r/Firefighting • u/iansbell • Jan 06 '25

Ask A Firefighter Lafd women fire chief defending poor athleticism

I forget the exact context of the video, but from what I remember, it is an interview with an LAFD deputy chief Kristine Larson. In the video, she states that if she needs to rescue somebody from a burning building then they shouldn’t even be there in the first place. Does anybody have a link to this video?

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u/substantionallytrchd Jan 16 '25

Since you so happen to know so much about her, care to share what stations she did her front line work??

Also, ANYTIME you do an interview or there is production of a video done with your uniform and badge, it needs approval of the LAFD because you are representing the Los Angeles fire department…Therefor if it gets approved then it gets the sponsorship of the LAFD. However, like I mentioned, there was such backlash that it got immediately taken down from the LAFD library.

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u/HiroPro73 Jan 16 '25 edited Jan 17 '25

Graduates tower in fall 1990. First assignment 83 Encino with 20s truck house Silverlake then 92 Station Westside and this is 15 years in, makes Inspector does six months then makes Cap 1 then assigned 47s El Sereno ends frontline at 58s South C shift and that's an additional 10 years of being an officer for a total of 25+ years frontline whilst continuing to rise in rank to Battalion Chief and earning a master's graduate degree at UCLA in Emergency Management.

Listen man I'm not a fan of her politics ok but I want her to get a fair shake as she's done her dues to make desk and the 300k salary and to dismiss her as nothing more than a fat out of shape DEI inspector desk jockey who has no actual firefighting experience is a biggoted way to dismiss her hard earned achievements.

Regarding the viral attn: Media Inc video circling social media, I don't think you get that the short out of context clips of Larson talking in the attn: video was stolen/pulled from another original internal video piece signed off on by the LAFD produced by another different media production company and the original long form interview video sat in library no problem for a number of years before the shitheads at attn: spliced it into their Tiktok/Instagram video. Oh attn: also pulled the video of that chubby black lady with glasses from a friggin fictional Fox TV show to put that idiotic video together. BTW you know who was sorta indirectly involved in the attn: LAFD shitshow? Bill Maher 😂 as he partly owned and had a hand in attn: production. I seriously wonder if it intentionally made Kris and the LAFD look bad/stupid but they claimed no ill intent. The brass decided to simply bury the whole effing thing.