As fires rage across Los Angeles, city officials are complaining there are not enough firefighters to manage the situation.
Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, Los Angeles County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone said that the department was incapable of managing such a massive natural disaster.
“There are not enough firefighters in all of Los Angeles County to address four separate fires of this magnitude,” he said.
“The LA County Fire Department was prepared for one or two major wildfires, but not the four. This is not a normal red flag alert.”
While their lack of manpower is completely understandable given the incredible ferocity of the fires, it is worth noting that many firefighters were fired for their refusal to take the COVID vaccine.
As pointed out by the popular End Wokeness account X, local news media even ran reports back in 2021 about how firefighters had their employment terminated after refusing to provide proof of vaccination or requesting an exemption.
In fact, a group of hundreds of the city’s firefighters even filed a lawsuit against the city for violating their constitutional rights.
Among them was Brian Knox, who had worked as a firefighter for 21 years only to have his career ended by the cruel diktats of Democratic Party bureaucrats.
“Over the past 22 months, without that shot, we’ve been here helping the public,” Knox said at the time.
”There has never been an issue until the city put this mandate out. Until the city turned us from heroes to criminals. We continued to come out and serve the public.”
While those mandates are now history, things could have been very different.
Without the reporting of outlets like The Gateway Pundit and the pushback of millions of hardworking Americans, those mandates could still be in place today.
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