Iconic late-night talk show host Jay Leno whipped up about $21,000 worth of ribs, chicken, and other food to hand out to the emergency workers and volunteers who responded to the raging Los Angeles fires — and he is not done.
Joining Andrew Cuomo’s NewsNation show on Tuesday, he described how he started “cooking up for the guys and giving them a hot meal”: more
…and anyone who refused because “Meat Is Murder” needs to be immediately fired.
LARPing lesbian “leaders” included.
…although Im actually surprised some “Health Authority” bureaucracy didnt land on him with both feet and “confiscate” all the food for not being properly permitted because, CA…
No offense, but some of these firefighters are making $200,000+, and EVERY PENNY of the costs is being socialized across all Americans.
Inside story; that’s what was left over from the green room last time Lizzo was on
MrLiberty
Thursday, 16 January 2025, 16:27 at 4:27 pm
“No offense, but some of these firefighters are making $200,000+, and EVERY PENNY of the costs is being socialized across all Americans.”
…its not just for FFs and even if it were, this is a massive Mutual Aid event pulling in firefighters from all over the hemisphere, including Mexicans who get paid little and voulenteers who get nothing; and Ffs often live where they work so however sumptuous a buffet you may think a line grunt goes home to, that buffet may well have burned with his house and he cant go home to it even if not because, campaign fire.
Woodland firefighting is nasty, dirty, dangerous hard work. Im not going to begrudge those guys a free meal being paid for by a celebrity just because some of them may make more coin than me, especially considering how much less money is worth in LA than elsewhere…
I’m still disappointed that Joan Rivers wasn’t Johnny’s replacement.
Wild Bill
Thursday, 16 January 2025, 16:40 at 4:40 pm
“I’m still disappointed that Joan Rivers wasn’t Johnny’s replacement.”
…she mentioned the truth about Mooch.
No WAY she was ever going to survive THAT.
I wonder if he fired up his Rolls-Royce Merlin V12 115/145 avgas fueled grill?
LAFD pay;
https://resources.bandana.com/resources/how-much-do-lafd-firefighters-make
^^^ That’s LA bux.
Firefighters here are ALL volunteers. Not sure that’s a good thing.
Truckbuddy
Thursday, 16 January 2025, 17:08 at 5:08 pm
“^^^ That’s LA bux.
Firefighters here are ALL volunteers. Not sure that’s a good thing.”
…I was a volley in a part paid dept. I fought fires for free alongside people who got a paycheck. I didnt do any better or worse than they did and I was no more likely to leave a house burning or person dying tban they were. I took the same training and had to meet the same standards and same licensure. The only difference was I was under no obligation to show up if it wasnt an assigned Squad night.
I lived in the community with everone else. I came to the aid of their families and they to mine. We may not have had pay but we had the same sense of duty as those who did.
…althogh I exaggerate maybe a little. We DID get run pay.
$5 per run to cover gas.
Wooo-hoo!
And for that we took the same risk plus the risk of not being able to go to our day jobs if we got injured. Nevertheless, we played just as hard as the full City employees, because it wasnt just a job, it was an adventure, and thats enough for any testostrinone laden adrenaline junkie to go climb ypur flaming roof with ax and pole and cut a vent hole in a hailstorm, which sounds AMAZING in a leather-wrapped steel helmet…
…things may have changed, but it would be across the board. You can trust a volley same as a paid when it comes to the actual work.
So the question becomes whether you trust at all in this woke world we now have…
I got paid more as a volunteer in Cal than as a paid firefighter because they didn’t take out room and board. When the fire was over I went home without having to clean the equipment, wash hose, wax the office floors, wash the secretaries windows, polish the chiefs car and on and on.
Paid staff WAS expected to do stuff volleys didnt, true. We all took care of cleaning the trucks, walking the hose, etc., but the full timers took care of fire inspections, hydrant maintenance, school safety programs, and a ton of other fire adjacent stuff that wasnt glamorous but needed to get done. The “business” aspects of the department was handled by paid staff, and welcome to it.
I dont know how the kids do it now, but back then if you were there, you were working.
No exceptions.