With five major wildfires continuing to devastate neighborhoods across Los Angeles, Khloe Kardashian took to Instagram to confess she wasn’t partial to Mayor Karen Bass at this time.
The Just right American founder slammed the mayor then to a video of Los Angeles Hearth Branch Eminent Kristin Crowley telling Fox 11 Los Angeles that the town had failed them nearest fresh cuts to the segment’s funds.
“I stand by YOU Chief Crowley!!!! You spoke the truth and you had tears in your eyes because I can tell you didn’t even want to say that but it was THE TRUTH,” Khloe wrote on Instagram utmost evening (January 10). “Thank you for being honest. Mayor Bass, you are a joke!!!!”
When Chief Crowley spoke out, 3 days nearest the beginning of the wildfires, that have now left a minimum of 11 lifeless and over 37,000 acres destroyed, it used to be the second one past she instructed the town to extend the segment’s investment in a negligible over a past.
On December 4, Crowley issued a blackmail that funds cuts would negatively have an effect on her segment’s skill to successfully reply to emergencies.
According to city documents, the hearth segment’s funds reduced through $17.6 million between the 2023-2024 fiscal day and 2024-2025. The segment’s 2025 funds recently stands at $819.64 million, according to the city’s website. Accounting for investment for wage will increase and fresh apparatus, the segment’s funds in the end increased by 7 percent for the fresh fiscal day.
In Eminent Crowley’s letter to the Board of Hearth Commissioners, she stated the discounts, together with a $7 million slash to extra time hours, “have adversely affected the Department’s ability to maintain core operations” and “critically restricted the Branch’s capability to arrange for, teach for, and reply to large-scale emergencies” as well as brush clearance and resident inspections.
At a January 9 press conference, Mayor Bass claimed these previous cuts haven’t affected how the department has been able to respond to the current fires.
“I think if you go back and look at the reductions that have been made, there were no reductions that would have impacted the situation we were dealing with over the last couple of days,” she said.
“It’s important to understand that we were in tough budgetary times,” she continued. “Everybody knew that, but the impact of our budget really did not affect what we’ve been going through over the last few days.”
Despite her claims, several celebrities have expressed the same exasperation as Khloe, ridiculing the mayor for funding woes and being overseas in Ghana when the fires first erupted.
Sara Foster, the 43-year-old actress known for her role in 90210, wrote on X: “We pay the highest taxes in California. Our fire hydrants were empty. Our vegetation was overgrown, brush not cleared.”
“Our reservoirs were emptied by our governor because tribal leaders wanted to save fish,” she continued. “Our fire department budget was cut by our mayor. But thank god drug addicts are getting their drug kits.”
Meanwhile, gym legend Jillian Michaels wrote: “I lost a home in the 2018 Woolley fire. Was in Cali for New Years this year and podcasts – just evacuated my mom from her California home. The mayor is apparently in Ghana.”
“The fire departments budget was apparently cut by 17 mil,” she added. “And someone made the decision to not refill some of the reservoirs — now some fire hydrants are dry. Leadership in California is beyond negligent. This is completely unacceptable.”
