Although they advertise this as streamlining now-mandatory fire/ems reporting for agencies that have heavy loads, it would almost certainly benefit rural agencies that, because of their low loads and volunteer personnel, are out of practice with the use of Image Trend’s reporting system. Rural agencies can ill-afford to lose the funding that comes with compliance with mandatory reporting.
As just one example: We were advised not to bother trying to raise money from farmers because they are being squeezed financially. Well, guess who benefits most from rural volunteer fire departments? We recently had a brush truck put in danger from overheating because a near-harvest corn field was on fire during high winds. About half our fire calls are from farmers whose fields are on fire. The Feds control the trickledown from The World Reserve Currency and they are anything but sensitive to the very base of civilization.
My little town of about 270 in a county of several thousand answers about 20% to 30% of ambulance calls. The depopulation of rural Iowa has left it very top heavy in age. Of the guys in my department about half of them are from one family.
We are reduced to trying to sell raffle tickets to people who don’t have money to raise money.
Some guy on emergency calls keeps wearing this red hat around that says militia money.
Bass’s CYA on the Palisades Fire: “[T]he mayor told then-interim Fire Chief Villanueva that the report could expose the city to legal liabilities….Bass wanted key findings about the LAFD’s actions removed or softened before the report was made public….” https://t.co/a7dXyct2EN
No one can doubt the need for “extralegal” force to conquer high value territory now “occupied” by the likes of “Californians”, but no one seems to understand why said force remains only in potential.
That is the real question.
PS: With regard to the lawsuit’s complaint about resource limitations hampering the protection of property in LA a question arises regarding property owners’ interests in their land value as opposed to the “improvements”. How much of the Palisades’ land value went away when their buildings (improvements) went away? This may be a clue as to why they didn’t just establish some sort of community association into which they paid de facto property taxes to distribute to volunteer fire fighers to bypass the mayor. They could walk away with a substantial portion of their property value despite their failure to finance the aforementioned penultimate step toward “extralegal force”.
PPS: Someone probably died last night around here because property owners do things like donate $50 to the volunteer organizations as their way of paying back for brush fire fighting that saved their crops. Multiple calls went out from the Sheriff’s office via “IAmResponding” and to the best of my knowledge no one responded. I might have if I weren’t coughing up a lung fighting covid but come on… even if I weren’t I’m 72 and shouldn’t be driving an ambulance at 3AM. The $50 is a nice gesture and I totally get the horror of centralized agribusiness depriving farming families of their substance but it is symptomatic of the same disease Bill Norris saw wiping out the settler culture:
PPPS: This was probably the most influential tract influencing my approach to technology to the point that I gave up writing an 8086 OS in 1979, despite knowing the monopolistic potential, to go to work on realizing Norris’s vision.
