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LA is on fire and it looks apocalyptic like literally some of the videos that you guys

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will see being posted online they almost look like a like an end of the world kind of film

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all right dude yeah let's get out of here

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let's get out of here

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protect this neighborhood god in jesus name i pray amen multiple people have been reported dead

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already and the fires have actually spread over a huge area in multiple places in l.a county so

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places like palisades malibu all the way to pasadena hollywood uh and even studio city

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that's a huge area in case again if you don't realize just how big that is see the streets that

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are affected here but it is burned all the way to the shoreline uh all the way down to pch and there

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you see the shoreline there but it is just uh our first time looking at this the smoke is cleared and

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we're getting our first look from above now there are rumors and even some videos being posted online

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that kind of paint a different story of just how these fires have been started so don't be fooled

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this is not just climate change many of the problems are actually man-made whether it's neglect or just

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bad policies in some areas it even looks like the fires that were started on purpose people are lighting

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fires now we can see that lit a fire these guys the trees caught fire and then the palms are catching fire

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so uh fire department's been dispatched we don't have enough water to put this thing out

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this is a random one this is where are we even like what the hell oh that's that's on purpose that

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has to be on purpose for sure all the homeless people on their encampments in l.a that have open

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fires definitely are not helping the situation if you've never been to l.a uh l.a has a huge problem

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with homelessness and that's actually one of the reasons why i despite the fact that a lot of my

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work is in l.a i just never actually wanted to live there over the last 20 years the city has been

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getting dirtier and also more dangerous because of all the homelessness problems i don't think this is

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a global warming issue or climate change whatever you want to call it because california has actually

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gotten record rainfalls in the last few months there's even been some flooding last year but because the

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state doesn't actually manage their water well they don't have any new water reservoirs or they

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haven't even been updating the reservoirs that they have what that just basically means is that when

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all that rain comes down pretty much all of that water right away just flows down into the ocean and

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it's gone now one of the natural you could say causes or issues that add to the problem are definitely

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these winds that l.a has been experiencing over the last few days some of it has been clocked at almost 100

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miles an hour and that of course helps fuel the fires and also helps spread it now if you've ever

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lived in l.a then you'll know that the city is overall dry and definitely has some issues with wildfires

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every year and so you would think because of that the city would put you know firefighting as one of

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their top priorities well apparently not at least not all the city officials think that way for example

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the mayor of l.a uh karen bass has actually been criticized lately because she decided to slash the

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l.a fire department budget by over 17 million dollars not only that but she's been out of the city

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pretty much most of the time and she's actually been out of the country while these fires started

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and she just yesterday finally made it back into the city and had this to say to the reporters

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do you owe citizens an apology for being absent while their homes were burning

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do you regret cutting the fire department budget by millions of dollars madam mayor

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have you nothing to say today

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have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today

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Elon musk says that you're utterly incompetent are you considering your position

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madam mayor have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today who are dealing with this

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disaster fire insurance for a lot of the homeowners has actually been cancelled in the last few months

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by the insurance companies and that obviously again adds to the problem because now that means a lot

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of these homes are probably just simply not going to be rebuilt hi there

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that's fine you decided not to leave i i know i'm not supposed to be here uh but this is my parents home

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i know the feeling and uh they just uh lost they got cancelled from their fire insurance

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so they're dealing with this they're 90 years old and through the state of california

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california because of this they're 90 years old that they've had they've lived in this house

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for 75 years and they've had the same insurance and these insurance people decided to cancel their fire

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and we're going through this and it just happened and they have no fire insurance back in 2018

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uh then president trump actually did warn the state about you know some of its issues with water

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management actually had a lot of proposals take care of the floors you know the floors of the forest

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it's very important you look at other countries where they do it differently and and it's a whole

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different story i was with the president of finland and he said we have uh much different we're a forest

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station he called it a forest station and they spent a lot of time on raking and cleaning and doing

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things and they don't have any problem and when it is it's a very small problem uh but unfortunately

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the state of california legislature decided to reject all his proposals and the same thing with the

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governor of california gavin newsom who again decided that that was not a priority you have so much

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water and all those fields that are right now barren the farmers would have all the water they needed

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and you could revert water up into the hills where you have all the dead forests where the forests are

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so brittle because no no places like california i go to austria the head of austria tells me you know

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we have trees that are much more flammable than what you have in california we never have forest

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flowers because they maintain their forests and you have all that water that could be used to

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as water what they call water flow where the war war you know where the land would be damp

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and you'd stop many of these horrible fires now another big failure by the the city officials was

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them appointing a new fire chief not based on her skills but rather on her lgbtq identity and the fact

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that she's a woman and on top of that she's a lesbian as if that was actually the most important thing

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again this is when you can see that the whole diversity and all that stuff like kind of gets

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in the way of like common sense of like make sure you have the the most talented uh you know the most

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skilled people to actually do the job as opposed to you know filling in some kind of a you know

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diversity quotas on top of that the new fire chief had this to say when it comes to her priorities of

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running the fire department she took time out of her already busy schedule to tell us about her

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vision for the department's future one that includes a three-year strategic plan to increase diversity

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people ask me what what number are you looking for so i'm not looking for a number it's never enough

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out of 3 300 city firefighters only 115 are women right now she's already looking at ways to change that

