洛杉矶市长卡伦·巴斯对自己在2025年1月南加州大规模山火期间不在城市而感到遗憾，周二晚上在与市长竞选对手的辩论中向选民道歉。
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass expressed regret for being away from her city during the massive January 2025 wildfires in Southern California, apologizing to voters for her absence while debating her mayoral race opponent Tuesday night.
“我只想说，当我的城市需要我时，我不在城市里，我深感抱歉，”巴斯在辩论中说，该辩论由NBC4洛杉矶和Telemundo 52主持。“每一天我都在思考逝去的生命、失去家园的家庭，或者房子还在但他们无法进入的家庭。”据报道，巴斯当时正从加纳返回洛杉矶的途中，她曾作为美国代表团成员参加加纳总统约翰·马哈马的就职典礼。据《洛杉矶时报》报道，市应急管理部门曾 reportedly 在她出行前警告她的助手注意火灾风险。
“Let me just say that I am so profoundly sorry that I was not in my city when my city needed me,” Bass said during the debate, moderated by NBC4 Los Angeles and Telemundo 52. “There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t think of the lives lost, the families that lost their homes, or the families where the home is still standing but they’re not able to be in it.”Bass was reportedly on her way back to Los Angeles after she was part of a U.S. delegation to Accra for the inauguration of Ghanaian President John Mahama. The city’s Emergency Management Department had reportedly warned the mayor’s aides about the fire risk ahead of her trip, according to the Los Angeles Times.
巴斯的挑战者、市议员尼蒂亚·拉曼指责现任市长在2025年1月的山火以及今年6月的另外两场火灾期间“失踪”。她说，这些缺席导致了对市政厅的“信任危机”。
Bass’s challenger, City Council member Nithya Raman, accused the incumbent mayor of being “missing in action” during the January 2025 fire and two others this past June. The absences prompted “a crisis of trust” toward City Hall, she said.
“我反复听到全城的声音：‘我们的市长在哪里？我们的市长在哪里？’”拉曼说。“如果还有另一次紧急情况，你就不必问——如果我是市长——我们的市长在哪里。我会站在第一线。”对巴斯处理山火的不满促使许多选民在初选中支持前真人秀明星斯宾塞·普拉特。普拉特在帕利塞德大火中失去了房子。
“The question that I heard over and over … across the entire city was, ‘Where is our mayor? Where is our mayor?'”Raman said. “If there is another emergency, you will not have to ask — if I am mayor — where our mayor is. I will be on the front lines.”Frustration with Bass’s handling of the fires drove many voters to support former reality TV star Spencer Pratt in the primary. Pratt lost his home in the Palisades fire.
巴斯一直在反驳对她处理帕利塞德大火及相应伊顿大火的批评。普拉特在竞选中强调了巴斯在火灾中的角色，加州大学伯克利分校上个月发布的民调显示，56%的洛杉矶居民认为巴斯在应对灾难时表现“差”或“非常差”。
Bass has pushed back on criticism of her handling of both the Palisades fire and the corresponding Eaton fire. Pratt emphasized Bass’s role during the fires as part of his campaign, and polling from the University of California Berkeley released last month showed 56 percent of Angelenos thought Bass did a “poor” or “very poor” job responding to the devastation.
同一项民调显示，拉曼以39比28领先巴斯，仍有33%的可能选举者未作决定。
That same poll showed Raman leading Bass 39-28, with 33 percent of likely voters still undecided.
根据加州紧急服务办公室的数据，两场大火在南加州共烧毁超过38,000英亩土地，毁坏超过16,000座建筑。
Both fires burned more than 38,000 acres and destroyed more than 16,000 structures across Southern California, according to the state’s Office of Emergency Services.
KTLA电视台（Nexstar附属台）今年1月报道称，大火造成31人死亡，是加州历史上死亡人数第二多的山火，仅次于2018年造成85人死亡的坎普大火。
The fires killed 31 people, making it the second-deadliest wildfire in California history behind the 2018 Camp fire, which had a death toll of 85, Nexstar affiliate KTLA reported in January.
CNN和当地独立媒体《洛杉矶塔可》当时报道称，由于大火，前总统拜登在前往科切拉谷指定新纪念碑的行程中暂时滞留洛杉矶。大火改变了他的行程，他当天后来飞往华盛顿前，曾收到圣莫尼卡官员的简报。
Former President Biden was temporarily stuck in Los Angeles because of the fires ahead of a trip to the Coachella Valley to designate a new monument, CNN and local independent outlet L.A. TACO reported at the time. The fires altered his plans, and he received a briefing from Santa Monica officials before flying to Washington later in the day.