One Year Later: LAFD Admits Palisades Fire Report Was Edited to Protect Leadership

By John Sexton 

It has been almost exactly a year since the Palisades fires swept through hundreds of homes resulting in a dozen deaths. The fire started a week earlier when an arsonist, who is now in custody, started a fire that burned 8 acres in the hills above the Palisades. That was known as the Lachman fire. That fire was put out but smoldering remains burst back into flames a week later and became the deadly Palisades fire.

What happened between those two dates has been a matter of contention. An official statement from the interim fire chief, Ronnie Villanueva, claimed the Palisades fire was a “holdover fire” which is a term of art in firefighting that indicates the fire was subterranean and all but undetectable. That’s opposed to a “rekindle fire” which suggests that embers were left burning at or near the surface which later roared back to life. In effect, Villanueva claimed that no one could have known.

But text messages uncovered by the LA Times indicated that firefighters who put out the Lachman fire were ordered to leave before the fire was completely out…

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