Kristin Crowley was sworn in as the department’s 19th fire chief by City Clerk Holly Wolcott at City Hall Friday afternoon
By MARGARET SHUTTLEWORTH | City News Service
“Understanding what this really means, this significant moment, I don’t take that lightly,” Crowley said after she was sworn in. “… And I cannot wait to start the work. I cannot wait to work with everybody who’s here: our rank-and-file, our sworn and civilian members of the LAFD who do great things each and every day. I couldn’t be prouder to be stepping into this position and have the honor to represent the goodness of what everybody brings to work each and every day.
He told a story about the Woolsey Fire in 2018, which was not in the city of Los Angeles but in Malibu, where Crowley had a relative whose house was threatened. Before being appointed chief, Crowley had already made history within the LAFD when she became its first female fire marshal in 2016. She took the firefighters’ exam in 1998 and placed among the top 50 scores out of 16,000 applicants, according to the department. During her 22 years at the LAFD, she rose through the ranks as firefighter, firefighter paramedic, engineer, fire inspector, captain I, captain II, battalion chief, assistant chief, fire marshal and deputy chief.
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