Bass ousts L.A. fire chief, saying LAFD needs new leadership
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass ousted Fire Chief Kristin Crowley over her handling of the Palisades fire Friday, adding to the turmoil that has enveloped City Hall. Bass took that step after publicly ...
Los Angeles City Council denies former Fire Chief Kristin Crowley’s appeal
I’m going to continue to advocate to get LAFD to where we need to go,” Crowley said as she left the Council Chamber.
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Pay raise approved for then-LAFD Chief Crowley before Palisades Fire and dismissal
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass approved a pay raise for fired LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley before the deadly Palisades Fire and ...
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Fired LAFD Chief Crowley Accused of Purposefully Understaffing Before Wildfires
LAFD officer, Captain Robert Hawkins ... “She told me that she was refusing to maintain staffing and had planned to cut fire engines over a 17-million-dollar deficit, and she asked the ...
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LAFD Captain: Recently Fired Chief Crowley Allegedly Understaffed Department on Purpose Before Fires
Los Angeles Mayor Bass removes Fire Chief Crowley amid controversy over fire department's handling of recent deadly firestorms.
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Mayor Bass fires Kristin Crowley as LAFD chief after tensions over LA fires
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has removed LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley Friday following weeks of tensions that mounted over preparations for the deadly Los Angeles wildfires in January.
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United Firefighters of Los Angeles president is "outraged" over removal of LAFD chief
Early in December, Crowley had issued a warning about $17 million in recent budget cuts potentially hurting LAFD's ability to ... available to fix broken fire engines. Escobar also refuted the ...
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Fired Former LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley Loses Appeal
In fact, Crowley told the council, 100 fire engines, trucks and ambulances have sat "broken down" in LAFD maintenance yards after the city axed $17 million from the city's budget. "I have seen ...
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LA City Council rejects former LAFD chief Kristen Crowley’s appeal for restoration
The Los Angeles City Council denied former Los Angeles Fire Department chief Kristen Crowley’s appeal to be reinstated after her Feb. 21 removal by Mayor Karen Bass.
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Former Los Angeles Fire Chief Speaks Out About Being Terminated
The department also had more than 40 engines available to battle wildfires, but fire officials staffed only five of them, The Times found. Another Times investigation determined that the LAFD ...
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Fallout continues after Mayor Bass removes Crowley as fire chief
there weren't enough fire engines available. Some of the engines that could have been in used sit in two LAFD maintenance yards, one in Lincoln Heights and another in Sherman Oaks. "We had more ...
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LA City Council votes 13-2 against Kristin Crowley's appeal to be reinstated as LAFD chief
"I said that the LAFD is not capable nor do we have the ... lack of investments in our fleet maintenance, over 100 of our fire engines, fire trucks and ambulances sat broken down in our ...