Bass is not the only person to be widely criticized for their response to the California wildfires, with Governor Gavin Newsom also in the spotlight.

For the first 24 hours of Los Angeles' wildfire disaster, Mayor Karen Bass was a constant presence on social ... as part of a presidential delegation to Ghana, just as the National Weather Service began ratcheting up its warnings about the coming windstorm.

"We, the undersigned residents of Los Angeles and concerned citizens, urgently call for the immediate recall of Mayor Karen Bass due to her gross mismanagement and failure to effectively respond to the devastating 2025 fires in and around the city of Los Angeles," the petition states.

On Tuesday, CBS News’s Jonathan Vigliotti asked Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass ... The National Weather Service warned of dangerous fire conditions on Friday, January 3. Bass knew about ...

L.A. is scared, seething and looking for a scapegoat — and who better than a mayor who jetted to another continent despite warnings that devastating winds were about to blast through a region that hasn’t seen substantial rainfall in months?

As the most destructive fire in Los Angeles area history rages, Mayor Karen Bass faces criticism over the timing of an overseas trip and budget cuts made months ago that affected the city’s fire department.

Bass has faced widespread outrage over her whereabouts after returning to Los Angeles from Ghana on Wednesday, 24 hours after fires ignited

At least 27 people are believed to be dead and more than a dozen others remain unaccounted for as multiple wildfires rage across Southern California.

Critics also accuse Bass of slashing the Los Angeles Fire Department’s share of the city budget by $23 million, a cut that supposedly caused fire hydrants to run dry and starved brave firefighters of the resources they needed to battle the once-in-a-generation fire.

The Palisades Fire - the first of several blazes to erupt in LA - broke out on Tuesday last week, but Mayor Karen Bass reprotedly did not call on her crisis response team until seven days later.

Fires across the Los Angeles area have killed at least 25 people. The Palisades and Eaton fires continue to burn in Southern California.