Stone-faced LA Mayor Karen Bass refuses to reply questions on absence as wildfires rage throughout her metropolis

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass turned stone-faced when confronted by a reporter as she returned to America to seek out her metropolis burning Wednesday.

“Do you owe residents and apology for being absent whereas their properties have been burning, and do you remorse chopping the Fireplace Division finances by hundreds of thousands of {dollars} madame mayor?” Sky Information reporter David Blevins requested as Bass waited to deplane.

“Have you ever completely nothing to say to the residents as we speak?” he added.

Bass — standing a number of toes away on the airplane’s ramp as she awaited clearance to go away — stared blankly as Belvins questioned her, refusing to supply a solution and even acknowledge his presence.

As she walked up the ramp into the airport, she continued to disregard the reporter as he adopted and requested for remark.

“No apology for them? Do you assume you need to have been visiting Ghana whereas this was unfolding again house?” he stated.

“Madam mayor, let me ask you simply once more, have you ever something to say to the residents as we speak as you come?”

Keep updated with the NYP’s protection of the terrifying LA-area fires

Bass then walked out of the terminal and left the reporter behind with out answering.

The mayor has been below fireplace for being 7,400 miles away in Africa to attend the inauguration of Ghana’s president as wildfires devoured Los Angeles Tuesday.

Greater than 30,000 acres are burning throughout three separate fires across the metropolis, because the Santa Ana winds fan the flames forward of determined firefighters struggling to maintain up.

Hundreds of buildings have been misplaced, and after simply two days the fires have already been named essentially the most damaging in LA’s historical past.

Many have blamed Bass for the catastrophe — citing the $17.6 million minimize she made to the Los Angeles Fireplace Division’s finances for the 2024-25 fiscal 12 months.

And that got here up shy of the $20 million she needed slashed.

For a lot of, her absence because the fires burned spoke volumes.

“Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is on a taxpayer-funded journey to Africa as a part of a Biden administration presidential delegation WHILE HER CITY IS BURNING TO THE GROUND,” America First Works president Ashley Hayek wrote on X.

“That is INSANE.”