Fires, Faults and My Take on the L.A. Blame Game
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- I'm sharing my raw thoughts on the L.A. Fires. How it's torn through our communities but also brought people together in powerful ways. The need for accountability and who's to blame in a city that is in mourning.
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I couldn't agree more! Thank you for your positive words and shedding the light. My mom and I both tried to volunteer as well. Like you mentioned, we were turned away but we were so happy to see so many people already there. Los Angeles is amazing and we all will pull through this.
Postfire first responder here... this is like watching a human tragedy play out in slow motion that has played out elsewhere eg, NOLA/katrina, Paradise/Camp Fire
We need to come to consensus on some key things in this era...
The scale of these collective tragedies is *way* beyond our ability to respond effectively to them as they unfold. Our urban infrastructure is not spec'd for our density and the future climate
Immediate impacts are felt based on privilege, peppered with luck
'Recovery' is a porous concept. Mass displacement and resettlement takes much longer than anyone anticipates
I’m a Bay Area native, but I love Los Angeles. It’s heartbreaking to see all that has happened but we’re with you all!
Fact based and supporting LA through the disaster. I appreciate the perspective.
Great episode Evan… tough times indeed. But so well covered. 🙏🏼
You make some valid points.
That said, you call it the “blame game”, I call it accountability.
To be sure, solutions are the priority, BUT who are we going to lead us to those solutions? Do we trust the people who at a minimum didn’t do anything to prevent this mess, and at worst put us in this position.
We live in a city where copper wire is stolen everyday, motorcycle thuglets take over city streets, beat motorists, and last night we just saw a “pursuit” where the criminals had time to stop for fuel. No one was arrested that I’m aware of. We have high rise building completely covered in graffiti!
I love your show, you do an amazing job. I can tell you’re a big hearted guy. That’s all great. Unfortunately all this hand holding, kum bah ya, let’s all hug and speak with one voice is NOT WORKING!!!
Asking these questions, making accusations, being loud and throwing fits is forcing the media to cover all of these problems and more importantly it’s forcing the politicians to answer TO THE PEOPLE!!!
I definitely question your final paragraph
@@crickkett7510As is your right. Just expressing my opinions.
@@Jason_The_ManI do appreciate them. I’ve lived in SoCal all but the last couple years of my life. Have been thru my share of Santa Ana Winds, wildfires and earthquakes, etc. As a result and early on, I learned to take precautionary measures and always stayed prepared in my home, auto etc. I do not wait for something to happen in order to be prepared.
@ Same here. I’m hoping others finally learn this lesson, but we both know, too many won’t.
There will always be sheep, there will always be wolves. Though I may shake my head at the sheep and not understand them, I’m still a sheepdog and will still try to protect them. Sometimes, they need to be protected from themselves.
Yes let's put in Republicans who will let corporations loot our environment and cause these situations to happen even more frequently. You people on the right have no brain, they love the poorly educated
I knew LA would get over run with donation centers, because I’ve seen it happen before. What we need is a reputable company that will take donations of gift card and money and start so that things like permanent housing, replacing phones and other items that aren’t being donated can be replaced quickly. FEMA of course will come in but let figure out how to do the rest.
Evan I love your show and the history of LA. I was born in Compton when it was the closest Kaiser hospital to the South Bay. Although I grew up in Huntington Beach my family lived in the South Bay and after college I moved back. Although I recently moved, I want answers. I’m sorry but when you have a wind advisory for your city and it’s fire season you don’t go to Africa. You call the President and say, thank you very much for the opportunity but my city needs me. When the head of the Fire Department send the mayor reports for the past three years that says, we are under staffed and a budget is cut $17 million. I want to know why YESTERDAY! I want to hear that mayor say, I made a mistake. I might have had impressed by Bass is leadership if she’d done any of those things. BUT in my opinion both Bass and Newsom are only blaming others and trying to save their political careers.
