Months after the most destructive wildfire in modern Los Angeles history, Mayor Karen Bass is seeking to add scores of new ...

Kristen Crowley, the first female Fire Marshal of Los Angeles oversees fire prevention and public safety. From aspiring surgeon to top firefighter, she rose through the ranks with purpose.

The Bureau of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, created in November 2022, was supposed to spearhead recruitment of ...

Following the release of text messages related to the January fires to other media outlets, LAist requested to review the ...

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass appeared to be backing away from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the city’s fire department after facing massive backlash over the poor response to the ...

In the days after the Palisades fire broke out, then-Fire Chief Kristin Crowley said that budget cuts had hampered the department's ability to fight the wind-driven blaze. Bass and her team ...

"This was Karen Bass cowing to the Trump administration," former fire commissioner Rebecca Ninburg told the Los Angeles Times on Monday. "Chief [Kristen] Crowley was very proud of this, and they ...

Mayor Karen Bass foisted blame for the city’s mishandling of January’s deadly Los Angeles wildfires and their aftermath on ...

A Investigation has discovered dozens of parcels of lands in the Palisades Fire zone that presented fire danger due to ...

In one of his final acts as mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti stood alongside Kristen Crowley, whom he had appointed as the city's first female fire chief, and announced a new bureau at the Fire ...