As fires rage across Los Angeles, city officials are complaining there are not enough firefighters to manage the situation.

Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, Los Angeles County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone said that the department was incapable of managing such a massive natural disaster.

“There are not enough firefighters in all of Los Angeles County to address four separate fires of this magnitude,” he said.

“The LA County Fire Department was prepared for one or two major wildfires, but not the four. This is not a normal red flag alert.”

While their lack of manpower is completely understandable given the incredible ferocity of the fires, it is worth noting that many firefighters were fired for their refusal to take the COVID vaccine.

As pointed out by the popular End Wokeness account X, local news media even ran reports back in 2021 about how firefighters had their employment terminated after refusing to provide proof of vaccination or requesting an exemption.

LA officials say they do not have enough firefighters… they literally TERMINATED firefighters for not taking a COVID vax pic.twitter.com/4pRh9iNcMm

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 9, 2025

In fact, a group of hundreds of the city’s firefighters even filed a lawsuit against the city for violating their constitutional rights.

Among them was Brian Knox, who had worked as a firefighter for 21 years only to have his career ended by the cruel diktats of Democratic Party bureaucrats.

“Over the past 22 months, without that shot, we’ve been here helping the public,” Knox said at the time.

”There has never been an issue until the city put this mandate out. Until the city turned us from heroes to criminals. We continued to come out and serve the public.”

WOW: 871 Los Angeles Firefighters to File $1.7 Billion Lawsuit Over Vaccine Mandate (VIDEO)

As readers will know, the so-called COVID vaccine turned out to be neither safe nor particularly effective.

In many cases, people suffered severe side effects that severely compromised their health and, in some cases, resulted in their deaths.

One of the main vaccine manufacturers, AstraZeneca, has since pulled their COVID vaccine worldwide.

While those mandates are now history, things could have been very different.

Without the reporting of outlets like The Gateway Pundit and the pushback of millions of hardworking Americans, those mandates could still be in place today.

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Life is hell on earth under full Democrat control.

Wednesday evening marked day two of the horrifying fires ravaging Los Angeles.

More than 100,000 people have been evacuated in the greater Los Angeles area as tens of thousands of acres burn.

Thanks to incompetent Democrats such as LA Mayor Karen Bass, the fire hydrants have run dry and there are not enough resources to fight the wildfires.

Fire trucks are using garden hoses from residential homes to fill up their water tanks after hydrants run dry.

There is no water north of Woodbury in Altadena, according to a Fox 11 reporter.

The fire in Altadena (Eaton fire) is raging out of control. As of Wednesday evening, it was reported that the fire in Altadena is zero percent contained.

At least five people have died in the Eaton fire. Thousands of homes and structures have burned down.

“We saw something really incredible. See this hose? This garden hose? This is connected to the firetruck and this homeowner is filling up the firetruck tank with their hose so that they can fight these fires because they are out of water,” a Fox 11 reporter said.

“Everywhere north of Woodbury – none of the fire hydrants have any water in them which is why these homeowners – you see them spraying, the flames themselves with the garden hose,” the reporter said.

WATCH:

No water north of Woodbury while the fire rages out of control. Fire Trucks are using residential homes to fill up their fire trucks. pic.twitter.com/ho4Y9VkYN4

— Oreo Express (@OreoExpress) January 8, 2025

The fire captain told MSNBC that zero fire hydrants have water.

WATCH:

WATCH: Fire Captain asked how many fire hydrants in LA are full of water.

‘Little to NONE.’ pic.twitter.com/x7csUtQrjy

— Natalie Winters (@nataliegwinters) January 9, 2025

An apartment complex and supermarket in Altadena burned down because firefighters have ZERO water to fight the fire.

WATCH:

JUST IN: An apartment complex and supermarket are currently on fire in Altadena, CA, and firefighters still have NO WATER, per radio traffic.

THIS IS CRIMINAL. pic.twitter.com/CZlcK1qqsE

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 8, 2025

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Republicans in Congress are already getting to work on trying to implement Donald Trump’s agenda.

Rep. Ralph Norman (R-NC) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) this week put forward a joint resolution seeking to limit the number of terms members of Congress can serve.

Under the terms of the amendment, U.S. senators would be restricted to two six-year terms and representatives in the U.S. House to three two-year terms.

According to the resolution, the amendment would take effect within seven years of being approved by Congress and ratified by the states.

Cruz said of the legislation:

Term limits are critical to fixing what’s wrong with Washington, D.C.

The Founding Fathers envisioned a government of citizen legislators who would serve for a few years and return home, not a government run by a small group of special interests and lifelong, permanently entrenched politicians who prey upon the brokenness of Washington to govern in a manner that is totally unaccountable to the American people.

