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?
Seeing that interview makes me think she was aware the mayor was going to scapegoat her no matter what the actual truth was, and with essentially nothing to lose as she already knew her job was gone she took the nuclear option.
The mayor seems to be coming at this as if extra personnel and trucks would’ve pulled it up which is most definitely not the case, not even god himself was stopping that fire.
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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?