Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) told NBC Los Angeles that it was “absolutely” a mistake to travel to Ghana over a month ago, around the time the deadly fires in Los Angeles County broke out. “There is no question about that,” Bass added in her interview Thursday with NBC4’s Conan Nolan.

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.

Bass was in Ghana for the swearing-in of its president when the fires began, even though there was a high fire risk known at the time.