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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Local CA news reports false evacuation texts are going out.

[twitter]https://x.com/ktla/status/1877704442818019457[/twitter][/quote]

Maybe if the derelict mayor had not cut the FD budget by $17 million, these types of egregious errors would not keep happening on her watch.

I can only imagine how much she has defunded the LA police in the midst of the current crime wave.[/quote]
The fire department ultimately had an increased budget. The 17m cut was part of a process. We are in a misinformation fire

https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-did-los-angeles-cut-fire-department-funding-2011568[/quote]

I don't think this is fully clear yet, because a memo went out by the fire chief on December 4th about budget issues. The article above (and the Politico one which is the single source for the increase info) states that the increase occurred in November. Here's a link to info about the fire chief memo: https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/california-wildfires/la-widlfires-budget-cuts-palisades-fire/3598438/[/quote]

The budget for the LAFD was reduced in summer of 2024 by $17M and reallocated to the LAPD due to the hyperventilating on social media about crime.

The fire department was allocated a separate appropriation in late November 2024, which results in LAFD's total funding to about $50M higher in 2025 vs. 2024 numbers.

Here's Politico's write up on it:

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Bass also took heat from far-left activists online, who accused the mayor of cutting the fire department’s budget in order to pay for a costly new contract with the city’s police. Also weighing in against her was Patrick Soon-Shiong, the politically idiosyncratic owner of the Los Angeles Times, who echoed the attack, posting on X that “the Mayor cut LA Fire Department’s budget by $23M.”

That assertion is wrong. The city was in the process of negotiating a new contract with the fire department at the time the budget was being crafted, so additional funding for the department was set aside in a separate fund until that deal was finalized in November. In fact, the city’s fire budget increased more than $50 million year-over-year compared to the last budget cycle, according to Blumenfield’s office, although overall concerns about the department’s staffing level have persisted for a number of years.[/i][/quote]

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/08/wildfire-threatens-karen-bass-extended-honeymoon-00197228[/quote]

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