Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has requested a full investigation into revelations that firefighters were ordered to leave a smoldering burn site days before it reignited into the Palisades fire, calling the news “tremendously alarming.”
In a letter to interim Fire Chief Ronnie Villanueva, Bass on Friday asked that he “thoroughly investigate” a report by the Los Angeles Times about the Los Angeles Fire Department’s missteps in putting out a small brush fire that federal authorities say was intentionally set on New Year’s Day. The previously undisclosed details have prompted fresh outrage among those who lost homes in the worst fire in city history…