I work for a fire department, not LAFD. As a home owner living in Southern California, you have to take responsibility for yourself to protect your home, meaning doing whatever you can to minimize or prevent your home from getting burned. I started installing sprinklers on my roof, clearing away brushes around the home, temporarily block the roof/wall vents with rock wool insulation from the inside, strategically installing and placing sprinklers to hose down any materials that can catch Fire such as wooden fence, bush hedges, etc. don’t wait and depend on the fire department to save you. They may not have enough resources to protect everybody’s home.
Janisse Quiñones, the general manager of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP), earns an annual salary of $750,000. This is almost double the salary of her predecessor, Martin Adams, who earned $435,000.
Karen Bass's behavior since returning from Ghana has been scandalous. From the airport personality vacuum to the strange grinning that was only recently stopped. The victim-blaming video from the they/them at the Fire Department took this tragedy into bizarro-world at warp speed. The firemen need to be left out of it, but all else deserve PRISON!
DEI hires don’t know how to do their jobs. There was no forest management no reservoirs and the ones they had were dry. No capture of rain or run off, dams destroyed. 100 fire engines in the bone yard because support staff who repair them were layer off…
@@morrisonreed1..it’s not a game, but what does blaming accomplish? The real goal should be response, recovery and implementation of ways to minimize such a wide spread disaster.
I'm no expert but.......I would think a priority place to preposition a tanker truck would have been the palisades since the reservoir was out of service for repairs that were not happening!! It doesn't take a rocket scientist or expert fire planner to figure out you need resources where resources are lacking.
On August 8, 2023 we watched our Lahaina Town burn. After four days of NWS, HWS and even MFD Warnings of 80 MPH, High Winds, Especially in Down Slope Areas, Red Alert Wild Fire Danger. The NWS called it their most exact, detailed forecast ever. The forecast details described Lahaina. The night before I charged our 9 garden hoses, readied our generator and we sat and watched. Our Fire Chief Brad Ventura and Police Chief did not do anything. On the day of the fire, a Tuesday, staffing for our Fire and Police Department was exactly the same as the previous Tuesday. Over 200 firefighters and police officers were off duty and not called in until Two Late O’clock. And when a fallen power line started a fire in a difficult area to attack, MFD fought and put out the flames. MFD says that their small and worn out crew was there for eight hours, making sure there was no rekindling because of the High Winds. So they left to go to eat and within minutes, residents were calling the rekindled fire in. By the time the engine was able to get back Up to the fire, it was out of control. The evacuation went as expected, when you have no plan, no personnel to carry it out. All the firefighters slept in the station the night before the fire. None were pre positioned Up hill. Fire trucks and Water tankers do not go up hills quickly. Also, Maui has wisely installed speed bumps every 200 ft in many residential areas. Fire truck and Water tankers do not like speed bumps, and each bump is estimated to Delay Fire Department Response by 15-30 seconds per bump, and considerably more going up hill. But MFD, and maybe LAFD? did not bother to take the High ground for a Fire Watch and staging area, the night Previous to the forecast weather event. Firefighting in America is stuck in 1980. By far the majority of fire dept calls for service are medical related. Fighting fires is a sideline. Response time in the rapidly changing climate dictates rethinking of fire stations. Fire Stations also need to be where fires occur. And each station, should be a House, as in Fire House with the staffing needed for the one or maximum two vehicles in the bay. Response times could be drastically reduced. Drones with live feeds are being deployed elsewhere, arriving minutes before responders and provide live audio and video. Some even can carry over 500,lbs of water or retardant and make a drop before firefighters or helicopters arrive.
The mayor needs to resign. Mayor Bass supported budget cuts that hindered preemptive deployment of men and equipment. The fite departments budget doesn't afford to have equipment, and operatorst sitting around with engines running burning gas while the mayor was flying around internationally on the taxpayers' dime while thousands of tax payers lost their homes in order to afford her that privilege.
All these comments. Blame game is the game for some of you. Nobody could stop the fire. Doesn't matter if they were prepared or not. The demand on those fire hydrants was high lowering the pressure. Doesn't matter if you had a reservoir full of water.
The LAFD has had staffing issues and resource shortage since 2008 and every mayor since then plus the union sign off on the LAFD's budget. The blame game goes around.
