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As the Los Angeles Fire Department faced extraordinary warnings of life- threatening winds, top commanders decided not to assign for emergency deployment roughly 1,000 available firefighters and dozens of water-
carrying engines in advance of the fire that destroyed much of the Pacific Palisades and continues to burn, interviews and internal LAFD records
show.
Fire officials chose not to order the firefighters to remain on duty for a second shift last Tuesday as the winds were building — which would have
doubled the personnel on hand — and staffed just five of more than 40
engines that are available to aid in battling wildfires, according to the records obtained by The Times, as well as interviews with LAFD officials
and former chiefs with knowledge of city operations.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-14/firefighters-lafd- response-lack-of-staff-engines-pacific-palisades-fire
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