Bass Demanded LA Fire Department Cut EXTRA $49 Million Week Before Wildfires Exploded – RedState– redstate.com
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As exclusively reported by DailyMail on Friday, a damning leaked memo has revealed that Bass demanded the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) cut an extra $49 million from its budget just one week before the wildfires broke out.
The demand was in addition to $17.6 million in cuts already included in the mayor’s latest budget. The extra cuts would have shut down 16 LA fire stations and crippled the department’s ability to respond to emergencies, according to the Daily Mail report.
The damning memo is dated January 6, just one day before the devastating Palisades Fire broke out.
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According to sources, [the memo] was sent from LAFD “top brass” at City Hall to division chiefs and captains after a fraught meeting the previous Friday between Chief Kristin Crowley and Mayor Bass.
“The LAFD is still going through a FY [financial year] 2024/2025 $48.8 million budget reduction exercise with the CAO [City Attorney’s Office],” the document said.
“The only way to provide a cost savings would be to close as many as 16 fire stations (not resources, fire stations); this equates to at least one fire station per City Council District” [the document continued].
