Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) chief Kristin Crowley said Friday on CNN’s “The Lead” that massive budget cuts “absolutely negatively impacted ” the department’s ability to fight the disastrous wildfires in Southern California.
Host Jake Tapper said, “A lot of questions going on amongst the public about whether the decision to slash the fire department’s budget and decisions around that have affected your department’s ability to to fight the fires? Is it is it true did those decisions hurt your ability to do so?”
Crowley said, “I want to be very, very clear. Yes, we took a $17 million budget cut and as we know, any budget cut would negatively impact our ability to carry out our mission. I want to also clarify that I’m not
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