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They’re starting to throw each other under the bus. California Gov. Gavin Newsom made time during the wildfires to join the Obama bros “Pod Save America” podcast, where he refused to accept culpability for the out-of-control fires burning Los Angeles County. Newsom just wants to determine the facts, but he’s been being told different stories, which means someone’s lying to him.

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And then there’s Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass. As we reported earlier, the mayor called in the fire chief for at ense emergency meeting, where she expected to be fired (but wasn’t).

Is the Los Angeles fire chief giving him bad information? Fire Chief Kristin Crowley spoke to a local Fox News affiliate and, after some wearing down, admitted that yes, the City of Los Angeles failed the fire department.

… Reporter: “Did the city of Los Angeles fail you and your department?”

Crowley: “It’s my job to stand up as a chief and exactly say what the fire department needs.”

Reporter: “Did they fail you?”

Crowley: “Yes.”

They’re turning on each other.

She says this knowing that Bass cut the department’s budget by nearly $18 million. And as we reported, just last month, Crowley sent a letter to Bass telling her that cutting the budget “severely limited the department’s capacity to prepare for, train for, and respond to large-scale emergencies, including wildfires.” For her part, Bass flew back from Ghana to deal with the catastrophe and assured a CBS News reporter that now is “not the time” to talk about who failed whom.

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Crowley also threw the Department of Water and Power under the bus saying it was their responsibility to ensure there was water flowing to the fire hydrants. Here’s Janisse Quinones, head of the Department of Water and Power, who was recommended by Bass and makes $750,000 a year.

A DEI hire, perhaps?

Did the city fail her? Yes. Did she fail the people of the city? Yes.

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It was all failure, all the way from the governor’s office down to the fire department.

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