{"id":27074,"date":"2025-10-28T14:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T14:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/27074\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T14:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T14:51:07","slug":"new-information-about-the-palisades-fire-raises-even-more-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/27074\/","title":{"rendered":"New information about the Palisades fire raises even more questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Oct. 28, 2025 7 AM PT <\/p>\n<p>To the editor: This article states that at around 11:30 a.m. on Jan. 2, a resident is hiking the trail above Skull Rock when he shoots video of a wisp of white smoke (<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2025-10-26\/could-the-state-have-done-more-to-prevent-the-palisades-fire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201c\u2018It\u2019s still smoldering.\u2019 A hiker\u2019s video of Palisades fire raises questions about state\u2019s responsibility,\u201d<\/a> Oct. 26). He whispers, \u201cIt\u2019s still smoldering.\u201d What then?<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the reporting speculates on who\u2019s responsible for monitoring or not monitoring the area that would erupt into the devastatingly destructive Palisades fire.<\/p>\n<p>It is never reported whether the Jan. 2 hiker called 911 to report a wisp of smoke in what is a tinderbox of dry park wilderness. Did the Los Angeles Fire Department receive a report and not respond, or was the call never made? There is a deeper story here and these questions need to be addressed.<\/p>\n<p>Christi Engel, Topanga<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct. 28, 2025 7 AM PT To the editor: This article states that at around 11:30 a.m. on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2072,19082,7217,48,52,51,47,6024,50,49,63,20544,20546,1839,20547,20548,225,8534,5050,19080,20545],"class_list":{"0":"post-27074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-editor","9":"tag-hiker","10":"tag-jan","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-la-headlines","13":"tag-la-news","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-los-angeles-fire-department","16":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","17":"tag-los-angeles-news","18":"tag-los-angeles-times","19":"tag-more-question","20":"tag-new-information","21":"tag-palisades-fire","22":"tag-responsibility","23":"tag-skull-rock","24":"tag-state","25":"tag-trail","26":"tag-video","27":"tag-white-smoke","28":"tag-wisp"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27074","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=27074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}