The claim: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass fired fire chief
The fire chief spoke at a press briefing with Mayor Karen Bass after her supposed ouster. The department said claims of her ...
Fire department funding and recruitment policy come under scrutiny as deadly Los Angeles blazes rage on
As firefighters continue to battle raging fires across Los Angeles County, a cut to the Los Angeles Fire Department 2025 ...
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Here’s what we know about LA fire department’s DEI efforts, which Republicans have attacked
Donald Trump Jr., conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, and actor James Woods have made accusations similar to Musk’s. DEI initiatives broadly include efforts to increase diversity in ethnicity, gender, ...
The L.A. Fires Have Nothing to Do With DEI
A USC professor explains how DEI isn’t to blame for the L.A. fires, despite false claims from divisive opportunists.
L.A.’s fire chief generated controversy — and fierce loyalty — while the city burned
Critics of Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley — a gay woman leading an overwhelmingly male department — call her a “DEI ...
Ex-Los Angeles sheriff blasts wokeness crippling city’s wildfire response: ‘Disaster is not the fires, it’s this ideology’
The degree of mismanagement is epic. It’s incompetence married with poisonous ideology, said Villanueva, who was sheriff ...
The Latest: Trump greets Newsom in Los Angeles before touring wildfire damage
President Donald Trump is in the fifth day of his second term in office, striving to remake the traditional boundaries of ...
Megyn Kelly blames DEI-obsessed fire department leaders for sending unfit, ‘obese’ lesbians to wildfires: ‘We want a strong man to rescue us’
Megyn Kelly angrily accused the “overweight, out-of-shape women” running the Los Angeles fire department of being so obsessed ...
Newsmax host hysterically rages that California wildfires are ‘death by DEI’
The right-wing media ecosystem has become inundated with talking points that diversity hiring initiatives are to blame for the devastating fire engulfing the Los Angeles region ...
Conservatives bizarrely blame DEI for Los Angeles wildfires
While scientists cite an unusually dry winter combined with strong winds as the fuel behind the rapid spread of the fires, right-wing figures are instead blaming diversity, equity, and inclusion.