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Ron Johnson: “Had they had fire trucks pre-positioned and water available…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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JUST IN: Ron Johnson Leads Senate Homeland Security Committee Hearing On The Palisades Fire

Published | Video Starts at 1:02:36

And yet as you tour Pacific Palisade, it's kind of like right in the middle there's this, I don't know, probably like four lane, you know, very large boulevard. Had they had fire trucks pre-positioned and water available, so much of the destruction could have been prevented. You know, they're saying nothing of the fact that they would have actually extinguished the Lockman fire. So I mean, am I describing that right in terms of, you know, how these fires just keep perpetuating themselves? (1:02:36–1:02:48)

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