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In the midst of the emergency, we have all seen individuals who are targeting vulnerable communities by burglarizing and looting homes. This is simply unacceptable,
Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger told reporters Thursday I promise you, you will be held accountable. Shame on those who are preying on our residents during this time of crisis.”
Barger then addressed looters directly I’m going to make this crystal clear to everybody out there,
Those red and yellow planes you showed on the screen, I used to personally fly those,
Sheehy said on Fox News’s The Ingraham Angle 80,000 people told to evacuate. Blazes 0% contained. Eight months since the area has seen rain. The scale of damage and loss is unimaginable. Climate change is real, not 'a hoax.' Donald Trump must treat this like the existential crisis it is,
Sanders declared in the tweet on Wednesday morning '[G]lobal warming ate my homework' doesn't work anymore. literally every single politician in california responsible for the catastrophic failure to prepare for this, from water management and controlled burns to the fire department's budget, is a democrat."
Mike Solana, editor-in-chief of Pirate Wires, mocked the senator's comments, writing in a post on X Wildfires, including ones much larger than this, have been happening in California forever."
Conservative commentator and author Justin Haskins, director of the Socialism Research Center at the Heartland Institute, noted People are literally fleeing. Kids have lost their schools. Communities have lost their churches. Families have lost their homes. Some have even lost their lives. And the President-Elect’s response is to politicize it. We’ll continue to focus on what matters: saving lives and putting out these unprecedented fires."
Earlier on Wednesday evening, Newsom noted in a post on X One of the best and most beautiful parts of the United States of America is burning down to the ground. It’s ashes, and Gavin Newscum should resign. This is all his fault!!!
Trump declared in a Truth Social post late Wednesday night Climate change is an existential disaster facing the entire world,
he asserted in a tweet nearly six years ago in February 2019. So they may be left with nothing and so there are going to be a lot of people who are going to need help. They’re going to need help from a Democrat president, or a Republican president. I know Sen. Padilla and I are determined to do everything we can to make sure they get the resources they need – Governor Newsom, the same. We’re committed to all our constituents, regardless of party,
But I shudder to think what will happen if we don't have a president that views us all as Americans, not some to be punished and others to be rewarded in natural disasters. We just never had a president like that. We had it once. We are having it again. But I would hope that the incoming president realizes that this affects his supporters as well as anyone else. We are all equally devastated by this and the federal government is going to need help,
These fires obviously are impacting everyone, whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, independent, doesn't matter. All of us are in this together and one of the things that has been just so apparent and talking to people who have lost their homes is, not only did they lose their home, they lost their whole neighborhood,
Schiff told MSNBC's Joy Reid One can't even respond to it. I mean… you know, people are literally fleeing. People have lost their lives. Kids lost their schools. Families completely torn apart. Churches burned down,
Newsom told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Wednesday Governor Gavin Newscum [sic] refused to sign the water restoration declaration put before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water, from excess rain and snow melt from the North, to flow daily into many parts of California, including the areas that are currently burning in a virtually apocalyptic way,
In the midst of chaos, Donald Trump is taking action by opening up the strategic nickname reserves. Thank you, sir,
she said as she looked into the camera and sarcastically gave a salute Because while everyone else is deeply concerned with what’s going on in Los Angeles right now, Trump is handling the tragedy like the statesman that he is,
said Lydic of the president-elect’s response to the wildfires, which have wreaked havoc on multiple L.A. neighborhoods and killed at least five people There are always lessons to be learned,
I’m not particularly interested in a handful of Republican operatives who want to take political cheap shots on social media in the midst of a horrific disaster,
You’re the mayor, and you’ve got a life threatening, catastrophic windstorm coming into proportions that haven’t been seen in however long,
Rick Caruso, Bass’ 2022 mayoral opponent, told Playbook
