Fire/EMS/ERs/disasters, etc.

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So, step-bro's house did survive but they think it could be up to two years before they can move back in from smoke and environmental damage from all the toxins that burned in the area.

Obviously, widespread urban fires have many more toxic components than a forest fire.

That sucks to be homeless for so long, regardless.

A dozen new fires in parts of Los Angeles, Riverside and San Diego counties. Winds over 50 mph. Multiple schools plus tens of thousands of residents evacuated.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nat ... 861957007/

Largest, Hughes Fire: 8,096 Acres, Containment 0%
https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2025/1/22/hughes-fire
Zoom out for wind map

Blew up to 5,000 acres in an hour.

9,269 Acres. Big run to the south, threatening entire neighborhoods (zoom in).
I blame Trump.

[GoCubsGo]

I blame Trump.

Oh hell yeah.

A real president would have put the fires out by now.

[Vrede too]

I blame Trump.

Oh hell yeah.

A real president would have put the fires out by now.

A real president would have prevented the fires from starting.

10,176 Acres. 14% Contained, but that may just be Castaic Lake and Castaic Lagoon.

Castaic, CA today:
High 69
0% Precip
Humidity 7%
Winds could occasionally gust over 40 mph.
https://www.wunderground.com/weather/us/ca/castaic

[O Really]

That area got it last year too, or maybe it was the year before.

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Trump Attacks FEMA, Says States Should ‘Take Care Of Their Own Problems’
The president's remarks came as another major fire broke out in California.

Is DonOLD volunteering for a massive increase in his FL tax bill?

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Doomsday clock set at 89 seconds to midnight, closest ever to "global catastrophe"

... The decades-old international symbol, described by the University of Chicago-based nonprofit the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists as a metaphor that shows how close the planet is to reaching "human extinction," is set every year. In January 2024, the clock was set at 90 seconds to midnight, the same as it was in 2023. This is the first time the clock has moved forward since 2023.

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists tracks man-made threats and focuses on three main hazard areas — nuclear risk, climate change and disruptive technologies — to determine the clock's placement. The clock's position this year was set based on "nuclear weapons threats, the climate crisis, biological threats, and disruptive technologies like artificial intelligence," according to a press release from the Bulletin.

My money is on Judgement Day. Y'all?

... "The 2025 Clock time signals that the world is on a course of unprecedented risk, and that continuing on the current path is a form of madness," the Bulletin said. "The United States, China, and Russia have the prime responsibility to pull the world back from the brink. The world depends on immediate action."...

3 nations with stellar track records, especially when it comes to cooperative action.

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D.C. plane crash | Earthcam video captures the moment regional jet collides with military helicopter

American Airlines plane, Black Hawk helicopter collide midair near D.C.-area airport

A commercial airplane collided in midair with a Black Hawk helicopter as the jet was approaching a runway at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday night, according to federal aviation officials.

The accident happened as the jet, operated by regional carrier PSA Airlines on behalf of American Airlines, was attempting to land just before 9 p.m. ET.

There was no immediate word on fatalities. But the incident could be the most significant disaster in U.S. airspace in at least 15 years.

American Airlines said there were 60 passengers and four crew members on board the jet, a Bombardier CRJ-700. "Our concern is for the passengers and crew on board the aircraft. We are in contact with authorities and assisting with emergency response efforts," the airline said in a statement.

The Pentagon told NPR that the Army Black Hawk helicopter had three soldiers on board and was out of Fort Belvoir, Va.

A webcam at the nearby John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts showed a small aircraft, presumably the helicopter, colliding with the passenger jet at a low altitude, followed by a bright explosion. Radar tracking sites show the passenger jet appears to have fallen into the frigid Potomac River....

The last major commercial airplane accident in the U.S. occurred in 2009, when a Colgan Air flight crashed near Buffalo killing a total of 50 people (49 passengers and crew, and one person inside a house)....

They'll blame Biden.

[GoCubsGo]

Thanks trump.

[Vrede too]

They'll blame Biden.

Trump was challenged after blaming DEI for the DC plane crash. Here's what he said



Hey, as long as it's okay to spread wholly unsupported wild ass theories:

FREE PALESTINE!!!

[Vrede too]

Thanks trump.
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1884854452332458052

https://x.com/patriottakes/status/1884852939111714881
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GihXwguWAAA ... name=large

https://x.com/kaitlancollins/status/1884842556875305028

Good timing, more EXCELLENCE:

Trump Admin Emails Air Traffic Controllers: Quit Your Jobs

Air traffic controllers were emailed by the Trump administration urging them to quit their jobs and take mass “buyouts” just 24 hours after the D.C. plane crash.

They were among hundreds of thousands of federal workers sent the email at 8.30 p.m. Thursday to push the extraordinary offer by Trump’s aides to get civil servants to quit en masse.

The email dropped almost exactly 24 hours after an Army helicopter crashed into an American Airlines jet as it came into land at Reagan National Airport, killing 67 people. Just one air traffic controller was doing the work of two controllers at the time, early reports have suggested.

“We encourage you to find a job in the private sector as soon as you would like to do so,” stated the email sent by the Office of Personnel Management, The New York Times reported....

The message was formatted as “frequently asked questions.” It suggested that by taking the buyout, the workers could immediately get second jobs or vacation at their “dream destination” while still on the government payroll. That advice is contradictory to years old regulations that have prohibited federal employees from picking up second sources of income.

The ongoing criminal enterprise continues.

