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As firefighters continue to battle raging wildfires tearing into five California counties, celebrities and residents of the Golden State are
sharply criticizing government officials, including Gov. Gavin Newsom
and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, for their lack of preparedness.

Local law enforcement has reported that at least 10 individuals have
been killed, and more than 10,000 homes and buildings have been
destroyed by fire since Tuesday.

"If this was a business, every single person in office would be fired,"
Aurora Culpo, host of the podcast "Barely Filtered," told Fox News
Digital. "The fact that no one wants to take responsibility and own up
to egregious negligence just further proves the lack of true leadership
we have in our state."

Sarah Michelle Gellar, Patricia Heaton and Jillian Michaels are among
other vocal celebrities providing government officials with scathing
reviews.

Culpo, originally from Rhode Island, is a Manhattan Beach resident who
fled the area with her children on Thursday.

"This disaster did not come out of left field," Culpo said. "We were
well aware of the possibility for fire, and we had the preparedness of a
third world country in a place that pays some of the highest taxes in
the world. Those in power should be forced to take responsibility and
resign."

She added that expectations of government officials should be "extremely
high," and political accountability should be enforced with rigor.

"Their lack of competence cost lives, communities and billions of
dollars," Culpo said of both Gov. Newsom and Bass.

"The captain goes down with the ship," she said. "Resign."

"I don't care if Newsom is Republican or Democrat, at all, in this
case," she said. "Somehow, he's deflecting blame because he's calling it
a local issue."

"What I put on my Instagram was that everybody who voted Newsom into
office for a second term has blood on their hands, and I stand by what I
said," Culpo said. "This is a blue state. If we can't point blame at the Democratic Party, then who can we point blame to? If we can't hold
anybody accountable, then how do we think changes are supposed to be made?"

The mother of two added that she concurs with President-elect Donald
Trump’s statement posted to Truth Social attributing the spread of
wildfires to the "gross incompetence" by Bass and Newsom.

"I agree with him 100 percent," she said.

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Culpo said that she is "all for environmentalism, conservation, LGBTQ
rights and diversity," but that safety, above all else, should remain a priority in the hierarchy of needs.

"We are not sophisticated enough of a society yet to be worrying about
things like how diverse our firefighters are," Culpo said.

"We are funding sex changes for prison inmates, but we can't fill the reservoirs, because we want to save the smelt fish," she said.

Since 2017, California has allegedly paid $4 million in taxpayer funds
for trans inmates' surgeries, including breast augmentation and facial feminization, according to the California Family Counsel.

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HER ABSENCE AS WILDFIRES RAVAGE CITY

The Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, a top water supply system in California, is largely protected due to its depleting smelt and Chinook
salmon population.

"Regardless of your opinion on sex changes for inmates or smelt fish,
the point is that our priorities are completely out of whack," Culpo said.

Despite tireless efforts by firefighters to put out the flames, some
fires remain uncontrolled, and Culpo is taking her children to San
Francisco.

"I'm worried about my kids because of the air quality," Culpo said.
"These are very serious pollutants in the air that can cause long-term problems."

https://www.foxnews.com/media/aurora-culpo-rips-democratic-leaders-lack-wildfire-preparedness-calls-newsom-bass-resign

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