To the editor: I’m studying in regards to the myriad “missteps,” “crucial failures,” and many others., and the way all the things’s good now with the hearth of us (“After so many L.A. fire failures, this week’s Santa Ana winds test whether officials can do better,” Oct. 14). There’s nonetheless, nonetheless, no clarification of how or why the battalion chief overseeing the Lachman hearth the week previous to the Palisades inferno ordered his crew to desert this clearly smoldering hearth.
Letters despatched to the mayor, the Los Angeles Fireplace Division and anybody I assumed would possibly make clear this suspicious, intriguing boondoggle went unanswered. One can solely assume this egregious abdication of widespread sense, if truly addressed, would have toppled the complete home of playing cards. Probably, the ensuing lawsuits would have bankrupt L.A.
Nonetheless, it could be good to know.
Greg Hilfman, Topanga
