Los Angeles mayor out of country when wildfires hit, now en route back: Report

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was out of the country when wildfires hit her city and she's now en route back to California, according to a report.

Bass was part of a U.S. delegation that President Biden selected to attend the inauguration of Ghanian President John Dramani Mahama on Tuesday in Accra, Ghana. 

“The people that are in the [Pacific] Palisades, I hope that they are safe. But we have questions. I know where I am right now, but I don’t know where my mayor was when this was happening,” Rachel Darvish, who had to evacuate Los Angeles, said regarding Bass on Fox News on Wednesday. “For someone to be in charge of my town... Where were you? Where were you when the decisions should have been made on how to get in and out of places? I wish she was sitting across from me to answer these questions.” 

Real estate developer Rick Caruso blasted Bass for the way the wildfires are being handled in the city.

Caruso, who ran against Bass for mayor in 2022 and lost, described the situation with the raging wildfires as “absolute mismanagement by the city.” 

“We've 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,” he said, according to the local Fox station. 

The station reported that Bass is en route back to Los Angeles.