by Danielle Wallace at Fox News
Rick Caruso, a billionaire developer who unsuccessfully ran against Karen Bass for mayor in 2022, said stifled water supply as the Pacific Palisades fire reduces mulit-million-dollar real estate to ashes represents “absolute mismanagement by the city.”
“There’s no water in the Palisades. There’s no water coming out of the fire hydrants. This is an absolute mismanagement by the city. Not the firefighters’ fault, but the city’s,” Caruso, a former mayoral candidate, told Fox11 Los Angeles.
“We have got a mayor that is out of the country, and we have got a city that is burning, and there is no resources to put out fires,” Caruso added. “It looks like we’re in a third-world country here.”
FOX 11 reported that Bass is currently heading back to California. The mayor reportedly is on a pre-planned trip to Africa.
To the mayor, city council and county representatives, Caruso said the public must ask: “Why didn’t you work to mitigate this? What was your brush mitigation program?”
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