Mayor Karen Bass calls for probe into LAFD response before Palisades fire

Mayor Karen Bass on Friday called for a full investigation into firefighters’ accounts that Los Angeles Fire Department crews were ordered to leave a smoldering canyon days before flames reignited into the devastating Palisades fire.
In a letter to Interim Fire Chief Ronnie Villanueva, Bass called the revelations “tremendously alarming” and urged the department to “thoroughly investigate” the response to the Lachman fire.
“A full understanding of the Lachman f