Developer who saved Palisade Village from fire that engulfed Los Angeles

 Red State:

Billionaire Los Angeles developer Rick Caruso is the man behind iconic high-end retail and residential properties like The Grove, LA Live, The Americana at Brand, The Commons at Calabasas, and more. He ran for mayor of LA in 2022 but sadly lost to current Mayor Karen Bass. You see how that’s going.

One question a lot of people have been asking: how is it that, as the Pacific Palisades continues to burn to the ground, Caruso’s outdoor shopping and dining destination, Palisades Village, still stands?

The answer: he used private firefighters.

Caruso used a private firefighting service to fight the fire at the mall, and was able to save it. Caruso understood fire risks, having served decades earlier as Commissioner for the L.A. Department of Water and Power. And he also understood the limitations of the city’s public fire services, whose budget was cut nearly $20 million last year by Mayor Karen Bass and the City Council.

Fire crews for hire reportedly cost between $3,000 and $10,000 a day and are mostly contracted with insurance companies or the government. Some reports indicate, however, that Caruso used his own employees to cast water on the property.  

Some locals are reportedly "furious":

Billionaire developer and former mayoral candidate Rick Caruso is receiving backlash online after the New York Times reported that he had hired private fire crews to protect Palisades Village - an upscale outdoor mall owned by the businessman. 

'So Rick directly or indirectly contributed to the fires by diverting resources to himself and away from the greater population. I think this needs to be investigated ASAP', one user wrote on X. 

Another said: 'We cannot survive the billionaire class'. A separate account commented: 'Dystopian capitalism'.

... 

What Caruso demonstrated is that property can be saved from a large fire with the proper crews.  Caruso was not the one who cut the fire department's budget.  That was done by Liberals city officials.  They should be pointing the finger at the officials who cut the Fire Department budget.  They should also be focusing on those who failed to keep the reservoirs full during the fire season.

See also:

And:

 Stunner: Why Was Pacific Palisades Reservoir EMPTY? It Gets Worse.

...

Friday, officials confirmed that the reservoir had been down for nearly a year —closing in February 2024—for maintenance to the cover of the reservoir.

The New York Times reports that a contractor was hired in November to fix a crack in the cover. It is unclear why the reservoir had to be shut down for that extended period of time.

The ripple effect was beyond devastating.
...

And:

 Wildfire ActBlue 'Donation' Scandal Explodes, Elizabeth Warren Implicated While Obama Bros Go Berserk

And:

 Newsom defends fire response with fact-check site linking to Dem Party fundraising platform

A website intended to combat 'misinformation' about the fires encourages users to donate to those affected through Democratic fundraising giant ActBlue

And:

 Los Angeles mayor’s ties to Castro’s communist Cuba EXPOSED: 'A confirmed Marxist Leninist'


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