Los Angeles fire chief admits failures
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LAFD leaders engaged in campaign of secrecy and deflection designed to avoid taking full responsibility for what went wrong in the Jan. 7 fire.
Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Jaime Moore said the department has already implemented 74% of the recommendations in an after-action report.
Officials now confirm the Los Angeles Fire Department’s after-action report on the Palisades Fire was edited. On Tuesday, LAFD Chief Jaime Moore said earlier versions of the report were edited to reduce criticism of department leadership’s handing of the fire.
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Palisades fire report was sent to mayor’s office for ‘refinements,’ Fire Commission president says
The Fire Commission president's account raises questions about Mayor Karen Bass' role in revisions to the Palisades fire after-action report.
One year after the Palisades Fire, LAFD Chief Jaime Moore says the department must “own” leadership failures tied to the mishandled Lachman Fire.
In the weeks since federal investigators announced that the devastating Palisades fire was caused by a reignition of a smaller blaze, top Los Angeles Fire Department officials have insisted that they did everything they could to put out the earlier fire.
Survivors of the Palisades Fire don’t just want sympathy. They want someone held responsible. Nearly a year after the blaze that killed 12 people and destroyed more than 6,800 structures, reporters Rich McHugh of NewsNation and Annie Rose Ramos of KTLA ...
Los Angeles firefighters extinguished a car fire in a Sawtelle neighborhood building's parking area within 30 minutes.