Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and the Democrat-run government of California caused insurance companies to cancel many of their fire insurance policies — with many residents of Pacific Palisades losing their policies just before the wildfires. As Breitbart News has reported for years, many insurance companies have stopped selling new policies in California “because of the increased risk of wildfires and the rising costs of construction in the state — and because the state’s regulators will not allow it to price new policies based on future anticipated risk, only on historical risk.” State Farm, the largest insurer in California, said this week that it will stop issuing new home and business policies, partly due to the risk of wildfires and the cost of construction. (Allstate quietly followed soon after.) While the left might blame climate change, the real reason is state policy. California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara — who authored the state’s own “Medicare for All” proposal — won’t let insurance companies charge higher premiums for the growing risks that climate change activists say are on the way (and that skeptics blame on poor forestry). The Wall Street Journal notes that California is the only state that requires insurance companies to set premium prices based on past risks, not on future ones. The intention — to give Lara the benefit of the doubt — is a noble one. Homes are already absurdly expensive in California, as is the cost of doing business. Keeping insurance premiums down is a nice idea. But when prices are so low that they make insurance unprofitable, companies leave or collapse. That means Californians may struggle to find insurance — and, ironically, may be forced to pay more for it, as the supply of policies shrinks. That is basically how California functions: our government creates laws and regulations that theoretically aim at some inspiring social goal, but which, in practice, make that goal impossible to achieve. The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) has used their precious time and funds to attend LGBTQ Pride events and to hold Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) training seminars under the leadership of its first female chief, prompting backlash as the department struggles to fight devastating wildfires. The fire hydrants in the Pacific Palisades area “ran dry” as firefighters attempted to put out the raging flames on Wednesday, with the Los Angeles Times reporting that “scores” of them “had little to no water flowing out” on Wednesday morning. “The LA Fire Dept passed a ‘racial equity plan’ to end ‘systemic, institutional, and structural racism’ in LA,” Libs of TikTok wrote on X, along with a 2021 LAFD “Racial Equity Plan” that includes a chart to tally the races of each employee. In November 2022, shortly after then-Mayor Eric Garcetti (D) appointed Kristen Crowley as the first female and first openly LGBTQ fire chief, they announced the launch of the LAFD’s own DEI Bureau, “focused on ensuring a safe, diverse, and inclusive workplace for all.” “We believe in, and are committed to, justice in Los Angeles — and we focus an equity lens on every aspect of our work,” Garcetti said at the time. “The Bureau of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion will help to ensure that our progress is permanent and we’re always moving forward with a city government and institutions that reflect and value our diversity.” According to the department’s 2022-2023 budget, they spent a staggering $1 million on DEI policies. “Los Angeles Fire Department celebrated in a pride parade. The Police Chief handed out pride flags to attendees. She is hailed as the first female and LGBTQ chief and says her priority is DEI,” the conservative influencer wrote on X. “Your tax dollars pay for this.” The current mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass (D), who was on a trip to Ghana when the fires engulfed large portions of the city, also cut nearly $20 million from the city’s budget for fire services for the current fiscal year, Breitbart News reported. @patrician Let's see, water off, roads blocked. Apparently that worked so well in Maui they decided to try it in California. Things that make you go hmm. I just read they were planning to make Los Angeles a smart city by 2028. Didn't they want a smart city for Lahaina but the people wouldn't give up their homes? President-elect Donald Trump believes the wildfires that have wreaked havoc on Los Angeles County could be the most costly – in terms of money – in the history of the United States. “The fires in Los Angeles may go down, in dollar amount, as the worst in the History of our Country,” Trump wrote. “In many circles, they’re doubting whether insurance companies will even have enough money to pay for this catastrophe.” He then blasted President Joe Biden and Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA). “Let this serve, and be emblematic, of the gross incompetence and mismanagement of the Biden/Newscum Duo. January 20th cannot come fast enough!” he added. “NO WATER IN THE FIRE HYDRANTS, NO MONEY IN FEMA. THIS IS WHAT JOE BIDEN IS LEAVING ME. THANKS JOE!” he wrote in one post, referencing reports of hydrants running dry. He slammed Newsom just after 2:00 p.m. ET for failing to contain some of the blazes. “As of this moment, Gavin Newscum and his Los Angeles crew have contained exactly ZERO percent of the fire. It is burning at levels that even surpass last night. This is not Government. I can’t wait till January 20th!” he wrote. In a post earlier Wendesday, Trump declared that Newsom was to “blame” for the disasters for not signing “the water restoration declaration put before him.” Trump contended the