Posted on 02/21/2025 7:58:25 PM PST by Cronos
Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles abruptly removed the city’s fire chief on Friday, seeking to end the increasing acrimony between the two officials in the weeks since a wildfire devastated the city’s Pacific Palisades neighborhood.
Ms. Bass said in a statement that she had removed Kristin Crowley, the chief of the Los Angeles Fire Department, effective immediately. The announcement came after Ms. Bass said publicly that she herself made a mistake in leaving the country and traveling to Ghana days before the fires broke out. For weeks, she has privately told friends that she never would have left had she been fully briefed on the scope of the threat.
The mayor pinned the blame for that lack of warning on Ms. Crowley, an assertion the chief has disputed. In the hours before Ms. Bass left on her trip, the chief pointed out, there had been numerous warnings from weather forecasters about dangerously high winds and dry weather conditions.
The announcement capped weeks of tension. Veteran fire officials in the region had claimed that the response helmed by Chief Crowley was significantly less aggressive and experienced than the department had mounted in past situations of high fire risk. Chief Crowley maintained that the department had been underfunded, which the mayor and city budget officials denied.
...Ms. Crowley was the first female chief in the history of the department, and the first openly gay one. But the choice was opposed by many department veterans, who called for a national search and charged that she was insufficiently experienced.
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“You can’t fire me!! I’m a lesbo!”
Good god, what a shit show. In the country’s second largest city. There are no words.
“Ms. Bass...blamed Ms. Crowley for not alerting her about the impending threat of catastrophic fires.”
Did she discover why she was forced to leave the country?
Harry Reuman would smack Bass upside the head with his “THE BUCK STOPS HERE” sign.
She..He...whatever...should run for Mayor of LA.
Harry Truman would smack Bass upside her head with his “THE BUCK STOPS HERE” sign.
Typical......always blaming the white guy.
Ex fire chief Crowley tried several times to tell the mayor what was needed, but Mayor Bass was too busy using firefighter budgets for various and sundry shopping sprees, or perks for pals.
It seems that Crowley was fighting to get the basics for her department and Bass kept denying, or even cutting. I think Bass is the one at fault and is throwing Crowley under the bus because she told the truth.
She may be a lesbian, but it sounded like she was trying to do a good job.
-PJ
Karen DumBass should be locked up.
Bass is a loser. Everyone told Bass and she ignored the warnings.
I’m sure a lot of bucks stop at her desk.
For sure. I think I saw that USAID had something to do with her trip to Kenya to see her commie friends.
Pass the buck so typical of Dems, Bass takes NO responsibility!!!
Majyor Karen dumBass
Can you imagine if (or should I say when) a major earthquake hits the city?
Too scary and worrisome to even contemplate under L.A.’s current “leadership.”
Newscum had the balls to request 40 billion from congress per politco
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