Karen Bass Was Warned of Growing Fire Danger

The day before Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass left for Ghana, her aides received an email warning of a “high confidence in damaging winds and elevated fire conditions occurring next week,” the Los Angeles Times reports.

The mayor nevertheless went on the trip, attending the Ghanaian president’s inauguration, as well as a U.S. Embassy cocktail party, on Jan. 7, the day the Palisades fire broke out.