The DEI leaders of LA are busy bickering over who was to blame for the fires.

Mayor Karen Bass, who was in Ghana at the time, fired Kirstin Crowley, the first Lesbian head of the fire department, for supposedly not warning her of what every local already knew, that the Santa Ana Winds posed a serious fire hazard.

While Bass is the worst offender in the fires, the rush to sympathize with Crowley is misplaced. Text messages show that the LAFD didn’t get serious about the Pacific Palisades fire until it was much too late.

During the text exchange on Jan. 6, [Carol] Parks informed Crowley that Los Angeles Emergency Operations Center would be “activated at Level 3 (lowest level with EMD staff)” the next day…

“Two brush fires in the city. Palisades and Hollywood,” Crowley wrote to someone at 10:35 a.m.

“Sending over staff now,” she texted Parks minutes later. “I would recommend level 2.”

How long did it take to get to Level 1?

Hours later at 7:19 p.m., Parks texted, “EOC Directors are recommending that we move to Level 1,” adding that the Level 1 status would start the next morning.

By then this was the full-blown disaster people were watching on television around the world.

Whose fault were the fires? Short answer: everyone. The city and state was run by overpaid DEI hires with no clue how to do their jobs.

At 7:22 p.m., Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Chief Executive Officer Janisse Quiñones asked Crowley if “we can safely access this point,” adding that “we got evacuated before installing a reg station” and that otherwise, “we will run out of water in about 2 hours.”

Fighting fire without water is pretty hard. Fighting fires with DEI hires is nigh impossible.