Chapter 326 The culprit
Standing on the Twitter building, you don’t need a telescope now. You can see a piece of smoke rising into the sky with your naked eyes.
"Boss, it seems a bit out of control." Edward stood in front of the window, worried, "I won't burn our side together, right?"
Hawke admitted that he made a mistake: "I have underestimated the organizational ability of the Los Angeles municipal department as much as possible, but I still overestimated them. Their lower limit is much lower than I thought."
Edward said, "Los Angeles has been burning for two days. The mayor has not returned yet and is still attending art exhibitions in South Korea. It's outrageous."
Hawke shook his head helplessly: "I can only say that Brian has caught the opportunity well. This bastard has improved a lot than before."
Edward picked up his phone, looked at the message sent by Michael and Qiuchuang trio, and said, "Many women and children in Compton have also been on the move."
The four people were watching, not participating, but acting as eyes and ears.
"Let Caroline continue to spread the news." Hawke has been understanding the fire situation and dynamics in various places through Campos and others. He felt that the time was similar, so he was ready to put some heavyweight content out.
I have basically obtained the news that I should get. As the fire grows, the area of the fire expands, and the danger begins to increase.
Hawke asked Campos to call the man back.
One more thing to do, the imprisoned Melissa Ackerman once told her that she hid a safe key in the Ackerman Charity Foundation Finance Office.
If you have the chance, of course you have to try to get it.
The Ackerman Foundation is headquartered in northern Santa Monica.
Hawke left Twitter and came to the safe house in central Santa Monica, calling Campos, Garcia, Carlos and others to discuss.
At the same time, Twitter and Fox 11 have successively exposed various magical operations of female employees of the fire department.
You can watch and respond to Twitter at any time and get furious immediately.
The push friends were in an uproar.
In the exposed live video, female firefighters constantly refreshed normal people's consistent understanding of the profession of firefighters.
They cannot even control basic fire extinguishing equipment and cannot play a role in the fire. Instead, they frequently clash with men who actively help to rescue the crowd.
These people from feminist organizations have their abilities focused on that mouth.
The public's dissatisfaction with the fire and the chaos led to a lot of criticism.
"What is the current government in Los Angeles thinking? Why are a group of women trying to put out the fire?"
"Can they do this job? It's not possible!"
"Los Angeles was burned like this, thanks to the elites in the fire and municipal system!"
More news and comments appeared on the Internet.
There was then exposed by Los Angeles City Hall's fire budget last year, which focused on the gender balance reform of the fire system promoted by Mayor Antonio.
The focus of public opinion attack inevitably fell on the current mayor Antonio.
"Los Angeles is what it is now, thanks to our elite mayor."
"Antonio promoted the three highest leaders of the Fire Department, except for one who served as the Fire Department's administrative director, the other two are female social activists. Do they know how to put out the fire?"
"In order to win over feminist support, Antonio experimented with the safety of all people in Los Angeles!"
The voices criticizing Antonio were loud and were still skyrocketing.
But he did please the feminists, and many women stood up to defend Antonio. "How can we blame the female firefighter and Antonio for this matter? The continuous hot and dry weather in Los Angeles has caused a lack of water in the fire pipeline. This is the culprit."
These women can distort the facts, but in this critical battle, they cannot grasp the real key points at all.
An Elephant Congressman in the Los Angeles Parliament then disclosed a document announced by the City Hall. The document showed that just a few months ago, Antonio signed an agreement with Wandefu to sell most of the freshwater resources in Los Angeles.
They include two reservoirs of fire storage water, the Los Angeles Canal, etc.
This is the real reason for water shortage.
With this as a sign, the fire in Los Angeles has evolved from a fire to a bipartisan and political struggle.
Another Elephant City Councilman exposed another document announced by the City Council. In the Los Angeles municipal budget formulated by Antonio last year, the Fire Department cut off nearly half of the formal equipment purchase and maintenance and employee welfare budgets, specifically for gender balance.
This leads to outdated fire station equipment, lack of maintenance, and all three fire-extinguishing helicopters cannot be launched, etc.
There is also a reduction in the normal budget, and fire-fighting equipment can only purchase Indian bargains, and bargains cannot be used at all.
These are public documents, which were not paid attention to in the past, but now they have become the focus of all public opinion.
Especially the wealthy and celebrities who lived in northern Los Angeles, whose houses were burned, criticized Antonio on Twitter.
Antonio is rushing back to Los Angeles from South Korea and cannot respond for the time being.
At his request, the Fire Department held a press conference at Los Angeles City Hall.
