Former Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley lost an appeal to get her old job back in a hearing Tuesday before the City Council that included the 25-year department veteran’s first extensive public comments about the events that led to her firing.

LOS ANGELES − The Los Angeles City Council kept in place the firing of former Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley, following the controversial removal of the chief that led the department through the firestorm that engulfed the region in January.

I’m going to continue to advocate to get LAFD to where we need to go,” Crowley said as she left the Council Chamber.