More on the Los Angeles Fires: "Predicted and Predictable"
Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson had a terrific piece yesterday about the Los Angeles wildfires. You can view it here. If you combine it with her report about FEMA, in which I participated, you'll have an idea of what a terrible mess we are in with regard to major disasters in our nation.
At the end of Sharyl's report about the LA Wildfires, we learn that California Governor Newsome is calling for a "independent investigation." But would you trust an investigation panel that he (or Mayor Bass) appoints?
There was an independent investigation after the Maui Fire . But, it got off the topic in places. Is a state attorney general best qualified to appoint such a panel? For example, instead of exclusively focusing on the fire, the report contains political material:
This type of political nonsense undermines the credibility of any report which is why the proposed National Disaster Review Board will be forbidden by law* to get into climate change and located far from Washington to further insulate it from politics. There is a highly ironic comment in the Maui report:
Of course, it was California's plan that failed so badly in Los Angeles ten days ago. Now there are complaints about FEMA in Southern California. Let's review how FEMA performed in Maui and North Carolina. First, Maui 9 months after the fire:
And, in North Carolina, 5 months after Hurricane Helene's floods:FEMA has many hundreds of modular homes and mobile homes yet people seem to inevitably end up in tents after major disasters. I predict it will occur in California, also. The only way the United States will stop repeating the same mistakes over and over is through the creation of a respected and independent National Disaster Review Board. Congress?
*Important note: Congress chartered the U.S. Climate Assessment for tasks like investigating the effects of climate change on disasters, so any link will be investigated -- just not by the NDRB.
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