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[YouGuysAren'tThatSmart]

The driver/pump operator doesn't leave the truck, their job at a fire call is specifically to provide water to the crew, basically press a few buttons and pull a few levers.

Engines/Pumpers have 4 people assigned to them, I have never seen a crew with more than one woman and that woman is typically the driver, unless she is ultra capable and in that case she would be working with 2 male partners who would be dealing with the turbofat.

There are lots of small dudes in firefighting too, they come in handy for confined space shit and to be honest the most important physical attribute by far is cardio, being super strong is useless if you have no cardio.

My department the cutoff was a VO2 Max of 40. Some departments do a running test that is supposed to mimic the cutoff of 40 which is like a 1.5 mile run in 12 min or so.

My point is, the DEI stuff is mostly overblown, and I was in one of the most pozzed cities in Canada. The DEI recruitment is mostly for show to unlock some government grant or something, but even the wokest retard want's the most capable person rescuing them. Despite the calls for DEI for decades we mostly got competent guys and the few women that were hired were generally very competent and/or given non physical roles.

1. It looks like these guys only started having progress after the calvary of white males got called in from different areas. That's the way that I look at it. How much you want to bet after all is done the accommodations only go to the bull dyke chief and her shit excuse of non binary fat fuck cunt firefighters.

2. You mentioned fighting a fire with 40 vehicles and 150 people. Curious what that was about.

3. I'll a test to Chicago firefighters being on the ball, if an alarm goes off at my building they are there in less than a minute ready to go. They're also assholes though just looking for a reason to bust down a door or fuck up a elevator door for an entrapment. I don't think elevator operators are too fond of y'all.

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

So I live very near the region that got hit by the hurricane. It’s like 4 months later and people are still in tents, and going into debt day by day for propane to heat what ever shanty they have. People who are in hotels are being kicked out by tomorrow morning (as if writing this) as the vouchers are running out. They’re in the middle of a cold snap, people WILL freeze to death.

Biden not only promised the feds will pay for all rebuilding efforts in California for 6 months, they sent another $500 million to Ukraine.

Reminds me of an exchange I had with my grandmother after the Helene disaster happened:

I told her I was frustrated that the US government cares more about Ukraine than its own citizens in NC. She told me some celebrity was donating money and that the US government was sending each person in NC a small amount of money. She also laughed at me and said in an almost singsong voice that she "doesn't know what I'm looking at but it must be the wrong things!"

Should note she watches MSNBC all day. She was also raised in NYC and thinks she is a Ukrainian despite having one Ukrainian grandparent she never met who died long before she was born.

 

[Spob]

Can't wait for the dramatic patriotic action movie about this in 10 years

"Join in, kids, for some wholesome family-friendly entertainment, as we marvel in awe at how the Lord Almighty smote the Sodom of our time! Now available on DVD!"

And it'd be one of those Christian Bible cartoons your cousin might've grown up watching in VBS during the late 90s or 2000s

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

I know someone that lost all their guns in Pacific northwest fires. No 'fireproof' safe at any cost will stop a few hour hot burn. They're for normal house fires. He had tons of ARs and they were all pools of aluminum after even with decent fire resistant safes.

If you want to protect from fire your safe needs to be many feet underground, with enough to insulate it.

And even that might not be enough. And the. You have water seepage to deal with.

 

[KiwiFuzz2]

I don't think you need to go hardcore Jewish space laser for the Eaton fire.

Go look at the area on your map software of choice. No bums, few POC. It's a network of hiking trails.

Almost certainly someone smoking a cig and/or a J on the trail.

I'm guessing an 18-30 yo huwhite male for that one.

If it was a Jew, it was a Jew with dreads calling everyone "Brah."

 

[CEO of Gay]

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It looks like that palm tree saw Slayer Hurricane Guy and decided to copy his antics.

One part of me sees that and feels horror at the firestorms burning everything to a crisp. Another part of me wants to tell the first part to shut up and stop being such a faggot, because that clip is metal as fuck, even without the music.

 

[YouGuysAren'tThatSmart]

Reminds me of an exchange I had with my grandmother after the Helene disaster happened:

I told her I was frustrated that the US government cares more about Ukraine than its own citizens in NC. She told me some celebrity was donating money and that the US government was sending each person in NC a small amount of money. She also laughed at me and said in an almost singsong voice that she "doesn't know what I'm looking at but it must be the wrong things!"

Should note she watches MSNBC all day. She was also raised in NYC and thinks she is a Ukrainian despite having one Ukrainian grandparent she never met who died long before she was born.

How'd she meet him then?

 

[Build a Bear Vikiwing]

There was this religious library in the area that got burnt to a crisp. Someone said so on Threads, and mentioned that the place contained 40,000 manuscripts, but last I checked there were 0 major news sources covering it. Can't even remember the name of the library, or even any of the specific losses. But they say it must've been pretty serious or culturally significant, I guess?