declaration “would have allowed millions of gallons of water, from excess rain and snow melt from the North, to flow daily into many parts of California, including the areas that are currently burning in a virtually apocalyptic way.” A Pacific Palisades reservoir was closed when wildfires swept through the area and devastated the community, officials told the Los Angeles Times. The Santa Ynez Reservoir is connected to the Los Angeles water supply system, and authorities said it was shut down for repairs at the time the fires erupted, “leaving a 117 million gallon water storage complex empty in the heart of the Palisades,” the newspaper reported on Friday. The news comes as people are questioning why firefighters ran out of water as they tried to save structures and communities from the blaze that has wreaked havoc across the Los Angeles area. “Department of Water and Power [DWP] officials have said that demand for water during an unprecedented fire made it impossible to maintain any pressure to hydrants at high elevations,” the report noted. The outlet reported on Wednesday that Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) cut almost $20 million from the city’s budget for fire services for the current fiscal year. It also said Bass was on a trip to Ghana when the fires broke out. @patrician They have cut the LA county fire budget for each of the last 3 years, inspite of the LA Co fire chief explaining the negative impact and objections to these budget cuts. @davedave Dave Hodges did a segment about a county supervisor giving a press conference. He said what she said isn't important, his point was what she was wearing, an upside down cross. Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) CEO Janisse Quiñones had knowledge that the Santa Ynez Reservoir was offline, and that fire hydrants were not working, according to a recent report. Insiders with the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFP) reportedly told the DailyMail that Quiñones, who was hired in May on a $750,000 salary, is “being blamed” by the LAFD for leaving the Santa Ynez Reservoir in the Pacific Palisades disconnected as wildfires began in the Los Angeles area. Additionally, Quiñones is also being blamed by LAFD for leaving fire hydrants broken for several months, according to the outlet. “Sources” told the outlet that since being hired “at LADWP, Quiñones oversaw the shutdown and emptying of a reservoir in the Pacific Palisades during brushfire season.” Prior to her current role, Quiñones has worked for Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) as a senior vice president between 2021 to 2023. The electric company “went bankrupt over liability for several massive wildfires in California,” according to the outlet. Just when one thinks the departing regime cannot sink to a new low, it continuously proves there is no bottom. Fox News on Saturday dropped an infuriating story regarding FEMA’s evil treatment of Hurricane Helene survivors in Western North Carolina. The agency will end temporary housing for roughly 2,000 Tar Heel residents on Saturday, creating mass confusion amongst the local population regarding what they are supposed to do next. The unforgiving conditions across the Appalachian Mountain region make these victims’ situation even more dire. Not only is a major snowstorm coming, but temperatures will drop below 20 degrees. This sick act was not lost on Team Trump. Upon learning the news, Karoline Leavitt, Trump spokeswoman and incoming White House press secretary, issued a fiery response to Fox News. “Biden and Mayorkas bankrupted FEMA to pay for illegal immigrant housing, and now American citizens who lost their homes in Hurricane Helene are essentially being told to screw,” Leavitt said. “This is unfair and arguably criminal.” “The good news is: President Trump will be back very soon to put Americans first again.” https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/pure-evil-joe-bidens-fema-forces-2000-hurricane/ And another thing. A friend sent me an article saying the fires are spewing dioxin into the air. Times Beach, a little town outside of St. Louis, was contaminated with dioxin and had to be completely evacuated and shut down. Bob looked it up and I think he said trees burning and forest fires release dioxin too. Today we bring you alarming news about the California fires burning down nearly 5,000 buildings (and counting). Every one of these buildings, when burned, releases dioxins into the atmosphere. Dioxins cause cancer at extremely low concentrations. This dioxin cloud will fall on California's Central Valley areas, in some cases, and will contaminate the food supply with cancer chemicals. So in addition to the economic devastation being carried out by whoever created the conditions for these deliberate fires, we're also talking about widespread food contamination -- something even larger than the East Palestine train wreck situation from more than a year earlier. The most important thing to know about Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley is that she is the first LGBTQ fire chief in the history of the Los Angeles Fire Department. It’s also the only thing worth knowing about the woman in charge while Los Angeles burned. Crowley’s status as the first LGBTQ fire chief appears at the top of her bio on the LAFD site. It’s what got her on the Kelly Clarkson show under the headline, “Meet LAFD’s First Female & LGBTQ+ Fire Chief” and made her one of the marshals of the Los Angeles Pride Parade (some of whose attendees no longer have homes after the wave of fires.) But DEI wasn’t done with the LAFD just yet. Not until two other lesbian ‘Kirstens’ were also running the LAFD. Kristina Kepner, the first lesbian Assistant Chief and