Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass stood stone-faced and refused to answer a reporter’s question for two minutes after being out of the country as killer wildfires raged through her city.
Furious Los Angelinos have criticized their mayor for traveling to Ghana while the city was on fire, despite having given ample warning of “critical” weather conditions in the days before.
Bass flew out to attend the West African country’s presidential inauguration on Tuesday after meteorologists warned a “recipe for fire” was brewing to hit LA.
On her return, she was cornered at the airport by Sky News journalist David Blevins with an assistant, both of whom refused to answer his questions.
Bass immediately indicated that she was not going to answer his questions and turned away.
Blevins then asked her a series of questions to which she did not respond.
“Fire chiefs say they are really pushed to their limits and have run out of water, what do you have to say about that? Don’t you have an answer to that?’
“Do you owe your citizens an apology for being absent while their houses burned?”
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass stood stone-faced and refused to answer a reporter’s question for two minutes after being out of the country as deadly wildfires raged through her city
“Do you regret cutting millions of dollars from the fire department, Madam Mayor? Have you nothing to say today?’
‘Elon Musk says you are completely incompetent, are you thinking about your position? Do you have nothing at all to say to the citizens affected by this disaster? No excuses for them?’
“Do you think you should have visited Ghana while this was happening at home?”
Blevins then follows Bass out of an airport hallway before demanding she make a statement to the residents of her town. She ignores him again.
Bass then walks out a door and onto the asphalt.
Media outlet INKL News said on Wednesday morning that Bass was on his way back after the swearing-in of Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama the day before.
Bass has posted updates to her X account thanking LAPD firefighters for tackling the ongoing fire, while sharing information about emergency shelters.
California’s wildfires broke out Tuesday evening near a nature preserve in the inland foothills northeast of LA.
Bass flew out to attend the West African country’s presidential inauguration on Tuesday after meteorologists warned a “recipe for fire” was brewing to hit LA.
Furious Los Angelinos have criticized their mayor for traveling to Ghana while the city was on fire, despite having given ample warning of ‘critical’ weather conditions in the days before
They spread so quickly that staff at a senior living center had to push dozens of residents in wheelchairs and hospital beds in apocalyptic scenes down the street to a parking lot.
The residents – one as old as 102 – waited there in their bedding as the night sky glowed red with flames and embers fell around them until ambulances, buses and even construction vans arrived to take them to safety.
Another fire that started hours earlier swept through the city’s Pacific Palisades neighborhood, a hilly coastal area dotted with celebrity homes.
In the frantic rush to safety, roads became impassable as dozens of people abandoned their vehicles and fled on foot, some with suitcases.
The traffic jam on Palisades Drive prevented emergency vehicles from getting through and a bulldozer was called in to push the abandoned cars aside and create a path.
Hollywood’s biggest celebrities are picking up the pieces after discovering their affluent neighborhood was reduced to ash and rubble when California’s wildfires devastated the Pacific Palisades.
The death toll from the historic infernos has now reached five, as heroic firefighters continue to battle hellish conditions on the frontlines of at least five different fires.
The homes of Anthony Hopkins, John Goodman and Miles Teller are among those destroyed, while dozens of other stars now have to wait anxiously alongside their neighbors to hear if anything can be saved.
Apocalyptic fire swept through the upscale enclave of Pacific Palisades on Tuesday, quickly spreading to surrounding suburbs as a storm carried embers and debris in all directions.
Residents fled and then waited with bated breath to find out more about their homes, as news began to trickle out that entire streets had been wiped off the map, firefighters were running out of water, and resources were being used to put the blaze on fire. to fight on multiple fronts.
Now the widespread devastation is becoming clearer as celebrities share their devastation after discovering they have lost their million-dollar homes.