Firefighters were dispatched 44 minutes after a prominent Pacific Palisades resident called 911 on Tuesday morning, January 7, according to local residents. By then, the Palisades Fire was beginning to get out of control due to strong winds, officials said.
Michael Valentine, a local attorney who worked in the Harris-Biden administration, noticed a fire near his home and called for help. However, as Breitbart News reported, firefighters were not deployed in advance for budget reasons.
This resulted in significant delays in firefighting efforts. news nation reported on tuesday:
a Pacific Palisades residents speak out about fires The incident that destroyed his neighborhood could have been far less devastating.
Vice President Kamala Harris' former U.S. attorney Michelle Valentine spoke exclusively. news nation about watching a fire break out in pacific palisades And he believes the response time was inadequate.
Valentine, who lives in the upper part of the Palisades, watched the developments from his home and began recording last Tuesday morning. His wife was walking her dog and called at 10:29 a.m. last Tuesday after first spotting smoke in the area. After 44 minutes, a helicopter first sprayed water on the fire.
As Breitbart News reported from January 7, the cause of the fire, although not confirmed, was likely smoldering debris from an earlier fire caused by someone setting off fireworks on New Year's Eve. It was a wreck. Local residents say the fire was likely caused by a popular viewing platform on the Skull Rock hiking trail in the Pacific Palisades, known as the “Hidden Buddha Statue.”
Breitbart News reported earlier this week that firefighters were not pre-dispatched to the area ahead of the Los Angeles storm, which had been predicted for days, because local governments facing budget cuts were unwilling to pay overtime. It was reported that.
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