On Wednesday the Hughes Fire erupted in Northern Los Angeles, in an area called Castaic Lake. It has already burned through 9,400 acres so far, and 19,000 people are under evacuation order. The 5 Freeway, a critical trucking route that connects the entire state, has been shut down in the region.
Newsom Vetoed a Bill to Enhance Fire Mitigation So He Could Grab the Land for Affordable Housing
By Jennifer Oliver O'Connell | 7:39 AM on January 23, 2025 ([The opinions expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of RedState.com.
On Wednesday the Hughes Fire erupted in Northern Los Angeles, in an area called Castaic Lake. It has already burned through 9,400 acres so far, and 19,000 people are under evacuation order. The 5 Freeway, a critical trucking route that connects the entire state, has been shut down in the region.
Two weeks after the Palisades and Eaton Fires burned through the communities of Pacific Palisades, Malibu, and Altadena, Los Angeles is once again battling another wildfire, as the victims from these previous fires quantify their losses. Which begs the question: where is California Governor Gavin Newsom? The Castaic Lake area of Los Angeles isn't a typical celebrity domicile, and probably doesn't contain any Democrat megadonors; which is probably why he hasn't shown his face. I doubt if he'll be spotted cheesing in front of burning houses or doing a shoulder shimmy at the thought of commandeering land for his "Marshall Plan."
"Organizing a Marshall Plan..." Keep that phrase in the forefront, because what has been uncovered will further blow the lid off Newsom's braggadocio. A 2020 memo exposes not only Newsom's cavalier attitude toward fire mitigation and maintenance, but it further shows that elected leader's disregard of the warnings to take care of the high-risk fire prone communities was more by design than people wish to believe.
In 2020, SB 182 came across Newsom's desk. Authored by then-State Senator Hannah Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara), whose district had just suffered the Thomas Fire and subsequent deadly mudslide in Montecito, this bill sought to increase local planning requirements and guidelines for permitting development in certain fire-hazard severity zones. What does that mean? For new and existing development, local governments would have been tasked with creating strategies to retrofit and fire harden the buildings and homes in the area, and smaller municipalities which often lack funding for such measures would have been given grants so they could implement wildfire risk reduction and undertake planning activities to increase fire safety.
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Newsom Vetoed a Bill to Enhance Fire Mitigation So He Could Grab the Land for Affordable Housing
By Jennifer Oliver O'Connell | 7:39 AM on January 23, 2025 ([The opinions expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of RedState.com.
On Wednesday the Hughes Fire erupted in Northern Los Angeles, in an area called Castaic Lake. It has already burned through 9,400 acres so far, and 19,000 people are under evacuation order. The 5 Freeway, a critical trucking route that connects the entire state, has been shut down in the region.
Two weeks after the Palisades and Eaton Fires burned through the communities of Pacific Palisades, Malibu, and Altadena, Los Angeles is once again battling another wildfire, as the victims from these previous fires quantify their losses. Which begs the question: where is California Governor Gavin Newsom? The Castaic Lake area of Los Angeles isn't a typical celebrity domicile, and probably doesn't contain any Democrat megadonors; which is probably why he hasn't shown his face. I doubt if he'll be spotted cheesing in front of burning houses or doing a shoulder shimmy at the thought of commandeering land for his "Marshall Plan."
"Organizing a Marshall Plan..." Keep that phrase in the forefront, because what has been uncovered will further blow the lid off Newsom's braggadocio. A 2020 memo exposes not only Newsom's cavalier attitude toward fire mitigation and maintenance, but it further shows that elected leader's disregard of the warnings to take care of the high-risk fire prone communities was more by design than people wish to believe.
In 2020, SB 182 came across Newsom's desk. Authored by then-State Senator Hannah Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara), whose district had just suffered the Thomas Fire and subsequent deadly mudslide in Montecito, this bill sought to increase local planning requirements and guidelines for permitting development in certain fire-hazard severity zones. What does that mean? For new and existing development, local governments would have been tasked with creating strategies to retrofit and fire harden the buildings and homes in the area, and smaller municipalities which often lack funding for such measures would have been given grants so they could implement wildfire risk reduction and undertake planning activities to increase fire safety.
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