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2025-01-11 Government Corruption
LA Mayor Karen Bass FIRES does not fire Fire Chief Kristin Crowley after she said city leadership ''failed'' the fire department
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…According to the Daily Mail, who initially reported that Crowley had been fired, “something” happened in the meeting that “changed” minds.

“When she was summoned into the meeting, it was with the direct purpose to fire her,” their source said.

“Whatever happened in that meeting, minds got changed.”

The meeting came hours after Crowley had accused Bass of “failing” the fire department.

Posted by Fred 2025-01-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 The fire chief said that staffing shortages and lack of resources have been pressing issues facing the department for years
Posted by Skidmark 2025-01-11 00:27||   2025-01-11 00:27|| Front Page Top

#2 What a shit show
Posted by Frank G 2025-01-11 04:49||   2025-01-11 04:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Where was LA Mayor Karen Bass the last few weeks? She was on a trip to Ghana (West Africa) as City Burned.

Why is an LA Mayor in West Africa?
Posted by NN2N1 2025-01-11 05:02||   2025-01-11 05:02|| Front Page Top

#4 ^To learn city management?
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2025-01-11 05:37||   2025-01-11 05:37|| Front Page Top

#5 ^Given the overall general makeup and Social Economics of LA, I could see that.
Posted by NN2N1 2025-01-11 06:06||   2025-01-11 06:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Frank's pithy comment at #2 pretty well sums it up.
Posted by Besoeker 2025-01-11 06:23||   2025-01-11 06:23|| Front Page Top

#7 We all knew this was coming.
Posted by Procopius2k 2025-01-11 07:33||   2025-01-11 07:33|| Front Page Top

#8 Maybe the African junket was for a conference of failed state administrators.
Posted by Super Hose 2025-01-11 09:20||   2025-01-11 09:20|| Front Page Top

#9 The United States does not have full extradition treaties with a number of nations. Like with Ukraine, and most African states to name a few.

Has the O'Biden Regime & other guilty elites parties paved a escape route??
Posted by  2025-01-11 09:58||   2025-01-11 09:58|| Front Page Top

#10 Played her like a fiddle.
Posted by swksvolFF 2025-01-11 09:59||   2025-01-11 09:59|| Front Page Top

#11 "You can't fire me. I know where the bodies are buried."
Posted by SteveS 2025-01-11 10:10||   2025-01-11 10:10|| Front Page Top

#12 Now, Bass should resign for her failures.
Posted by JohnQC 2025-01-11 10:55||   2025-01-11 10:55|| Front Page Top

#13 Funny you should say that, JohnQC. A petition started circulating yesterday demanding Mayor Bass's resignation.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-01-11 12:07||   2025-01-11 12:07|| Front Page Top

#14 See also:

State to probe why Pacific Palisades reservoir was offline, empty when firestorm exploded

and

BREAKING: Mayor Karen Bass demanded LA fire dept cut $49 million LAST WEEK: report
Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-01-11 12:13||   2025-01-11 12:13|| Front Page Top

#15 Janet Reno never got fired.
Posted by Super Hose 2025-01-11 12:22||   2025-01-11 12:22|| Front Page Top

#16 Mayor Bass doesn't want complaints or questions to distract from the important work of putting out a fire that shouldn't have happened in the first place.
Posted by EMS Artifact 2025-01-11 12:45||   2025-01-11 12:45|| Front Page Top

#17 I think one of the biggest differences between liberals and conservatives is that liberals are either unable or unwilling to perceive danger.

Yesterday on KFI, John Kobylt revealed that Los Angeles last year spent $1.3 billion for the homeless but only $800 million for the fire department. That's what I mean. Their priorities are all wrong.

They don't see the danger in all that dry brush in the canyons and on the hill sides where wildfires start. They either don't see it or they don't think anything can be done about it. But there are plenty of things that could be done if their priority was public safety instead of all the woke items on their agendas.

Public safety should always be their number one priority. But how can they ensure public safety when they don't even recognize the threats that are staring them in the face?
Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-01-11 13:31||   2025-01-11 13:31|| Front Page Top

#18 Glenn Beck transcript...the Mayor was in the Venceremos brigade for many years going to Cuber every 6 months.

https://www.glennbeck.com/radio/mayor-ties-radicals-california-fires
Posted by Ulailet+Thud3602 2025-01-11 13:45||   2025-01-11 13:45|| Front Page Top

#19 Being the self serving people they are, one would *think* they would, at the least, keep the ultra rich celebrity neighborhood safe.

