Los Angeles water chief given police security detail amid 'threats' against her, employees

The Los Angeles h2o main has been fixed a constabulary information item amid "threats" against her and h2o employees, arsenic wildfires swept done Southern California, 2 Los Angeles constabulary sources told Fox News.

Los Angeles Department of Water and Power's CEO Janisse Quinones present has a 24/7 LAPD item successful effect to the threats, the sources said.

One LAPD root cited the caller shooting successful New York of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

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People ticker the fume and flames from the Palisades Fire successful the Pacific Palisades vicinity connected Jan. 7, 2025 successful Los Angeles, California. (Tiffany Rose/Getty Images)

Quinones reportedly makes $750,000 per year.

She is facing nationalist disapproval implicit Los Angeles' occurrence preparedness and h2o organisation amid the wildfires successful the area.

"We tin corroborate that threats person been made against our employees, including incidents successful the tract … that occurred astatine a DWP installation downtown Tuesday evening," the Department of Water and Power told Fox News.

A presumption of fume covering the entity owed to Eaton wildfire successful Altadena of Los Angeles County, California, connected January 9, 2025. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)

"We instrumentality each menace and incidental earnestly and study them instantly to instrumentality enforcement," the section continued. "We bash not sermon information measures successful spot astatine our facilities successful bid to support our employees."

The section added: "Our employees are moving tirelessly astir the timepiece to enactment the City’s response, and their enactment is captious to those efforts. They are an indispensable portion of the City family, they are portion of this community, and determination is nary spot successful nine oregon successful our City for immoderate threats to their safety."

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Fire burns during the Sunset Fire successful Hollywood Hills country of Los Angeles, California, US, connected Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025. (Jill Connelly/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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Quinones has besides antecedently said she views her presumption done an "equity lense" and uses it to supply societal justice.