I watched the whole interview she did that led to her being fired. Respect to this woman, she stood up and didn’t allow her people to be blamed. Which they shouldn’t. But what did her in was going against the mayor. She showed the media multiple memos she had written to the mayor to address the issues; staffing, stations, hydrants. If you watch her face during the interview she knows that it’s the end of her career with LA, not based on her actions but by not backing the mayor. There was no stopping that fire once it got going, too much wind. And of course they ran out of water, if you have an engine hooked up to every hydrant in the city what do you expect?
In the article the mayor basically says that she told the chief to have people standing by because of the weather and implied the chief let them go despite knowing the risk even though the mayor seems to think she knew better.
I haven't followed this close, but one of the articles weeks back talked about how they should have krpt extra people on overtime for extra shifts as standby because of the weather. But realistically how long can that go on? Work a double shift, what if the big one doesn't happen that day? Now work a triple, quadruple shift? When does it end. It was weeks of dry windy conditions.
It goes hand in hand with complaints about not having a water system that can handle it. If nothing happened, people would be complaining that we spent all that money for nothing too. It was one of those “let’s leave room for nuance” situations that never get that grace after the fact.
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u/63oscar Feb 21 '25
I watched the whole interview she did that led to her being fired. Respect to this woman, she stood up and didn’t allow her people to be blamed. Which they shouldn’t. But what did her in was going against the mayor. She showed the media multiple memos she had written to the mayor to address the issues; staffing, stations, hydrants. If you watch her face during the interview she knows that it’s the end of her career with LA, not based on her actions but by not backing the mayor. There was no stopping that fire once it got going, too much wind. And of course they ran out of water, if you have an engine hooked up to every hydrant in the city what do you expect?