with the Five major wildfires are ravaging areas around Los Angeles. Khloe Kardashian took to Instagram to admit she wasn’t a fan. Mayor Karen Bass right now
The Good American founder slammed the mayor ahead of a video of Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristen Crowley. Fox 11 Los Angeles is reporting. That the city had failed him after recent cuts to the department’s budget.
“I stand with you Chief Crowley!!!! You told the truth and you had tears in your eyes because I could tell you didn’t even want to say it but it was the truth,” Khloe tweeted last night (January 10 ) wrote on Instagram. “Thank you for being honest. Mayor Boss, you are a joke!!!!”
when Chief Crowley said.three days after the start of Forest firewhich has now killed at least 11 people and destroyed more than 37,000 acres, was the second time he urged the city to increase funding for the department in a little more than a month.
On December 4, Crowley issued a warning that budget cuts would negatively impact his department’s ability to respond effectively to emergencies.
According to city documentsthe fire department’s budget decreased by $17.6 million between the 2023-2024 fiscal year and 2024-2025. The department’s 2025 budget is currently $819.64 million. City website. Accounting for salary increases and funding for new equipment, ultimately the department budget 7% increase. for the new financial year.
In Chief Crowley’s letter to the Board of Fire Commissioners, he said the cuts, including a $7 million reduction in overtime hours, “have adversely affected the department’s ability to maintain core operations” and that “the department has severely limited the ability to prepare and train, and respond to large-scale emergencies” as well as brush clearance and residential inspections.
At a January 9 press conference, Mayor Bass claimed that those previous cuts had not affected how the department could respond to current fires.
“I think if you go back and look at the reductions that have been made, there were no reductions that would have affected the situation that we’ve been dealing with over the last few days,” he said.
“It’s important to understand that we were in a difficult budget period,” he continued. “Everybody knew that, but our budget didn’t really impact what we’ve been going through the last few days.”
Despite her claims, several celebrities have expressed the same outrage as Khloe, mocking Mayer for her funding woes and being based abroad in Ghana when the fire first broke.
Sarah Foster, a 43-year-old actress known for her role as 90210wrote on X: “We pay the highest taxes in California. Our fire hydrants were empty. Our vegetation was overgrown, the brush was not cleared.
“Our reservoirs were drained by our governor because the tribal leaders wanted to save the fish.” “Our fire department budget was cut by our mayor. But thank God drug addicts are getting drug kits.
Meanwhile, gym legend Jillian Michaels wrote: “I lost a house in the Woolley fire of 2018. Was in Cali this year for New Year’s and the podcast – just evacuated my mom from her California home. The mayor is apparently in Ghana.
“The fire department budget was apparently cut by 17 million,” he added. “And someone decided not to refill some reservoirs — now some fire hydrants are dry. The leadership in California is beyond negligent. This is completely unacceptable.”