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🗓️ 8 January 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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As wildfires wreak havoc on areas of Los Angeles, people are asking questions: Why isn’t there enough water for the fire hydrants? Why did the new mayor cut the firefighting budget? Why was the mayor in Africa when the fire broke out? Why has the fire department and its leadership seemingly focused on diversity and inclusion at the expense of preparedness? This is a complete failure of the state’s leadership and people should be held accountable.
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0:30.1 | Okay, guys, has it been a crazy time living in Los Angeles? I'm talking to you now from L.A. |
0:35.4 | where all these fires are taking place in Eaton, Silmar, the Pacific Palisades. |
0:40.8 | It's been absolutely insane. Thank you all for checking in on me, by the way. I'm doing fine. |
0:45.4 | I'm about, like, what, six miles away from the fires that are taking place in the Palisades. |
0:50.5 | And the worst we're dealing with here is just a lot of smoke and bad air quality in the air right now. |
0:57.0 | It's been an unfortunate time, of course, for everybody who is dealing with this right now in Southern California in Los Angeles. |
1:04.0 | We're going to show you some footage of the fires themselves. |
1:07.0 | This first video is nuts. Okay? It's from a plane that's getting a view of everything that's happening on the ground. Take a look here. |
1:14.6 | Yeah, I was going to be flying right over that thing. |
1:24.6 | Wow. The whole entire hills are on fire. |
1:33.3 | Holy shit. |
1:35.3 | Oh, my God. |
1:37.3 | I got to be honest, I didn't know how bad this was actually going to be. |
1:44.6 | I woke up yesterday and I went outside with my dogs and I was like, whoa, this feels like a pretty windy day. |
1:49.5 | But I'm from Florida where we're dealing with hurricane season and crazy, you know, storm force winds all the time. |
1:55.1 | So I didn't really think that much of it. |
1:57.2 | I forgot to remind myself that I'm living somewhere where when you get wins like this, |
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