A new policy from the California State Parks Department may have allowed the Palisades Fire to ignite.
Documents obtained by KNX News Special Correspondent Steve Gregory revealed that the wildfire mitigation plan for Topanga State Park reads that “unless specified otherwise, State Parks prefers to let Topanga State Park burn in a wildfire event.” He also found that on page 56, it reads, “Avoidance areas should be shared with fire incident command, but measures should be taken to keep the information confidential, ensuring maps shared with the media do not contain sensitive resource data.”
Gregory also obtained a recording of a call to a state parks dispatcher in Sacramento on the day of the Lachman Fire. You can listen to it below:…