LA Fire unit to pick up intoxicated homeless in Skid Row (Los Angeles: movies, camps)

[jm1982]

So the homeless aren't only killing innocent people in downtown la,
85-year-old man brutally beaten in downtown attack dies - LA Times


spreading hepatitis, but they are also creating a massive problem of using up emergency resources because they like to get drunk.

Nice.


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The Los Angeles Fire Department has launched a new "sober unit" to pick up heavily intoxicated homeless people from Los Angeles's streets.
The new rig, operated out of Fire Station 4 on Temple St. near Skid Row, will serve as a year-long pilot program to determine if the city could benefit from a network of sobering centers and pick-up teams for inebriated homeless people. The aim is to free up firefighters who spend too much time responding to calls about intoxicated individuals, and reduce the number of drug and alcohol-addicted homeless people in emergency rooms and jails.
LAFD gets about 1,315 emergency calls each day, nearly 90 percent of them regarding a medical emergency. L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti said fighters who pick intoxicated people up for transport to an emergency room or jail can spend six hours waiting for the person to be admitted. Then, once they're hydrated, they're released again, he said.




https://www.scpr.org/news/2018/01/05...omeless-in-sk/

[majoun]

Originally Posted by jm1982

So the homeless aren't only killing innocent people in downtown la,
85-year-old man brutally beaten in downtown attack dies - LA Times


spreading hepatitis, but they are also creating a massive problem of using up emergency resources because they like to get drunk.

Nice.


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The Los Angeles Fire Department has launched a new "sober unit" to pick up heavily intoxicated homeless people from Los Angeles's streets.
The new rig, operated out of Fire Station 4 on Temple St. near Skid Row, will serve as a year-long pilot program to determine if the city could benefit from a network of sobering centers and pick-up teams for inebriated homeless people. The aim is to free up firefighters who spend too much time responding to calls about intoxicated individuals, and reduce the number of drug and alcohol-addicted homeless people in emergency rooms and jails.
LAFD gets about 1,315 emergency calls each day, nearly 90 percent of them regarding a medical emergency. L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti said fighters who pick intoxicated people up for transport to an emergency room or jail can spend six hours waiting for the person to be admitted. Then, once they're hydrated, they're released again, he said.




https://www.scpr.org/news/2018/01/05...omeless-in-sk/

They know they can get away with it...

[jm1982]

Originally Posted by majoun

They know they can get away with it...

At what point do we say enough is enough? Some people just don't seem cut out of society and need to be permanently institutionalized it seems.

[expatCA]

Originally Posted by jm1982

At what point do we say enough is enough? Some people just don't seem cut out of society and need to be permanently institutionalized it seems.

Ask your representative as obviously he does not want firefighters drawing overtime picking up homeless drunks.

[jm1982]

Maybe they need to go to the desert to sober up .

#buildthecamps

[1Patois]

Skid Row is tragic and scary. I should have brought my NIKON and became the next Jacob Riis #HowTheOtherHalfLives because it is truly unlike anything one could ever fathom of American urban poverty and squalor

[jm1982]

Originally Posted by 1Patois

Skid Row is tragic and scary. I should have brought my NIKON and became the next Jacob Riis #HowTheOtherHalfLives because it is truly unlike anything one could ever fathom of American urban poverty and squalor

Yeah we need more people to document the conditions. What an utter failure the 'leaders' and local politicians are in Los Angeles.

Seems to get almost ZERO nationwide news.

[thatguy950]

I’m ok with this, the hoses have plenty of power to push them out into the ocean

[1Patois]

Originally Posted by jm1982

Yeah we need more people to document the conditions. What an utter failure the 'leaders' and local politicians are in Los Angeles.

Seems to get almost ZERO nationwide news.

I think I know WHY it's not getting the attention it needs...Ever notice that all the businesses in that area are boarded up or just shut-down? Without non-homeless/non-law enforcement traffic (e.g. the people who shop and do business in other parts of Downtown L.A., folks won't pay it any attention. Now, let that area start getting re-developed or have a couple scenes of movies filmed there, and then people will actually know what it is. Local politicians are aware and do nothing (from what I've been able to tell)...what a mess. I agree with you. Maybe L.A. is ashamed and thinks it's a "blight?" and that's why it's kept 'hushed?' Who knows.