Actor criticizes California Governor Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass for their handling of the devastating wildfires, accusing them of incompetence and prioritizing fish over people. He highlights the lack of water resources available to firefighters and points to their past decisions, such as Bass's cuts to fire department funding, as contributing factors.
“I had smoke alarms going off in my house and a fire truck parked in front of my house, but they couldn’t pump any water. There was none because they didn’t put them in the reservoirs, OK?” the actor said to Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Wednesday night.is the absolute blithering idiot that I believe he is, and the way he has handled fire management in this state again and again and again and again — this isn’t a wake-up call.
“He wanted to protect an essentially worthless fish called a smelt, by giving it less water , but didn’t care about the people of California,” Trump added.also became a target of ire for traveling overseas in Ghana while residents battled fires in their neighborhoods. Woods raised another critique of her leadership because she had previously cut fire department funding, which might have helped save his home.
Woods posted a video of the beautiful view from his home that he had filmed on a peaceful day just before the fires devastated his neighborhood.
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