Mayor Bass Fires LAFD Chief Crowley (02/21)
The John Kobylt Show
Premiere Networks
4.3 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (02/21) - Mayor Karen Bass has fired LA City Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley. More on Mayor Bass's press conference announcing the firing of Kristin Crowley as the LAFD Chief. Pacific Palisades resident and iHeartMedia LA employee David Howard comes on the show to talk about how Pacific Palisades residents are reacting to the news of Mayor Karen Bass firing Kristin Crowley. More on Mayor Bass's press conference announcing the firing of Kristin Crowley as the LAFD Chief.
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| 0:00.0 | KFI a.m. 640. You're listening to the John Cobalt podcast on the Iheart Radio app. |
| 0:06.4 | John Cobalt show, welcome. We're on every day from one until four o'clock, and every day after four o'clock, it gets posted as a podcast. |
| 0:14.4 | John Cobalt show On Demand on the IHeart app. I feel like I'm going insane. |
| 0:27.4 | I feel like I'm really going insane there was just a press conference that karen bass had within the last half hour and when you go home tonight |
| 0:34.1 | especially if you've been affected by the fires, and you watch her, you're |
| 0:39.1 | going to slam your head through a window. |
| 0:41.3 | I have never seen anyone more smug and arrogant and dismissive. |
| 0:47.6 | And if I hear her say that we're, we have to move forward one more time, I don't know |
| 0:52.7 | what I'm going to do. This is really, we are deep, deep |
| 0:56.9 | into crazy land here. Karen Bass held a news conference to announce that she's fired Kristen Crowley |
| 1:03.1 | as the L.A. Fire Chief. And Kristen Crowley did a horrific, tragic, terrible job as fire chief handling this fire. |
| 1:15.5 | But Karen Bass is not taking any responsibility at all for not being here and not overseeing Crowley's plan to attack the fire. |
| 1:30.6 | Because Bass wasn't here and Crowley did not have a plan to attack the fire. |
| 1:37.4 | The two of them. |
| 1:38.8 | And then throw in Janice Kinonez, who had the empty reservoir. |
| 1:45.3 | This is astonishing. |
| 1:48.1 | But Basque doesn't really want to deal with all the consequences here. |
| 1:53.8 | She wants to play misdirection, pointed Crowley, talk over people, and tell them we have to move forward. |
| 2:01.5 | It's not going to work this way. |
| 2:04.0 | You've ruined the lives of tens of thousands of people. |
| 2:07.8 | It doesn't work this way. |
| 2:10.1 | I have never. |
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