To the editor: I simply don’t purchase the premise that Mayor Karen Bass isn’t answerable for the Palisades fireplace (“Letters to the Editor: Mayoral candidates ought to supply fireplace options past simply blaming Bass,” Might 13). I notice, as she has mentioned, that she isn’t a fireperson, however she is in control of firing these accountable. As a substitute, a few of them turned up on the Academy Awards to take a bow.
The tragedy that price 12 lives might have been averted by stationing a firetruck on the scene of the Lachman fireplace. Firefighters on the scene had declared it was not utterly out, solely to be ordered by somebody not there to roll up hoses and depart the positioning. Why wasn’t the positioning monitored later in the event that they needed to keep away from extra time? As reported within the Los Angeles Instances, the top of the firefighters’ union greater than doubled his base wage in 2022 with extra time payouts, to not point out the reported $230,000 in unsupported bills.
Who may be answerable for permitting somebody to plunder town treasury however Bass, and for what cause that the general public would settle for? She hasn’t cleaned home in any respect aside from firing the chief, who blamed her at a press convention. The entire story smacks of political intrigue. It could be dumb to reinvest with the identical individuals in cost.
Recall the ’93 fireplace in Topanga, the place fireplace engines confirmed up from everywhere in the state and Malibu and the Palisades had been saved. The place was the multi-agency effort this time?
Larry Nelson, Brentwood
