Karen Bass, Democratic mayor of Los Angeles, announced Friday that she was firing the chief of the Los Angeles Fire Department after a barrage of criticism over the response to recent historic wildfires.
Critics have lambasted local officials after the wildfires killed at least 29 people and destroyed over 16,000 structures while forcing the evacuation of 200,000 people at one point. One estimate places the economic loss from the wildfires to be over $50 billion.
‘We can no longer sustain where we are. We do not have enough firefighters.’
Mayor Karen Bass appeared to try to relieve some of the pressure by putting the blame on LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley.
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“Bringing new leadership to the Fire Department is what our city needs,” said Bass. “We
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