NOT TRUE: California State Parks controls firefighting response.
Claim
CLAIM: California State Parks directed or controlled firefighting response.
Fact
FACT: California State Parks is not a firefighting agency and does not direct emergency fire response.
By law, the Los Angeles City Fire Department — not the state — was the responding agency. The claim omits that State Parks did not command the firefighting response.
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California did NOT cut firefighting budgets months before LA wildfires
The number of CalFIRE personnel has nearly doubled since 2019 and their budget has nearly doubled since 2019
False Claim: California isn’t ‘raking the forest’ to control wildfires
The state has now invested $2 billion in managing the forest (AKA “raking the forest”) in addition to the $200 million annual budget.
No, California’s smelt fish policy did not lead to the LA wildfires.
This is an outlandish connection to make. The policy is not about water availability in Southern California.