FYI I do appreciate you bring to light some of the issues like the reservoir, but if it sat empty since last February because it needed repair work and it’s taken almost a year then that’s an issue that needs fixing ASAP! I’m concerned about other fire areas and our over all water supply in Southern California.
I hope everyone remembers how Rick Caruso conducted himself. He was blaming all over the airwaves on the 7th.
Great piece, Evan please keep the torch of constructive dialogue burning, as there will be many challenges to come; insurance companies, developers, scammers, politics etc. this is only the start of the issues for those effected, we need people like you to keep people focused on the rebuilding and recovery. YES we need politics to make sure something like this doesn’t happen again, but the rebuilding efforts need to be constructive and focused.
Just to clarify, there was no budget cut. The previous year the FDLA needed a special resolution to appropriate additional funding over the $800 million budget to buy new breathing equipment, this was a one time purchase and so the money spent was $830+ million. The next year there budget was actually increased, BUT below what was previously spent because of the ONE TIME PURCHASE. This was not a budget cut, but a reduction in expected budget and the actual appropriation was higher than the year before. This has confused a lot of people and it continues to get repeated incorrectly, unfortunately.
$1.3 billion for the homeless - while fire trucks sat waiting for repair - the Fire Chief and others saying they are not equipped to handle the needs of the city - this is ta failure on the leadership of teh city
The most positive guy on the planet!
Love that sweater. The offical name of LA. A town founded by a mix group of people .
Wether you like it or not. Just the mere displacement of these two large communities like Palisades and Altadena will in itself change the fabric of Los Angeles.
I completely agree that we shouldn't blame our leaders like Mayor Bass or the city council or the board of supervisors because afterall they don't elect themselves to those positions, we do that for them so at the end of the day we have no one to blame but us the voters and right now we're getting exactly what we voted for
“Hard Times Create Strong Men, Strong Men Create Good Times, Good Times Create Weak Men, Weak Men Create Hard Times”.
Everyone has their place, but
now is not the time for weak people. Los Angeles needs strong people right now.
This is the dumbest shit I've ever read. That's fortune cookie wisdom perpetuated by authoritarian regimes
Class act! Couldnt say it better.
Can you do a piece on the Theosophical Society that we lost? Keep doing what you're doing. Proud LA native. Family arrived here January 1st 1901.
That WAS meaningful man. Well done brother
I don't know how one too many of you missed the whole point of this podcast episode. Perhaps Larry Elder would be better for you.
The reality is there are 10,000 other places in California that are vulnerable to the same situation.
Hello 👋🤗
Who do we trust to move forward, help the people, and rebuild? Do we trust the woman who knew these dangerous winds were coming to her city and flew off to Africa, or do we trust the guy who had the foresight to have water trucks ready to save a shopping center on the Palisades?
You may want to remove your lips off of Caruso's backside...unless that's your kink.
You can’t fix a problem without first identifying the cause of the problem. Putting the same faulty wiring into a new structure that caused the fire is mental. Rebuilding and helping others to heal is excellent. But you don’t honor their loss and pain by setting things back without first correcting the cause.
About time someone with some sense we want to stop the deaths
What a lame episode. Normally love this channel, but this was pathetic. It was a flat out fallacy and appeal to authority. It's very, very clear the mayor is incompetent. Quick making excuses for her.
U should Do a Video
on DOMINGUEZ CALIFORNIA real history that started everything in LA
Bro I know you gotta think about your show, and not attack the terrible leadership because you are thinking of the future access to these departments for your historical shows, but you gotta point out the terrible leadership, you can't move forward if you can't learn from the previous mistakes, bass, newsom's terrible leadership, terrible woke takes, terrible money mismanagement, is our current mistakes and to learn from them we have to fix it now! So I understand you don't wanna call them out cause of the type of channel you have where you can potentially burn bridges with these departments,these politicians, etc, but they made these fires worse, they could have prevented less damage... firefighters, first responders are doing a hell of a job. This not on them.