But no, left their VIPs out to dry.

Heard a rumor Tom Hanks' house, well one of his houses, went up. That would be some extra thick irony soup served with corn.
Posted by swksvolFF 2025-01-11 14:09||   2025-01-11 14:09|| Front Page Top

#20 In Case of Fire
Break Glass Ceiling.
Posted by swksvolFF 2025-01-11 14:28||   2025-01-11 14:28|| Front Page Top

#21 Mexico sends firefighters to California to help with raging blazes
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2025-01-11 14:31||   2025-01-11 14:31|| Front Page Top

#22 
Remember all the reservoir dams the environmentalists breached to Free The Rivers.

That Green agenda is likely responsible for a few 100,000 of acres of forest.
Posted by NN2N1 2025-01-11 14:57||   2025-01-11 14:57|| Front Page Top

#23 Bass has ambitions on the Governorship after Newsome, and the deal seemed struck, nut now the damage to her political standing by the catastrophic fires has been enormous. Salvaging any hopes now was only worsened by the optics of firing the DEI LGBTQ-XYZ Fire Chief who has plenty of ammunition left to reveal about criminal incompetence. Bingo, post meeting political assessment and poof-unfiring and huge efforts to seem in charge and leader-like.

But...15,000 homes gone and hundreds of billions in damage-even the best California political make-over visuals are selling!
Posted by NoMoreBS 2025-01-11 15:00||   2025-01-11 15:00|| Front Page Top

#24 ...not...
Posted by NoMoreBS 2025-01-11 15:01||   2025-01-11 15:01|| Front Page Top

#25 CITY IN PANIC All 10m LA residents’ phones warn them ‘get ready to FLEE wildfires’ in terrifying blunder as anger at Dem leaders grows
She told BBC: "It was like a massive panic that I was watching in real-time."

This led to moments of panic among Rebecca and her fellow workmates, all of whom scrambled to research whether they were in imminent danger.

But a corrected alert then came through, telling them to disregard the terrifying warning.

Relief that the residents felt soon transcended into anger at the massive blunder, with Rebecca complaining that they were all trying to stay informed through their phones, TV and radio as "there wasn't a good system in place".
Posted by Elmaper+McGurquCITY IN PANIC All 10m LA residents’ phones warn them ‘get ready to FLEE wildfires’ in terrifying blunder as anger at Dem leaders growse1612 2025-01-11 15:07||   2025-01-11 15:07|| Front Page Top

#26 Shhhhh… calm yourself, dear Elmaper+McGurque. The false alarm was yesterday. Those responsible should be drummed out of their jobs for it, no doubt, but that’s a problem for Future LA — current LA has more urgent concerns.
Posted by trailing wife 2025-01-11 15:40||   2025-01-11 15:40|| Front Page Top

#27 Re the Mayor and the Fire Chief, the chief's big job is to provide cover for the mayor. Bass knows that -nobody- is going to sign up for the job right now. And the assistant chiefs currently know better.
Posted by ed in texas 2025-01-11 16:05||   2025-01-11 16:05|| Front Page Top

#28 some decent progress made in containment

Palisades fire about 12% contained
Eaton fire about 15% contained
Lydia, Hurst, Kenneth and Archer fires are at least 75% contained.

Unfortunately Santa Ana winds may be ramping up by late Sunday 12 Jan
Posted by Lord Garth 2025-01-11 18:35||   2025-01-11 18:35|| Front Page Top

#29 *knocks on wood*
San Diego hasn't been hit but the week's prediction is for more Santa Ana's. We usually get hit hard in Oct/Nov. No rain in forecast
Posted by Frank G 2025-01-11 18:42||   2025-01-11 18:42|| Front Page Top

#30 Los Angeles? Mannish hermanas,
Like, Communist, tony Montanas
Who, run in reverse,
Are a burden, a curse,
And a Red ruination! [hosannas]
Posted by Pancho Poodle8452 2025-01-11 21:17||   2025-01-11 21:17|| Front Page Top

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