Think the fires are bad in California? You just wait until DEI is fully integrated.

Add one drop forest mismanagement, one drop water mismanagement, one drop budget cuts, one drop DEI, mix and you have California.

And it’s only going to get worse. Someone page George Santayana.

It seems every fire in California is something brand new to its government. They never seem to learn a thing from history. If it wasn’t so tragic it would be a comedy. It’s as if they’ve never heard of Santa Ana winds or adequate water storage.

Claims are flying around about water management

Rick Caruso, billionaire real estate developer, called into LA local news:

“This is like a third world country… there is no water coming out of the fire hydrants. LA Mayor Karen Bass is on a foreign trip to Ghana.”pic.twitter.com/iOjXPkWcko

— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) January 8, 2025

Fire hydrants have run dry. It is being argued that water storage tanks around the city were filled.

Jeffrey Mount, senior fellow at the PPIC Water Policy Center, a think tank that tracks water use and storage data in California, told VERIFY that there isn’t a shortage of water in the area’s reservoirs.

“At no time during this fire has there been a shortage of water in southern California,” Mount said. “Their reservoirs are full. And there is nothing to be done with water that would have changed the course of these fires.”

Obviously, there aren’t enough storage tanks but it’s only part of the problem.

California is completely derelict when it comes to forest management. Ironically, Donald Trump commented about this back in 2019

Forbes 2019:

Newsom didn’t admit it, but the outrageous cost to remove a few dead trees from private land is a consequence of California’s Byzantine environmental regulatory patchwork.

This is California’s big secret: it’s not climate change that’s burning up the forests, killing people, and destroying hundreds of homes; it’s decades of environmental mismanagement that has created a tinderbox of unharvested timber, dead trees, and thick underbrush.

Did I mention that LA Mayor Karen Bass cut the LAFD budget by $17 million before she abandoned the city?

L.A. Fire Chief Kristin Crowley warned Mayor Karen Bass (D) last month the $17+ million she cut from the department’s budget “severely limited the department’s capacity to prepare for, train for, and respond to large-scale emergencies, including wildfires”

That bring us to Kristin Crowley, the celebrated LGBTQ LAFD Fire Chief. The crisis, in her opinion, is not any of the above but rather a lack of diversity instead.

The LA Fire Department’s first female LGBTQ chief created a DEI Bureau to train firefighters in DEI. They called it a “crisis” that there aren’t more women represented in the fire department. pic.twitter.com/MFWg6Ix6Bx

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 8, 2025

Apparently, “diversity” means that leadership must be all LGBTQ

Here’s some of what diversity gets you

This is what happens after 20 years of people saying “no judgement.” #firefighter #firefighters #dei #judgement #standards #PublicSafety #EMS #decline pic.twitter.com/qTsgy2Wqj4

— Mrgunsngear (@Mrgunsngear) September 20, 2024

You may have noticed the size of these women. A retired firefighter also noticed:

This is why I retired early !!!! In a 10 year period DEI hiring made fat Lesbians the most likely candidate to be hired, and made work conditions incredibly unsafe. We lost our Weight Room, to a Fucking pickleball Court for the Fatties.

People are going to die because of this. Here is the official Los Angeles “Qualifications & SELECTION PROCESS For a City of Los Angeles Firefighter”

It includes age, candidate assessment, license and something called CPAT, or Candidate Physical Ability Test. That can be found officially here. This is the description:

The Candidate Physical Ability Test (CPAT) is a minimum requirement for the position of Firefighter. The job of a Firefighter is one of the most physically demanding jobs in North America. It requires high levels of cardiopulmonary endurance, muscular strength and muscular endurance. The CPAT consists of eight critical physical tasks that simulate actual job duties on the fire ground. Candidates must provide proof of a current passing score on the CPAT at the Pre-Background Appointment (PIQ) & CAP Baseline Fitness Assessment. Proof must also be provided at the time of certification for hiring consideration. A CPAT score is valid for one year. The City of Los Angeles will only accept the Candidate Physical Ability Test (CPAT). The Consolidated Physical Ability Test (formerly known as the Biddle Test) or any other physical ability test will not be accepted.

Here’s the video depicting the testing

Included in the “Physical” section of the Qualifications is this:

Firefighting and medical rescue work is physically demanding. Candidates must be in excellent health and have no conditions that would restrict their ability to safely do fire suppression and rescue work. Weight (body fat content) must be proportionate to height for men and women.

This all sounds quite appropriate. However, there is this one nagging thing:

“The CPAT program is currently on hold until further notice.”

Hmmm

Which probably accounts for the physical status of the above “firefighters.” I have grave doubts that the women in the above video actually could pass the CPAT test.

For the record, I am fine with women firefighters. I don’t care if they are LGBTQ or not.

I care if they are qualified to do the job.

The minute standards are lowered is the minute lives are put in jeopardy. Women in general cannot match men’s performance, as was shown by the military.

Following a three-year review, the Army has scrapped plans to use the same physical fitness test for all soldiers, choosing instead to have some reduced standards to allow women and older soldiers to pass, the service announced Wednesday.

The decision follows a RAND-led study that found men were more easily passing the new, more difficult Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) compared to women and older soldiers, who were “failing at noticeably higher rates.” That six-event test developed in 2019 was an expansion from the three events — pushups, situps and a run — soldiers had done prior.

Standards exist for a reason and should remain inviolate.

What’s happening in California is a confluence of inaction, absence of common sense, recalcitrance and stupidity and it’s only going to get worse once DEI is fully integrated and standards largely erased. Lives will be lost as a consequence, not to mention property.

Gov. Gavin Newsom presides over feckless responses to fires, an enormous debt, record homelessness, land and water mismanagement and the highest taxes in the country yet he calls California a “model for the future.”

Put that in your pocket for 2028.

DrJohn

DrJohn has been a health care professional for more than 40 years. In addition to clinical practice he has done extensive research and has published widely with over 70 original articles and abstracts in the peer-reviewed literature. DrJohn is well known in his field and has lectured on every continent except for Antarctica. He has been married to the same wonderful lady for over 45 years and has three kids- two sons, both of whom are attorneys and one daughter who is in the field of education.

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Except for liberals being foolish.