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Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley, left, and Mayor Karen Bass address a news conference on Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
In June 2024, Crowley was a grand marshal at Los Angeles Pride. [9] She oversaw the department's response to the January 2025 Southern California wildfires. [5] On February 21, 2025, Mayor Karen Bass fired Crowley as Chief, claiming that Crowley had left the department unprepared in advance of the outbreak of the Palisades Fire. [10]
Megyn Kelly sounded off on Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley and Mayor Karen Bass — charging that the officials’ preoccupation with diversity, equity and inclusion programs ...
Before wildfires broke out across Los Angeles, the city's fire chief said that budget cuts were hampering the department's ability to respond to emergencies, a department memo shows.. Funding for ...
Crowley has now been with the department for a quarter century, serving in nearly every role, including fire marshal, engineer and battalion chief. Garcetti had described Crowley as not only a trailblazer but the most qualified person. “The protection of our city first and foremost has to go to the human being who is best prepared to lead ...
Kristin Crowley, in multiple interviews, drew a connection between budget cuts to her department and the city's struggle to combat the wildfires. L.A. fire chief meets with mayor after saying the ...
Kelly’s comments were targeted toward Kristin Crowley, a 22-year veteran and the department’s first woman and openly gay fire chief; Kristine Larson, the department’s equity and human ...
Chief Rosemary Bliss was the first female head of a career fire department in Tiburon, California. She became fire chief in 1993. [148] [149] [150] In 2002, approximately 2% of all firefighters were female in the United States. [149] Sarinya Srisakul was the first Asian-American woman to be hired by the New York City Fire Department in 2005. [84]