Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) Deputy Chief Kristine Larson faced backlash for comments she made in a video, suggesting that fire victims were at fault for being in the “wrong place” during an emergency.
Larson, who oversees the Equity and Human Resources Bureau at the LAFD, addressed concerns about the physical strength of female firefighters, particularly whether they could manage to carry a man out of a burning building. In response, she said that if she had to carry him out, “he got himself in the wrong place.”
In the same video, Larson also stood by the department’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) hiring practices, as reported by the New York Post.
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