Firefighters kept from front lines due to unserviced LAFD vehicles
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- Firefighters who reported to assist during the devastating Palisades and Eaton fires were kept from helping on the front lines due to dozens of unserviced vehicles, an official told KTLA Thursday.
Annie Rose Ramos reports for the KTLA 5 Morning News on Feb. 6, 2025.
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Drive past this lot all the time... City has funds for political B.S. but not for public safety!
It's the Diddycrat DEI way!
Time to resign - for a few folks.
We have money going to illegal immigrants, but we don't have money to fund our firetrucks.
It’s called corruption son. Government is corrupted just in case you haven’t noticed.
But its true @Frank_Saug
Insane take, but you're a good little parrot 🦜
@Frank_Saug Learn the difference between facts nad "hate" and let us know when and if you graduate preschool.
@kyledavis5646 insane take, but you're a good little rabbi.
One of our lazy diesel mechanic went to work for LAFD as a mechanic & I’m not surprised these trucks are not in service.
You got a name?
DEI evidence for court…..😏🇺🇸
@@ItwitchynessI wouldn’t disgrace him like that but he works where this report is at just wait outside and see the mechanics come in he will be the prettiest cleanest looking one and wait til they leave he will be cleaner looking when he leaves doesn’t like to get grease on him and he’s a mechanic and when he left my work they were happy he left.
@@saythankyou111 he’s more than DEI
@@jason62696 I don't think they disgraced him, they didn't use his name or the name of their business.
AND FYI OUR FIRE FIGHTERS ARE LIVING IN BLK MOLD AND HORRID CONDITIONS.
Thanks Diddycrats!
@alive28697 exactly what they are
Asbestos too. Many stations are very old and haven't been properly modernized.
Prove it
@TheIroczcamaro after u unlike your own comment you can prove it to yourself.
My husb worked for our so cal city shop. All the shop mechanics are gone, everything is contracted out to random person. The guys were absolutely dedicated and efficient, I dont see this working out here.
all of a sudden KTLA feels like telling the truth?
But all the fire trucks in the city are useless without water in the fire hydrants.
@@DanCurran-n7tand when the hydrants keep getting stolen.
People are actually stealing fire hydrants!
@@HeadNtheCloudsblmAntifa is
I thought KTLA (like most small stations) was always one of the better ones. I think the trouble makers are the bigger stations.
That Ghana trip really hurt the City didn't it. Follow the paper trail....
WTF is a CITY mayor doing in Africa? We have a FEDRAL Government Department called the State Department who’s purpose is to manage America’s relations Foreign Nations.
Raising taxes and relentless bond issuance is not the only answer; often it’s just a matter of spending priorities. When I didn’t make enough one year, it’s the National Parks or camping instead of Disney World. Defunding law enforcement and not properly funding fire fighters are basic services government is primarily responsible for. Everything else is a luxury.
It's not all about govmnt servants
No water, trucks and equipment sitting needing service. No wonder everything burned up. Poor leadership. Need I say more?
Yes. Not just poor leadership, gay leadership.
@@alive28697There is nothing wrong with that, at least as long as it was a merit based hire.
@mrtopcat2 oh there's plenty wrong with that especially when they are embezzling money to promote gay institutions instead of giving it to the underfunded fire fighters who lacked the resources to properly do their jobs!
CALFIRE also has hundreds of seasonal firefighters who have still not been asked to return to work. Firefighters called in willing to be activated for the fires and were told to STAY HOME
Karen Bass cut the funding!! Karen Bass is a BAD JOKE!! FIRE HER !!
Instead of getting rid of Bass, Trump sat at the table with Bass like they were equals. Disgusting and unacceptable.
Unfortunately that’s not how that works
@@alive28697 Trump called out Bass for her BS. What were you watching smh
LoL so what? I've called out Bass numerous times and guess what? Bass is still mayor. Did Trump have Bass arrested? No? Then what he did is not good enough!
Recall Newsom and Bass
Trump could have had them sent to Gitmo by now but apparently he has other priorities. . .
Where is our money going? How is our tax dollars being spent? This city is so mismanaged. This is what happens when you elect a physician's assistant / professional social worker to run a major city.
Our tax money is being spent to buy expensive banquets and bling for the oh so "precious LGBT community" and to make Diddycrat politicians richer. Apparently that's more "important" than saving homes and lives...
😯😯😂
Checks and balances and a MASSIVE payroll, perks, spiffs, entitlements, PTO, sick days, grievance days and vacation time AUDIT. Oh and a deep deep deep audit on the vehicles owned by tax rate payers. Are the vehicles being used for personal use and are the vehicles driven to personal residence etc.
All Of our tax money going to Gavin newsom
So he can purchase his recent 9 million dollar home. Pure and simple!
