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?
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.
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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?