President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday left fire hydrants “out of water” and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) “out of money” amid devastating wildfires in Los Angeles.・He sarcastically expressed his gratitude to President Biden.
He told Truth Social, “There's no water in the hydrants, there's no money at FEMA. This is what Joe Biden leaves me with. Thank you Joe!”
Rick Caruso, a California businessman and former Los Angeles mayoral candidate, first said in an interview with local news that there is currently no water in the hydrants in the Pacific Palisades area, the epicenter of one of the fires. He blamed the local government. Mismanagement of resources like in a “third world country”.
“Our first responders and firefighters trying to fight this, there's no water in the Palisades. There's no water coming out of the hydrants. This is complete mismanagement on the part of the city.” “We don't have the resources to put out the fire.”
Fox LA reporter Matt Seedorf posted a video of firefighters trying to get water out of a hydrant and getting nothing but air.
In October, after Hurricane Helen hit the southeastern United States, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told reporters that FEMA could respond to “immediate needs” but did not have enough funds to get through hurricane season. He said no.
“We are meeting immediate needs with the funds we have. More hurricanes are expected,” Mayorkas said. “FEMA doesn't have the money to get us through the season.”
According to Politico, Biden administration Nearly half of the disaster relief effort was spent. Congress appropriated the 2025 budget just eight days into the fiscal year.
Additionally, CNN reported:
FEMA was already running out of funding earlier this year, so Congress recently released the agency's fiscal year 2025 budget. This gave FEMA approximately $20 billion worth of funding to use in response to Herren and Milton.
Criswell said Wednesday that the agency will end emergency needs funding (a designation that means FEMA focuses only on immediate storm response and pauses long-term recovery projects) on Oct. 1. He said about $9 billion of that has since been spent.
Loss from wildfires in California could reach $10 billion. New York Times.
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