Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has been accused of masterminding the city’s media response after the catastrophic Palisades fire. The revelation, in The Los Angeles Times, comes after The California Post revealed a damning after-action review was significantly modified from the draft to the final public report.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is vehemently denying reporting by the Los Angeles Times that she ordered the LAFD’s Palisades Fire after-action report to be softened at her request. The

Mayor Karen Bass' office denied reports that said she directed the watering down of an after-action report that detailed alleged failings of the Los Angeles Fire Department during last year's Palisades Fire.

Embattled Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass secretly changed the city's official report on the Palisades Fire response in a bid to avoid criticism and minimize mistakes made by both the city and the fire department when the deadly blaze initially broke out, according to a bombshell new report.

The carefully coordinated approach led by Bass also involved the release of the highly anticipated Palisades fire after-action report, as the LAFD was facing criticism for not putting out an earlier

Los Angeles mayoral hopeful Spencer Pratt has revealed he was tipped off by fire department insiders about the Palisades fire report being watered down by the Mayor Karen Bass’s office. The former MTV reality star said LAFD insiders told him in October that key findings were scrubbed or tempered in the official report to downplay failures made by the LAFD the inferno erupted.

For nearly two months, Mayor Karen Bass has repeatedly denied that she was involved in altering an after-action report on the Palisades fire to downplay failures by

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass personally directed the city’s damage control efforts in the days after federal prosecutors announced that the Palisades Fire was sparked by a smaller fire that had not been fully extinguished a week earlier,