A report by the Los Angeles interim firefighters says that the city spends more on homeless people than in firefighters, and that homeless people begin almost a third of fires to the department.
The impressive report of the Chief of the Bomberos Department of the Interim Ronnie Villanueva was revealed Tuesday by the local ABC Kabc-7 affiliate:
In fiscal year 2024/2025, the city allocated around $ 961 million to the lack of housing, while the total budget of Lafd for that same fiscal year was well below that, to around $ 837 million.
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That memorandum details that almost a third of all fires, 32.91%, the department responded in the last six years involved a member of the homeless community.
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According to the Memo, in the last 10 years the number of garbage fires [often started by the homeless] Increased the huge 475%.
Despite spending almost one billion dollars on homeless people, he has barely made a dent in the problem. The count of homeless people in the city fell only 2.2% last year, the first decrease in the last six years.
Villanueva turned at the beginning of this year after the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, fired Kristin Crowley for the fire of Palisades, in which the department, thanks in part to the budget cuts by the city, the firefighters of the city to the firefighters prior to the implementation.
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