{"id":2389122,"date":"2025-01-11T11:30:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T16:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/developing-la-fire-chief-reportedly-says-she-is-going-to-be-fired-after-no-holds-barred-interview-mayors-office-denies\/"},"modified":"2025-01-11T13:39:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T18:39:04","slug":"developing-la-fire-chief-reportedly-says-she-is-going-to-be-fired-after-no-holds-barred-interview-mayors-office-denies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/developing-la-fire-chief-reportedly-says-she-is-going-to-be-fired-after-no-holds-barred-interview-mayors-office-denies\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing: LA Fire Chief Reportedly Says She Is Going to Be Fired After No-Holds-Barred Interview, Mayor&#8217;s Office Denies"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdeveloping-la-fire-chief-reportedly-says-she-is-going-to-be-fired-after-no-holds-barred-interview-mayors-office-denies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2389122&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin\u2063 Crowley recently\u200d faced a potential \u200ctermination from Mayor Karen Bass amidst\u200d devastating wildfires that have claimed at least 11 lives and destroyed thousands of buildings. crowley expressed concerns about budget cuts to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-massive-explosion-in-downtown-nashville-on-christmas-morning-possible-car-bomb-video\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Massive Explosion in Downtown Nashville on Christmas Morning, Possible Car Bomb (VIDEO)\">fire department<\/a> during an\u200b interview, citing insufficient funding as a\u2062 important factor impeding effective fire \u2062response. \u2064She indicated that the fire service required more resources to meet the demands of a growing city, highlighting gaps in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/study-texas-heartbeat-act-cut-abortions-by-50-in-september\/\" title=\"Study: Texas Heartbeat Act Cut Abortions by 50% in September\">service delivery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite initial reports that she might be fired after truthfully addressing \u2063these budget \u200dissues, she was ultimately informed that she was\u200b &#8220;not fired \u200cyet.&#8221; Following the interview, there was speculation that either the mayor reconsidered the decision\u200c or Crowley was able to \u2064persuade the mayor not to dismiss\u2062 her. The mayor&#8217;s office later issued a statement\u200b denying the reports of Crowley&#8217;s firing and reiterated their focus on combating the fires.<\/p>\n<p>The situation\u200b is compounded by criticism \u2062regarding Bass&#8217;s leadership, particularly her absence during the crisis as she was attending a\u200c delegation in Ghana. Critics have questioned her actions and the prioritization of resources within the fire department, pointing to a perceived distraction from <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">essential firefighting duties<\/a> towards less critical matters. Crowley&#8217;s candid statements and advocacy for necessary funding have\u2062 drawn \u2062attention in a \u2063context where city leadership seems polarized on handling the fire crisis effectively.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_3)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The chief of Los Angeles&rsquo; fire department says she was going to be fired by the mayor in the middle of the catastrophic blazes that have killed at least 11 and burned thousands of buildings to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>The reason? She told the truth about what Democrat Mayor Karen Bass had done to the fire department.<\/p>\n<p>According to both Fire Chief Kristin Crowley and Bass&rsquo; office, she&rsquo;s still on the job &mdash; but that allegedly wasn&rsquo;t to be the case after a Friday afternoon interview with KTTV-TV.<\/p>\n<p>During the interview, the station&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/anti-christian-hate-crime-case-opened-disturbing-discovery-churchs-front-lawn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gigi Graciette<\/a> asked Crowley if the city had failed her.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Yes,&rdquo; she said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/cant-make-stuff-la-actually-sent-surplus-fire-fighting-equipment-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">referencing the cuts to funding<\/a> that Bass&rsquo; office had made.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are screaming to be properly funded to make sure that our firefighters can do their jobs so that we can serve the community,&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Since day one, we&rsquo;ve identified huge gaps in regard to our service delivery and our ability of our firefighters&rsquo; boots on the ground to do their jobs since day one.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is no longer sustainable,&rdquo; she added.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So when you talk about sounding the alarm and asking and requesting budgets that are easily justifiable based off of the data, real data shows what the fire department needs to serve this beautiful city and the beautiful community that we swore that we would. That&rsquo;s what that is about.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Full interview here, if you want to sift through it:<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-embed\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LAFD Chief slams budget cuts impact on California wildfires\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HjiHPCs85lY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>This was enough that Crowley thought she was going to be dismissed, &ldquo;telling everybody goodbye, because she was told the whole purpose of the meeting was to fire her,&rdquo; a source within the office said, according to a report by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14272935\/fire-chief-kristin-crowley-fired-mayor-karen-bass-humiliated.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.K. Daily Mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;When she was summoned into the meeting, it was with the direct purpose to fire her,&rdquo; the source said. &ldquo;Whatever happened in that meeting, minds got changed.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Either Bass realized it would be suicide to fire her, and came to her senses, or Crowley talked her out of it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the case, she came back Friday evening telling her people that she was &ldquo;not fired yet.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/think-kamala-bad-vp-look-woman-shortlist-just-wildfire-racked-los-angeles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The mayor&rsquo;s office<\/a> also came back with a statement calling reports that Crowley had been fired &ldquo;false.