…..Back in 2018 spot fires that jumped the 101 freeway weren’t put out at 2am…news trucks were on the side of the freeway, no fire trucks to extinguish spot fires from flying embers………a huge chunk of Malibu eventually burned down through Point Dume.
The law of "qualified immunity" should be modified for elected and appointed) city and state officials and selected powerful cIty and state civil servants in critical positions, so they can be held legally liable and for criminal gross incompetence, rather than being legally immune for their obvious "grossly incompetent judgments and actions". This would help eliminate the obvious incompetent, inexperienced and unqualified local officials from trying to "move" up the political ladder. Because they will be legally help accountable and liable for their gross incompetence of handling (and the lack of preparation) of major disasters and horrible events occur that showcase their lack of the concern for ALL people. IMHO - Many of these these elected officials look they don't really care about the people who were more effected (the Mayor seems to have no real empathy to the more "well to do" people) in her jurisdiction. I think only the best people should be running our Cities and States in our country. I don't care about their sex, their race, color, sexual preference, etc. as long as they have the correct experience and the proven merit to do the job well, while prioritizing thier people first. PERIOD.
To all you regards finding scapegoats!!! This was premeditated all to create more housing. Its not a profound idea, give it 2 to 5 years to see the results. Look around all around CA and you can find builders building vertical not horizontal.
60 years ago . “Designed for Disaster .” Film by LAFD. Bel air fire did almost identical damage though roofs were shake back then . The cartoons on dry hydrants and why fire can jump valleys is eye opening. They 3500 firefighters back in 1959. I think I saw 7500 the other day ……. Hiking for a day is dangerous in canyons , so what should one call living in them ?
People are criticizing from the comfort of their couches because everyone is an expert nowadays. Thanks to the internet everyone gets to talk trash about people while lying on the couches eating potato chips.
Oh ffs! Cut the stupid finger pointing already. It’s just posturing for the lawyers. There is not a fire department on the entire face of the earth that could have effectively deployed, suppressed, fought, and beat back a raging chaparral fire in 90mph Santa Ana winds.
And for the record, I can’t stand Bass, Newsom, DEI, Woke, and all the other related nonsense. But those things had nothing to do with why these fires did what they did. Zero.
All these experts on Social Media who have no background in City Planning, Fire Fighting, Emergency response. The ignorance is staggering, even for the internet..!!
Part 1 - The drought and the wildfire destruction is a judgment from God himself - if you obey God's commandments he will bless you - if you disobey his commandments he will curse you Deuteronomy 30:15 - 20 15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; 16 In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. 17 But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; 18 I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it. 19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: 20 That thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land If you disobey his 10 commandments - you will be cursed by your own doing because it was your own decision to disobey him - and part of the curse is severe drought - God sends the rain to bless those who obey his 10 commandments - and he withholds the rain from those who hate him - it is God who controls the weather - God sends the hurricanes and God sends the drought and God sends the winds and God sends the hail - your government controls nothing Leviticus 26:18 - 20 18 And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. 19 And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass: 20 And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits. Deuteronomy 28:23,24 23 And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron. 24 The Lord shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed (by the wildfires that come next after the drought). Revelation 8:7 7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part (33%) of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up. Revelation 16:8,9, 8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. 9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory. Genesis 19:24,25 24 Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven; 25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. LA and Hollywood society has become an Antichrist Society - an Anti-God Society - they mock the God of the KJV Bible and the mock Jesus / Yeshua everyday on their movies and TV shows they make - in their cartoons made for children - they mock God Jesus in their award shows - they make cartoons for children that teach them God is evil and we can become gods Their hearts look like this Matthew 15:18 - 19 18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. 19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: Galatians 5:19 - 21 19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Matthew 6:19 - 24 19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. 23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! 24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon (money/riches/power of money). When the Bible talks about evil people in the last days - it's talking about America 2 Timothy 3:1 - 7, 13 1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. God will punish the world for it's evil Revelation 9:20,21 20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: 21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts. Judgment Day is coming Revelation 20:11 - 15 11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. 13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. 14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 21:8 8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
I work for a fire department, not LAFD. As a home owner living in Southern California, you have to take responsibility for yourself to protect your home, meaning doing whatever you can to minimize or prevent your home from getting burned. I started installing sprinklers on my roof, clearing away brushes around the home, temporarily block the roof/wall vents with rock wool insulation from the inside, strategically installing and placing sprinklers to hose down any materials that can catch Fire such as wooden fence, bush hedges, etc. don’t wait and depend on the fire department to save you. They may not have enough resources to protect everybody’s home.
