Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass dismissed the city’s fire chief following her management of the devastating wildfire that tore through the city’s Pacific Palisades neighborhood last month.Bass said she removed Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley from her position after the fire department chose not to position many of its firefighting resources ahead of the life-threatening windstorm that fueled the growth of wildfires in early January.

Chief Kristin Crowley had accused Mayor Karen Bass’s administration of underfunding the department, and Bass accused Crowley of failing to prepare for the firestorm.

After days of public battling, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass abruptly removed the city's fire chief Friday, increasing the turmoil that has surrounded City Hall in the weeks since a wildfire devastated the city's Pacific Palisades neighborhood and led to an increasingly acrimonious dispute between the two officials.