Bass' trip to Ghana has garnered criticism, given the fact that weather officials had warned about dangerous wind and fire conditions before the blaze erupted. An LA Times-UC Berkeley poll shows that 41% of residents in LA described Bass' response to the firestorm as poor or very poor.

A day after obtaining 125 recovered text messages from the phone of Mayor Karen Bass during the initial hours of the Palisades fire, the Los Angeles times is now suing the city of Los Angeles, accusing them of unlawfully withholding and deleting more of the Mayor's text communication.