{"id":498112,"date":"2026-10-16T13:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T13:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/498112\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T13:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T13:56:08","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-i-still-want-answers-on-why-the-lachman-fire-was-abandoned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/498112\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the Editor: I still want answers on why the Lachman fire was abandoned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Oct. 16, 2026 6 AM PT  <\/p>\n<p>To the editor: I\u2019m reading about the myriad \u201cmissteps,\u201d \u201ccritical failures,\u201d etc., and how everything\u2019s good now with the fire folks (<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-10-14\/after-la-fire-failures-santa-ana-winds-test-whether-officials-can-do-better\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cAfter so many L.A. fire failures, this week\u2019s Santa Ana winds test whether officials can do better,\u201d<\/a> Oct. 14). There\u2019s still, however, no explanation of how or why the battalion chief overseeing the Lachman fire the week prior to the Palisades inferno ordered his crew to abandon this clearly smoldering fire.<\/p>\n<p>Letters sent to the mayor, the Los Angeles Fire Department and anyone I thought might clarify this suspicious, intriguing boondoggle went unanswered. One can only assume this egregious abdication of common sense, if actually addressed, would have toppled the entire house of cards. Possibly, the resulting lawsuits would have bankrupt L.A.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it would be nice to know.<\/p>\n<p>Greg Hilfman, Topanga<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct. 16, 2026 6 AM PT To the editor: I\u2019m reading about the myriad \u201cmissteps,\u201d \u201ccritical failures,\u201d etc.,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[10320,23550,58481,6947,2072,103763,193378,48,52,51,7216,1838,47,6024,50,49,63,4415,193379,6541,430],"class_list":["post-498112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-answer","tag-battalion-chief","tag-card","tag-crew","tag-editor","tag-entire-house","tag-fire-folk","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lachman-fire","tag-letter","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-fire-department","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-mayor","tag-palisades-inferno","tag-santa-ana-wind","tag-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498112","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=498112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}