As wildfires continue rampaging through Los Angeles, with almost 180,000 people ordered to evacuate, more evidence that diversity, equity, and inclusion is the top priority at the fire department has surfaced.
Not just one but four lesbians are in the department’s important command positions, Front Page’s Daniel Greenfield reported in an X threat gone viral.
And one of them, DEI hire Kristine Larson, showed up in viral video with a message for Los Angelenos. If I can’t carry your husband out of a burning building, well, tough luck, she implied. He was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Another was accused of domestic violence.
“Just Kind of Opens a Door”
As The New American reported yesterday, the top department chief and top lesbian is Kristin Crowley, who told a reporter that her top priority was ensuring that more lady firefighters — and, presumably, more sex deviants — join the department.
Crowley said that packing the department with women will make them “feel included” and “valued” and “part of a cohesive team.”
And even better, with Crowley in the top job, LGBTQ people will think “that just kind of opens a door.”
“Wow,” they’ll say, “I didn’t even know that that was an opportunity for me.”
Crowley’s pay in 2023 with benefits, as reported by Transparent California: $654,951.01
But now we learn that Crowley isn’t the only DEI hire who might be crippling the department’s ability to do its job. That is, fighting fires, not keeping the Sisterhood happy.
Husband Left in a Fire: Too Bad
Another top lesbian is Kristine Larson, a 33-year veteran in charge of the “Equity and Human Resources Bureau.” You don’t need a Ph.D. in Fire Science to know what that means.
“She has completed a DEI certification program through Cornell University and is participating in the International Association of Fire Chief’s Diversity Executive Leadership Program which aims to advance DEI within the fire service, with a cohort of members from around the Country,” the department’s website explains.
Maybe, but DEI hire No. 2 doesn’t much care if she can get a Los Angelena’s husband out of a blazing building.
Video shows Larson almost joking about it.
The deep-voiced lesbian says fire victims want to see a firefighter “that looks like you” because the person has “a little bit more ease knowing that somebody might understand their situation better” as they pray they aren’t burned to a crisp.
“Is she strong enough to do this?” she continued, “or ‘you couldn’t carry my husband out of a fire?’ Which my response is, ‘He got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire.’”
In 2021, Larson was an honoree at the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Pride Night.
Larson’s pay in 2023 with overtime and benefits: $447,979.30. Taxpayers forked over almost $155,000 in overtime for Larson in 2021.
Domestic Violence
The lesbian clown show gets even better from there, Greenfield reported.
Kristina Kepner is battalion chief in charge of the firefighter recruitment section. The department’s website say, she landed in boiling water a few years ago after she was accused of domestic violence.
Greenfield cited articles by award-winning online investigative reporter Daniel Guss, who exposed the scandal at his Substack page.
“During a presentation on March 8th celebrating International Women’s Day, LA City Hall’s most powerful women posed for photos and made inspiring statements about women in leadership,” Guss explained last year:
Simultaneously, three of them, Mayor Karen Bass, Councilmember Monica Rodriguez and LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley, dodged this column’s questions about disturbing videos in the LAFD’s and LAPD’s possession showing a female member of the Los Angeles Fire Department’s command staff making repeated homicidal and suicidal threats during and after a violent attack on her then-live-in domestic partner, who is also female.
In those October 2021 videos, Kristina “Kady” Kepner, then-Assistant Chief at the Los Angeles Fire Department, violently attacked her then-live-in domestic partner while repeatedly threatening to kill both of them. (The victim’s name is withheld because she is irrefutably a domestic violence victim.)
LAFD officialdom, Guss later reported, swept the accusations under the rug.
Kepner’s pay with overtime and benefits: $520,927.88, including more than $88,000 in overtime.
Lesbian No. 4, Greenfield reported, is Jaime Brown. She is billed as “training and support bureau commander” who serves as “Marine Operations Commander at the Port of Los Angeles.” Greenfield did not disclose his evidence for his claim about Brown.
“Many glass ceilings were being broken, but there was no one who actually knew how to fight fires,” Greenfield wrote:
Unless it was by asking the fire about its preferred pronouns.
Crowley, Kepner, and Brown were all paramedics, not firefighters. Diversity mandates led to paramedics being referred to as ‘firefighters’ and being promoted to fire captains and battalion chiefs and then to the top echelons of the LAFD.
Brown’s pay with overtime and benefits: $327,012.68
