In January 2025, a video diverged on the Internet, in which employees of California emergency services flood the fire, gaining water into small containers. Internet users identified them as women's bags. We decided to check how correct such comments are.
The fact that even ladies 'handbags were used in the fight against California, even ladies' handbags, said "Channel One", ""Ren-TV", Life.ru, "Military Review"And other Russian media. Social networks (""VKontakte" X, Facebook*, Instagram*) and the Platform blog ("Zen","Picabu" Livejournal) also discuss the creative approach of firefighters. Large Telegram channels also published a resonant video: ""The goat screamed"(244,000 views at the time of writing of the analysis),"Observer"(216 000),"Ostashko! Important"(157 000),"Voblya - news"(150 000),"Leprosy"(139,000) and others. Some even They called it Brand of handbags: on the frames, according to them, luxury accessories from Louis Vuitton and Hermès.
On January 7, 2025, Los Angeles and the suburbs were covered by forest fires, which, apparently, would go down in history as one of the most destructive natural disasters in the history of the United States. At the time of writing, the analysis (a week after the fire) turned out to be fire covered Already more than 150 square meters. km, and the fire is still not extinguished. At least 25 people Died, tens of thousands evacuated, thousands of buildings were damaged or completely destroyed, many Hollywood Celebrities, for example, Anthony Hopkins, Adam Brody and Paris Hilton, lost their homes.
The cause of the fire has not yet been set, there is an investigation. It is believed that reason Such catastrophic fires became partly weather conditions (shortly before the fire in California, a strong drought occurred, and after the strong winds that fanned the fire was raging), and partly-Los Angeles’s unwillingness to such an emergency. A flurry of criticism fell on the mayor of the city of Karen Bass: supposedly it did not provide the necessary resources to prevent and extinguish fires. Firstly, a large reservoir in Los Angeles, from where the water could enter the hydrants, turned out to be empty-it was closed for repairs (experts, however, Markthat even the water supply system of water is unlikely to help to quickly extinguish the fire at full power). Also basics They accused The fact that in 2024 she cut the financing of the Los Angeles fire service, which is why she was unable to prevent the spread of fire in a timely manner. However, the LEAD Stories project is already refuted This information: although the mayor really proposed to cut the budget of the fire department, he actually grew up - due to the fact that they purchased new equipment for the department and planned to raise salaries to employees. Some stated that firefighters did not have the necessary equipment due to the fact that the equipment was sent to Ukraine. However, as before It wrote “Checked”, this happened back in March 2022 and is unlikely to be associated with the current problems in the fight against fire.
The viral video is a 32-second fragment of the fire report in California, re-released from the TV screen. A female voice behind the scenes comments in English: “Los Angeles Fire Service employees use women's fire extinguishing bags. What is happening here?! " It is not surprising that when this video appeared on the network, he instantly provoked a new wave of indignation: supposedly employees of emergency services are so lacking in the equipment that they have to be sophisticated and launched even the most unobvious and ridiculous improvised means. However, representatives of the Los Angeles Fire Service in a commentary to TMZ explainedthat on the shots that have scattered along social networks in the hands of firefighters are not at all ladies' handbags, but tarpaulin bags, which are included in the equipment of employees of the department. They are used when it is necessary to extinguish a small fire, without wasting time and effort to deploy the hose and connect it to a fire hydrant. However, “verified” failed to find information about such equipment on official resources Fire Department of Los Angeles, Department of Forestry and Fire Protection of California, Fire administration And Federal Emergency Situations Agency.
Frames that have come to the video is a fragment of reporting by the journalists oncese.tv, published on YouTube January 8. The original video, unlike a viral, is posted in very good quality. This allows you to consider that in the hands of firefighters not the products of fashionable houses Louis Vuitton or Hermès, but, indeed, ordinary tarpaulin bags with handles that can hardly be considered a fashionable accessory. Neither under the video on YouTube, nor under a similar publication in Facebook The authors of the original video do not comment on the means that firefighters use in their work - obviously, they had no suspicion that these are women's bags.
It is not known who shot a viral video and accompanied him with a sunbathing comment about female handbags, but in the spreading form it was the first time Published In the Arabic-language Telegram channel Parsintv on January 9 at 14:00 Moscow time. The main content of the channel and its mirrors in X - Fragments of the reports of the world media with Parsintv's logo imposed on top. So the editors did this time: the video is accompanied by the symbols of the channel. However, a video published in Parsintv is 8 seconds. Longer than the version, which was most strongly diverged on the Internet. Apparently, one of the Internet users who shared the video on their page simply cut off these “extra” shots, since there are no items in the corresponding fragment that seemed to some women's bags. By the way, on the same day Parsintv Placed and a video with a flaming sign Hollywood, which it turned out, was generated by a neural network.
Thus, on viral frames, firefighters in Los Angeles use luxury brands at all for extinguishing fire, but tarpaulin bags, which, according to representatives of the department, are included in their equipment. The version of the bags arose due to the erroneous commentary of a woman who saw these frames on TV and, apparently, not familiar with the methods of fire extinguishing.
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Read on the topic:
- Reuters. FACT Check: Los Angeles Firefighters DID NOT USE HANDBAGS To Douse Fire
- BBC. Why did the fires in Los Angeles be so destructive?
- Is the video true, which shows how dark-skinned robes the house during fires in Los Angeles?
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