Austin Fire Chief Refused to Deploy Teams Before Flood in Kerrville

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Authorities have confirmed at least 119 deaths across six counties, including 59 adults and 36 children in Kerr County. About 173 people are missing. People are looking at who to blame, but for now, most of the arrows are pointing to the Austin Fire Chief.

Austin, Texas Fire Chief Joel G. Baker is facing a vote of no confidence from his men for allegedly denying deployment of emergency crews ahead of the deadly floods that took so many lives.

The Firefighters’ Union made clear it is not about race. It’s about his poor leadership. The Fire Chief is Black.

His men say he is a bully and told firefighters to not even ask to deploy.

Bob Nicks, the President of the Austin Firefighters Association, believes they could have saved some of those girls if they had been deployed before the flood. He said Baker’s lack of response was “unconscionable.”

The state asked him to deploy Swimmers and he did not do it.

Reporter Jack Posobiec thinks he might never have been qualified for the job. If that is true, we need to know so we can make people see the truth.

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Sua Sponte
Sua Sponte
3 hours ago

They should have ignored this colossal POS.

Adonymost
Adonymost
3 hours ago

The parents of those children must have heard the warnings. Was any concern expressed to the adults overseeing the camps? Lot of balls dropped…

kat
kat
6 hours ago

Austin IS a real lefty part of TX. Living things with NO morals. Just like California…

The Prisoner
The Prisoner
7 hours ago

Some of those arrows need to point to the people running the camp. You do not leave little girls in a place where there was a flash flood warning over 24 hours before they died! That was a flood vulnerable area. The word race should never enter into the conversation by the union. This is another criminally negligent fire chief.… Read more »

kat
kat
6 hours ago
Reply to  The Prisoner

Not race, but politics…