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https://nypost.com/2025/01/12/us-news/lafds-diversity-chief-sparks-fury- for-defending-dei-by-blaming-the-victim/

As Los Angeles battles its worst fire in history, fire department’s
highly-paid diversity head is facing an inferno of backlash after a
bizarre comment surfaced in which she appears defend DEI hiring by blaming victims.

In a video defending the department’s DEI hiring practices, Deputy Chief Kristine Larson — who heads the Equity and Human Resources Bureau —
addressed accusations that female firefighters aren’t strong enough carry
a man out of a burning building.

https://nypost.com/2025/01/12/us-news/lafds-diversity-chief-sparks-fury- for-defending-dei-by-blaming-the-victim/#

LAFD Deputy Chief Kristine Larson faces accusations of victim-blaming from comments in a video that surfaced on social media.
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Her response: “He got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him
out of a fire.”

The video went viral on social media after the fire department was caught off-guard and ill-prepared when an outbreak of wildfires began to tear
through the Pacific Palisades — one of the oldest and wealthiest
neighborhoods in the city — last week.

The Palisades Fire, the most devastating fire in California history, has already incinerated 26,000 acres, including some of the most expensive
real estate in the country.

Early cost estimates for all the wildfires in Southern California are $135 billion to $150 billion — which would top the damage from any hurricane to
hit the US except Katrina.

Critics argue that LAFD had been too preoccupied with DEI vanity projects
to properly staff and equip its firefighters — projects that Larson was
paid $307K to manage in 2023, according to salary database Transparent California.

“Los Angeles Fire Department Assistant Chief Kristine Larson says when
people’s houses are burning down, they want a firefighter to show up who
looks like them. Hot take: People just want someone to show up who will
stop their house from burning down,” wrote conservative influencer Collin
Rugg in an X post containing the infamous video.

“It sounds like parody. People are dying and losing their homes, right
now, because of people like this,” commented one user.

Meanwhile, another image has gone viral showing Larson standing next to
two other women: Training and Support Bureau Commander Jaime Brown and
Fire Chief Kristin Crowley, who is openly lesbian.

These are the only women on the 14-member senior leadership team, but they
have become emblematic of LAFD’s diversity push.

“This is the leadership team at the Los Angeles Fire Department,” an X
account called “Libs of TikTok” wrote alongside the image in a post shared
more than 10,000 times.

The wave of DEI hires and diversity projects came after years of alleged harassment and discrimination within the department.

In 2017, six black members of the Fire Prevention Bureau sued the
department for discrimination after they allegedly faced racially
motivated retaliation for alleging rampant corner-cutting and lax
oversight.

In 2021, a group of firefighters and social justice advocates called for
the resignation of Fire Department Chief Ralph Terrazas over “rampant
sexism, racism, harassment and abuse” — in the words of one veteran
firefighter — especially against women, reported the LA Times.

Kristin Crowly was promoted to fire chief the following year — the first
woman to hold the top spot.

Conversations

Lori Leason
5 hours ago

DEI and union pressure have raised the cost of firefighting. The left
relies on union funding. The benefit packages for teachers, university instructors, are way out of line when you consider not 0nly their base
salary but the overtime and benefits. What happens is they cut from other
areas to cover the homeless or whatever social issue of the month.

Sophia
6 hours ago

Incredible comment from a firefighter, much less a leader.

Yes. It's true: I want a strong man to carry me out of a fire. I want a
strong man to be able to carry equipment to the 100 th floor of my office building.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Men are stronger than women. I don't want to be the test
case to prove this statement is true.

How incredibly insensitive to say something like that.

Lord and Lady Douchebag
6 hours ago

It will be so nice after January 20th to watch the pendulum swing back the other, away from policies that promote nothing more than the agenda of a
few.


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