LA Mayor Karen Bass Throws Fire Chief Under Bus!

Mayor Karen Bass is getting roasted harder than the Palisades, and frankly—it’s long overdue. Former fire chief Kristin Crowley just lobbed a legal grenade, accusing Bass of tossing her under the bus to save her own shaky political hide after the deadly fires that killed 12 people and destroyed nearly 7,000 homes.

Six weeks after the inferno, Bass axed Crowley, pointing the finger at her for not deploying enough firefighters. But critics called it a cheap political stunt—scapegoating the chief while ignoring the city’s real disasters: empty water tanks, chaotic evacuations, and a total breakdown in emergency response. Crowley isn’t taking it quietly either. She’s firing back with a legal claim that exposes Bass’s “campaign of lies and payback,” flatly denying Bass’s spin about missing crews and ignored reports.

The hypocrisy is glaring. Bass was praising Crowley during the early firefighting efforts, only to flip the script once the political heat got too intense. Now voters are watching a mayor more focused on covering her tracks than confronting her failures. Her so-called damage control looks more like damage creation—every excuse just deepens the crater of public distrust.

But here’s the bigger scandal: no one in California politics even understands the word “accountability.” If they did, Bass wouldn’t be the only one on the chopping block—the entire Sacramento-to-L.A. clown car would have resigned years ago. Instead, every failure gets recycled into another press conference, another empty promise, another round of finger-pointing.

Meanwhile, real families are left to sift through ashes while the state’s political elite polish their talking points. Leadership? Try cowardice in a pantsuit.