Yeah at least try then god’s decision
Best option to have swimming pool as a boundary and monitor the ember all around
Very good
No Emergency Response
No Traffic Cops
No Police Presence
No Mayor
Wasn't the Eaton (Altadena) FD response 45 minutes or so after the fire at the power tower was reported?
DEIville
No wildfire. These were arson fires. The police have caught three separate arsonists so far.
La firefighters received hazard pay... thousands of dollars in a bonus
Janisse Quiñones, the general manager of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP), earns an annual salary of $750,000. This is almost double the salary of her predecessor, Martin Adams, who earned $435,000.
She was paid to make sure there was No water & No pump.
Government salaries and pensions are outrageous. Robbing the tax payers. Major reform is needed.
Karen Bass should be the one facing criticism for defunding LA Fire department
So more fire fighters would’ve slowed down the hurricane force winds?
@@QuanPookie good point. It was a blitz.
@@QuanPookie no but more water wouldve allowed for more firetrucks to be deployed
It doesn’t matter. There was no water
There are conlicting reports on this one. I've seen one where they said the budget was increased but added to a fund for paying overtime.
Hawaii 2.0 Focus on WHO the few people are that soon buy up all the burnt land. There's your answer.
Y’all realize these fire victims must continue to pay their mortgage and property taxes for the system that failed them?…
False, it's impossible to have a mortgage without home owners insurance.
Incorrect! Taxes are deferred
Uh, no, not if their house is a lump of ashes. Mortgage holder & Insurance agent have to be informed.
@@Eclipse1369 deferred to whom?
Am I supposed to feel sorry for people living in the palisades
The “system” failed everyone.
Karen Bass's behavior since returning from Ghana has been scandalous. From the airport personality vacuum to the strange grinning that was only recently stopped. The victim-blaming video from the they/them at the Fire Department took this tragedy into bizarro-world at warp speed. The firemen need to be left out of it, but all else deserve PRISON!
DEI hirees trying to deflect the mess that they created .. Meanwhile, firefighters were using traffic cones to put out fire.
The chubby lesbian boss of the fire department was the first to speak and blame it on blm mayor lady 😅 both DEI. 😅
CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT FOR TRILLIONS OF TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS ON NEWSOM AND LA MAYOR
Millions. Trillions is too much
They all were incompetent and dysfunctional. From top to bottom, the state, the local bureaucrats, and the fire departments. 😵💫🤯
Fire department is safe and effective
DEI hires don’t know how to do their jobs. There was no forest management no reservoirs and the ones they had were dry. No capture of rain or run off, dams destroyed. 100 fire engines in the bone yard because support staff who repair them were layer off…
DEI ppl live on tumblr and reddit
They used two reservoirs dmfk 😂
Most public workers barely graduated high school
yea guys with huge mustashes and 100k plus salaries and even crazier pensions at 55
Yup
Let the blame games begin!
so know one is to blame ,its all just a game ?
@@morrisonreed1..it’s not a game, but what does blaming accomplish? The real goal should be response, recovery and implementation of ways to minimize such a wide spread disaster.
@@Jhunt12303 yes ,but some people should be fired .fire mitigation is not a new alien phenomenon in la
Oprah Winfrey
How about people blame the three arsonists they caught.
System in place given the resources . What does that mean?
I'm no expert but.......I would think a priority place to preposition a tanker truck would have been the palisades since the reservoir was out of service for repairs that were not happening!! It doesn't take a rocket scientist or expert fire planner to figure out you need resources where resources are lacking.
Omg why people blaming??? take responsibility thank you firefighters for taking risks for strangers you never met
How did they know there would be a disastrous fire days before the 100mph winds. They knew?
