Hollywood actor and legendary comedian Denis Leary joined several television programs on Wednesday to promote a new show and expose American politicians across the country for repeatedly cutting the funding of fire departments.
The comments are important at this point in time as the city of Los Angeles is being destroyed by historic blazes while the underfunded LAFD struggles to combat the flames.
First, Leary made an appearance on “Good Morning Football” where he explained his nonprofit “The Leary Firefighters Foundation” has been receiving an increase in funding requests every year since it was created in the year 2000.
Around the 11:40 mark in the video below, the “Rescue Me” star talked about why he started the foundation and noted fire departments around the U.S. get their budgets cut every year “because they never go on strike.”
“So, of course it makes sense for the politicians in city governments to say, ‘We’re gonna cut the firefighter budget because they won’t leave work.’ They’ll still go to work,” he stated.
Leary also said he prefers “to wait until tragic events” like the ongoing LA fires “are over before blaming and pointing fingers,” but revealed he knows the LAFD has “been understaffed for ages.”
He added, “They have vehicles sitting for ages that they can’t get repaired because they don’t have enough money to hire the mechanics back to fix them. As the wildfires have been growing for the last ten years, that department’s been getting understaffed continually over years. That’s a definite problem.”
Later on Wednesday, Leary joined “The View” and again called out politicians for cutting fire department budgets, saying the fact that LA area fire hydrants were empty likely didn’t even matter because they’re understaffed and the fires were too widespread by the time more emergency responders were sent to the scenes.
“Every year, the request for money from departments around the country – big and small, big city, small town – from my foundation, we get, I can’t even tell you, hundreds of requests, and we get more every year,” he told the hosts.
The actor again claimed the reason fire department budgets are frequently cut is that the employees “won’t go on strike.”
“One thing I know to be true, and you’ll hear about this more as the fires die down – it’s very true in LA – the wildfires get worse every year. They get their budget cut further every year, they have been understaffed for over a decade. They had to lay off department mechanics who fix the broken down firetrucks,” Leary said.
“They have tons of firetrucks parked in department parking lots that they can’t use because they can’t be fixed because they don’t have the mechanics on staff because of the budget cuts… That department needs absolutely like all departments more money. They’re fighting worse wildfires every year. You gotta get more men and women on the job!”
Infowars and other outlets have documented the fact that LA’s Democrat Mayor Karen Bass cut $17.5 million from the city’s fire department budget in 2024.
Bass didn’t even have enough respect to answer questions about the budget cuts when a Sky News reporter repeatedly tried to ask about the decision when she arrived in LA from her trip to Africa.
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The mayor sought an even larger $49 million to be cut from the LAFD budget just days before the most devastating fires in the city’s history, according to The Daily Mail.
The outlet reported that the cuts would have led to the closure of 16 fire stations.
Journalist Michael Shellenberger posted a report on Tuesday focusing on a whistleblower claim that the LA Department of Water and Power drained the city’s second-largest reservoir of water near the Palisades fire, and “failed to notify the County or City Fire Department.”
An L.A. firefighter with 40 years of experience also told Shellenberger “100” LAFD fire engines “were in the shop” when the Palisades fire began, and that they only sent out five of 40 trucks available.
Former LAFD Battalion Chief Rick Crawford told the LA Times the department failed to immediately dispatch every resource available to combat the fires.
“The plan you’re using now for the fire you should have used before the fire,” Crawford told the outlet, adding he would have issued a “limited recall” for outgoing firefighters, keeping 1,000 on duty. “It’s a known staffing tactic — a deployment model.”
The masses are waking up to Democrat politicians’ lack of leadership, and as time goes on more firefighters will undoubtedly expose the poor management of the California fires and departments around the country.
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