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Karen Bass: “The entire county was not prepared for this.”

Featuring: Karen Bass, Democratic | Mayor of Los Angeles | California

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Full Interview: Mayor Karen Bass Makes Her Case for Re-Election

Published | Video Starts at 07:02

That's just simply not true. So I don't know what sources he's talking to, but that is a wholesale falsehood. I will tell you that it wasn't just the city. The entire county was not prepared for this. And when I talked to the chief, when I got home, basically the response was, well, we always have Santa Ana winds. We didn't anticipate them being this bad. (07:02–07:07)

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Asserts that the entire county was unprepared for the [fire emergency].

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