If you missed Ed’s post about this on Wednesday you really should go back and read it. The gist is that Mayor Bass gave a local media interview in which she did her best to point the finger of blame at others for the city’s poor response to the wildfires. Notably, Bass claimed that she would never have left the country and flown to Ghana if she’s been sufficiently warned about the danger.
“Before other major weather emergencies, the mayor — or at minimum, the mayor’s chief of staff — has received a direct call from the fire chief, flagging the severity of the situation. This time, that call never came,” Bass spokesperson Zach Seidl said in a statement.
But as Ed pointed out, Bass doesn’t actually claim that she didn’t get warned or that she wasn’t aware of the reports about high winds issued prior to her departure. In the interview she admits she…
