{"id":2388728,"date":"2025-01-10T08:19:59","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T13:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-californias-dei-obsessed-anarchotyrants-ran-out-of-water\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T08:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T13:23:10","slug":"how-californias-dei-obsessed-anarchotyrants-ran-out-of-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-californias-dei-obsessed-anarchotyrants-ran-out-of-water\/","title":{"rendered":"How California&#8217;s DEI-Obsessed Anarchotyrants Ran Out Of Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhow-californias-dei-obsessed-anarchotyrants-ran-out-of-water%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2388728&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In Los Angeles,devastating wildfires are spreading rapidly,destroying entire \u2063neighborhoods with alarming ease. A <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">recent report highlighted\u2063 teh dire situation<\/a>, indicating thousands\u200c of acres \u200care engulfed\u2062 in flames while only 1,400 firefighters are deployed,\u200d resulting in less than\u200b one firefighter \u2064per two\u200b acres in the Pacific \u200cPalisades, the area where the \u200clargest fire began. The author reflects on their long \u2062experiance\u200d in California, noting\u2064 that mutual aid \u200ctypically \u2063mobilizes firefighters statewide to combat such large fires.However, during a\u200c recent \u200cnight watching the Eaton fire above Pasadena, the expected support \u200bdid not \u200carrive, \u2063and\u2064 houses burned without the \u2064presence of firefighters on\u200d the\u2062 scene. \u200bThis troubling trend\u2064 has \u2062been acknowledged by media outlets like \u2062the Los Angeles Times, which reported that many fire hydrants\u2062 in Pacific \u2064Palisades had \u200clittle to no water available, exacerbating the\u2063 challenge for firefighters battling the blazes.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Astonishingly devastating fires are burning mostly unchecked in Los Angeles, destroying whole neighborhoods, and see if you can spot the problem in this Yahoo News update I found in my inbox this week:<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>As of that report, thousands of acres of fire burning into (and then straight through) neighborhoods; 1,400 firefighters. In Pacific Palisades alone, where the biggest fire started first, we&rsquo;re below one firefighter per two acres of fire. I&rsquo;ve spent most of my life in California, and a quite common experience is to be in way-Northern California, for example, and watch a line of fire engines go racing past from San Diego and Newport Beach, 500 miles from home. We deal with big fires with prompt statewide mutual aid, a well-practiced system. <\/p>\n<p>I live near the Eaton fire, which is burning in the hills above Pasadena, and I listened all Tuesday night for the cavalry to arrive. The cavalry, bizarrely, did not seem to arrive. And so I watched houses burn, on the news, with reporters present but no firefighters.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>This is becoming a widespread problem, so serious and obvious that even the&nbsp;Los Angeles Times&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2025-01-08\/lack-of-water-from-hydrants-in-palisades-fire-is-hampering-firefighters-caruso-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">has noticed<\/a>, writing:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/live\/pacific-palisades-fire-updates-los-angeles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wildfires raged across Los Angeles<\/a>&nbsp;on Tuesday, crews battling the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2025-01-07\/life-threatening-and-destructive-wind-storm-to-hit-southern-california-what-to-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Palisades blaze<\/a>&nbsp;faced an additional burden: Scores of fire hydrants in Pacific Palisades had little to no water flowing out.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The hydrants are down,&rdquo; said one firefighter in internal radio communications.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Water supply just dropped,&rdquo; said another.<\/p>\n<p>By 3 a.m. Wednesday, all water storage tanks in the Palisades area &ldquo;went dry,&rdquo; diminishing the flow of water from hydrants in higher elevations, said Janisse Qui&ntilde;ones, chief executive and chief engineer of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the city&rsquo;s utility.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Where I live, in the western San Gabriel Valley, a large group of suburban fire departments has built an effective system of integrated and automatic mutual aid, the Verdugo system, run from a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.glendaleca.gov\/government\/departments\/fire-department\/verdugo-fire-communications\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shared dispatch center<\/a>&nbsp;in Glendale. I was listening to Verdugo dispatch Tuesday night, and the dispatchers gave up on dispatching. They broadcast calls in sets of 10 or 12, without assignments, so firefighters could hear what was happening, in case anyone could get to any of it: homes burning at the following addresses, brush burning at the following addresses, wires down at the following addresses&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>The fire departments aren&rsquo;t the problem, and the firefighters on the ground are very much not the problem. A cluster of headlines this morning at the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/rantingly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">highly alert news aggregator Rantingly<\/a>&nbsp;begins to get at the underlying reality:<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>The mayor of Los Angeles, having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/james-woods-slams-liberal-idiots-for-their-handling-of-the-california-fires\/\" title=\"James Woods slams &#039;liberal idiots&#039; for their handling of the California fires\">cut fire department funding<\/a> to pay for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-cnn-the-super-bowl-does-not-need-more-politics-it-needs-none\/\" title=\"No, CNN, The Super Bowl Does Not Need MORE Politics; It Needs None\">social justice programs<\/a>, was on a city-funded outreach trip to Ghana as her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/public-schools-near-rochester-mandate-anti-racist-curriculum-overseen-by-blm-leader-who-said-i-dont-care-if-the-whole-city-burned-down\/\" title=\"Public Schools Near Rochester Mandate \u2018Anti-Racist\u2019 Curriculum Overseen By BLM Leader Who Said \u2018I Don\u2019t Care If The Whole City Burned Down\u2019\">city burned<\/a>. How important.<\/p>\n<p>As a matter of symbolism, the destruction of Pacific Palisades (and, as we saw Wednesday morning,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/justin_hart\/status\/1876866426880884991\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">big stretches of Malibu<\/a>) is a gut punch. These are the most comfortable places in Los Angeles, and one of the discussions on social media this week is about&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BGatesIsaPyscho\/status\/1877049455213433258\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">which celebrities<\/a>&nbsp;have evacuated or lost their homes. (&ldquo;Oh my God, Tom Hanks!&rdquo;) The places that are burning are the Democrat Party&rsquo;s ATM machine. One wonders if they&rsquo;ll notice the meaning of the fires.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/samstein\/status\/1876810255327179082\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Meanwhile<\/a>:<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>So yes, the ability of leftists to miss the point appears to be infinite. California has enormously expensive and intrusive government that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/geiger_capital\/status\/1876996436232941676?s=42\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">can&rsquo;t provide firefighters or water<\/a>&nbsp;when your neighborhood burns down, which proves that Orange Man Bad.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>I&rsquo;m more than a mile from the edge of the nearest evacuation warning, so we&rsquo;ll be fine. But that&rsquo;s because of the accident of our location relative to the fire, not because anything here actually works.<\/p>\n<p><em>This <a href=\"https:\/\/chrisbray.substack.com\/p\/anarchotyranny-runs-out-of-water?publication_id=484195&amp;post_id=154414117&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=k64i1&amp;triedRedirect=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article<\/a> was originally published on the author&rsquo;s Substack, &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/chrisbray.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tell Me How This Ends<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Chris Bray is a former infantry sergeant in the U.S. Army, and has a history PhD from the University of California Los Angeles. He is the author of &#8220;Court-Martial: How Military Justice Has Shaped America from the Revolution to 9\/11 and Beyond,&#8221; published last year by W.W. Norton.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devastating fires are raging in Los Angeles, destroying neighborhoods<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":2388729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Palisades-Fire-1280x853.jpg.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[48259,4045,16574,42391],"class_list":["post-2388728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-anarchotyrants","tag-california","tag-dei","tag-water-crisis"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Palisades-Fire-1280x853.jpg.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2388728"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2388732,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388728\/revisions\/2388732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2388729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2388728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2388728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2388728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}