Tuesday, February 11th, 2025

Fact Check: Fire department in Los Angeles extinguished fire with women’s purse, investigation found claim to be misleading


New Delhi: The forest fire in Los Angeles, California, USA, has reached people’s homes. So far, about 1900 buildings have been completely gutted by the fire while 28 thousand houses have been damaged. All the firefighters are busy extinguishing the fire. Meanwhile, the video of firefighter extinguishing the fire is going viral on social media. While sharing this video, users have claimed that fire fighters are extinguishing the fire with ladies’ purse. Let us know how much truth is there in the claims of the users?

What are the claims of the users?

While sharing the video of the firefighters on social media, an ex-user named @SprinterObserve wrote – One of the miracles of the fire department during the Los Angeles wildfire was the use of a woman’s bag by the firefighters to collect water and extinguish the fire. Was used.

While sharing this video, many other users also claimed that the firefighters first collected water in the ladies’ purse to extinguish the fire and then extinguished the fire with it.

What is the truth of the viral video?

When Sajjak’s team checked the video through reverse image to find out the truth of the viral video, some other videos were also found in which the same claim was made that the fire was extinguished with the woman’s purse.

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However in the meantime foxbanger.com Found a report published on. Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) officials told TMZ that the handbags seen in local news reports this week were actually canvas bags that firefighters bring to their engines for various tasks. It can be seen in the video that there is a fire in the garbage and it takes a long time to install a pipe to extinguish it. Therefore, the firemen extinguished the fire by filling water in their tool bag. Officials said that the fire is spreading rapidly in Los Angeles, so the sooner the fire department can extinguish the fire, the better it will be. Therefore, at that time the firemen extinguished the fire with their tool bags.

after that one other websites But there was also a report regarding this video. In which it was told that the bag was not a ladies purse.

Other Website Reports

conclusion: The claim of extinguishing a fire with a lady’s purse in Los Angeles going viral on social media is misleading. What the users were calling a ladies purse turned out to be a canvas bag during Sajjag’s investigation.

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