The inept Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass just fired her lesbian fire chief after she blamed the city for a lack of funding and said she couldn’t have her citizens’ back if they don’t give her the needed resources.
Here’s more from the Daily Mail:
Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley was fired by Mayor Karen Bass on Friday afternoon, a source close to the chief’s office told DailyMail.com.
‘Kristin was summoned by Bass this afternoon, about 4pm. She came back from that meeting, hugged her staff goodbye and left. She said she was fired,’ the source said.
The alleged booting follows Crowley lashing out against the Mayor’s cuts to her department, in an interview with a local Fox TV station around 12pm Friday.
‘My message is the fire department needs to be properly funded,’ the Chief said. ‘It’s not.’
‘Did they fail you?’ Fox LA’s Gigi Graciette asked. ‘Yes,’ Crowley replied.
The Fire Department (LAFD) did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Tensions were already at boiling point between Bass and Crowley, even before the disastrous fires broke out on Tuesday.
The Mayor pushed through budget cuts of $17.6 million through a recent council vote, prompting Crowley to write her a memo on December 4 warning the slash ‘severely limited the department’s capacity to prepare for, train for, and respond to large-scale emergencies, including wildfires.’
And DailyMail.com exclusively revealed a second LAFD memo written this Monday, the day before the Palisades Fire began, outlining a further $49 million of cut allegedly demanded by Bass.
In shocking statements to Fox LA on Friday, Crowley said she had not been informed that the Santa Ynez Reservoir in the Palisades had been empty and offline for weeks with scheduled maintenance by LA Department of Water and Power (DWP).
On Friday DailyMail.com revealed LAFD insiders were blaming DWP CEO Janisse Quiñones for scheduling repairs to the reservoir’s cover during brushfire season, and for failing to repair a large number hydrants which they said had been broken for years, including in the Palisades.
Crowley also appeared to point the finger at DWP for running out of water to provide firefighters battling the blaze this week.
‘We weren’t aware,’ she said, referring to the empty reservoir. ‘I don’t know how the water gets to the hydrants. Please defer that to DWP.
‘It’s my job to stand up and say, justifiably, exactly what the fire department needs,’ the chief added.
‘When a firefighter comes up to a hydrant, we expect there’s going to be water. We don’t control the water supply. We’re there to protect lives and property.
She said her firefighters ‘did absolutely everything they could do to rescue and save people’s lives and property.’
Say what you will about this lesbian DEI fire chief, she did finally tell the truth and probably knew it would cost her job.
So I guess this makes Karen Bass a bigot for firing a lesbian woman.