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Kristin Crowley, the first woman and LGBTQ fire chief of the department, is being slammed for her commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives before massive fires broke out, devastating the area.
The Los Angeles Fire Department implemented an internal “racial equity plan” in 2021, and, in 2023, launched a bureau in preparation for a three-year strategic plan to increase diversity in the department.
But fast-forward to the fires that began on Tuesday morning and raged into Wednesday and former Republican Los Angeles mayoral candidate Rick Caruso reported that some fire hydrants were running low on water as the department scrambled to mobilize firefighters, according to the L.A. Times.
Actor James Woods, who shared several videos of homes in his Pacific Palisades neighborhood — including his own — engulfed in flames wrote: “I couldn’t believe our lovely little home in the hills held on this long. It feels like losing a loved one.”