@michaels908 agreed 💯
Yep and his gay comrades Bass, Crowley, and kris Larsen
The LAFD Union also is a problem here..WTF people where did the money go? how much is the budget for the maintenance dept..? And the one in charge of the dept. should have never let it get this bad..!!! you have to fight for your money to keep your dept running smoothly. Everyone is at fault, the Mayor, Fire Chief, LAFD Union Leaders and Newscum. The entire country saw this failure.
Richard Riordan consolidated the shops to General Services in the late 90's. The LAFD lost control of their shops ever since. It's been a problem. A lot of the mechanics transfer to DWP, LAWA, Port of Los Angeles because they pay more. The LAFD Shops are low tier salary in comparison. The ones left do it out of pride and the love for the Department. They are hard workers creating miracles every day. We wouldn't have a fire department if it wasn't for them. But the LAFD needs better funding. Also, the fire apparatus are not built like they used to be. Sensors, mandated electronics, emissions systems, and frankly less than stellar build quality from the manufacturers contribute to this. The rigs are now hovering north of a million dollars a piece, and sometimes show up from the manufacturer already broken. And have to be sent back, or to their 3rd party dealer here in Southern California. Ambulances are above 100k. And there's the supply chain issue for parts. Pierce Manufacturing in Wisconsin has a two to four year back log for building fire apparatus for fire departments nationwide. Other manufacturers have either limited their production or gone out of business. Other busy fire departments are also having this issue with build quality. Chicago's fleet is a mess. FDNY's boneyard is comparable to ours. They also have to deal with salt corrosion. A concept that is foreign to us. The LAFD runs nearly 2000 calls a day running these rigs into the ground. Engine 57 for example is located in the heart of South Central Los Angeles. They have three ambulances assigned because they are that busy. E-57 alone can run up to 27-30 calls in a 24 hour shift. That's EMS, Rubbish Fires, Structure fires, and other responses. This issue is not something that is new. It's been going on for decades.
They can fund it, it's called prioritizing
This acts as an smokescreen for actually fighting the fires. Do better ktla
They are covering this, give them a break.
This is such BS.. look everybody what we're going to do.. we are learning we are this we are that.. we are way past all that... In the history of emergency response we are only learning now.. totally disastrous and incompetent.. heads need to roll.. we don't need to hear promises of what's going to happen.
The matter of fact is it did not happen..
Newsom and Smelt... oops, I mean Bass
Hilarious the 'President" of United Firefighters of LAFD says quote, "well I don't know exactly.,,." There should be a serious in depth salary audit on the fire science industry. When they say there is a budget shortfall when Los Angeles top firefighter in 2023 made base pay of $177K PLUS a whopping $614K additional in overtime PLUS a $30K in other perks, bonus etc. Incredibly insane. The arrogance and the hero card with firefighters is insanely and crazily out of control.
Bull Crap! They knew exactly what they were doing😮...
Come on government, fire department funding for these type of things should be first. Come on rich people in LA, pony up some resources to fix these. Beyoncé and Jay Z themselves could pay for this in a second. How about an LA Firetruck go fund me?
such a competent government in LA
Why can’t we take care of the problem, before it becomes the problem do fire breaks, do fire, control, brush clearance. I’m not a smart person, but I know you need fuel for a fire. Maybe we should clear the fuel first. That would help those firefighters that worked so hard to try to save homes and lives. Those heroes need our help. Why can’t we give it to them?
im in arkansas. we have billions of dollars in funding. we just cant find a mechanic cause MSM and parents for 60 years been telling people go to college and dont be a mechanic if you want a living wage. we are paying mechanics $150 an hour too! now the 1 we had which was illegal got deported!
Yet, we've ALL paid and are STILL PAYING for them Fire Dept. If you're one of those paying the Annual Property Taxes, good portion of it is going towards LAFD. Sure, people say "THANK YOU FIRE FIGHTERS" but we're paying them. Ironic how we have to THANK them for what they're getting paid to do.
I bet that you are the type of person to not thank someone for opening the door for you.
Bass and Newsom and the whole city council. Please resign.
We deserve better.
Sure, next year, but you sure as heck.Have the money for lawyer for legal immigrants.
maybe they don't identify as fire fighting vehicles?
4:26 $58 million cut from the FD budget.... while Bass allocated $6.5 million to pubic art and poetry readings, $9 million for solar powered trash cans, $17.6 million DEI training and $650 million for making the Port of Los Angeles going Green. The LAFD is some 40+ stations short of the required staffing needed to adequately cover the city. They are severely under funded, under staffed, overworked... all which leads to maintenance, training and preparedness issues. Then you throw in an inadequate water supply, reservoirs and distribution systems into the mix... and all run by incompetent DEI hires operating at their highest levels of Incompetence. It's a Disaster that was created in house and the perpetrators of it, do not have the capacity to solve it !