Didn't
Earn
It
Like nepotistic cream peoples
There’s no way to stop this big fire be thankful you are alive smh
On August 8, 2023 we watched our Lahaina Town burn. After four days of NWS, HWS and even MFD
Warnings of 80 MPH, High Winds, Especially in Down Slope Areas, Red Alert Wild Fire Danger. The NWS called it their most exact, detailed forecast ever. The forecast details described Lahaina. The night before I charged our 9 garden hoses, readied our generator and we sat and watched. Our Fire Chief Brad Ventura and Police Chief did not do anything. On the day of the fire, a Tuesday, staffing for our Fire and Police Department was exactly the same as the previous Tuesday. Over 200 firefighters and police officers were off duty and not called in until Two Late O’clock. And when a fallen power line started a fire in a difficult area to attack, MFD fought and put out the flames. MFD says that their small and worn out crew was there for eight hours, making sure there was no rekindling because of the High Winds. So they left to go to eat and within minutes, residents were calling the rekindled fire in. By the time the engine was able to get back Up to the fire, it was out of control. The evacuation went as expected, when you have no plan, no personnel to carry it out. All the firefighters slept in the station the night before the fire. None were pre positioned Up hill. Fire trucks and Water tankers do not go up hills quickly. Also, Maui has wisely installed speed bumps every 200 ft in many residential areas. Fire truck and Water tankers do not like speed bumps, and each bump is estimated to Delay Fire Department Response by 15-30 seconds per bump, and considerably more going up hill. But MFD, and maybe LAFD? did not bother to take the High ground for a Fire Watch and staging area, the night Previous to the forecast weather event. Firefighting in America is stuck in 1980. By far the majority of fire dept calls for service are medical related. Fighting fires is a sideline. Response time in the rapidly changing climate dictates rethinking of fire stations. Fire Stations also need to be where fires occur. And each station, should be a House, as in Fire House with the staffing needed for the one or maximum two vehicles in the bay. Response times could be drastically reduced. Drones with live feeds are being deployed elsewhere, arriving minutes before responders and provide live audio and video. Some even can carry over 500,lbs of water or retardant and make a drop before firefighters or helicopters arrive.
🎶 "Hold tight
Wait 'til the party's over
Hold tight
We're in for nasty weather
There has got to be a way
Burning down the house." 🎶
- Talking Heads
Systems will never beat human instinct.
shiet they got babie to present the news now
Intentional?
Oprah Winfrey. Hawaii 2.0
MAGArsonists
Intentional or not....Not Water.
The mayor needs to resign. Mayor Bass supported budget cuts that hindered preemptive deployment of men and equipment. The fite departments budget doesn't afford to have equipment, and operatorst sitting around with engines running burning gas while the mayor was flying around internationally on the taxpayers' dime while thousands of tax payers lost their homes in order to afford her that privilege.
Good ol' finger pointing. As if anyone could've predicted this type of event during the "wet" season.
Oprah Winfrey
@@Nova-m8d I don't understand your reply.
@ Oprah, Hawaii 2.0. Follow the money trail for WHO will soon buy up all the burnt land.
All these comments. Blame game is the game for some of you. Nobody could stop the fire. Doesn't matter if they were prepared or not. The demand on those fire hydrants was high lowering the pressure. Doesn't matter if you had a reservoir full of water.
System in place👉🏼DEI, Delay Everything Important.
Didn't Earn It
DEI- Destroy Everything Important
The LAFD has had staffing issues and resource shortage since 2008 and every mayor since then plus the union sign off on the LAFD's budget. The blame game goes around.
They want all the OT to themselves.
Give me my tax money back...
No, negative
Governor or mayor didn’t activate national guard in California that should of been day one to help fight fires
…..Back in 2018 spot fires that jumped the 101 freeway weren’t put out at 2am…news trucks were on the side of the freeway, no fire trucks to extinguish spot fires from flying embers………a huge chunk of Malibu eventually burned down through Point Dume.
Short of pumping in lots of money, could any system have prevented such a catastrophe?
The law of "qualified immunity" should be modified for elected and appointed) city and state officials and selected powerful cIty and state civil servants in critical positions, so they can be held legally liable and for criminal gross incompetence, rather than being legally immune for their obvious "grossly incompetent judgments and actions".
This would help eliminate the obvious incompetent, inexperienced and unqualified local officials from trying to "move" up the political ladder.
Because they will be legally help accountable and liable for their gross incompetence of handling (and the lack of preparation) of major disasters and horrible events occur that showcase their lack of the concern for ALL people.
IMHO - Many of these these elected officials look they don't really care about the people who were more effected (the Mayor seems to have no real empathy to the more "well to do" people) in her jurisdiction.
I think only the best people should be running our Cities and States in our country. I don't care about their sex, their race, color, sexual preference, etc. as long as they have the correct experience and the proven merit to do the job well, while prioritizing thier people first. PERIOD.
