Mayor Karen Bass to City: No Fire Chief, No Problem

Signage urging Mayor Karen Bass to “Resign Now” are popping up all over the fire-scarred Pacific Palisades a day after she made a startling statement on Face the Nation Sunday when asked why she has not appointed a full-time Los Angeles Fire Department Chief five months after she fired its last one. “I don’t think that’s a problem,” Bass told journalist Margaret Brennan. ”Our interim fire chief [Ronnie Villanueva] has 40 years of experience. In fact, he had just recently retired. I called him in, out of retirement, during the fires. He was doing the emergency operation center. So he stepped in, didn’t miss a beat by…..

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