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To: Alex MG who wrote (25042)	1/10/2025 12:40:01 PM
From: Broken_Clock	2 Recommendations Recommended By DinoNavarre longz Respond to of 26004

He, they're getting tough in LA looters are going to get a$1,000 fine! 'We're not screwing around.' Anyone found in curfew areas will be subject to arrest, the LA county sheriff says - warning any looters they face a fine and even potential jail time.https://t.co/NLGGU1YixW 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube pic.twitter.com/9hGc2hgZjs — Sky News (@SkyNews) January 10, 2025

To: Alex MG who wrote (25042)	1/10/2025 2:26:16 PM
From: Broken_Clock	1 Recommendation Recommended By longz Respond to of 26004

where's smoke...there could very well be fire dw-wp-production.imgix.net

To: Alex MG who wrote (25042)	1/10/2025 3:05:20 PM
From: Broken_Clock	3 Recommendations Recommended By longz Thomas M. tntpal Respond to of 26004

LAFD chiefs have had it. dailymail.co.uk "According to the sources, it was sent from LAFD 'top brass' at City Hall to division chiefs and captains - after a fraught meeting the previous Friday between Chief Kristin Crowley and Mayor Bass. 'The LAFD is still going through a FY [financial year] 2024/2025 $48.8million budget reduction exercise with the CAO [City Attorney's Office],' the document said. 'The only way to provide a cost savings would be to close as many as 16 fire stations (not resources, fire stations); this equates to at least one fire station per City Council District." 'They did not want this out. It's an internal memo not to be distributed,' one currently-serving 25-year veteran of the Fire Department told DailyMail.com. 'It comes from top brass downtown, City Hall. 'They're trying to allocate more money for the homeless, and they need to start taking from everybody. 'But we already exhausted our budget. It's already tapped. That's why they cut the fire academy in half, so they could save more money. That's why we're not testing if hydrants work any more. We're doing everything we can to save money. EXCLUSIVELeaked memo reveals LA Mayor Karen Bass demanded her fire department cut an extra $49 million just ONE WEEK before wildfires broke outBy JOSH BOSWELL FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Published: 09:59 EST, 10 January 2025 \| Updated: 13:22 EST, 10 January 2025 Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass demanded her Fire Department make an extra $49million of budget cuts last week, a leaked memo revealed. This cut is already on top of $17.6million of cuts in her latest budget. The extra cuts, requested just days before fires broke out and devastated swathes of Los Angeles, would have shut down 16 fire stations and crippled the department's ability to respond to emergencies, sources said. DailyMail.com interviewed current and former senior LAFD officers briefed on the shocking proposed cuts, and exclusively obtained the memo from an LA Fire Department (LAFD) whistleblower who posts on social media under the moniker 'LAFD Watchdog'. The memo is dated January 6, only a day before the devastating Palisades Fire started. According to the sources, it was sent from LAFD 'top brass' at City Hall to division chiefs and captains - after a fraught meeting the previous Friday between Chief Kristin Crowley and Mayor Bass. 'The LAFD is still going through a FY [financial year] 2024/2025 $48.8million budget reduction exercise with the CAO [City Attorney's Office],' the document said. 'The only way to provide a cost savings would be to close as many as 16 fire stations (not resources, fire stations); this equates to at least one fire station per City Council District. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass demanded her Fire Department make an extra $49million of budget cuts last week, a leaked memo revealed - on top of the 17.6million cut in latest budget The cuts would've shut down 16 fire stations and crippled the department's ability to respond to emergencies The memo was sent from LAFD 'top brass' at City Hall to division chiefs and captains. DailyMail.com interviewed current and former senior LAFD officers who were briefed Read More LIVE Tanker aircraft helping fight blazes is grounded after colliding with drone 'The details of this plan have not yet been developed. This is a worst-case scenario and is NOT happening yet.' Now more than 54-square-miles are scorched in at least five separate fires, more than 4,000 homes and buildings destroyed, ten dead and more injured. And the billionaire and celebrity-inhabited neighborhood of Pacific Palisades was almost completely wiped off the map. But some senior firefighters' blood was already boiling when they received the note from their bosses about proposed budget slashes. 'They did not want this out. It's an internal memo not to be distributed,' one currently-serving 25-year veteran of the Fire Department told DailyMail.com. The memo is dated January 6 , only a day before the devastating Palisades Fire started. Even though it stated it wasn't happening yet, the fire department's resources have already been exhausted The sources briefed on the memo said Bass first made the demand for tens of millions from the cash-strapped department in a meeting with Chief Crowley on Friday 'We have fire engines we can't get parts for. When one breaks down we strip it of parts to put on other fire engines because we can't buy any more parts. 'If you shut down 16 stations, that's about 750 personnel. Then they expect us to take the same call volume. And yesterday we did 3,800 calls, almost twice of what our daily call volume usually is. 'We're already shy 200 paramedics, and we're on the verge of another 200 quitting because we can't do this any more. 'If we don't work overtime, they suspend and threaten to terminate us. It's untenable.' Chief Crowley had already warned Bass last month that $17.6million of cuts had 'severely limited the department's capacity to prepare for, train for and respond to large-scale emergencies, including wildfires' The sources briefed on the memo said Bass first made the demand for tens of millions from the cash-strapped department in a meeting with Chief Crowley on Friday. 'Bass wanted to cut even more,' one source briefed on the meeting said. 'They asked for $49million more on Friday last week. The Chief said "We don't have it". The Mayor said "Find it".'