Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley is clinging onto her job by a thread sources say, after she hugged staff goodbye and entered a meeting with the mayor.
A source initially told DailyMail.com on Friday afternoon that the fire chief was fired, but the Mayor’s office told ABC7 Crowley still had her job. The office’s official statement to the outlet said the pair ‘met’, without any reference to whether Crowley remained in her position.
‘The Mayor and Chief met. The priority remains fighting these fires and protecting Angelenos,’ the statement said.
But ABC7 reporter Josh Haskell added on social media site X that the Mayor’s office had officially denied the claims that Crowley had been fired.
When Crowley returned from the meeting, she told her office staff that she was ‘not fired yet’, the source said on Friday evening.
‘She was going into the meeting, telling everybody goodbye, because she was told the whole purpose of the meeting was to fire her,’ a source close to Crowley’s office said.
‘When she was summoned into the meeting, it was with the direct purpose to fire her.
‘Whatever happened in that meeting, minds got changed.
‘Either Bass realized it would be suicide to fire her, and came to her senses,