Soon after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/los-angeles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Los Angeles</a> Fire Chief Kristin Crowley publicly blamed city officials for the disastrous response to historic wildfires in California, embattled Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass reportedly summoned Crowley to her office.
Reports swirled Friday night that Crowley was going to be axed from her position by Bass. The Daily Mail, relying on a source, even <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14272935/fire-chief-kristin-crowley-fired-mayor-karen-bass-humiliated.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Crowley had been fired. However, the mayor&#8217;s office has since claimed that Crowley remains in place as fire chief.
&#8220;The Mayor and Chief met. The priority remains fighting these fires and protecting Angelenos,&#8221; the office said in a statement.
The LAFD&#8217;s public information officer, Erik Scott, released a similar message late Friday night.
&#8220;On Friday, January 10th, Fire Chief Kristin Crowley of the Los Angeles City Fire Department met with Mayor Karen Bass,&#8221; Scott posted on X. &#8220;Their foremost priorities continue to be fighting the current wildfires and safeguarding Angelenos. It is important to note that the Fire Chief was not dismissed and is in full command of the LAFD.&#8221; 
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To answer the abundance of inquiries…
On Friday, January 10th, Fire Chief Kristin Crowley of the Los Angeles City Fire Department met with Mayor Karen Bass. Their foremost priorities continue to be fighting the current wildfires and safeguarding Angelenos. It is important to…
— Erik Scott (@PIOErikScott) <a href="https://twitter.com/PIOErikScott/status/1877947947918225650?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
According to a Daily Mail source, Crowley said her goodbyes before heading to the meeting, expecting to be fired.
&#8220;She was going into the meeting, telling everybody goodbye, because she was told the whole purpose of the meeting was to fire her,&#8221; the source said. &#8220;When she was summoned into the meeting, it was with the direct purpose to fire her.&#8221;
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&#8220;Whatever happened in that meeting, minds got changed,&#8221; the source added. &#8220;Either Bass realized it would be suicide to fire her, and came to her senses, or Crowley talked her out of it. She came back in the office briefly, told her staff &#8216;I’m not fired yet&#8217; and went into a meeting with all her chiefs.&#8221;
Earlier on Friday, Crowley bluntly told the press that city leadership &#8220;failed&#8221; her department.
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JUST IN: Los Angeles Fire Department chief Kristin Crowley turns on Los Angeles leadership, says they failed her.
Remarkable interview.
Crowley called out the city for having no water in the Santa Ynez Reservoir.
Reporter: &#8220;Did the city of Los Angeles fail you and your… <a href="https://t.co/fUQPoW32QA">pic.twitter.com/fUQPoW32QA</a>
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) <a href="https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1877827973895893084?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
As neighborhoods burned down in LA this past week, Bass was on a <a href="https://www.thecentersquare.com/california/article_37e8fb00-cd43-11ef-9250-4b279f82148d.amp.html">taxpayer-funded</a> trip to the African nation of Ghana for the inauguration of the nation&#8217;s new president. To much criticism, Bass did not make it back to the city until <a href="https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1877101632258777380">Wednesday</a>, and was peppered with questions about her absence upon her arrival. 
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🚨 911, I&#8217;D LIKE TO REPORT A M*RDER: This reporter just sat here and showered the mayor of Los Angeles with scathing questions for being MIA during the fires.
REPORTER: &#8220;Do you owe citizens an apology for being absent while their homes were burning?&#8221;
LOS ANGELES MAYOR KAREN… <a href="https://t.co/UBwVgrx1N9">pic.twitter.com/UBwVgrx1N9</a>
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) <a href="https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/1877122045806264466?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
Residents have since spoken out about the mayor&#8217;s lack of leadership. &#8220;We have questions,&#8221; a Pacific Palisades resident named Rachel Darvish said on Fox News. &#8220;I know where I am right now, but I don’t know where my mayor was when this was happening.&#8221; 
&#8220;For someone to be in charge of my town &#8211; where were you?&#8221; Darvish added. &#8220;Where were you when the decisions should have been made about how to get in and out of places.”
Bass is also taking flak for cutting the fire department&#8217;s <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/01/08/us-news/la-mayor-karen-bass-cut-fire-department-funding-by-17-6m/">budget</a> by more than $17 million dollars, which is actually a more modest cut than the $23 million the Democrat initially wanted to axe.
Meanwhile, Crowley has been <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/01/08/us-news/megyn-kelly-accuses-la-fire-chief-and-mayor-bass-of-putting-dei-ahead-of-fire-safety/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criticized</a> for her commitment to DEI goals over competence and effectiveness.
For example, the department&#8217;s assistant chief, Kristine Larson, appears in a video in which she says that if someone complains about a woman firefighter’s inability to carry a man out of a fire, her response would be, “He got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire.”
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LAFD Assistant Chief Kristine Larson:
&#8220;Am I able to carry your husband out of a fire? He got himself in the wrong place.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/BofTVr6dWP">pic.twitter.com/BofTVr6dWP</a>
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1877458240050446339?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 9, 2025</a></blockquote>

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