Destiny tirado was told to evacuate, i hope nothing happens to her house 😢
To all you regards finding scapegoats!!! This was premeditated all to create more housing. Its not a profound idea, give it 2 to 5 years to see the results. Look around all around CA and you can find builders building vertical not horizontal.
60 years ago .
“Designed for Disaster .” Film by LAFD.
Bel air fire did almost identical damage though roofs were shake back then .
The cartoons on dry hydrants and why fire can jump valleys is eye opening.
They 3500 firefighters back in 1959.
I think I saw 7500 the other day …….
Hiking for a day is dangerous in canyons ,
so what should one call living in them ?
Who else wants to see Newsom resign immediately, gone for good, recalled, never seen again, investigated, prosecuted and imprisoned’?!.
I ♥ Newsom
For what handling these arsonist well? 😂
I think everyone stayed initially and used their water so it might have helped 😢
They are all lying
Defund the Media?
Karen bASS is the one receiving criticism. i like how the main stream news is so biased
Hate the game not the player?
People are criticizing from the comfort of their couches because everyone is an expert nowadays. Thanks to the internet everyone gets to talk trash about people while lying on the couches eating potato chips.
You are an internet expert on internet experts?
…..too many carbs. 🤷🏼♂️
There should be no question as to how they got there. It is obvious.
Oprah Winfrey?
Ya arsonists. They caught three.
@ Oprah ?
@@Nova-m8d no, the three arsonists they caught.
Everyone gets his reward
DEI hires = Usual Suspect
Affirmative Action Quota
Eviction of plebs by Smart city 2.0 commission 🤔😬🤦🏻🙏🏽✨
Receiving criticism by people who couldn’t do any better! Great!
Exactly
But the people literally did better.
too late now
Another DEI FAILURE!
Three arsonists were a failure?
Go woke go broke
👆 found the WDS (woke derangement syndrome)
Oh ffs! Cut the stupid finger pointing already. It’s just posturing for the lawyers. There is not a fire department on the entire face of the earth that could have effectively deployed, suppressed, fought, and beat back a raging chaparral fire in 90mph Santa Ana winds.
And for the record, I can’t stand Bass, Newsom, DEI, Woke, and all the other related nonsense. But those things had nothing to do with why these fires did what they did. Zero.
LA become new gaza😅
Cry over 😂
January 16A''''''' 🎩""""''''Tk
No we are blaming our leaders
Followers need leaders. Don't be a chump
All these experts on Social Media who have no background in City Planning, Fire Fighting, Emergency response. The ignorance is staggering, even for the internet..!!
10k plus structures burned down bro.
Part 1 - The drought and the wildfire destruction is a judgment from God himself - if you obey God's commandments he will bless you - if you disobey his commandments he will curse you
Deuteronomy 30:15 - 20
15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
16 In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
17 But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
18 I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.
19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
20 That thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land
If you disobey his 10 commandments - you will be cursed by your own doing because it was your own decision to disobey him - and part of the curse is severe drought - God sends the rain to bless those who obey his 10 commandments - and he withholds the rain from those who hate him - it is God who controls the weather - God sends the hurricanes and God sends the drought and God sends the winds and God sends the hail - your government controls nothing
Leviticus 26:18 - 20
18 And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
19 And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
20 And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.
Deuteronomy 28:23,24
23 And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
24 The Lord shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed (by the wildfires that come next after the drought).
Revelation 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part (33%) of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
Revelation 16:8,9,
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
Genesis 19:24,25
24 Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven;
25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
LA and Hollywood society has become an Antichrist Society - an Anti-God Society - they mock the God of the KJV Bible and the mock Jesus / Yeshua everyday on their movies and TV shows they make - in their cartoons made for children - they mock God Jesus in their award shows - they make cartoons for children that teach them God is evil and we can become gods
Their hearts look like this
Matthew 15:18 - 19
18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
Galatians 5:19 - 21
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Matthew 6:19 - 24
19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon (money/riches/power of money).
When the Bible talks about evil people in the last days - it's talking about America
2 Timothy 3:1 - 7, 13
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
God will punish the world for it's evil
Revelation 9:20,21
20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
Judgment Day is coming
Revelation 20:11 - 15
11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
Revelation 21:8
8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
O K