Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) Chief Kristin Crowley was fired by Mayor Karen Bass Friday after failing to send firefighters to the Palisades and Eaton fires.
Mayor Bass said in a statement Friday that, under Crowley’s supervision, 1,000 firefighters were sent home while fires raged around Los Angeles, killing 29 people and destroying thousands of homes.
“We know that 1,000 firefighters that could have been on duty on the morning the fires broke out were instead sent home on Chief Crowley’s watch,” Bass said in the statement. “Furthermore, a necessary step to an investigation was the President of the Fire Commission telling Chief Crowley to do an after action report on the fires. The Chief refused. These require her removal.”
Bass has been under scrutiny herself since the fires first broke out in January, having been in Africa while much of the city was engulfed in…
