While the fire brigade continues to fight raging forest fires As they sweep into five California counties, celebrities and Golden State residents are sharply criticizing government officials, including Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, for their lack of preparedness.
At least that is what the local police reported 10 people have been killedand more than 10,000 homes and buildings have been destroyed by fire since Tuesday.
“If this were a company, every official 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 and admit blatant negligence further proves the lack of real leadership we have in our state.”
Sarah Michelle Gellar Patricia Heton and Jillian Michaels are among other vocal celebrities giving public officials scathing reviews.
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Aurora Culpo, mother of two and host of the podcast “Barely Filtered,” is criticizing California Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass for a lack of preparedness for tragic wildfires. (Aurora Culpo)
Culpo, originally from Rhode Island, lives in Manhattan Beach and fled the area with her children on Thursday.
“This disaster didn’t come out of left field,” Culpo said. “We were well aware of the possibility of fire, and we had the preparedness of a third world country in a place that pays some of the highest taxes in the world. Those in power should be forced to take responsibility and to act.”
She added that expectations of government officials should be “extremely high,” and political accountability should be strictly enforced.
“Their lack of competence has cost lives, communities and billions of dollars,” Culpo said of both Governor Newsom and Bass.
“The captain is going down with the ship,” she said. “Resign.”
Firefighters battle the Kenneth Fire in the West Hills section of Los Angeles, Thursday, January 9, 2025. (Ethan Swope/AP)
“It doesn’t matter to me at all in this case whether Newsom is Republican or Democrat,” she said. “Somehow he deflects blame because he calls it a local issue.”
“What I put on my Instagram is that anyone who voted Newsom into a second term has blood on their hands, and I stand by what I said,” Culpo said. “This is a blue state. If we can’t blame the Democratic Party, who can we blame? If we can’t hold anyone accountable, how do we think changes should be made?”
The mother of two added that she agrees with the president-elect Donald Trump’s statement posted on Truth Social attributing the spread of wildfires to the “gross incompetence” of Bass and Newsom.
“I agree with him 100 percent,” she said.
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Aurora Culpo, the sister of former Miss Universe Olivia Culpo, fled her Manhattan Beach home with her two children amid California’s raging wildfires. (Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)
Culpo said she is “completely supportive of environmentalism, conservation, LGBTQ rights and diversity,” but that safety above all else must remain a priority in the hierarchy of needs.
“We’re not yet evolved enough as a society to worry about things like how diverse our firefighters are,” Culpo said.
‘We finance gender changes for prisoners, but we cannot fill the reservoirs because we want to save society. smell fishshe said.
Since 2017, California has reportedly paid $4 million in taxpayer money for trans inmate surgeries, including breast augmentation and facial feminization. California Family Council.
California firefighters are working tirelessly to contain and stop wildfires that have displaced residents in several counties. (Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
The Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, a major water supply system in California, is largely protected due to declining populations of smelt and Chinook salmon.
“Regardless of your views on sex changes for prisoners or fish smelt, the point is that our priorities are completely out of whack,” Culpo said.
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Despite tireless efforts by firefighters to extinguish the flames, some fires remain uncontrolled, and Culpo takes her children to San Francisco, where her sister, model and former Miss Universe Olivia Culpo, and her new husband, NFL running back Christian McCaffrey, are to stay.
“I’m worried about my kids because of the air quality,” Culpo said. “These are very serious airborne pollutants that can cause long-term problems.”
