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
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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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