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The Mayor of Town That Always Catches On Fire (media.kbin.earth)
submitted 18 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://kbin.earth/m/[email protected]/t/818591

town that always catches on fire rule

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Ignore the other guy. It's true. The fire chief pointed out several infrastructure deficiencies, meanwhile the Mayor cut the fire budget by over $17 million and raised the police budget.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

Yep, see -

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-wildfires-los-angeles-fire-chief-budget-cuts/ (archived at https://archive.is/a4IxG)

https://theintercept.com/2025/01/08/la-police-budget-palisades-fires/ (archived at https://archive.is/a4IxG)

e; also, this -

... the budget picture is far from rosy. Chief Kristin M. Crowley of the Los Angeles Fire Department wrote a memo to the fire commission last month saying the overtime cut was creating “unprecedented operational challenges” — both in fulfilling everyday tasks like payroll processing and long-term planning for major emergencies like big wildfires or earthquakes.

She wrote that specialized programs, including air operations and disaster response, relied on staff working overtime hours and were at risk of becoming less effective. She added that the loss of civilian positions was also squeezing firefighters who had to backfill some of those responsibilities.

In November, Chief Crowley wrote a separate memo to the commission focusing on the bigger picture: a fire department that has not changed much in size since the 1960s despite the city’s population surging by more than a million people since then.

She wrote that the call volume rose by a factor of five between 1969 and 2023, but that the department had not been given the staffing and new fire stations it needs to respond effectively, and that response times were steadily increasing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/us/la-fire-department-budget-bass.html (archived at https://archive.is/xBCxj)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

People are using the same NYT article to support both sides of this argument.

I'm not an NYT subscriber. What's the deal here?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

When the two sides did reach an agreement in November, that money was moved over to the fire department’s pot, according to Mr. Blumenfield’s office, meaning this year’s fire budget is actually $53 million more than last year.

Weird way to cut a budget

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

How long was it before the budget got reallocated? And how much had this been going on before?

It sounds like a big part of the issue is that they haven't been able to do mitigation - controlled burns, etc. If the budget has been slashed for a long time, suddenly dumping some cash in later is going to have a limited effect.