The City of Los Angeles took legal action this week — to try to make sure the State of California shares any possible civil liability for the damage caused by the Palisades fire.
The so-called “cross-complaint” was filed late Thursday by LA City Attorney Heidi Feldstein Soto’s office and it asks for the State, its Natural Resources Agency, Department of Parks and Recreation, and the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy to shoulder part of any potential monetary damages that result from the fire victims’ lawsuits.
Those underlying lawsuits, referred to in LA Superior Court as the “Grigsby” cases, brought by more than 3,500 fire victims, allege that local and state governments were negligent and should be held financially responsible for the damage that resulted from the Palisades fire, in part, because government agencies allegedly failed to fully extinguish a smaller brush fire days earlier, that the ATF said re-ignited in high winds and grew into the Palisades fire…