Are DEI efforts leading to a slow response in LA’s deadly wildfires?

According to The Grio, Crockett appeared on CNN’s News Night with Abby Phillip Wednesday night and had strong words for CNN Republican contributor Scott Jennings, who suggested that LA’s struggle to contain the wildfires is due to the exclusion of white men recruited in the city’s fire department programs.

“In California, you might have recalled a news story from last year … there was some interest in the fire departments and the firefighters in California,” Jennings said on the show.

He continued, “The interest was that there were too many white men who were firefighters and we need to have a program in California to make sure we don’t have enough white men as firefighters.”

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