In November, LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley sent a memo warning of severe staffing shortages and training gaps. The department was dangerously undermanned, yet the mayor's office reportedly ignored or even buried the warning.

"Los Angeles fire chief Kristin Crowley warned city officials in November that her department had about half as many firefighters as it needed," reports the Washington Free Beacon. "When deadly wildfires struck the city two months later, Mayor Karen Bass' administration pulled Crowley's memo from its website."

The report reveals that on November 18, Crowley wrote to the city's fire commissioners—a five-member board appointed by Bass—urging them to relay her concerns to Bass and the city council. She highlighted that the fire department's staffing levels had remained stagnant for decades, even as the city's population grew significantly.

"In many ways, the current staffing, deployment model, and size of the LAFD have not changed since the 1960s," Crowley wrote, noting that a surge in emergency calls combined with a shortage of fire stations had resulted in longer response times... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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