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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass exchanged text messages during the early hours of the Palisades Fire that showed she struggled to communicate with her staff as she returned from a trip to Ghana.

“Thanks so much I'm actually in the air headed home from Ghana...I know disaster ... called her “utterly incompetent” and Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley told Fox 11 ...

Los Angeles Fire Department and Mayor Bass' office continue to withhold information about January's wildfires from the public ...

Newly released text messages from Mayor Karen Bass' phone reveal a bit about her immediate response when she learned about the Palisades Fire that ... of the Los Angeles Department of Water ...

Mayor Karen Bass' texts illustrate how she communicated remotely with her staff and across levels of government, trying to ...

Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley has been ... Bass, who received widespread criticism for traveling to Ghana on an ambassadorial trip prior to the outbreak of the deadly January ...

Messages originally obtained by the Los Angeles Times show conversations between Mayor Karen Bass and various government officials as she was traveling from Ghana to Los Angeles earlier this year.

“This is an issue of public safety and for the operations of the Los Angeles Fire Department — the City ... decision to take a diplomatic trip to Ghana — a fateful choice that left her ...

LOS ANGELES — The day before Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass left for Ghana ... Management Department warning of a "high confidence in damaging winds and elevated fire conditions occurring next ...