“Defunding of other city programs in order to give the LAPD billions a year has consequences,” according to a local activist.
    • GrumpyDucklingEnglish
      7·
      1 month ago

      The fire grew this big due to high winds from the giant winter storm earlier in the week. Winds were too high to use planes/helicopters.

    • ExhaleSmile@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 month ago

      I’m confident US has no such planes

      This is just peak ignorance. A quick search says the US has 200-300 firefighting planes and even lists 6 different varieties.