

00:10:05.360 eaten the woodley the hearst fires and the palisades which has have consumed countless homes and

00:10:13.040 businesses and claimed two lives the fire the fires have prompted evacuation orders for more than 30 000

00:10:20.080 people and come as california faces an insurance crisis after several insurers fled the state largely due

00:10:27.280 to the costs associated with the wildfire losses out of 20 the most destructive california wildfires

00:10:34.560 seven have taken place in the last five years the department of forestry and fire protection

00:10:39.200 reported in terms of economic costs the 2018 fire camp caused 10 billion in damages the tubs fire in 2017

00:10:47.600 cost 8.7 billion in damages and the wood woolsey fire in 2018 cost 4.2 billion dollars let's watch the

00:10:57.840 video associated with this that's with reaction is former la county sheriff alex villanueva alex thank

00:11:04.400 you for being here this is by all accounts a devastating wildfire uncontained two deaths so far

00:11:11.440 you can see the damage in those live shots governor newsom declaring a state of emergency yet some are

00:11:18.240 criticizing the local authorities and the response teams do you think that criticism is fair well you got

00:11:24.800 to recognize that there was a bond measure in 2014 proposition one that allocated 7.5 billion dollars

00:11:33.200 for the infrastructure for to capture water in reservoirs to have that available so our hydrants

00:11:39.280 would be basically full of water and then times of need and only a fraction of that money has been

00:11:44.480 spent it has all been tied up in bureaucratic nightmare then you have the workforce itself you have

00:11:50.000 fire la county la city fire their numbers are depleted lapd la sheriffs their numbers are depleted

00:11:56.080 where is the national guard here i mean there's a lot of things a lot of manpower that is missing

00:12:00.960 and and it all goes from 2024 the whole defunding movement this impact can we talk about that

00:12:07.680 because we were reading in the post this morning that the la fire department had seen budget cuts by

00:12:12.720 about 17 million dollars how much of this is or is not preventable based on some of those budget cuts

00:12:20.400 oh this is very very preventable because you call the fire department both city and county fire

00:12:26.240 part of the whole first responder infrastructure that has been one of the targets of politicians from

00:12:32.000 2024 to take money away from and deplete those resources supposedly under this grand scheme of we're

00:12:38.480 going to reinvest it in the community well the community right now needs exactly what they don't

00:12:43.040 have which is the staffing levels for fire and for first responders for law enforcement to be able

00:12:49.440 to safely evacuate and to be able to fight these fires i mean a lot of it is going to be obviously

00:12:54.960 the nature is gonna is having its way with us right now but at some point when humans can successfully

00:13:01.520 contain the fire and secure the area and all that stuff and care for the evacuated

00:13:08.320 it's a humanitarian crisis that's going to unfold right now as we're seeing it and we don't have

00:13:12.080 the resources we should have and those were political decisions that happened years ago talk

00:13:17.760 to me about the water issue because i found this very disturbing you've had folks on the ground fighting

00:13:22.960 the fires they're plugged into the fire hydrants but they're saying there's no pressure to push water

00:13:28.800 because the tanks up on the hills which is how you create the pressure have not been filled adequately

00:13:34.720 you're telling me that that was supposed to have been addressed in 2014 and that's still an issue

00:13:40.640 right now does that sit on karen bass's shoulders whose shoulders does that sit on it sits on the

00:13:46.480 current mayor the previous mayor eric garcity the board of supervisors past and present from 2014 on

00:13:53.520 proposition one that's a lot of money i think they spent 177 million out of 7.5 billion all of the

00:14:00.880 construction projects were designed to upgrade and create new systems that capture water from the

00:14:07.040 rainfall i mean two years of record rainfall and we were not able to capture it yes because it wasn't

00:14:14.080 built so it all washed into the ocean but it did fuel the growth of the underbrush which is now under fire

00:14:20.640 was the national guard mobilized too late way too late and this is something both the la county

00:14:26.800 sheriff's department la pd had to know that because they're both both agencies are missing roughly

00:14:33.200 1500 sworn officers each that's over 3000 so any major event like this is going to generate a lot of

00:14:40.960 demand for personnel over prolonged periods of time that's an automatic call to the national guard hey we

00:14:46.800 need a lot of additional troops to do some basic activities because now they're taking resources away

00:14:52.800 from areas where they're still needed like you're pulling deputies from a contract city and who's

00:14:59.040 going to answer 9-1-1 and go out when everyone's out at the fire so this is why personnel the staffing

00:15:05.280 is critical at this time alex we so appreciate your time today and your insight wish we were talking

00:15:11.920 so thousands of people have lost their homes this is devastating to the state of california and we're

00:15:19.360 hearing that the fire could have been contained that it didn't have to be this bad but this is gross

00:15:26.080 incompetence and this is again this is what happens when we're prioritizing put woman in role because 1.00

00:15:32.640 she's a woman not because she does a good job the la fire chief warned last month that budget cuts would 1.00

00:15:39.760 affect response to large-scale emergencies the la fire chief warned in the weeks before the devastating

00:15:48.400 palisades fire that the decision to cut the department by nearly 18 million would diminish

00:15:53.440 its ability to prepare and respond to large-scale emergencies the budget reduction approved last

00:16:00.400 year by mayor mayor karen bass was mostly absorbed by leaving many administration jobs at the fire department 0.64

00:16:08.320 unfilled but that left about seven million to be cut from its overtime budget which was earmarked for

00:16:15.920 training fire prevention and other key functions the reduction has severely limited the department's

00:16:22.000 capacity to prepare train for and respond to large-scale emergencies including wildfires

00:16:28.160 chief kristin crowley wrote in a memo in december 4th 2024 the variable overtime hours called v hours within

00:16:35.840 the la fire department were used to pay for faa mandated pilot training and heli top helicopter coordination

00:16:44.640 staffing for wildfire suppression the memo said mayor bass said wednesday evening that the budget cuts did

00:16:51.120 not have an impact on the la fire department's response to the wildfires i am confident that it

00:16:57.840 did not bass answered in a response to the fire chief's memo and suggested fire spending would exceed the

00:17:04.560 amounts budgeted for the fiscal year bass also dismissed the criticism that she was on an overseas trip

00:17:11.600 while the fires started during the intense winds that had been forecast several days in advance

00:17:17.840 although i was not physically here i was in contact with many of the individuals that are standing

00:17:22.560 here throughout the entire time bass said i was on the phone on the plane almost every hour of the

00:17:27.760 flight she said the fire chief's memo was presented last month to the board of fire commissioners

00:17:33.120 a panel of mayoral appointees who oversee the management of the department without this funding

00:17:38.960 pilot compliance and readiness are jeopardized and aerial firefighting capabilities are diminished

00:17:44.080 it said changes to air operations section impact the department's ability to adhere to current

00:17:50.480 automatic and mutual agreements provide air ambulance services and quickly respond to woodland fires

00:17:56.400 during woodland fires with water dropping helicopters the memo also highlighted other programs that

00:18:02.400 would suffer with the cuts including the disaster response section which funds the bulldozer

00:18:07.920 teams and cuts breaks and control lines around wild wildfires and the critical incident planning

00:18:15.280 and training section with which develops plans for major emergencies fire officials downplayed the

00:18:21.280 potential impact the cuts would have on a mayor major emergency and referred questions to chief

00:18:27.520 crowley who was unavailable due to another fire igniting in hollywood's hills late wednesday any fire department

00:18:34.800 even our side is stretched thin which is why we call in our mutual aid partners said la fire department

00:18:41.520 spokesman jacob raib the the the fire started tuesday and fanned by powerful winds destroyed hundreds of

00:18:48.960 buildings and burned about 15 800 acres it was one of five wildfires burning in southern california the los