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Mayor and Chief met. The priority remains fighting these fires and protecting Angelenos,&rdquo; the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>&#8203;Whatever the case, it seems that people in Los Angeles&rsquo; power structure seem genuinely shocked that Crowley had the effrontery to tell the truth about a rudderless city.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&rsquo;t seen the clips of Bass and the LAFD that she engendered before the fires, or how the mayor has dealt with the situation since the blazes broke out, it&rsquo;s a truly astounding thing.<\/p>\n<p>Start with the fact that she was in the country of Ghana &mdash; not part of her constituency, last I checked &mdash; as part of a delegation when the blaze broke out, despite the fact ample warning was given by the National Weather Service that a high-wind event was going to create the perfect conditions for blazes in drought-stricken Southern California.<\/p>\n<p>When she returned, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/la-residents-rage-absent-mayor-wildfires-cause-devastation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">she didn&rsquo;t feel anyone deserved answers<\/a>, apparently:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&lsquo;Do you owe citizens an apology for being absent whilst their homes were burning? Do you regret cutting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-los-angeles-earthquake-shakes-espn-studio-forces-host-to-take-things-into-her-own-hands\/\" title=\"Watch: Los Angeles Earthquake Shakes ESPN Studio, Forces Host to Take Things Into Her Own Hands\">fire department&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s budget?<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/skydavidblevins?\">@skydavidblevins<\/a> questions the mayor of LA, Karen Bass, as she faces backlash regarding the California wildfires.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Nkz8onjC7V\">https:\/\/t.co\/Nkz8onjC7V<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WwRwp6Imqz\">pic.twitter.com\/WwRwp6Imqz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sky News (@SkyNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkyNews\/status\/1877115173443400065?\">January 8, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Then there were the clips of what the LAFD is spending its insufficient resources on: woke culture as opposed to, you know, fighting fires. In fact, one LAFD fighter admitted as much, saying that it was more important to have someone that looked like you responding to a fire and saying that if your husband needed saving, he shouldn&rsquo;t have gotten himself into trouble in the first place. (Seriously.)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">LA County recently posted this video on how they make their firefighters train in cultural inclusivity, equity, diversity <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nvB3RRjTQK\">pic.twitter.com\/nvB3RRjTQK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EndWokeness\/status\/1876986637311242436?\">January 8, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The scariest part of this woke nonsense is when she admits she&rsquo;s not strong enough to carry a man out of a fire, but it&rsquo;s really the man&rsquo;s fault for being in that situation to begin with.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IPPbNpE0ll\">pic.twitter.com\/IPPbNpE0ll<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Not the Bee (@Not_the_Bee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Not_the_Bee\/status\/1877461717933801567?\">January 9, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Yet, we&rsquo;re supposed to be upset that Crowley went on TV and noted the LAFD had &ldquo;identified huge gaps in regard to our service delivery and our ability of our firefighters&rsquo; boots on the ground to do their jobs,&rdquo; but that the city did nothing about them?<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We know we need 62 new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/calif-firefighter-sets-fire-to-own-home-after-opening-fire-on-co-workers\/\" title=\"Calif. firefighter sets fire to own home after opening fire on co-workers\">fire stations<\/a>. We need to double the size of our firefighters,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;The growth of this city since 1960 has doubled, and we have less fire stations.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>We&rsquo;re supposed to be upset that she said this and not about the fact that it&rsquo;s part of the reason the response to the fires has been anemic at best?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/la-officials-send-fake-evacuation-alert-entire-county-nearly-flood-streets-10-million-panicking-residents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This is what you voted for, Angelenos<\/a>. I&rsquo;m not saying Crowley herself is perfect, but at least she understands that part of responding to this disaster is to rightly call out those who mismanaged the city into this state. For this, she apparently was going to get fired.<\/p>\n<p>Karen Bass, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-karen-bass-called-communist-dictators-death-great-loss-victims-arent-happy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">notable praiser of the Castro regime in Cuba<\/a>, is apparently taking a page out of the communist handbook. Remember, in the lead-up to the Nazi invasion of the USSR, Joseph Stalin purged his most adept generals because he considered them <a href=\"https:\/\/warfarehistorynetwork.com\/article\/joseph-stalins-paranoid-purge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">insufficiently ideologically aligned<\/a> with him &mdash; thus hampering the Soviet reaction to the attack.<\/p>\n<p>If the reports about Crowley are to be believed, Bass wanted to can her for stating the facts. 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The reason for this potential dismissal? She spoke candidly about the actions taken by Democratic Mayor Karen Bass regarding the fire department. Both Fire Chief Kristin Crowley and Bass&#8217; office confirmed that she remains in her position, although it was reportedly not expected after a Friday interview with KTTV-TV. During this interview, when asked if the city had let her down, Crowley responded affirmatively, citing budget cuts made by Bass\u2019 administration. She emphasized the urgent need for adequate funding to ensure firefighters can effectively serve their community and highlighted significant gaps in service delivery since day one. Despite fears of being fired after a meeting where it was suggested that would be the outcome, Crowley later informed her team that she had not been dismissed yet. The mayor&#8217;s office also issued a statement refuting claims of her termination, stating their focus remains on combating fires and protecting residents. 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