Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley said that the City of Los Angeles failed its over 100,000 displaced residents who were forced to evacuate from the ongoing wildfire siege.

When asked by Fox News’ affiliate, KTTV, if the City of Los Angeles, and its Mayor Karen Bass failed the city, Crowley replied: “Yes.”

Crowley said that pressing staffing shortages impacted the department’s response time when the blaze began tearing across Los Angeles.

“Any budget cut is going to impact our ability to provide service,” she said. “That is a ground truth in regard to our ability. If there’s a budget cut, we had to pull from somewhere else. What does that mean? That doesn’t get done or that there are delays.”

“So when you talk about sounding the alarm and asking and requesting budgets that are easily justifiable based off of the data, real data shows what the fire department needs to serve this beautiful city and the beautiful community that we swore that we would. That’s what that is about,” she said.

Speaking from the heart, Crowley said: “None of us on the fire department are politicians.”

“Firefighters are here to serve them, first and foremost. Again, none of us on the fire department are politicians. We’re public servants first,” she said. “We took an oath to serve the public before ourselves and even before our families.”

“So with that, I want to focus on path forward. I want to focus on what the LAFD needs,” Crowley said. “What our people need to do their jobs is to make sure that we can save lives and that we can protect property to the greatest capacity.”

“But we need to be funded appropriately,” she said. “And that’s where my head is at.”

Fox News Digital’s Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report.