Term limits bring about long-overdue accountability. I urge my colleagues to advance this amendment to the states so that it may be quickly ratified and become a constitutional amendment.

Norman echoed these sentiments.

“Elected office should represent a short-term privilege of public service, not a career choice,” he said.

“Those of us in Congress ought to serve for a reasonable period of time and then return home to live under the laws we enacted.”

Among those sponsoring the resolution include Senators Mike Lee of Utah, Rick Scott of Florida, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Todd Young of Indiana, Steve Daines of Montana, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Eric Schmitt of Missouri, Roger Marshall of Kansas, Katie Britt of Alabama and Jim Banks of Indiana.

Yet unlike normal legislation, this proposal would require a constitutional amendment.

In order for it to pass, it must pass by a two-thirds majority vote in the House and Senate and then be ratified by at least 38 out of 50 states.

The issue of term limits has become a hot button topic over recent years, particularly with the refusal of the late California Senator Dianne Feinstein to give up her seat until her death.

President-elect Donald Trump has long been in favor of term limits, speaking about the idea as early as 2016.

However, he was unable to get them approved during his first term in office, mainly because the president had no formal role in ratifying constitutional amendments.

According to a Pew Research poll taken in 2023, a whopping 87 percent of the American public support the idea of term limits.

This support was split equally between Democrats and Republicans, suggesting it has wide bipartisan support.

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The hits just keep coming.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass held a press conference to brief the public on the ongoing wildfires raging out of control in her city and the greater LA area.

As of Wednesday evening, the several fires burning in Los Angeles are zero percent contained.

UPDATE: The status of the ongoing wildfires in California.

PERCENT OF FIRE CONTAINED:
Palisades: 0% (15,832 acres)
Eaton: 0% (10,600 acres)
Hurst: 0% (505 acres)
Lidia: 30% (80 acres)
Woodley: 0% (30 acres) pic.twitter.com/VOYE0ww5qC

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 9, 2025

Gusty Santa Ana Winds and dry fire hydrants are making it nearly impossible for firefighters to contain the fire.

LA’s incompetent and corrupt Mayor, Karen Bass, was actually in Africa when the fires exploded in her city.

Karen Bass slashed Fire Department funding by $17.6 million a few months before the fires erupted on Tuesday.

Los Angeles firefighters couldn’t even battle the inferno because the hydrants went dry.

Earlier Wednesday a Sky News reporter cornered Karen Bass and absolutely torched her over her failed policies.

Later Wednesday evening Karen Bass held a press briefing and she couldn’t even read a script.

Karen Bass pulled a Joe Biden and literally read the words “URL” off her script instead of giving those in need the emergency website.

“All of this can be found at URL,” Karen Bass said.

WATCH:

CAN’T MAKE THIS UP! Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is going all Joe Biden, not knowing what she’s saying!

They didn’t write the web address in her script (that she’s stumbling on) and told everyone where to get help from: “All of this can be found at URL”

FIRE THIS DUMBASS NOW pic.twitter.com/HSkJQV7jjs

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) January 9, 2025

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The War Room’s Natalie Winter joined Piers Morgan to discuss the UK’s massive Grooming scandal by Muslim men gangraping little white girls in communities across the country.

Natalie joined British political journalist Ava Santina, Uncensored contributor Esther Krakue, and philosopher and writer Jack Symes to discuss this British crisis.

It was quite amazing to watch the lengths these UK panelists will go, with there false arguments to defend the gangrape of little girls or deflect to another topic. They are brainwashed to believe that it is forbidden to talk about the GANGRAPE of little girls in the country.

That says everything you need to know about the situation in England today.

Natalie Winters was a fresh voice in a sea of insanity.

At one point, guest Jack Symes lashed out at Elon Musk and defended the Muslims in England.

Jack Symes: The real risk you have in the US isn’t multiculturalism. It’s a multibillionaire running the biggest social media planet, one of the biggest in the world, which has turned into an echo chamber of your ridiculous ideology. The fact that you’re telling us all and telling the British public who we’re proudly multicultural, and as someone that was brought up in multicultural working class Birmingham, I can tell you for sure that you won’t find a Muslim there who’s read the Quran and went, Oh, you know what? It didn’t rule out sexual violence, so I might just crack on with that.

Natalie Winters responded.

Via Natalie Winters on X

This dude thinks the real threat is @ElonMusk.

Not the mass coverup of the grooming gang story.

Insane. pic.twitter.com/ymhG6t5U4E

— Natalie Winters (@nataliegwinters) January 7, 2025

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