Tim Dillon slammed the city of Los Angeles over the mishandling of the California fires during his podcast this week, noting the fact that the city was completely unprepared, even lacking water in the fire hydrants.
Dillon is often hyper-sarcastic in his takes on issues, but on this one he seemed in earnest.
He pointed out that huge parts of LA are completely gone and that the fires are still going in some places.
FOX News reported:
Podcaster Tim Dillon goes off on government handling of LA fires: ‘Completely, woefully unprepared’
Los Angeles-based comedian and podcaster, Tim Dillon, tore into the government’s handling of the wildfires on an episode of “The Tim Dillon Show” on Monday.
“Entire swathes of the city are gone. There was no water in the f—ing hydrants. Nobody cleared any of this brush, they didn’t do any controlled burns, they didn’t prepare any of these areas,” says Dillon, adding that these measures were ignored because “we didn’t want to upset a fish.”
President-elect Donald Trump set off a firestorm last week when he called out Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom for choosing “to protect an essentially worthless fish,” over the water needs of Californians. This wasn’t Trump’s first time calling out Newsom over this issue, slamming Newsom in the lead-up to the 2024 election during an interview with Joe Rogan in October.
Here’s a clip (strong language warning):
TIM DILLON: GOVERNMENT COMPLETELY BOTCHED THE LA WILDFIRE RESPONSE
“Entire swaths of the city are gone.
There was no water in the hydrants. Nobody cleared the brush, no controlled burns, nothing.
The Pacific Palisades reservoir was offline when the fires arrived.
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— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) January 14, 2025
In another segment, Dillon speculated about the fires as a possible act of terrorism. Watch:
Tim Dillon on LA Fires. pic.twitter.com/BJqby83S9M
— Gene Mikhov (@genegmb) January 15, 2025
The point that Dillon made here may be a little tongue-in-cheek but it makes perfect sense, doesn’t it?