As firefighters continue to battle raging wildfires that are ravaging five California counties, celebrities and Golden State residents weigh in on government officials including Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass. The lack of this is severely criticized.
Local law enforcement agencies reported that at least 10 people have been killed and more than 10,000 homes and buildings have been destroyed since Tuesday.
“If this were a business, everyone in that position would be fired,” Aurora Culpo, host of the “Barely Filtered” podcast, told Fox News Digital. “The fact that no one is willing to take responsibility or admit gross negligence is further evidence of the lack of real leadership in this state.”
Celebrities like Sarah Michelle Gellar, Patricia Heaton, and Jillian Michaels have provided scathing criticism of government officials.
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Aurora Culpo, mother of two and host of the podcast Barely Filtered, accused California Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass of not being prepared enough for the tragic wildfires. criticized. (Aurora Culpo)
Culpo, a Rhode Island native, is a Manhattan Beach resident who evacuated the area with her children on Thursday.
“This disaster did not come from the left,” Culpo said. “We were fully aware of the potential for fires and were prepared as a third world country with the highest taxes in the world. Those in power must be held accountable and resign.” It should be done.”
He added that expectations of government officials should be “extremely high” and political accountability should be strictly enforced.
“Their incompetence has cost lives, communities and billions of dollars,” Culpo said of Governors Newsom and Bass.
“The captain goes down with the ship,” she said. “I resign.”
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Firefighters battle the Kenneth Fire in the West Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles on Thursday, January 9, 2025. (Ethan Swope/Associated Press)
“In this case, I don’t really care whether Newsom is a Republican or a Democrat,” she said. “Somehow he's evading responsibility by saying it's a local problem.”
“What I posted on Instagram is that everyone who voted for Mr. Newsom's second term as president has blood on their hands and I stand by what I said,” Culpo said. said. “This is a blue state. If you can't hold Democrats accountable, then who can you hold accountable? If you can't hold anyone accountable, how can you expect change to happen?”
The mother of two added that she agrees with President-elect Donald Trump's statement that the spread of the wildfires was due to the “gross incompetence” of Bass and Newsom.
“I agree with him 100 percent,” she said.
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Aurora Culpo, the younger sister of former Miss Universe Olivia Culpo, evacuated her Manhattan Beach home with her two children as wildfires raged in California. (Jose Perez/Bauer Griffin/GC Images)
Culpo said she is “all for environmental protection, conservation, LGBTQ rights, and diversity,” but that safety should continue to be prioritized in the hierarchy of needs.
“We're not yet sophisticated enough as a society to worry about things like diversity in firefighters,” Culpo said.
“We are funding sex changes for prison inmates, but we can't fill the reservoir because we want to save the smelt,” she said.
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California firefighters are working tirelessly to contain and contain wildfires that have forced residents to evacuate in several counties. (Jason Almond/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
California's top water system, the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, is largely protected due to declining smelt and Chinook salmon populations.
“Regardless of your opinion on the sex reassignment of prisoners or smelt, the point is that our priorities are completely out of whack,” Culpo said.
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Despite firefighters' tireless efforts to extinguish some of the fires, some of the fires are still uncontainable, so Culpo heads to San Francisco with his children. She lives there with her older sister, model and former Miss Universe Olivia Culpo, and her new husband, NFL running back Christian McCaffrey. stay.
“I'm worried about my children because of the air quality,” Culpo said. “These are very serious pollutants in the air and can cause long-term problems.”
