Update: A report said that the Oregon trucks were required to go through a safety check. The words “emissions” and “smog” tests are no longer in the report as they were in originally. Nine were in California on Friday.
Cal Fire (the voice of the bureaucratic apparatus):
A spokesperson with CAL Fire says that is patently false. “No vehicles from Oregon have been turned around or refused service at Davis Mobile Equipment and all out-of-state vehicles have been services and are heading to or have arrived in Southern California. No emissions testing was performed. All repairs were completed the same day with the exception of a couple because of parts but turn around was early next day,” CAL Fire Spokesperson via email.
“These inspections ensure all engines on an emergency scene are equipped, mechanically sound, and able to respond. This ensures our number one priority of a safe deployment for our firefighters,” the Oregon State Fire Marshal’s Office said.
Nicholas Kristof, NY Times Columnist:
“Oregon officials confirmed reports that when their fire trucks rushed south to help with LA fires, California first required them to undergo safety inspections in Sacramento. They say this wasn’t a big deal. But slowing first responder vehicles from a neighboring state in a life-and-death emergency sounds to me like regulatory overreach.”
Original Story
Sacramento bureaucrats held up a fire department strike team of 60 firetrucks from Oregon. The truck teams were sent to help contain the Los Angeles fires and stopped for emissions testing since they didn’t have smog certificates.
Therefore, as LA burned, the fire trucks went through smog testing.
Santa Monica Observer posted:
“I just heard from my brother,” tweets Parker Caldwell, “a firefighter in Central Oregon, that the 60 firetrucks the state sent to support the LA fires are being held up in Sacramento for ’emissions testing.’ They likely won’t pass inspection and won’t be able to help… What a joke.”
“Update from our EF&R strike team leader – crews are going through inspection in Davis, California. They have been assigned to the #PalisadeFire, which is currently 6% contained. Safe travels to our team! #CaliforniaWildfires #wafirefighters”
Meanwhile, according to the Bend Bulletin, the strike teams were stopped in the Sacramento area before arriving in Southern California to complete mandatory vehicle safety checks. Oregon State Fire Marshal agency administrator Ian Yocum described the safety checks as a “critical” part of the mission.
Yocum said, “With moving this amount of equipment and firefighters, safety has to be our highest priority.”
They didn’t have smog certificates. However, LA was burning down.
Only eleven of them got going on Friday.
It seems dangerous to set emissions testing as a priority when the country is going through one of the worst disasters in its history.
What?
Oregon sent 60 Fire Trucks…only for them to be stopped in San Francisco for ‘Emissions Testing’…pic.twitter.com/tV2Z1Slfxz
— Liz Churchill (@liz_churchill10) January 11, 2025
Mayor Bass rejected the Israel strike teams. Maybe LA was better off with her in Ghana.
Shocking! The LA fires are out of control, yet 2 days ago when Israel offered to send fire rescue crews to help like they do all over the world, the Los Angeles mayor rebuffed them. Is woke California still putting politics over lives, or does it actually want all of LA to burn? pic.twitter.com/WNC1e0mPIS
— AJ Steel Show (@ajsteelshow) January 11, 2025
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Emissions was a Scam! A way to make money on people. I cannot understand why it is still being done! Nothing Fails Emissions unless it is already Broken. Cars are too efficient today and do not require emissions. However, the Scam just keeps on Going!
And, yes … Back when I was a Mechanic I`d Just Slap a Sticker on Your Car If I liked You, Especially, the Women! So …. Why is nobody else doing that, Really. You all need to learn how to REBEL!
A spokesperson with CAL Fire says that is patently false. “No vehicles from Oregon have been turned around or refused service at Davis Mobile Equipment and all out-of-state vehicles have been services and are heading to or have arrived in Southern California. No emissions testing was performed. All repairs were completed the same day with the exception of a couple because of parts but turn around was early next day,” CAL Fire Spokesperson via email.
I have links that say otherwise. Reports say they turned down Israel and NY, but accepted Mexico. You could be right, but thee is so much, it’s hard to know. CalFire is a bureaucratic entity.
Your links are BS
They are from the guys in the field. We updated with more information. Believe whichever one you like.
Somehow I believe that you wouldn’t believe anything except that from the Cali crime gang, aka Sacramento
Really? History books will be written about the great State of California’s rise and fall. In many ways mimicking the stories every great nation state who’s own arrogance, depravity, and stupidity led to their own bitter end. And God didn’t even need to send a great flood.
https://katu.com/news/local/fact-check-oregon-fire-engines-allowed-to-fight-wildfires-in-california
And I’m supposed to have sympathy for these people in California? The irony. Too much smog from the fire trucks vs all the smoke smog from all the fires. Finish the job with the hurricane victims before you do anything to rebuild in California. People living in tents in NC. My friends son in Ashville still has no clean running water. Hey Clooney, you asshole, why the silence. Your buddy Newscum F’d up big time.
Yes you’re spos to have sympathy for all of them, they’ve lost all of their stuff just like the people in NC, maybe they can afford to rebuild or move but people have lost their lives in these fires and it’s a sad situation no matter how you look at it. Prayers for them all!
I cannot feel sorry for those whose government they keep electing is doing this to them. The NC and TN victims of Helene did NOT vote for an engineered storm to destroy their lives.
No don’t have sympathy for anybody.
The story about “smog checks” in Sacramento was 100% lie.
> our buddy Newscum …
N E W S C U M ! ! !
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