L.A. Fire Chief: Budget Cuts Took from ‘Nonessential’ Stuff, But ‘We Were Limited to a Certain Factor’

By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-10 02:04:13 | Updated at 2025-01-10 08:33:22 6 hours ago

L.A. Fire Chief: Budget Cuts Took from ‘Nonessential’ Stuff, But ‘We Were Limited to a Certain Factor’
Breitbart ^ | 01/09/2025 | IAN HANCHETT

Posted on 01/09/2025 5:44:07 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

During an interview with CBS News aired on Thursday’s “CBS Evening News,” LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley stated that the cuts to the department’s budget resulted in the department taking from “nonessential duties and responsibilities” but due to the cuts, “we were limited to a certain factor,” in their ability to respond to large-scale events, but with the wind with the recent fires being the way it was, “I honestly don’t think a thousand engines at that very moment could have tapped this fire down.”

Host Norah O’Donnell asked, [relevant exchange begins around 11:05] “[A] lot of people are talking about the warning that you sent last month that the budget cuts have ‘severely limited the department’s capacity to prepare for, train for, and respond to large-scale emergencies, including wildfires,’ you sent that warning about these budget cuts. Was this preventable?”

Crowley responded, “I’ll tell you from the budget cut side of things, when there’s a $17 million cut in our budget, operating costs, immediately, from that point, I had to make some tough decisions. I looked at some other duties and responsibilities that we do as a fire department and I had to focus right back on the training of our firefighters and also our ability to respond to the everyday fires and EMS response.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: budget; budgets; cuts; factor; firechief; la; limited; nonessential; stuff

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O'Donnell is a stupid twit

To: ChicagoConservative27

2 posted on 01/09/2025 5:44:57 PM PST by Paladin2

To: ChicagoConservative27

This is the Deputy Chief. $399,000 a year salary.

https://x.com/Not_the_Bee/status/1877461717933801567

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The scariest part of this woke nonsense is when she admits she’s not strong enough to carry a man out of a fire, but it’s really the man’s fault for being in that situation to begin with

3 posted on 01/09/2025 5:48:48 PM PST by TigerClaws

To: TigerClaws

Go munch a carpet, sister. You salary needs to slashed in half.

4 posted on 01/09/2025 5:50:27 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)

To: ChicagoConservative27

If they are “nonessential duties and responsibilities,” why are they being paid, even have a job?

5 posted on 01/09/2025 5:52:37 PM PST by Fungi

To: Governor Dinwiddie

Watch the full video. She says people ask if she can carry a man. Then if she has to carry you… you’re in the wrong place.

Hmm.

Like, maybe a fire?

6 posted on 01/09/2025 5:53:16 PM PST by TigerClaws

To: ChicagoConservative27

7 posted on 01/09/2025 5:53:19 PM PST by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )

To: TigerClaws

8 posted on 01/09/2025 6:00:23 PM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)

To: ChicagoConservative27

Why did they donate equipment to Ukraine?

9 posted on 01/09/2025 6:01:14 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)

To: TigerClaws

10 posted on 01/09/2025 6:01:44 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)

To: TigerClaws

The only thing that fatbody has saved from fire is a cheeseburger.

11 posted on 01/09/2025 6:02:24 PM PST by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой!)

To: ChicagoConservative27

“O’Donnell is a stupid twit”

That dimwit can’t step down soon enough. (2 more weeks)

Talk about a safe space interview for the DEI Fire Chief.

Spit

12 posted on 01/09/2025 6:03:11 PM PST by DAC21

To: MayflowerMadam; All

13 posted on 01/09/2025 6:03:53 PM PST by TigerClaws

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