Also there's this museum in the area called Getty Villa, and it just barely escaped destruction. Like the shrubbery surrounding it caught on fire, but the museum itself was unaffected... yet, because unfortunately the fires are still burning.

Heard it's a pretty nice destination, and honestly sounds like one of the few good things about LA. Would definitely take a girl there.

If the bit about the library is true, that’s heartbreaking to lose all that written history. But in happier news the Getty collections were moved into vaults pretty early on in this mess. Plus they apparently have their own water tank or something. Hopefully it makes it through.

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

How'd she meet him then?

Typo. I fixed it.

 

[CharlesBarkley]

If you want to protect from fire your safe needs to be many feet underground, with enough to insulate it.

Imagine building a safe instead of just waiting for looters to come by, throwing massive boxes of ammo into a blaze while screaming “RING OF STEEL!!” Then finding cover. And getting to murder them for like, free? Because they can’t trace it back to a gun.

It’s like the only thing ammo is good for.

 

[Xenu Warrior Princess]

https://x.com/SprinterObserve/status/1877291751968329944

Remember Malibu? Pepperidge Farm remembers

Whole shoreline stretch of Route 1 is damaged so severely that the beach looks like it could easily be turned publicly accessible

It IS a public beach, but the wealthy residents who used to live there try to block it by such things as putting locks on public access gates.

 

[Spob]

So you think this'll be the straw that finally turns CA red?

(No, right?)

 

[Michael Wade]

I imagine thermal imaging from a high vantage point would be a good bet. I would guess these things might use invisible light waves if they are used for this, but thermal imagine you would suddenly see SOMETHING go insane white hot, with nothing near it.

This is probably a dead end but I recall some kind of Public orbital monitoring system capturing footage of 10 fires starting simultaneously in Canada.

I'm wondering if it had the chance to be over California when this happened.

 

[Olga of Kiev]

I imagine thermal imaging from a high vantage point would be a good bet. I would guess these things might use invisible light waves if they are used for this, but thermal imagine you would suddenly see SOMETHING go insane white hot, with nothing near it.

Problem is GETTING this, both because thermal imaging is uncommon, and while CCTV is common, THERMAL CCTV is not.

This is optimistic as fuck. And in crisis (LIKE THIS) you don't want a dozen people who can ONLY sit in a fucking truck and stare at buttons when the process is half automated anyway. You want MANPOWER. Basically in these situations, anyone who cant carry out a full sized man is a detriment to the team.


Wait, I know impersonating an LEO (law enforcement officer) is illegal, but is it illegal to impersonate a fire officer????

California Penal codes 538d through 538h covers it.

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[YouGuysAren'tThatSmart]

Typo. I fixed it.

I mean you could have made up some shit about her astral projecting and seeing him on Mars or something. Kinda would have believed that because she sounds a tad off mentally, no offense.

 

[Vesperus]

How easy is it to see a satellite in orbit with the naked eye? It's impossible.

My nigger in Christ, it's piss easy.
Starlink sats are the size of a (squished) compact car, and you can't *not* see them.
Things like NOAA sats are higher up but bigger.
Something big enough to power a Jewish Space Laser would be visible from lunar orbit.
Download stellarium and go outside at sunset.

 

[GunCar Gary]

My point is, the DEI stuff is mostly overblown,

how long ago was your experience with firefighting? you could be right and it is being overblown, or you could be an old person who’s out of touch with how terrible everything has gotten in the last 20 years

 

[booklover]

There was this religious library in the area that got burnt to a crisp. Someone said so on Threads, and mentioned that the place contained 40,000 manuscripts, but last I checked there were 0 major news sources covering it. Can't even remember the name of the library, or even any of the specific losses. But they say it must've been pretty serious or culturally significant, I guess?

Also there's this museum in the area called Getty Villa, and it just barely escaped destruction. Like the shrubbery surrounding it caught on fire, but the museum itself was unaffected... yet, because unfortunately the fires are still burning.

Heard it's a pretty nice destination, and honestly sounds like one of the few good things about LA. Would definitely take a girl there.

I haven't seen anything about a specifically religious library being destroyed, although there have been schools, churches, and libraries that went up in smoke. Maybe one of them had an archive?

 

[StudMccool]

natty light gaurd on the way

 

[Spob]

It IS a public beach, but the wealthy residents who used to live there try to block it by such things as putting locks on public access gates.

Well now there  are no residents. Can't exactly live in a burnt-out husk lol

Oh yeah, been wondering what the rebuilding process will look like. Like are they just gonna build new zillion-dollar mansions on top of the rubble, or are the anti-driving environmentalist globohomos gonna use the whole lot as the perfect testing ground to build kosher pod apartments or whatever shit?

Trying to come up with precedents in recent history, but most of the ones that come to mind immediately (Fukushima, Mt. St. Helen's, Katrina, Helene) weren't really as affluent as PP to begin with