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   From: 9097514834@newsom.com   
      
   Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has been accused of masterminding the   
   city’s media response after the catastrophic Palisades Fire.   
      
   The revelation, in the Los Angeles Times, comes after The California   
   Post revealed a damning after-action review was significantly modified   
   from the draft to the final public report.   
      
   Now Bass has been accused of orchestrating how the Los Angeles Fire   
   Department responded to public questions about the fire.   
      
   In one instance, an LAFD aide advised the mayor’s office that more   
   interviews with the fire chief “could invite a high volume of   
   challenging questions” and would be “contingent on the Mayor’s   
   direction.”   
      
   A Bass aide told the LA Times that Bass customarily has a hand in every   
   city department.   
      
   “From Animal Services to the Zoo, the Mayor’s Office is in contact with   
   every city department on issues large and small, and so obviously and   
   appropriately the Mayor’s Office engaged with LAFD about the rollout of   
   the report,” aide Yusef Robb told the LA Times.   
      
   “What did not happen is the illogical and false assertion that the Mayor   
   sought to soften critiques in a report that she herself demanded and on   
   issues of which she has been publicly critical for more than a year,”   
   Robb added.   
      
   The California Post obtained the first draft of the Palisades Fire   
   After-Action Review Report, which painted a harsher and honest story   
   around the horrific blaze.   
      
   At 92 pages, the original Palisades Fire After-Action Review was 22   
   pages longer than the final version released in January, with chapter   
   titles changed and contentious terms such as “wind” removed.   
      
   Notably, the executive summary of the draft states the report was   
   prepared at the behest of the mayor’s office. That reference is removed   
   entirely from the final document.   
      
   One of the most damning edits involves language acknowledging   
   insufficient resources to “suppress a wind-driven vegetation fire,” with   
   the department attempting to be “fiscally responsible by not fully   
   augmenting and pre-deploying all available resources in preparation for   
   a rare wind event.”   
      
   By contrast, the final report claims the LAFD ”balanced fiscal   
   responsibility with proper preparation by following its pre-deployment   
   matrix.”   
      
   https://nypost.com/2026/02/13/us-news/karen-bass-controlled-media-messagi   
   ng-about-palisades-fire/   
      
   Comments   
      
   Anna 1452   
   13 hours ago   
      
   “Rare wind event”. The Santa Ana winds aren’t “rare”. They are a   
   predictable phenomenon and were predicted correctly in this case.   
      
   What isn’t stated is that Mayor Bass and her handpicked department heads   
   gambled and the entire city and state lost because they were wrong.   
      
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