A whistleblower’s complaint filed in court alleges that a Los Angeles County worker who had “a long history of sleeping on the job” held a key position during the destructive Eaton Fire, a news radio station and website reported.
Nick Vaquero, an L.A. County associate director of the Office of Emergency Management, filed the complaint in late 2025, according to LAist.
“Vaquero said he saw Steve Lieberman, a nearly 40-year county employee, asleep at work more than a dozen times in two years prior to Lieberman supervising OEM’s overnight shift from the evening of Jan. 7 through the morning of Jan. 8, 2025,” LAist reported Wednesday. “The whistleblower complaint alleges Lieberman was ‘sleeping in his office’ during his overnight shift.”…