L.A. Mayor Karen Bass Blames ‘Climate Change’ for Failed Response to the Palisades Fires: ‘We Would Have Never Imagined’

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BASS: “Well, you know, what I have felt about Spencer all along, because I’ve watched this very closely in the Palisades, is I understand obviously his personal tragedy and all of that, but I think that it is really, really sad to play on people’s grief and to create an atmosphere of nothing is happening and hostility. There were absolutely mistakes. The city really was not prepared for a disaster of that magnitude with a weather event that we had never experienced before. And so, hindsight is everything. But this also was not just the city of Los Angeles, the county as well. And when I talked to the fire department afterwards, their response was, we are very used to Santa Ana winds, but we have never had anything like this. And so, I think that the lesson for me and for Angelenos is that now, given climate change, we have to expect things — I mean, I’m born and raised here, so this is the climate I know. And we now have to expect things that we would have never imagined.”