Chief Karen Crowley informed the fire, saying that the Los Angeles Fire Department was doing its best to put out the fire. But Halle Wayne, a female reporter from Fox TV, asked a very realistic question without hesitation. "Before this fire, the fire department fired a large number of male firefighters and replaced them with female firefighters." Harley asked directly: "You have recruited so many female firefighters. If a man in the house where the fire broke out was choked by the smoke, can the male victim be rescued with the strength of the female firefighters?" There were hundreds of reporters in the venue, all their eyes on Karen.
If you are a director with a normal mind, you will definitely find a series of reasons and excuses to make excuses.
But before Director Karen took office, he was a feminist social activist, full of men and women's opposition and women's privileges.
She said without hesitation: "If a man is trapped in the fire and needs my female firefighter to rescue him, it means he has gone to the wrong place!"
The whole audience was in an uproar.
If Karen says female firefighters should give priority to protecting their lives, media reporters feel normal.
But this attitude of clearly boxing makes people's views shattered.
Ronard, the spokesperson of the Los Angeles City Hall, was shocked by this.
The fire has caused nearly ten casualties and a large number of rich people are forced to leave their homes, this is inappropriate!
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Ronald quickly announced the end of the press conference.
Several people hurriedly left the news hall and entered the nearby conference room.
Several other Los Angeles municipal leaders, such as Bjorkman, Director of the Bureau of Water and Electricity, Bratton, Director of LAPD, etc.
As soon as he entered the conference room, Ronald expressed dissatisfaction with Karen: "Your response will further intensify the conflict!"
Karen's mind was filled with gender privilege: "I'm wrong? Men don't save themselves in the fire, are they waiting for women to save?"
Bjorkman couldn't stand this foul remark: "Why do women rely on male firefighters to save?"
"Isn't this what it should be?" Karen said it justifiably: "Isn't this the gentlemanly demeanor you advocate?"
Braton narrowed his eyes, and had an urge to refute, but he endured it.
Ronard interrupted the meaningless dispute between the two: "The key now is not these, but to control the fire."
Karen stared at Bjorkman: "Then ask the Water and Power Bureau why there is no water in the fire pipeline, where did our fire water go?"
The previous question was normal, but then he attacked hard: "The Water and Power Bureau has been ruling away from the gender equality plan. I suspect you deliberately resist the development of the women's rights movement..."
Hearing this, Bjorkman was too lazy to argue, which involved Mayor Antonio’s water use agreement with Wandefu.
On the other hand, you can't win at all. If you talk about rights and interests to women, she tells you responsibility, you tells her responsibility, she tells her rights and interests.
It makes sense no matter how you say it.
Bjorkman looked at Ronald: "I suggest you contact Antonio immediately and report the situation in a true way."
After saying that, he left the conference room without looking back, came to the news room where people had not yet dispersed, and unilaterally announced his resignation as director of the Water and Electricity Bureau.
He can't play with a feminist who has a trick on his head, so he won't be with him anymore!
As soon as Bjorkman left the town hall, he saw a crowd of protesters gathering in the municipal square.
Some of these celebrities also entered the town hall through the side door.
Bjorkman looked at it and recognized David Heyman, a famous Hollywood producer, CAA founder Michael Orwitz, Lucasfilm vice president Will Yates, etc.
These people's homes were all burned.
Bjorkman looked up at the sky. The city was full of reinforced concrete buildings, so there was no need to worry about the fire coming.
But he had a feeling that this fire would change the political landscape in Los Angeles.
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Located a large number of journalists and protesters gathered at the terminal exit at Los Angeles International Airport.
They got the news that Mayor Antonio had arrived in Los Angeles on a flight and was about to come out.
Get off the plane from the first class and headed along the VIP channel. Antonio learned about the situation in Los Angeles from Ronald who came to greet him.
He was quite surprised: "What? The area of overfire is close to 150 square kilometers? Why does the fire department say that the fire is controllable?"
Ronald was Antonio's mouth to the outside world. To be honest, "Continuous drought and strong winds, as well as female firefighters who lack training and congenital deficiencies, the fire has actually been out of control."
He suggested: "Mr. Mayor, please remove Karen and Michel and others from their positions. It would be fine if they are not familiar with their jobs, but it also brought more serious consequences. An Indian capital firefighting company hired by the two failed to put out the fire, but instead caused the fire to burn into Santa Monica."
Antonio did not respond. If he really wanted to dismiss these two feminist representatives, wouldn't the plan to win women's support be completely failed?
Even if they are fired and all the blame is put on them, will those who have been burned out of the fire still support themselves?
The answer is obvious.
What the fire burned out was other people's property, but what they had lost was their own votes.
At least at this moment, Antonio did not consider removing the position of feminist representatives.
(This chapter ends)