Saturday, January 11, 2025

Op-ed:
Briefly...On California's Wildfires
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor
The Op-ed posted here is this authors opinion alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com or Google.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' was recently asked by a reporter if it was appropriate for president-elect Donald Trump to criticize California Governor Gavin Newsom in regards to the ongoing California wildfires.
And Governor DeSantis' response was, "Is it appropriate for people in your industry to try to create division and to try to create narratives any time these things happen?"

And to that I say “bravo” to both Trump and DeSantis because they, and the press, know well that Newsom has known for years that these wildfires happen almost on a yearly basis but has done nothing of substance to address the issue. So here I'll add to what my great Florida governor stated and say that, in my opinion, both Governor Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Bass need to face charges of “gross (criminal) negligence and reckless endangerment of civilians,” And why...because these two basically sat back and did nothing but blame others while Los Angeles and the Palisades burned. In fact, it was Mayor Bass who not only hightailed it to Ghana while the wildfires were spreading, but was the one who cut the Los Angeles Fire Department’s budget by almost $20 million last year despite memos from its fire chief stating that said action would be “detrimental toward responding to natural disasters.” And sadly, how very right he was.

Remember again...and this is important...these two knew that these types of fires were cyclic in nature and tended to reoccur year after year, and yet they also chose to transfer monies and “emergency services” training programs needed to directly address this very type of situation, and funneled both into what I deem to be unseemly “totally irrelevant areas”...areas reeking of the left's DEI, environmental, and climate change agendas... agendas obviously deemed more important to these California “powers-that-be” than their protecting human lives and property it seems.

But the fixes to California's long standing emergency water issues do stare one in the face, especially those with common sense that is. And said fixes should include commencing the long discussed building of desalination plants to use and store the Pacific's waters for fighting wildfires, and that not only should all new home and business construction be constructed of cinder block and not wood, as well as being equipped with both lawn and roof sprinkler systems (the monies required would be added into the construction costs), but that the “perimeters” of densely populated areas should be ringed with underground sprinkler systems as well. Why so...because this would allow a perimeter system to be turned on before a wildfire reaches said areas to wet-down those areas making it harder for a fire to spread, thus giving air crews the time needed to drop water and fire retarding chemicals onto the fire.

But maybe in the end some good can come from this overwhelming disaster...one of the worst fire disasters in U.S. history...as in maybe “blue” loyalist Californians will finally wake up and stop voting these clueless, useless, and uncaring Democrat politicians into office time and time again...case closed. 

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