a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School for Managing Diverse Organizations, was accused of a domestic violence incident involving her girlfriend. Kristine Larson, who has a degree in Sociology, headed ‘Equity on Fire’, an organization complaining that the LAFD was sexist and racist, was then rewarded with the title of the LAFD’s first lesbian Equity Bureau Chief with a $399,000 salary. Meanwhile, Jamie Brown became the LAFD’s first lesbian Training Commander. Her accomplishment was being the only one of the four lesbians running the LAFD who wasn’t named ‘Kirsten’. Many glass ceilings were being broken, but there was no one who actually knew how to fight fires. Unless it was by asking the fire about its preferred pronouns. Crowley, Kepner, and Brown were all paramedics, not firefighters. Diversity mandates led to paramedics being referred to as ‘firefighters’ and being promoted to fire captains and battalion chiefs and then to the top echelons of the LAFD. Paramedics who did not understand how to fight fires were running one of the biggest fire departments in the country. Around this same time, Janisse Quinones was appointed to head the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, with a $750,000 salary that far exceeded her predecessor. The press release made sure to mention that she was the “first female Latina to lead LADWP as CEO.” Between all the trailblazing lesbian fire chiefs and the first female Latina CEO, the LAFD couldn’t find the manpower to actually fight the fires on the first day of the firestorm or the water in the hydrants to put them out. Breaking glass ceilings is easy, but putting out fires is hard. The vaccine mandate ousted some firefighters and suspended others. Last year, with a shortage of firefighters, the LAFD began trying to bring some of them back. Los Angeles and the LAFD fought the Firefighters4Freedom Foundation group which represented 500 members of the LAFD. Now the LAFD has been reduced to begging for volunteers with firefighting experience. The DEI LAFD seems to be a whole lot more diverse, but also a lot less competent at deploying manpower than the old organization used to be. While the LAFD might have lost a whole lot white men who knew how to fight fires, it gained a lot of DEI hires who knew how to pursue diversity, inclusion and all the pronoun stuff. And while LA might have lost a lot of buildings, it gained a lot of lesbian fire chiefs. https://worldisraelnews.com/the-lafd-is-run-by-three-lesbians-named-kirsten/ Some of the wealthy in Los Angeles are hiring private firefighters to save their mansions and businesses as fires devastate the area. According to the U.S. Sun, the individuals are paying those firefighters $2,000 an hour for their efforts, but the choice to shell out the cash has brought criticism, the outlet reported Sunday. The Sun article continued: Keith Wasserman, co-founder of real estate investment firm Gelt Venture Partners, provoked fury after a post on X, in which he asked for “private firefighters” to protect his land in the A-list neighbourhood of the Pacific Palisades. … Social media users criticized Keith, slamming his call for help as “incredibly tone deaf”. Commenter Sam Vance wrote: “Incredible nerve. His family is evacuated and he’s trying to hire private firefighters to risk their lives to save a home he most certainly has insured. “Incredibly tone deaf.” As thousands of city, county, and state firefighters respond to the blazes, crew members with David Togerson’s firefighters, who work for his Wildfire Defense Systems, were dispatched to specific locations to try and save particular homes, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday. The crew members have their own water supply and fire-blocking gel, the Times article said, adding that the group “contracts with insurance companies to defend the homes of customers who buy policies that include their services.” However, “Their presence isn’t without controversy. Private firefighters hired by homeowners directly have drawn criticism for heightening class divides during disasters,” the newspaper article stated. A reported illegal immigrant was arrested by police after California residents feared he would use a blowtorch to start wildfires in Los Angeles. The man’s illegal status was reported By Bill Melugin at Fox News late on January 12: Per ICE sources, the man seen in a viral video being subdued by residents & arrested by police w/ a blowtorch near the #KennethFire in West Hills is an illegal alien from Mexico named Juan Manuel Sierra-Leyva. He is in custody on a probation violation & has NOT been charged w/ arson. Melugin continued: I’m told ICE will place a detainer request on him with the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department, but they do not expect it to be honored due to California’s Sanctuary State law. I’m told Sierra-Leyva will have a court appearance tomorrow. Many residents are sharing reports that fires were deliberately lit and are alert against possible arsonists.
California Rules Caused Insurance Companies to Cancel Policies Before Wildfires:
Report: Los Angeles Fire Department ‘Prioritized DEI Over Saving Lives’:
Trump: Los Angeles Fires Could Be Most Costly in U.S. History:
Officials: Pacific Palisades Reservoir Was Closed and Empty When Los Angeles Wildfires Erupted:
Report: L.A. Water Chief Knew Fire Hydrants Not Working, Reservoir Offline:
PURE EVIL: Joe Biden’s FEMA Forces 2,000 Hurricane Helene Survivors into Major Snowstorm and Freezing Temperatures – Team Trump Responds With Fire:
The LAFD is run by three lesbians named ‘Kirsten’:
‘Tone Deaf’: L.A.’s Wealthy Ripped for Hiring $2K per Hour Private Firefighters:
California Reports: Illegal Migrant Arrested amid Arson Fears:
