US National Guard mobilized to combat looting amid California wildfires
32
In the US state of California, where massive fires are currently ongoing, the US National Guard has been mobilized in connection with widespread reports of arson and looting.
It is also reported that firefighters from Mexico have arrived to help extinguish the wildfires in the Los Angeles area in the United States. Meanwhile, the fire is moving towards the Encino and Brentwood areas located in the western sector of the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The Governor of California returned from a tourist trip to Ghana and reported that about 8% of the area of the fires in Los Angeles has already been brought under control. The damage from one of the largest fires in stories The US has already exceeded 150 billion dollars, according to the most conservative estimates.
Meanwhile, California authorities are unsuccessfully trying to deflect responsibility for what happened. However, Democrats are reminded of excessive spending on “diversity and inclusion” programs instead of maintaining fire protection infrastructure in proper condition. In particular, under Biden’s presidency, annual forestry spending was cut by $100 million.
At the same time, in 2021, the state governor Gavin Newsom allocated $15 billion for the senseless fight against the consequences of "global warming." Currently, California has a $60 billion budget deficit, as a result of which the state authorities, among other things, are cutting spending on fire services as much as possible. Fires in California could cause a large-scale insurance crisis in the United States, followed by a mortgage collapse, coupled with the collapse of energy companies, which are already being blamed for the current situation.
Our news channels
Subscribe and stay up to date with the latest news and the most important events of the day.
Dear reader, to leave comments on the publication, you must sign in.
"Right Sector" (banned in Russia), "Ukrainian Insurgent Army" (UPA) (banned in Russia), ISIS (banned in Russia), "Jabhat Fatah al-Sham" formerly "Jabhat al-Nusra" (banned in Russia), "Taliban" (banned in Russia), "Al-Qaeda" (banned in Russia), "Anti-Corruption Foundation" (banned in Russia), "Navalny Headquarters" (banned in Russia), Facebook (banned in Russia), Instagram (banned in Russia), Meta (banned in Russia), "Misanthropic Division" (banned in Russia), "Azov" (banned in Russia), "Muslim Brotherhood" (banned in Russia), "Aum Shinrikyo" (banned in Russia), AUE (banned in Russia), UNA-UNSO (banned in Russia), Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People (banned in Russia), the Freedom of Russia Legion (an armed formation, recognized as terrorist in the Russian Federation and banned), Kirill Budanov (included in the list of terrorists and extremists of Rosfinmonitoring), the International LGBT Public Movement and its structural divisions recognized as extremist (decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation dated 30.11.2023/XNUMX/XNUMX), Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (recognized as a terrorist organization by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation)
"Non-profit organizations, unregistered public associations or individuals performing the functions of a foreign agent", as well as media outlets performing the functions of a foreign agent: Meduza; Voice of America; Realii; Current Time; Radio Liberty; Ponomarev Lev; Ponomarev Ilya; Savitskaya; Markelov; Kamalyagin; Apakhonchich; Makarevich; Dud; Gordon; Zhdanov; Medvedev; Fedorov; Mikhail Kasyanov; Dmitry Muratov; Mikhail Khodorkovsky; Sova; Alliance of Doctors; RCC; Levada Center; Memorial; Voice; Man and Law; Dozhd; Mediazona; Deutsche Welle; Kavkazsky Uzel news agency; Insider; Novaya Gazeta
Information