Earlier today, Red-faced County/OC Blog editor Matt “Juball” Cunningham (pictured at right) challenged me over at Liberal OC, “Art, since you seem to have all the answers, perhaps you can point out exactly what difference adoption of Measure D would have made in fighting the Santiago fire.”
Well, the Sunday L.A. Times actually had an answer to Matt’s petulant query, as follows:
By 9 p.m. the Fire Authority noted in its incident reports that a lack of resources had “greatly hampered” its effort.
The county had to call the state for help. The state turned to Nevada and Arizona. But those teams didn’t arrive until days later. The county also didn’t receive early help from the state.
A blue ribbon commission that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed following the 2003 fire season recommended that California buy 150 more fire engines for emergencies. Only 19 have been ordered, and none has been delivered.
“I was on that commission, and I know that these things take time,” Prather said. “But we have to make sure that these recommendations don’t just end up on the shelf because we can see exactly what will happen.”
Prather said that if he had had 25 extra engines — from the state and surrounding communities — his crews could have beaten the fire before it crossed Santiago Canyon Road and threatened 3,000 homes.
Read that last paragraph again. There you go Matt! Hope that answered your question.
Readers – if you would like to hear John & Ken, of KFI, absolutely raking Matt’s patron, O.C. Supervisor Bill Campbell, over the coals be sure to click here. Campbell, you may recall, tried to put Monsignor John Urell on a County Commission…but that blew up in his face too when folks realized that Urell covered up for molester priests. Then Campbell put Matt on a County Commission. Well, now both Matt and his sponsor are on the hot seat!
You can also hear Campbell getting ripped on today’s John & Ken show by clicking here. And you can listen to them ripping the OC GOP machine, which Matt serves, over the Carona fiasco by clicking here. Lastly, be sure to listen to Matt himself getting roasted by John & Ken over the Urell disaster at this link.
Art, no matter what you say to Matthew, he’s always right, and he will continue to lobby for the little sheriff. jwrb
Art, you are waaaaaay obsessed with Jubal.
Have you considered counseling? The first step is admitting you have a problem. And believ me, you do.
Art, your posts are starting to resemble some nutty homeless guy mumbling to himself while he scribbles conspiracy theories on a poster board.
Craaaaaazy!
What part of measure D would’ve given us 25 more fire engines?
What would we do with those 25 fire engines when there aren’t wild fires.
The whole of idea of mutual aid is so we can share resources with our neighbors preventing everyone from having to have enough equipment for a worst case scenario situation. Unfortunately, with some 15 fires competing for a attention, we faced a worst of the worst case scenarios.
I voted for Measure D, mostly out of opposition to Carona but lets be honest here…How would Measure D have fixed any of these problems?
Ask these questions after a large earthquake and there aren’t enough urban search and rescue assets and I may have a different answer for you.
Art should rename this blog Deja Juice, because it is the same post over and over again.
You hate Matt. We get it. Please stop dragging us into your obsession.
Those who run the Red-faced County blog have ruined the Orange Co. Republican Party. They’ve ruined its reputation; ordinary Republicans are very turned off with this county group of power-hungry and money-hungry creeps. The candidates they support are also creeps, cut from the same cloth as Carona. I would not support or vote for candidates they are pushing because they’ve already made a deal with the devil.
The Red-faced bloggers are just like Carona, surrounding themselves with thugs and trough-feeders who are ethically bankrupt. The big cheese in back of the Red-faced blog has had quite a bad month. His big-time client wanting to build housing next to Disney failed to make a payment to keep the deal alive — they are screwed.
It sometimes takes awhile for mistakes to catch up with the perps, but the Red-faced bloggers are taking it in the shorts. It is long overdue.
#2,
Art is answering A question presented to him at Liberal OC by Matt. Where is the obsession here?
#3,
Art has the LA times answer Matt’s question to him. Art, here presents no conspiracy theories of his own. Art presents a LA Times article to address the question. What is crazy about this.
Further commentary presented here( links) is by others, not by Art.
Thanks for the link to the John and Ken show. Its really fun to listen to an arrogant bully like Campbell get a taste of his own medicine.
Great post Art.
Matt/Jubal asked a question. You replied with a source from the foremost authority on fire protection in our county.
I look forward to Jubal’s reply.