In the 2019 video, LAFD Deputy Chief Kristine Larson made the video at the height of the woke takeover of the country six years ago. The lesbian firefighter begins with the bizarre observation that people who dial 911 want someone to help them who looks like them.
“You want to see somebody that responds to your house, your emergency, that looks like you. It gives that person a little bit more ease knowing that somebody might understand their situation better,” Larson says in the video.
"Their situation" during a fire call is pretty easy to understand, and Washington Times columnist Bob Knight says a firefighter would have to take off half his gear for the victim to even know which DEI boxes he would check.
“This is identity politics at its most stupid," he tells AFN. "Anyone with a house fire only wants to have the fire put out.”
But the video gets worse. Larson mockingly poses a question a wife might ask her: What if Larson can't carry her husband out of a burning house?
“He got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire,” Larson, not sounding anything like a typical first responder, bluntly states.
Hegseth hearing went there
The potential limitations of some women in physically demanding jobs is precisely the point Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, has been making about women in combat.
“I’m straight-up just saying we should not have women in combat roles,” Hegseth said in an appearance on the Shawn Ryan Show podcast days after the election.
Pressed on that position in his confirmation hearing Tuesday, Hegseth held his ground, saying as head of the military he would allow women to serve in combat roles provided they are up to the rigors of the job.
“Yes, women will have access to ground combat roles, given the standards remain high, and we will have a review to ensure the standards have not been eroded.”
That would leave someone’s husband or son in better shape than the mythical husband Larson might have to carry out of a fire.
Los Angeles leadership exposed
It's like your heart surgeon saying he has no idea how to do the surgery, but it's your own fault for not eating right.
Knight says the video is the perfect example of the obviously incompetent leadership in California.
“Given that fires have swept Los Angeles, and it's one of the worst disasters in history, this kind of footage can't help the image of the Los Angeles Fire Department a bit," Knight said.
In fact, he predicts the video of a lesbian firefighter blaming a male housefire victim "serves as a symbol of everything wrong with letting DEI-obsessed people take over city departments."
