Governor of California Gavin Newsom I just called Elon Muskaccused him of exposing his own lies about water shortages amid the L.A. wildfires — and said it all went down during his own live broadcast of a briefing with a fire squad member.
Musk went first on Xwho attributed the massive loss of homes in the L.A. wildfires to “poor governance at the state and local levels that led to water shortages.” But Newsom shared a clip of Musk talking to a firefighter with the caption: “@ElonMusk exposed by firefighters for his own lies.”
In Newsom's clip, Musk can be seen asking a firefighter: “What about water availability, was water availability – I understand that hasn't been an issue in Malibu, is that correct?”
The firefighter explained that there was plenty of water – but fighting large fires requires huge flows, so they made watercraft that were used as mobile fire hydrants to keep up.
Musk pressed further… asking: “There was no water shortage in Malibu along the coast – there was a water shortage in the Palisades at one point. Or is that not correct?”
The firefighter clarified, “Well, we had a lot of water flowing that the system couldn't handle…it was overwhelming just because those firefighters were using so much water.”
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After heavily criticizing the response to the wildfires, the world's richest man visited the Pacific Palisades in LA on Sunday, setting up donated Cybertrucks as power centers and battery banks amid the chaos, equipped with Starlink to provide free internet.
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