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⭕Grosse mobilisation antifasciste à #Erfurt, en #Allemagne, contre le congrès de #l’AFD
🎥@perspektiveon.bsky.social -
Ouch, engine tried to avoid hitting someone who wandered out into its lane after the truck passed.
ABC7: New video shows moments before LAFD fire truck crashed, overturned in Sunland
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Shore power was turned off. All LAFD and LAPD personnel are off of the vessel. "We are ready to cast off." There will be water kept on the stricken container ship.
They will move it into the basin, where they will turn it around, then move it to where they intend to anchor it. After that, it's rotating teams from LAFD and Long Beach dealing with a still-burning vessel.
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LAFD is preparing to move the burning container ship. Or, as they put it, "get that thing out of here." In about 20 minutes they should be underway. The guy who was there to shut the power is on the bridge (with an escort and wearing a respirator - "We don't want anybody breathing that stuff).
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They are going to escort the burning container ship out of port with tugs.
"It should be a lengthy operation."
There are a LOT of containers on that ship, and 75-100 are destroyed or damaged already. The fire department tried, but failed, to get it under control.
I think I win the pool for whether or not it has lithium-ion batteries onboard.
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It sounds like the container vessel will be "put out to sea." The fleet will move it. There are several operations going on. I think that was what they said.
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The captain is estimating 75-100 containers involved in the fire, or damaged, on the container ship that caught fire in its hold.
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CPH Daily Bulletin 10/27/2025
‘It’s still smoldering.’ A hiker’s video of #PalisadesFire raises questions about state’s responsibility
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CPH Daily Bulletin 10/24/2025
#LAFD union president accuses Mayor Bass of ‘retaliation’ in wake of firestorm, files claim
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Palisades Fire After Action Report (AAR). https://lafd.org/sites/default/files/pdf_files/Palisades%20AARR%2010.08.2025%20%28final%29_0.pdf
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CPH Daily Bulletin 10/10/2025
#LAFD thought the Jan. 1 #PalisadesFire was out. It didn’t use thermal imaging to confirm
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CPH Daily Bulletin 10/9/2025
Could #LAFD have done more to prevent rekindling of #PalisadesFire?
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-08/lafd-timeline
House Republicans launch investigation into distribution of L.A. fire charity funds
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Palisades Fire: LAFD’s Internal “After-Action Review Report” Released To Public
#News #LAWildfires #LAFD #PalisadesFirehttps://deadline.com/2025/10/palisades-fire-lafd-internal-report-released-1236574086/
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KTLA: Battalion chief’s truck struck while responding to ambulance crash in Reseda
"...Two Los Angeles Fire Department vehicles were involved in back-to-back crashes at the same Reseda intersection Wednesday morning – first an ambulance carrying a patient, then a battalion chief’s truck responding to that collision, officials said...."
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LA Fire Department stands with protesters.
#Protests #GangsterGovernment #MigrantRights #HumanRights #ConstitutionalViolations #Trump #Fascism #USA #LAFD #StandWithThePeople
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Ex-Skydance Executive Pleads Guilty To “Recklessly” Operating Drone That Crashed Into Super Scooper During L.A. Wildfires – Update
#Legal #News #DavidEllison #DOJ #LALocal #LAWildfires #LAFD #Skydancehttps://deadline.com/2025/02/drone-crash-wildfires-guilty-plea-1236274899/
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Ex-Skydance Executive Escapes Prison After Admitting To “Recklessly” Operating Drone That Crashed Into Super Scooper, Endangered LA Wildfire Fighters
#Legal #News #DavidEllison #DOJ #LALocal #LAWildfires #LAFD #Skydancehttps://deadline.com/2025/01/drone-crash-wildfires-guilty-plea-1236274899/
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"Why couldn’t the LAFD keep its equipment in working order? A lot of people blame budget cuts, but there’s another root issue - increasing prices and metastasizing production delays for these vehicles. The cost of fire trucks has skyrocketed in recent years––going from around $300 -500,000 for a pumper truck and $750-900,000 for a ladder truck in the mid-2010s, to around $1 million for a pumper truck and $2 million for a ladder truck in the last couple years. Meanwhile, the time it takes to get a fire truck delivered has grown dramatically, from less than a year before the pandemic to anywhere between 2 and 4.5 years today. (It’s not just trucks, all fire equipment is increasing quickly in price, from air supply packs to maintenance contracts.)
The skyrocketing prices and longer delivery times have made it difficult for the LAFD to replace aging vehicles in its fleet, many of which have exceeded their service life. As the LAFD’s vehicles have gotten older, they’ve become prone to more frequent and serious breakdowns, leading to more costly repairs and prolonged downtime. And as the rising cost of fire-truck maintenance and replacement has squeezed the department’s budget, it has had fewer resources for recruiting and retaining firefighters. Against this backdrop, the LAFD wound up having to face some of the worst fires LA has seen in a century while both understaffed and under-equipped.
