Comedian Adam Carolla believes the fires that ravaged Los Angeles over the past week will be a major turning point politically for the city.

"People have been saying it for a long time, when do we start changing course? There's a general consensus that when we hit bottom, we're going to change course," Carolla told Fox News Digital by phone.

"I would say the city being burned was a bottom moment. So maybe that's our bottom."

Corolla and thousands of other residents in Los Angeles' Pacific Palisades, Malibu and Altadena areas had to evacuate when fires broke out last week. He currently lives with his friend and long-time collaborator Dr. Drew Pinsky.

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"The standard operating procedures have been delayed a little bit," he said. "Doing your thing every day, no matter what the schedule is, it's annoying."

Carolla added that he's not only worried about himself, but also about the many people he knows who had to evacuate or lost their homes.

“I would say the city that burned down was a rock bottom moment.”

— Adam Carolla

"It's not just a matter of me being displaced, it's a matter of a lot of people in many other places around this place being displaced, and not knowing who is being displaced," he said.

Carolla questioned the management of city and state resources before the fires, saying government leadership was focused on the wrong things.

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"The nuts and bolts of running a city are not what excites them," he said. "Cleaning up forest floors, aqueducts, water pressure, etc. It's boring. We're California, we like to do things first, and clearing tree limbs doesn't sound that appealing to us. Outlawing internal combustion engines by 2030 feels pretty good , but clearing branches felt a little boring, so... we did things like we wanted an electric leaf blower or something."

"(Gov.) Gavin Newsom wants fun stuff, not boring stuff," he added. “Some of the people running California and Los Angeles are more focused on equity, the LGBT community and fun stuff than boring stuff like an aqueduct.”

The 60-year-old also believes more should be done in fire prevention, such as burying power lines, replenishing aqueducts, recovering rainwater from runoff and repairing fire trucks.

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"I pay about 13 percent in state income tax, and a lot of people here pay a lot of additional taxes. We pay about $5.50 a gallon for gas. We should probably get some infrastructure back," he said.

The exact costs and long-term effects of the fires remain to be seen, but Carolla believes they will spur change in the traditionally left-leaning Los Angeles and California state.

"Hopefully the idiots who voted for these idiots have woken up and their house is falling down and realized that these people are incompetent idiots and the idiots who voted for them will wake up and go in a different direction," he said.

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"We have to have competent, pragmatic people running this city to effect change, not pie-in-the-sky, incompetent idiots who hire DEI and say things like 'This is a sanctuary city.' We have to Find some adults," Carolla continued.

"The funny thing is, when (President) Biden came in, all the people who were saying, 'Now the adults are back,' were these really horrible teenagers who were ruining everything and we've got to get some real adults back."