Notice how NBC, ABC, etc… do NOT make this front page news every day?
Get rid of money. Start using brains. Right now it’s money over brains.
All fires start small and anything that’s wet can’t burn. The fire equipment that sits out of service at the fleet maintenance yard in LA is supposed to serve as the reserve fleet to be staffed by off duty firefighters on emergency recall alert during natural or manmade disasters like the LA fires. These Out of Service (O.O.S.) fire engines could have been strategically parked in locations like the Pacific Palisades while they were under Red Flag Fire Advisory and staffed with off duty firefighters on Emergency Recall. Gavin Newsome funds homelessness programs to the tune of $30 Billion but didn’t put $1 dollar towards ensuring adequate fire protection was in place on January 7th 2025 to prevent the largest homelessness crisis in a single day in U.S. History!
Chief Hughes
Battalion 1 (retired)
Chicago FD
I want to know if station 112 dispatched the fire boats to the pch houses.
@@accuratebrickinnovations what good would the fire boat do? The poor firefighters needed to be in position before the embers from the initial fire hit the first address. I say poor firefighters because they were poorly trained and underfunded and understaffed to fight this fire LONG BEFORE the January 7th fire struck. This should have never, ever happened. It happened in Chicago in 1871 when the Great Chicago Fire occurred. California just never learned the lesson that we learned over 150 years ago. BUILD YOUR HOMES OUT OF BRICK FOR CRISS SAKES!!
This is Gavin Newscrum California and he is still trying to be President of these 50 states!This man has destroyed California!Why is he flying back to Washington?To survive this mess we need Gavin Newscrum out of office and a business minded person who can run California!
Was is this her first time. The council should be out there looking at stuff everyday.
They can only find the bank to cash their paycheck.
Everything else is unexplored territory.
And the mayor hasn’t been recalled yet. And the city council and residents voted for this.
But CA has money for illegals and 50 million to "Trump" proof CA and 106 billion for a train to nowhere. Seems like CA needs to be audited as well.
The budget for homeless is higher than fire dept
Every time a public agency performs poorly ( or fails to preform) it is because of insufficient funding when in fact the root cause is poor management. Poor funding comes from poor presentation of the need for funds, a management responsibility..
Thats a part of the problem. That is shameful. Money was kept away. Terrible mis-management at the high level of officials.
Id like you to also report how many were fired for not taking the clot shot
First, most blame goes to LAPD and their bloated budget of $8.76million per day. Worst yet is LAPD's horrific ability to police the city in any manner that benefits the citizens. Zero traffic control while the cops roll around un their shiny new SUVs.
There was no water for them to use. As for repairs, find me a large city in America that doesn't have a lot full of things in need of repair.
There was plenty of water, The issue was zero water PRESSURE because of the demand on the system.
So it had nothing to do with Diddycrats Bass and Newsom embezzling taxpayer money? Derp
@@alive28697 California had always had major wildfires even under Republican Governors, Look up the 2007 California Firestorm and tell me who was Governor of California and what party he belonged to.
I bet we have ex-military diesel mechanics who could use a nice job that can probably clear that place out.
Nobody wants to live in LA !! Who could afford to anyway !
Could have repaired or replaced the whole fleet with the wasted money @ USAID with plenty left over for the fire victims in CA and flood victims in NC.
Say no to all bond measures.
California has more out of service engines
than Baltimore City has in service
Something that I don't understand... This is all standard maintenance, which should already be budgeted for - why is it not?
That line of new dodge 3500 s ...... only 250k each lol.
The sad thing is it's not just
Los Angeles Tacoma Detroit and other Democratic
Liberal cities throughout the United States are having the same issues with their police department and their fire departments putting citizens at risk because of bad leadership
It's only a matter of time before another huge catastrophic disaster happens like what happened in Los Angeles
It's not a matter of if
it's a matter of when and where when and where it does happens will determine the outcome good or bad
No point getting all these trucks back in service when thieves are stealing the fire hydrants, so nothing to worry about here.
To make this fair for the LAFD the story should include how many units the County Fire units are waiting for repairs. What is the number of units in Chicago or New York. He did identify another problem do those vehicle have the equipment. What about the funding that the city council from the fire department.
i got banned for saying die hire on this video
All the non-profit organzations in LA also had many of their Mercedes S580s out of service as well. The horror. $25B to homeless. $32B to EDD. Money just going into the money hole.
At 3:40, a June 2026 bond measure? While you are dumping millions upon millions for homeless druggies & Illegal aliens? Your priorities should be on the safety and wellbeing of the hard-working legal civilians in your district. Or do they not matter?
The answer's always the same, we need more money.