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the chief also checks another box when it comes to inclusivity and diversity at this department she's a

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proud member of the lgbtq community that just kind of opens the door of people that thought wow i didn't

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even know that that was an opportunity for me another big issue was just how the la county dealt with

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firefighters who did who basically refused to take the the shots during covet and by basically firing them

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and again diminishing and basically getting rid of a lot of skillful people who could have now been

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helping in fighting these fires and to further the problem of the shortage of firefighters

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the fire chief decided that uh it's best to make sure that they basically hire anybody who's not a

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white male because you know that's again i don't know racist or or sexist or whatever it is they want

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to call it again making sure that those policies that you could say there are those you know agendas that

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they want to follow are more important than the actual job that the fire department has which is

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fighting the fires geez i want to talk about my white privilege so badly i could not find a job

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i walked to a fire station in north hollywood i was 19 i was living in the garage of my family home

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my mom was on welfare and food stamps and i said can i get a job as a fireman and they said no because

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you're not black hispanic or a woman uh we'll see in about seven years now i'm definitely not trying to put

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down the brave firefighters that are there on the ground and actually are trying to put out and deal

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with these fires but even they are basically kind of working with their hands tight because of all the

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limitations that are put on them so far they've been able to contain exactly zero percent of the fires

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uh and again part of it is is the fact that they're really working with those limited budgets but

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even with like you know lack of equipment and the reason for that is because again recently uh it was

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decided that it was much more important to send a lot of the firefighting equipment over to ukraine

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fire department the la city fire department and the air national guard have collaborated to send some of

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their surplus equipment to the war-torn country it's part of a nationwide effort among agencies

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across the u.s the donated supplies include hoses nozzles helmets body armor and more uh instead of

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actually keeping it in there you know in la in case of emergencies like these which i'm sure as of right

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now the the fire department or the firemen at least on the ground would really wish they could have access

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to that equipment well instead there's been actually videos people uploading that show that

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uh again a lot of these brave firemen are risking their lives and literally using anything they can

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get their hands on uh to put out these fires so they're you know grabbing for example like uh street

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traffic cones or purses bags anything they can to grab water carry it and put out the fires

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in the water in the water in the water in the water in the water in the water in the water

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another huge issue they're facing is the fact that again because of the mismanagement of the water

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resources in the state of california a lot of the firefighters are now having to deal with the fact that the

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water reservoirs and because of that the hydrants are running dry and i don't know about you but

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it seems like one of the major things you definitely need to have and when you're trying to put out

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fires is access to water here on lockman land there are several homes burning this is the one that

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firefighters were trying to put out a little while ago but you can see right now it's just kind of out

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of control since then firefighters have lost water pressure on the hydrant so they can't get any more water

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onto this fire and once down the hill because of the water pressure issues it's even gotten to the

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point where some civilians have been stepping in and trying to assist by collecting any available

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water like for example taking water out of neighbors pools and literally putting it into any containers

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like garbage cans so that again they can help kind of control the fires these guys are filling this trash can

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with water from a neighbor's pool on halston and altadena and you can see they're running over to try

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to stop these flames from spreading

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back in october on the joe rogan podcast former president trump actually talked about some of these

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issues and how they can be dealt with they said we have no water i said do you have a drought no we

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don't have a drought i said why don't you have no water because the water isn't allowed to flow down

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it's got a natural flow from canada all the way up north more water than they could ever use

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and in order to protect a tiny little fish the water up north gets routed into the pacific ocean

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millions and millions of gallons of water gets poured i could have water for all of that land

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water for your forests you know your forests are dry as a bone yeah okay dangerous that water could

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be routed you know you could have everything not only dangerous billions of dollars a year they spend

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on forest fires but don't worry in case you were wondering what the actual president president joe

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biden is doing well he did decide to bless the citizens of los angeles county by visiting them

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and uh passing on this uh helpful message astounding what's happening

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today there's a baby still standing and i'm sure but the good news is i'm a great grandfather

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because you know he's only got about two weeks left in office so again he had to find another

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opportunity to embarrass himself so why is all this happening and and how can it be fixed well definitely

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i would say better policies right could help a lot instead of concentrating on hiring diversity you

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know people based on their identities just hire people who are actually skilled for the job so

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that's one thing another thing is allocating the resources whether it's money right to the actual

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departments that need it and and definitely avoid sending useful firefighting equipment overseas

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also a lot of these fires in the past have actually been started because of electrical fires and in

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case you didn't know the state of california uh power grid is very very outdated like a lot of

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the equipment is actually from 1950s there's even some parts of the power grid that are all the way

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you know back from 1921 that's if you think about it that's over 100 years old instead of updating the

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power grid the the california state officials have actually over the last several years

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decided to invest money into some of the new uh environmentally friendly renewable energy

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sources like solar panels which if you're not aware of they actually contribute less than a

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fraction of the overall electrical needs that the state has so i don't know about you but it's definitely

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like i i don't think it's it's helping uh solve these issues it could actually be adding to that because

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again that means they're allocating money away from places or departments that actually do need it but

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let me know what you guys think is is like some of the major issues here or maybe something that i've

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missed by letting me know in the comment section below and that's it for this video i'll see you guys

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guys in the next one thanks for watching