Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has fired Los Angeles Fire Department Christine Crowley over handling the Chief’s Pallisard fire.

“I have removed Christine Crowley as fire chief, acting in the best interests of the public safety of Los Angeles, and for the sake of running the Los Angeles Fire Department,” Bus said in a statement Friday. “We know that 1,000 firefighters who may have been on duty in the morning know that the fire broke out.

“And the necessary step to the investigation was to tell Chief Crawley, the chairman of the fire committee and to have an action report on the fire. The chief refused. These require her removal. ” continued Bass. “Our firefighter heroism is unquestionable during the Palisade fires and daily life. Bringing new leadership to the fire station is what our city needs.”

LAFD did not immediately respond to requests for comment regarding Crowley’s firing.

The tension between Bass and Crowley dates back at least early January after the fire broke out.

On January 10th, Palisade’s flames were still out of control, but Crawley gave an extraordinary television interview, with reporters for Fox 11 that the city of Los Angeles and her boss Bass failed to do so with her and her department. I told him.

She continued to describe her institution as understaffed and underfunded, calling the situation “no longer sustainable.”

Later that day, Crawley had similarly strong words to CNN’s JakTapper, so he told him the fire department didn’t have enough mechanisms to repair a broken emergency vehicle.

When Tupper asked whether the city’s budget cuts would affect her agency’s ability to fight wildfires, she replied. “I want to be very clear. Yes.”

A few hours later, Crawley was summoned to the mayor’s office. The closed door meeting lasted so long that Base didn’t compete in the late afternoon wildfire emergency press conference.

After that episode, Crowley and Bass continued to appear together at newspaper conferences, saying they were focusing on fire and recovery.

The mayor and her team then issued a series of statements to reporters this week. This suggested that Crawley did not tell the bus about the seriousness of the fire risk.

The mayor was in Ghana on January 7th. She returned the next day, but was criticized for being away.

Bass spokesman Zach Seidl told The Times that Crowley routinely called mayors and teams ahead of tough weather events, but did not do so by January 7th.

Bass also told reporters in two television interviews this week that he had not received enough information about the weather. If she had, she would have cancelled her trip, she said.

Mayor Eric Garcetti chose Crawley to lead the division in 2022. She was the first female chief in its history. She was promoted when female firefighters were speaking out about patterns of sexual harassment and haze in the department.