The mayor pointed to two major factors that guided her decision, alleging that 1,000 firefighters who could have been on duty the morning the fires broke out were sent home under Chief Kristin Crowley’s leadership and that Crowley refused to do an after-action report on the fires, as requested by the president of the city’s fire commission.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has fired Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley over the chief's handling of the Palisades fire. The move comes after the embattled mayor gave a series of increasingly critical public comments about Crowley and adds to the upheaval at City Hall since the fires.