We would have much more than enough money if Diddycrats didn't horde it for themselves
You could have dozens of fire trucks and hundreds more firefighters, but it doesn't mean anything without water.
More taxes, aka bond measure, to pay for stuff. How about cancelling the $10 billion a year high speed rail to nowhere instead? Get these clowns out of office we are already paying to much taxes and interest on top of taxes due to fraud, waste and abuse. These people need to be sent to jail. Bass cut the fire fighting budget to spend on trips to Guana and DEI. Not to mention high speed rail. They can allow online gambling in the super bowl with draft kings and use the revenue for that to pay for fire fighting equipment and fire fighters.
This the Mayor and Governor y’all voted for ? Can’t believe Cali doesn’t wake up
Fire engines without water….how is that possible !
We need truly selfless people running our beautiful state of CA. Something happens to people when they get power and see what THEY can have because of it. It's so sad. I would literally love to run this place, but I don't have the education to do so. I was a second grade teacher. My husband says, "I'll elect any second grade teacher to office, " but we're too smart for that! ha ha ha. I love my California. Please help us. Please spend the THOUSANDS of dollars our household pays in just vehicle registration on THE ROADS!!! There are so many things WRONG with California, but I'm not leaving. I have hope...don't know why. It's not great right now.
Where's the criminal investigation? People died because of this negligence.
That’s what happens when you cut support staff and maintenance budgets
You had no Volume?????? 3:08
DEI at work!
Well....the good news is the bullet train is still on schedule unaffected by fires.
Its now called the anti trump railroad.
Bet the fire trucks in Ghana are working well. Surprised Mayor Bass did not donate 3 new LAFD rigs to Ghana.
Wait were they completely out of commission They couldn't even have them working in like 50% capacity or something?
A bond doesn’t solve yearly issues, it will provide a quick bump and then it’ll just decay without adequate funding.
But there was not enough water!!!
It was poor water PRESSURE.
@Monrovia1 No water pressure and no water due to Diddycrat embezzlement.
@@Monrovia1Bass took MILLIONS of dollars away from fire fighters THATS the problem
The funds saved by not servicing. These fire engines were enough to send LA Mayor Karen Bass to Ghana. Money well spent!
CA's misplaced political priorities have failed to serve the people of this state.
Dei 😅
Scam
Look at all the complaints ITS YOUR FAULT YOU VOTED DEMOCRAT
Even if the trucks were in service they still had no water to hook up to…
We have funds for DEI bs and for other stupid programs but not for the fire department. That is why DOGE need to investigate everyone in the government
Ask Ukraine for a loan 😁
Or Israel
Not like they’ll give it to us
There was no water, how would it make a difference?
Its like sending more guns without bullets.....
who will take the blame?
Thank god we spent 50 million to trump proof California
I would like to see some videos of the LAFD fireboats attempting to stop the fires along the coastal highway. Or maybe... the fireboats were never deployed? ...as a result of... mismanagement?!
Mismanagement of resources and money.
That's all ? I was expecting the entire lot to be filled
Shame on KTLA trying to keep up drama
Newson and Bass want to build LA 2.0 but have failed at the basic responsibilities of government.
The usual poor management of basic services.
It happens even in the California Red areas.
Big politician salaries, and ZERO results.
OK, so let me get this right. The firetrucks that were already there didn’t have water. I don’t know maybe these firetrucks are gonna bring water or come up with a new place to get water from that’s one thing and I’m looking at this video and I passed that place back in 2011 it looks like the same amount of fire trucks. From back, then I’ve never went by there and seen it empty. I think mother nature is a DEI employee
Seems like if we would have took things in our own hands probably would have done better than the city fire department whoever else you want to put in this predicament
LAFD and The City of Los Angeles need to contract with repairs garages in order to repair their engines and ambulances, until the city has the ability to hired experienced mechanics to repair their own engines!
not tall not white not straight not male mechanic
Doge needs to do an audit of califonia
Well, maybe if they didn't do the campaign to go against measure HLA [because they were worried that more bus lanes = longer response times, when they could use bus lanes as a way to reach to an emergency sooner), then I would be sympathetic towards LAFD. Oh, well.
The FF union is at fault also, they are in bed with the city management and lookout for themselves only. Another rebound measure just is a tax
mayor bass ain't going to like this...
California is the highest tax were is all the money going
I’m a student who just finished auto motive I’ve been applying to so many places small and big mechanic shops but all say there taken I’ve tried to get hired by the city to help repair city cars and still say no yet there’s a grave yard with trucks that can be serviced and get running
I just heard the news. President Trump to give California to Elon as a bonus!!!!
He'll decline, he's not stupid.
Graded a D
Democrats Doubling Down on Dumb
Are they hiring I could fix these trucks
Yeah city corruption for sure my city of norwalk been working on a park for years.😮