To the editor: I simply don’t purchase the premise that Mayor Karen Bass isn’t answerable for the Palisades fireplace (“Letters to the Editor: Mayoral candidates should offer fire solutions beyond just blaming Bass,” Could 13). I understand, as she has stated, that she isn’t a fireperson, however she is in control of firing these accountable. As a substitute, a few of them turned up on the Academy Awards to take a bow.
The tragedy that value 12 lives may have been averted by stationing a firetruck on the scene of the Lachman fireplace. Firefighters on the scene had declared it was not utterly out, solely to be ordered by somebody not there to roll up hoses and go away the location. Why wasn’t the location monitored later in the event that they wished to keep away from time beyond regulation? As reported within the Los Angeles Times, the pinnacle of the firefighters’ union greater than doubled his base wage in 2022 with time beyond regulation payouts, to not point out the reported $230,000 in unsupported bills.
Who is likely to be answerable for permitting somebody to plunder the town treasury however Bass, and for what cause that the general public would settle for? She hasn’t cleaned home in any respect apart from firing the chief, who blamed her at a press convention. The entire story smacks of political intrigue. It will be dumb to reinvest with the identical folks in cost.
Recall the ’93 fire in Topanga, the place fireplace engines confirmed up from all around the state and Malibu and the Palisades have been saved. The place was the multi-agency effort this time?
Larry Nelson, Brentwood
