Although the idea of personally blaming noted actor and comedian Eugene Levy for the wildfires is darkly amusing to me, he's only the honorary mayor of Pacific Palisades. Officially, it is a neighborhood of the City of Los Angeles and answers to its mayor.
If what you want is a fire response systems that fails to study changes in the local climate and adjust accordingly, catastrophic fires and failed containments will be the result.
Has he declared his divinity yet?
I can understand the "looks like me" comment with regards to police but firefighters are the color of water. Beyond that if anyone's training required them to carry XXX pounds up and down a flight of stairs and you can no longer do that, it should be grounds for dismissal. In the navy it is. Everyone runs the physical readiness test. It's scaled to age but it is there until the time you leave service. If you're overweight, you're given every opportunity to get within standards but eventually if fatty fatty two by four can't fit through the scuttle no more, they will not be allowed to reup. They do not get to go enjoy permanent shore duty.
The early days of Chicago, St. Louis, Cleveland, Detroit, and Baltimore had problems with massive LA spreading type fires that were effectively resolved with brick construction back in the early 1900's. Row homes so close together if one brunt down the rest would follow. What is common sense is that brick construction proved over time to resolve uncontrollable neighborhood fires. To the extent that now (at least here in St. Louis) there are so many viable 100+ year old brick structures still standing but abandoned in the city limits that their bricks are worth more than the land they stand on. If those same brick homes had instead been located in LA they would still be standing and would probably blocked the fire. Certainly much more efficiently than wood tinder.
Perhaps they could feed the unlimited supply of salt water into the fresh water just for emergency fires. They might be without potable water for a couple of days but at least they would still have their house not burned down.Because then you don't need two separate city wide water distribution systems.Why is desalinated water necessary for fire suppression?I live in SoCal, and one of my most consistent criticisms of the state is that it has refused to build more desalination plants. 800 miles of coastline and only a dozen plants.
These plants can produce tens of billions of gallons per year. The state could have the capacity to potentially produce trillions, but it doesn't despite the overwhelming need for it. There's no such thing as too much fresh water in SoCal.
I've got a whole thing about this. My comment was probably misplaced due to my "whole thing" screed I tend to go off on sometimes.Perhaps they could feed the unlimited supply of salt water into the fresh water just for emergency fires. They might be without potable water for a couple of days but at least they would still have their house not burned down.Because then you don't need two separate city wide water distribution systems.Why is desalinated water necessary for fire suppression?I live in SoCal, and one of my most consistent criticisms of the state is that it has refused to build more desalination plants. 800 miles of coastline and only a dozen plants.
These plants can produce tens of billions of gallons per year. The state could have the capacity to potentially produce trillions, but it doesn't despite the overwhelming need for it. There's no such thing as too much fresh water in SoCal.
Since the days of the most primitive cave men, humans have learned to store water from the more abundant times so that it would be available when desperately needed during an emergency. Such is the idea behind civil engineering to dam up rivers to create reservoirs.
Perhaps they could.Perhaps they could feed the unlimited supply of salt water into the fresh water just for emergency fires. They might be without potable water for a couple of days but at least they would still have their house not burned down.Because then you don't need two separate city wide water distribution systems.Why is desalinated water necessary for fire suppression?I live in SoCal, and one of my most consistent criticisms of the state is that it has refused to build more desalination plants. 800 miles of coastline and only a dozen plants.
These plants can produce tens of billions of gallons per year. The state could have the capacity to potentially produce trillions, but it doesn't despite the overwhelming need for it. There's no such thing as too much fresh water in SoCal.
This is one of the most ill-informed and downright insulting analyses of the situation that it has been my displeasure to read.
Since long before the human species evolved,
In the final analysis, the results speak for themselves. If you want shit results in the future then you can apologize all you want and continue the same path. But if you want something better then its best to admit how bad it is and make corrections for a better outcome for the future.
The political leaders who aren't willing to tax enough to pay for the needed infrastructure.
I'm not totally disagreeing with you but I thought California was a state with a left leaning ideology? And that Los Angeles county was especially left leaning?
That's likely your problem.
