Thursday, November 06, 2025

LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT UNDER INVESTIGATION

By Bob Walsh

 

A firefighter battles the advancing Palisades Fire around a structure in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles.


Karen Bass, the communist Mayor of Los Angeles, has directed that the Fire Department be investigated for various items of alleged incompetence and nastiness.

The big deal is the Palisades fire from January.  It seems that the staff on scene reported that the fire was still smouldering under ground when they were ordered to return to quarters by their battalion chief.  That is the fire that reignited several days later and burned down a bunch of Los Angeles.

Also being looked at are issues involving retaliation against whistleblowers and suspected financial irregularities within the firefighters union.

It is possible that some of this is management by the third law of thermodynamics.  (When the heat is on somebody else's ass it isn't on yours.) But in all fairness to Mayor Bass there seems to be some there there.

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