The late Thursday night email follows up on an earlier one which offered federal workers other incentives to abandon their job security, such as eight months of pay if they obliged by Feb. 6.

More criminality. There is no federal provision for paying people who aren't working.

... The president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, Nick Daniels, told the Times that it is “not yet clear” how the resignation program would come into effect.

Daniels added that union workers are “concerned” about the consequences of losing “experienced aviation safety personnel during a universally recognized air traffic controller staffing shortage.”

DonOLD hates America.

[GoCubsGo]

DonOLD hates America.

Even for DonOld, that's incredulous.

[neoplacebo]

I just read that Leon Musk and the Incompetents have been allowed access to the systems that pay out Social Security benefits.

[Vrede too]

I just read that Leon Musk and the Incompetents have been allowed access to the systems that pay out Social Security benefits.

Time to organize a gray hair self-defense militia.

[GoCubsGo]

Trump's America, planes falling out of the sky?

Apparently a Lear business jet.

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Trump's America, planes falling out of the sky?

Apparently a Lear business jet.

https://x.com/acnewsitics/status/1885474631252914258

Fuckin' KC fans!


Aha, one of the Blackhawk pilots was a woman. Fuckin' DEI!

[GoCubsGo]

Trump's America, planes falling out of the sky?

Apparently a Lear business jet.

https://x.com/acnewsitics/status/1885474631252914258

Fuckin' KC fans!


Aha, one of the Blackhawk pilots was a woman. Fuckin' DEI!

Sure she wasn't a stewardess?

[Vrede too]

Aha, one of the Blackhawk pilots was a woman. Fuckin' DEI!

Sure she wasn't a stewardess?

Blackhawks have stewardesses?

As usual these days :

A trans National Guard pilot was falsely accused of flying the helicopter in the fatal plane collision

A trans member of the National Guard is speaking out after a wave of claims on social media falsely pointed to her as the pilot of the Black Hawk helicopter that collided with a passenger jet in Washington, Wednesday, killing 67 people.

Jo Ellis, a UH60 Black Hawk helicopter pilot for the Virginia Army National Guard, posted on Facebook Friday to dispel the rumors that had echoed President Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated blaming of diversity initiatives for the fatal accident.

“Some craziness has happened on the internet and I’m being named as one of the pilots of the DC crash,” Ellis wrote. “It’s insulting to the victims and families of those lost and they deserve better than this BS from the bots and trolls of the internet.”...

Hateful MAGA assholes (redundant, I know). No word yet on whether the Philadelphia Lear Jet pilots were trans.

New DC crash video and comprehensive crash discussion

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Army releases name of 3rd soldier who died in helicopter and airliner crash



... Cpt. Rebecca M. Lobach, of Durham, N.C., served as an Army aviation officer since July 2019. Her awards include an Army commendation medal and an achievement medal.

She was a Dolt .45 recruit. Is he accepting responsibility? (just kidding, the lifelong cowardly "bone spurs" Chickenhawk in Chief never does)

In a statement released by the Army, her family said she was a distinguished military graduate in ROTC at the University of North Carolina, and was in the top 20% of cadets nationwide. They said she had more than 450 hours of flight time, and earned “certification as a pilot-in-command after extensive testing by the most senior and experienced pilots in her battalion.”

Sounds qualified to me.

... The names of the two other soldiers were released on Friday, but Lobach’s name was withheld at the time at the request of her family. The others were: Staff Sgt. Ryan Austin O’Hara, 28, of Lilburn, Georgia, who was the crew chief, and Chief Warrant Officer 2 Andrew Loyd Eaves, 39, of Great Mills, Maryland, who was a pilot.

So, Lobach was the ranking officer, but I don't think it's yet been revealed whether she or Eaves was piloting the helicopter at the time of the crash.

... while the investigation into the crash has only just begun, President Donald Trump has publicly blamed the helicopter for flying at too high an altitude. And he issued a lengthy critique about an FAA diversity hiring initiative —particularly regarding air traffic controllers — saying they eroded flight safety.

No evidence has emerged that rules seeking to diversify the FAA played any role in the collision.

There's never any evidence for DonOLD's claims, especially the bigoted ones.

'Miracle On The Hudson' Pilot Has Just 3 Words For Trump's DC Crash Response
Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, known for the heroic landing of US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River, weighed in on the deadly midair collision.

Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger, the now-retired captain known for his heroic role in the “Miracle on the Hudson,” let out a deep sigh when asked Thursday about President Donald Trump’s remarks on the midair collision that left 67 people dead in Washington, D.C. this week.

“Not surprised. Disgusted,” said Sullenberger after several seconds of silence when MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell asked about the president and cautioned that he didn’t want to draw the pilot into “politics.”

The reaction from Sullenberger — who safely landed US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River in 2009, saving the lives of all 155 people aboard — comes after Trump blamed diversity hiring at the Federal Aviation Administration on the collision....

That could be our resistance motto - “Not surprised. Disgusted"

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Trump's America, planes falling out of the sky?

Apparently a Lear business jet.

Because the young girl, her mother, her doctor, and the others onboard were Mexican nationals trump will soon lie and whine that they were all illegal immigrants trying to avoid capture by Homan and his ICE army. The cult will gush in awe yet again. Make that stupefied awe. Again.

If he doesn't go with the above scenario, he will lie and whine that its another DEI situation where attempts to serve more Latino kids at St. Jude's Chirdrens Research Hospital resulted in disaster. And, on cue, the gushing in stupefied awe will accompany this idiodic notion just like always.

[GoCubsGo]

Right after he says thoughts and prayers.