A new documentary film that’s being released in December, examines the disaster of the wildfires in California a year ago and questions how and why it was handled so badly.
The film is not kind to California Governor Gavin Newsom or Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass. It suggests that they basically did nothing as the city burned down around them. Both have been heavily criticized for this over the last year.
Bass wasn’t even in the country when the fires began, she was attending some event in Africa that had nothing to do with her job as mayor.
Breitbart News has more on the film:
A new documentary shows how California’s Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom, the state legislature, and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass either sat idly by or actually contributed directly to the conditions that allowed several wildfires to devastate L.A. and the Pacific Palisades in January of 2025.
The documentary, entitled Paradise Abandoned, shows one resident after another testifying on film to the failures of government officials to respond to the fires to save their homes, even though the Pacific Palisades in particular was already identified as “a region of maximum fire risk” and yet no extra fire trucks or resources were deployed or close at hand to respond to the fires.
The film chronicles the many failures that government officials at both state and local levels that directly contributed to the wholesale destruction of the homes and businesses of thousands of voters — a fire that burned more than 23,000 acres, razed nearly 7,000 buildings, and killed 12 people…
One man interviewed in the film pointed out that Mayor Bass and Gov. Newsom were seen walking down the street as the Chase Bank Building was burning. Yet none of the firefighters flanking the officials lifted a finger to put the fire out. The Chase building burned to the ground while Newsom held a press conference feet away.
Watch the trailer below:
Paradise Abandoned: Inside the Pacific Palisades Fire — Trailer
How did a single spark incinerate my hometown?
I watched outsiders squeeze our suffering into their simple little stories: climate change, an absent mayor, “diversity equity and inclusion,” the raw laws of… pic.twitter.com/66kec8CxgM
— Rob Montz (@Robmontz) October 30, 2025
It is astounding that Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass still have their jobs. Their incompetence allowed thousands of homes and lives to be destroyed in a fire that never even should have been allowed to spread.
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