Firefighters who were mopping up a New Year’s Day brush fire that authorities now say flared into the deadly Palisades Fire warned a battalion chief there were signs the blaze was still smoldering, but they were directed to leave the area anyway, it was reported Thursday.
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Citing text messages among three firefighters and another person, the Los Angeles Times reported that a firefighter warned a battalion chief on Jan. 2 that it was a “bad idea” to leave the scene of the Lachman Fire that had been set early the previous day near Pacific Palisades, because there were signs of smoldering terrain…