LA mayor pushes back on report she dismissed city’s fire chief amid raging wildfires

The mayor of Los Angeles is denying a Friday night “exclusive” report that she fired the city’s fire chief at a closed-door meeting earlier in the day.

The pushback from Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass came after a Daily Mail article hit Friday evening and, quoting an anonymous source, claimed that the meeting resulted in the city's Fire Chief Kristin Crowley being dismissed.

But that doesn’t appear to be the case.

Shortly after the report emerged, the LA Times reported that a spokesperson...