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One Year After the Palisades Fire
One year ago, the Palisades Fire tore through one of Los Angeles’s most affluent neighborhoods, killing 12 people and destroying nearly 7,000 homes.
Now, on the anniversary, the new fire chief has admitted what residents long suspected: officials rewrote the official report to make themselves look better.
The mayor was in Africa when the flames broke out. The fire chief got fired. A 117-million-gallon reservoir sat empty…