Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass admitted to her blunders during the fires that broke out in her city while she was out of the country. The Palisades and Eaton fires burned over 37,000 acres of land and destroyed more than 16,

Asked about her trip to Ghana just before the wildfires erupted, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said she "hated the fact that I was out of the city when the city needed me the most."

"Obviously I hated the fact that I was out of the city when the city needed me the most," Bass said during an interview.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said she “absolutely” made a mistake by being in African when the devastating wildfires broke out on Jan. 7 and swept across the greater Pacific Palisades in California. “There is no question about that,

"I felt absolutely terrible not being here for my city," LA Mayor Karen Bass told FOX 11's Elex Michelson during a sit-down interview addressing her trip to Ghana as the wildfires broke out. She said she wasn't given any early warnings about the weather prior to her leaving the country.

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is addressing her trip to Africa during the historic windstorm that preceded January’s deadly Los Angeles wildfires, admitting for the first time that she now views it as a mistake.

There is no question about that,” Bass added in her interview Thursday with NBC4’s Conan Nolan. The former congresswoman’s trip was preplanned. She landed in Ghana to attend the inauguration of the nation’s new president on January 5,

In an interview late last week, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass admitted that she made a mistake by taking a trip to West Africa despite reports of severe fire weather that ultimately sparked two of the most destructive wildfires in the city’s history.