00:18:57.200 angeles fire the los angeles fire chief kristin crowley started her position in 2022 she's the first openly lbtgq

00:19:07.920 woman to hold this office right away a big deal was made about this and she made it her priority 0.70

00:19:13.920 to hire a more diverse fire department she was hired after the previous fire chief had to step 0.96

00:19:20.960 step down due to allegations that he didn't address sexist and racist behavior within the fire department

00:19:27.680 talk about an over correction when talking about kristin's nomination former la mayor eric garcetti

00:19:35.440 said at the time that he nominated crowley to the position not due to her gender but due to her abilities 0.98

00:19:40.800 and skill with public safety challenges so again the ladies you know when you see women being burned alive 0.97

00:19:48.800 in new york what is happening is we are eating what we voted for because most women would rather have 0.98

00:19:57.040 abortion than have a proper fire department criminals being taken off the street and at some point the men

00:20:04.960 are gonna say you know what you ladies are on your own because you keep voting for these policies you 1.00

00:20:12.240 keep taking money out of our out of our taxes for these policies that you guys voted for

00:20:18.800 and you know again they said that the previous chief was sexist so you know what he said he said okay

00:20:26.400 i'll step down let's see how the ladies handle it go ahead and honestly guys to some degree 1.00

00:20:34.000 i don't blame them at all if we are going to keep voting these four democrats if we're going to keep voting

00:20:39.760 for these leftist policies okay see what happens see how it works the only way and and this is why

00:20:47.520 simps are such a problem when they bail people out they bail the ladies out of our bad decisions 1.00

00:20:53.840 because the only way we will learn is if we actually have to feel the consequences

00:20:58.960 you know do you think next election california is going to vote republican now we're going to watch

00:21:05.040 the nom new nominee for the fire department employees they complain of harassment they complain of

00:21:11.200 bullying but if anyone can change the culture let it be kristen crowley now what an amazing opportunity

00:21:19.040 but i do feel ready tuesday morning the winds of change blew through la like a santa anna again this

00:21:25.120 is play pretend you know again i don't have a problem with women doing jobs they're qualified for 1.00

00:21:31.600 but to give a little background i played volleyball overseas i'm an athlete i'm six foot i'm taller than

00:21:40.080 most men in terms of strength i can deadlift close to 300 pounds that's more than a lot of guys i've played

00:21:46.160 basketball with men i i'm an athlete and even though i am probably one percent of strength for women for women

00:21:55.040 okay i'm not i'm not saying i'm but in terms of most women are overweight most women aren't athletes 1.00

00:22:01.440 my brother who doesn't lift can beat me up so easily it would it would be like it would be the

00:22:07.200 easiest thing for him ever i question how a woman in this position with she looks a little bit overweight 1.00

00:22:13.680 to me how as a fire fire woman was she able to do equally as good of a job when it's a very physical 0.99

00:22:22.160 job the same way i'm going to think this when i see female construction workers and when i see female 1.00

00:22:28.720 police officers when i was in england i think i saw more female police officers than men if i'm if 0.65

00:22:34.240 i'm looking at a woman and i'm thinking i think i'm in better shape than her how the heck and by the

00:22:40.480 way i cannot beat an average guy even a guy that doesn't really work out is going to beat me up it's

00:22:46.080 not going to be hard if you wanted to don't do that you know what i mean like don't but if you

00:22:51.440 wanted to how the heck are these women going to do a better job as a fire woman and the other 1.00

00:22:59.120 question i have you know if we're going to promote somebody to chief you know i worked in sales for

00:23:05.680 like two three years and you expect the managers to be good sales people so they can teach the sales

00:23:11.840 people coming up how to sell what is she going to teach a guy about fighting fires when i just cannot

00:23:18.880 imagine that she has the strength that men do

Pearl - January 15, 2025

This Is How The L.A. Fires Got WORSE With DEI Hires In Power ｜ Pearl Daily

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