Los Angeles mayor removes fire department chief
Mayor Karen Bass has removed Los Angeles Fire Department chief Kristin Crowley after weeks of a public rift. Bass has criticized Crowley for a lack of preparation and mishandling the city’s wildfire response, and said the department needs new leadership.
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47 Comments
Bass is a complete incompetence is unacceptable
The public safety, the mayor needs to resign. The sooner, the better.
And revoke the 50% pay raise to the DWP director. Getting paid $750,000 Per Year is too much to begin with. And to fail at it‽
NO federal funding for the corrupt state of California.
WELL WE THE PPL ARE WAITING FOR POETIC JUSTICE TO COME TO NEWSOM AND BASS!!!
WE DESPERATELY NEED ELON HERE WITH HIS CHAIN SOW!! !!!!!🤬😡👎🏾👎
she was fired because she didnt use water
I’m sorry but that’s ridiculous this fire department had their resources systematically cut off.. what was she supposed to do ?
Little late don't you think
This WAS NOT a "Natural disaster" There is undercover video and phone conversations of the Mayor and her staff that knew days prior that this fire was coming. When are they all going to be indicted for this, or are we keep going to pretend this was a "natural disaster" I'm so sick of this.
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Bass is mad she got caught not because she was wrong and she will fire anyone that criticizes her. Democrats are not looking good in California
In a nutshell, former LA fire chief Crowley has been demoted to a lower rank within the LAFD.
LAFD is notorious for wasting funds on overtime when there are no fires. A full overhaul of the LAFD is needed.
Kristin Crowley gonna accuse Karen Bass of homophobia.
Karen Bass gonna accuse Kristin Crowley of racism.
Just that the sexism card can't be played in this case.
I don't agree with the fire chiefs dismissal, but the Fire chief shouldnt have spoken negatively about the unescessary spending cuts. The 17,553,814 didn't impact the fire departments ability to fight that fire. It didnt cause any shortages of supplies or personell to the extent of causing the fire to burn longer or hotter. The Chief shpuld have been repremanded for saying that puplicly because she claimed to have had addressed equipment needs with the mayor in the past. The 17 million was administrative cfor uneeded positions.
I also agree with the mayor about the warning about those winds. I keep up eith the news and had only found out about the winds going to be that intense the night before January 7th. I was scrambling after dark to secure my property from the wind storm. Sounds like the teo women could have resolved yheir fifferences without anyone loding their jobs.
If fire hidrent had water they could have done something.
They both need to go NOW.
Umm.. yeah… whatever mayor. I don't believe you. You just sound like a politician looking for a scape goat.
The truth will set us free. It ok if the fire chief made the decision to stand down her firefighters. It’s NOT ok to money grab and blame the budget. Fire is using the Police Union playbook to cripple budgets.
Cat Fight Meow !!!!!LMAO
DEI means people could DIE
You get what you voted for, know live with it or move but please don’t come to Florida
So the mayor knew the fire chief sent a lot of fire crew home. And yet she didn't use her power to bring all of them back to help with the fire. Instead she was on vacation while los Angeles was burning and thousands of homes were burnt down. She might as well resign along with Trump and Elon. They're all doing suck a bang up job at making America worse. We are better off having Biden back as president. This year has been nothing but a disaster in US history.
Mayor, you tie one hand behind the fire chief's bac by cutting the fire department's budget, there's not enough water and blame….but say the buck stops with you? You should be fired!
Trying to shift. You need to go as well Bass.
So they'll just hire another DEI Wokie. Seems like that would be the norm for them and the DEIs.
Wow, DEI mayor removes DEI fire chief. All reported on fake news by fake journalist.
Chet flows downhill.
My friend was a supervisor at a local school district. School district leaders needed to blame someone for large problem so they decided to force her supervisor out and tried to promote her. She knew the problem was actually a contractor that couldn't deliver the software that would work so she decided to retire instead. The school district needed to hire two programmers to replace her and they still couldn't get the software to work correctly.
Also, the school district thought by throwing more money at the problem, it could be fixed. Of course the contractor was happy to accept.
Not only does the Fire Chief need to be fired but
Karen Bass needs to go
Immediately
The Mayor should have been fired 3 months ago, So incompetent it's written on her face.
Wow it’s easy to blame someone that deals with Mother Nature
Yet she ran on homelessness on the streets
She failed who’s fires her
Scape goat politician
Not for Los Angeles
The streets of Los Angeles haven’t changed one bit since she arrived
A big mouth bass
California leadership is crap
The Mayor's blaming her, making her, an scapegoat. Thats not right. The mayor, is at fault, for not being where she, was suppose to be, at her station. She, was gone to another country, on taxpayers money.
what a slap in the face after defunding LAFD to fund LAPD too
DEI Vs DEI 😂
He didn't put the fires out fast enough. Hit the road, bub.
Who fires the mayor?
So, are they going to promote the big lesbian that won't rescue a guy because it's his fault for getting into that situation? Asking for a friend.
How can you fight fire with no water there was no water the mayor should’ve been fired along with Newsom she left on vacation knowing what was coming!
MAYOR BASS SHOULD RESIGN
Karen needs to remove herself
DEI?
She looks like a deer in headlights when she lies. Her eyes pop open and she freezes when she's lying.
We want California to be fully left and liberal
"The buck stops with me…..Its not my fault."
The fire chief needs to be arrested immediately and sent to prison families have died thank you mayor for pointing this disgusting act out time to proceed with criminal charges
California needs to get rid of Gavin Newscam ASAP 😮CORRUPTION CORRUPTION AND CORRUPTION 🤑
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