Yeah, especially doing a bang-up job of it. I don't see too many people knocking on her door to take a chief's job somewhere else. She kinda tanked herself. Not saying that her job was easy or that she made some kind of blatant mistakes besides not fighting for her department to get the equipment they needed.
Also, let's say I'm looking for a chief. Am I gonna hire that chief from LA who said that she had no idea how water gets to the hydrants? They probably taught that in academy. That was a straight up dipshit answer. Any ranking officer should understand the fundamentals of water supply in their city to a point where they could easily describe how water gets to the city's hydrants. That was embarrassing as hell.
To be fair. In the interview the reporter was bringing up the water hydrant supply issue and the chief said “that’s not my department”. Which is true, that is the water department. Watch the full interview and it will make more sense. The reporter is trying to get her to blame something or someone.
Having an idea (I do) is not the same as speaking intelligently (doubt I could).
It's a simple-ish concept but actually speaking to it properly is another thing entirely, especially in a situation where every question is trying to get you to blame someone else
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u/ProtestantMormon Wildland Feb 22 '25
Being fire chief for the city of la is probably one of the highest complexity fire jobs in the world.