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I have a son with Cerebral Palsy. I don't think I could walk out the door. What a horrible scenario for her and her sonšŸ˜¢
 
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This is an old article from 2015, but I find it of value to show the significance of the water issues and who caused changes to water, etc.

There is NO water management in California, neither in North (where they have dynamited multiple dams and lost the reservoirs from the dams) nor the HUGE concrete culverts in LA that direct 100's of millions gallons of fresh water into the Pacific when it rains and the runoffs aren't saved for later use.

There was another story of a burned out area. Cul de sac, resident didn't evacuate. Noted the wind and fire. Had a normal yard hose with home water, not hydrant. Noted embers on his roof, watered till they went out. Noted several other homes with small fires from embers. Used hose till it wasn't long enough. Neighbors returned they unified small bucket brigades and doused any homes threatened. Final score ? no homes lost !

Again NO FIRE ENGINES SEEN !
 
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I have a son with Cerebral Palsy. I don't think I could walk out the door. What a horrible scenario for her and her sonšŸ˜¢
If this doesn't bring tears to your eyes !

Sometimes there is nothing you can do. Several times I pulled up to MV accidents where the car was fully engaged in fire. The fire extinguishers we carried in the Troop car's trunk had no effect. Horrible thoughts.
 
Approx 15 % of LAFD rolling stock at any time is out of service for repairs. (100 or so including ambulances.)
The LA Council refused to hire an additional 16 mechanics to reduce OOS.

This wouldn't solved the fire issues, but along with other malfeasances being fixed in LA it could have helped !
 
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