What I’ll show you in this piece is that the increasing price is a result of a private equity firm, American Industrial Partners, consolidating the fire truck industry and forcing up prices across the board. For decades before the 2010s, the fire apparatus industry was characterized by relatively stable (inflation-adjusted) prices and ample production capacity."
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/did-a-private-equity-fire-truck-roll
#USA #LA #LosAngeles #Wildfires #California #PrivateEquity #LAFD
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LAFD: Grass Fire. 3 acres of light brush burning on a steep slope east of the 405, now contained. Firefighters remain on scene to perform mop up. https://lafd.org/alert/grass-fire-contained-01202025-inc1181 #GrassFire #Rinaldi #LAFD
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LAFD: Red Flag Parking Restrictions NOW IN EFFECT; 08:00AM;Red Flag Parking Restrictions NOW IN EFFECT until further notice. It is important that fire apparatus have room to respond quickly to a fast-moving brush fire while simultaneously allowing residents to evacuate, if necessary. https://lafd.org/alert/red-flag-parking-restrictions-now-effect-01202025 #CAwx #LAFD #wildfires #FireWx
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Our firefighters are genuinely amazing.
#LAFD & probably every firefighter in the world has 49% containment of the most destructive fire in the history of the City of #LosAngeles. #gratitude
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#LAFD crews today are attempting to prevent #fire from crossing the 405 fwy amidst heightened winds. Concerns are that brisk winds will help blaze jump and reach upscale and densely populated #Brentwood, home to the #GettyCenter and mansions of numerous celebs ranging from sportscaster Al Michaels to Lakers star LeBron James, actor Harrison Ford and music star Fergie.
Celebrity denizens of LA area who already lost homes in week of uncontrolled blazes include Adam Brody, Paris Hilton, Leighton Meester, Anthony Hopkins and Mel Gibson.
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L.A. Wildfires: ABC7’s Dallas Raines On How We Got Here, What’s Coming Next, & What We Can Do For Each Other To Help Stop It Next Time
#News #ABC #Interview #LALocal #LAWildfires #LAFDhttps://deadline.com/2025/01/dallas-raines-fires-interview-1236255863/
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I smell a rat somewhere! 🤨 😠
The #farright uses people's inculcated 'biases'; LYING abt local/state govt officials bc of identity/identities.
IMO, I'd urge everyone to be on the watch for #corporatemedia idiots who pseudolib-wash far right narratives and dogwhistle bigoted bullshit.
A mayor giving $$ to pigs 🐷 🐷 :acab: & cutting money to the #LAFD is a bad decision. There are many knobhead politicians from all identities all over the world who chummy-up to pigs 🐷.
Also #fossilfuel, #climatechange #capitalism collectively play a role (see #DemocracyNow last week about LA fires).
So many knobs to choose from but here's one: #Partygate during the #COVID crisis. Last I checked, #BoorishJohnson was not from a marginalised group.
So, the 'rat' , to me, is the #rightwing/#extremeright repeating their bigotry over and over, hoping to have an effect on the psyche of the public which they hope result in support for #racist #sexist & #antiLGBTQIAplus far right policies, laws, etc.
It's the right who kvetched abt taxes, immigrants & being 'replaced', 'welfare queens', etc. which brainwashed voters (of various backgrounds).
#LosAngeles #California #KarenBass #LAFD #FarRightNarratives #corporatemedia
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I read an interesting story from Dropsite that I'm not going to link because it's on Substack. But it was a deeper dive into the LA Fire Dept budgeting over the last few years.
I'll just say that decisions were made that look pretty stupid today in light of the destruction of entire sections of the city.
But what strikes me is the difference between the discussions of fire dept budgets vs police dept budgets.
We have a priorities problem in the USA.
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I'm impressed with Jeff Nguyen's responsible reporting here. He was given a terrible speculative question and handled it like a pro.
A little background, he was reporting on the status of fire fighting equipment maintenance in Los Angeles. It was stemming from the LA Fire Chief saying to the media that deferred maintenance was harming and had harmed readiness. Afterwards, the mayor and chief weren't subsequently seen at the most recent scheduled conference.
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REPORT: #LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley was called into a meeting with LA Mayor Karen Bass expecting to be fired but ended up not being fired, according to new reports.
Total sh*t show.
According to CNN, Crowley still has a job.
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BREAKING: LA Mayor #KarenBass has fired #LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley just hours after Crowley said city leadership “failed” the fire department.
https://x.com/collinrugg/status/1877900492992651300?s=46
(Ed : Oy a serious #ClimateChange related day of reckoning coming for Mayor Bass #LA fires 🔥)
