Despite cutting the fire department budget, Dems attribute the LA fire to 'climate change.'

Despite reports that the city's fire hydrants ran out of water and the fire department's budget was slashed just weeks before the Palisades fire destroyed thousands of homes and burned more than 15,000 acres, democratic lawmakers are claiming the severity of the Los Angeles wildfires was a result of climate change.

In early January, fires erupted in Southern California's mountains, rapidly spreading to coastal residential areas and causing the destruction of over 10,000 homes and structures.

As the fires garnered national attention, Democratic politicians across the country started asserting that the devastating fire damage was due to climate change rather than state policies.

"Climate change has caused our foliage and flora to dry out, and the annual 50 to 100 mph winds exacerbate the problem. As a result, a small ember can quickly turn into a massive fire, as Rep. Dave Min, D-Calif., explained to NewsNation’s "The Hill Sunday.""

"Climate change has wreaked havoc on us," Min said.

The recent cuts in firefighter funding resulted in the failure of local fire hydrants to produce water after the Los Angeles mountains caught fire.

Gov. Gavin Newsom acknowledged reports of water shortages in the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) during the crisis, but Democratic lawmakers shifted the blame away from state leaders.

"The extent of harm and destruction is incomprehensible. Climate change is not a myth, but a reality. Donald Trump must address this as the critical issue it is," Sen. Bernie Sanders stated in a social media post on Wednesday morning.

State leaders who deny climate change as a crisis, who are mostly Republicans, are to blame, according to Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas.

Crockett expressed his heartbreak over the ongoing devastation affecting our country and the world, as well as the incompetence of elected leaders in acknowledging and addressing climate change in a post on X, formerly Twitter, on January 8th.

Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington expressed his happiness in January about collaborating with Gov. Newsom to aid California, which has been repeatedly impacted by climate change.

While Los Angeles city officials cut the fire department budget by $17.6 million, hundreds of thousands of dollars were being allocated to fund diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in the state.

Immediately, city leadership was accused by celebrities of investing in programs such as a "syringe exchange" program that provides sterile syringes to homeless drug addicts, rather than allocating more funds for fire prevention efforts.

"In California, we pay the highest taxes. Our fire hydrants were empty. Our vegetation was overgrown, and brush not cleared. Our governor emptied our reservoirs because tribal leaders wanted to save fish. Our fire department budget was cut by our mayor. But thankfully, drug addicts are receiving their drug kits," actress Sara Foster wrote in a post on X.

Khloé Kardashian criticized the city's Democratic mayor on the same platform, exclaiming, "Mayor Bass, you are a joke!!!!"

Rick Caruso, a real estate company founder and former Los Angeles mayoral candidate, proposed that effective forest management could have reduced the severity of the fires.

"The winds were known to be coming, and we knew that there was brush that needed to be cleared 20 years ago, according to Caruso, founder of a real estate company and former Los Angeles mayoral candidate, who told the LA Times that this fire could have been mitigated, but not prevented."