{"id":155304,"date":"2026-01-29T19:24:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T19:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/155304\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T19:24:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T19:24:56","slug":"orange-county-supervisors-approve-33-million-airport-fire-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/155304\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange County supervisors approve $33 million Airport Fire settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Topline:<\/p>\n<p>    The Orange County Board of Supervisors voted in closed session this week to approve a $33 million settlement for damages and losses resulting from the 2024 Airport Fire.<\/p>\n<p>The details: On Tuesday, County Counsel Leon Page reported that the supervisors voted 4-0 to approve the settlement, with Supervisor Vicente Sarmiento absent. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/ocgov.granicus.com\/player\/clip\/5576?view_id=8&amp;redirect=true\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Page said<\/a> the settlement covers 193 households, consisting of 592 different claimants.<\/p>\n<p>The backstory: The Airport Fire occurred in Trabuco Canyon in September 2024, destroying 160 homes and other structures and injuring 22 people, including a number of firefighters. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/laist.com\/news\/politics\/orange-county-approves-budget-but-what-about-airport-fire-liabilities\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The fire<\/a> was accidentally started by county employees working in dry, hot conditions. LAist was the first to report <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/laist.com\/news\/orange-county-records-document-missteps-by-officials-leading-up-to-devastating-airport-fire\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">on public records<\/a> that show workers failed to follow recommended best practices in such conditions.<\/p>\n<p>        Keep up with LAist.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re enjoying this article, you&#8217;ll love our daily newsletter, The LA Report. Each weekday, catch up on the 5 most pressing stories to start your morning in 3 minutes or less.  <\/p>\n<p>Go deeper: <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/laist.com\/news\/orange-county-records-document-missteps-by-officials-leading-up-to-devastating-airport-fire\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u2018We f***ing started a fire\u2019: Orange County records document missteps by officials leading up to devastating Airport Fire<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Topline: The Orange County Board of Supervisors voted in closed session this week to approve a $33 million&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[5144,163,165,164,2083,5675],"class_list":["post-155304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-airport-fire","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-oc","tag-settlement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}